Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-19
The New York Life Insurance Com
pany.
WILLIAM II, BEERS.


The presidency OF the New York
Life Insurance company Is position
mat may reasonably satisfy the ambi-
lion of any man. This is one of the
three largest life insurance companies
in the world aud ranks high among
financial organizations. Within the
scope of its regular operations are the
most sacred obligations to the dead
and the living, thousands of families
all over our land and also in foreign
lands looking to him in his official
capacity for wise and honest admin
lstratiOn of money investments at a
critical period in the experience of the
individual and the household.
As will be readily agreed that the
executive officer of company like the
New York Life, with assets of about
$4,000, 900 and surplus of more
han Sl5 ,O00, 900, should be endowed
with qualities above the average and
with special gifts and talents adapted
20 his responsible surroundings. TO d
clear judgment must be combined the
strictest integrity and full moral
sense of the obligations connected with
the office. That these desirable traits
unite in President Beers, record of
more than thirty years in the service
of the company abundantly testiiies.
A portion of this time Mr.. Beers was
successfully cashier, actuary, vice-pres-
ident and president, and in each capac-
lty a gOodly part of the aggressive, out
side of the routine office duties rested
upon him. So that when he assumed
he office of president he had merely
70 exercise his functions in an enlarged
way of the work formerly done under
MS supervision.
There is one advantage possessed I'll
eminent degree by President Beers OF
real benefit to himself and to everyone
connected with this powerful organi-
cation. He is thoroughly familiar by
long association and close study with
the details and practical workings OF
each department of this vast business.
Not an item is regarded as too small
for his notice, nor is any transaction,
though involving millions of dollars,
100 large or complicated for his grasp.
The steady and increasingly rapid
growth of the New York Life Insu
rance company IS traceable to the vigi-
lance and ability shown by President
Beers in the administration OF Its
affairs.
This company is highly favored III
having secured the services OF faithful
and intelligent men in its home Office
and also as agents to represent Its IN
terests in various parts of the country
and in Europe. AS a rule they possess
high business qualifications and per-
sonal character. They are imbued
with a zeal that takes in the beneicent
nature of their mission and those on
the outside urge with persuasive ana
convincing elOquence upon the nom
insured the necessity of making provi-
sion for themselves and family for the
future Hence the satisfactory record OF
new business coming t. the company.
The policy holders of the New York
Life in many ways give evidence of the
esteem in which they hold President
Beers and his associate officers and di-
rectOrs. These sustain somewhat the
same relation to the company that
depositors in a bank have to the bank
keeping their accounts. No panic or
uneasiness has yet moved them, be the
financial condition of the world what
it may. We find that the policy hold
ers of this grand life insurance cnro-
pany are not only convinced that their
funds are in safe hands, but that they
will be available to survivors as speci-
fed in the policy itself. The fact that
millions of dollars have been distribu-
ted within this rule inspires present
holders of policies that like happy
results will follow in their individual
cases.
Well may the friends Of President
Beers and the hosts IF persons and the
many interests doing business with the
New York Life Insurance company,
congratulate themselves upon the IN
assuming demeanor of that gentleman
and the marked success shown by him
in connection with the exalted position
he occupies. He has proven himself q
skilled fnaneier and incoTuptible
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b. Horrigan, resident agent. To-
peka, Kansas.