The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1889-10-04

From the Chronicle July IS 1850.
Human experience has long ago demonstrated
that truth is stranger than tictiun. The bentn
of life insurance has been repeatedly shown, by
well authenticated examples in every day life,
in a far more impressive manner than by any
STORY with a moral which the maginatiOns or
life insurance agents or insurance writers nave
ever framed. Some interesting facts nave
recently come into the possession OF THE
CHROSICLE. which we will narratc briefly. Dur
Ing the year 1851 Young man came 10 the CITY
OF New York from Il lGnnsy lvania town and after
looking around for position succeeded IN nhu-
ing employment as huukhrtpCr IN WhoIcsa e
hardware c-tahll ~hment. He WAS attentive to
business and literally endowed with brains so
that after II lapse of seven wears he mad become
q junior partner IN the same house. During these
years he had married. and through the persua-
sion OF life insurance agent lprouably as
favor TO the agent mad taken ont two ordinary
life insurance policies for one thousand dollars
each. when the war broke out there was great
demand by the government tor goods III his line,
MS hrfn rapidly accumulated "talh anu me
young man prOspcred. lie grew rich ana, wlthn
say twenty years after his arrival in New YORK,
ne found himself worth quarter or nun n
dollars. II cannot he said. IN the latter part OF
this period, that he was neg cctful 81 life Insur-
tuce for in addition 70 the two little policies al
ready mentioned he hal taken out insurance 10
the amount of eighty thousand dollars: In fact
these niue policies seemed small ana lncol Sc
qu"ntal when compared with eighty thousand
dollars Of other insurance and his estate OF $500
COZ But none of US know what the future has in
sture for ~. THIS merchant prince lett scuunt-
ing room one afternoon AT the close OF pleasant
and pr ONtible days business. Hurrylng alOnHthe
street, on his way home. he slipped on banana
,cCl aud fell heavily to the ground. Ills leg was
broken and for three months he was confined TO
mis- house. On his recovery he learned with ais
may that trust tie held for some $4,000, and for
which he was under bonds to that amount, had
been stolen by one whom he had appointed 10
represent him and the guilty man had He'd the
country. The rest is easily told. His entire
estate went to make up TINS loss as far as 90 ssbc
MS heal n failed his eighty Thousand dollars 81
insurance lapscd his mind Weakened aud tath
finally re raspl hin from his truly ptlahle con
ditiun. His widow Is to-day Shaving for llveli-
hood ana her only comfort Isl small income from
the two little pol Ccs taken out thirty years tie
fore. which on account OF the dividends had not
ltpscd but on the contrary had increased from
rwu thousand dollars 10 nearly four Thousand
dollars. This story wOuiuot be complete with
out AIDING that some tine before her huafand
death he mad attempted to sell these p Icies, but
could not do u-fprtuuuteIy Tor n" wli w, Tor
this insurance IS ulI sNC has left OF an estate OF
over S!iOOuu.
This Touching incident illustrates the value OF
the Non fOrfrItab.C Dividend system Of the
Washington Life Insurance Company Of New
York. Within the last eight years alone 4,id
uulIctcs. tnsuring 81 40. have been saved to
nOgcyhuiIcrs OF the Washington hy Nvn-turfelt-
ihI" uryIiuHdS.
The Washington Life Insurance Company vii!
nave a large amt comfortable tent near the Man
Exhibition BuudIng on the Hartford Fair
rounds oct. :. 8. ~ and II, where ladies and
others are invited to cal and rest themselves,
lcave Their parcels, e.. Everybody VIII be wei
come.