The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-10

dom Of insurance, and his sa-ary was too
small to think of INDUCING in a luxury.
worked at him, of and on, for
three months, and then, by throwing in
my commission, got him to take s., 900
policy
That means S25 per week in case the
holder is wholly disabled"
Alas. Yes-at least in this case. I
can prove to you by our books that it was
only four days after this man got his pol
icy-that man who had never slipped up
and sat down on an icy corner, or had his
finger caught in the crack of doOr-fell
down in front of the postOffice and broke
his right leg. He is cadave-
rous. half-blooded chap, and he was
drawing our good money at a rate Of SIS
per week for about six months. It's only
fair to say, however, that he got over it
as soon as he could. That is, he didn't
play US.
"Well2"
well he got out as I remember, in
June. On the night Of the Fourth of
July. as he was going home, a boy fred
ball from Roman candle and hit him in
the eye. No use talking, but he had a
bad optic, and was knocked out for nine
weeks. During that time we were struck
for S25 per week. BY this time | had
begun 70 wish that ! hadn't wasted quite
so much breath to make him policy
holder"
And the third accident"
Occurred in December of that same
year. A runaway team ran into a street
car full of passengers; no one else was
hurt, but of course he caught il. This
time he had his right arm broken, and we
paid him $25 per week for eleven or twelve
weeks. He was a bookkeeper and had to
use that arm, you know. That was the
total disability in his case, wherein we
shouldn't have had TO pay many others a
shilling. At the home Office they gave me
no rest about the man, as I had unfortu-
nately Dragged about my smartness in in
ducing him to take out policy. Up to
this time he had cost us more than all the
other policy holders in the city and county
put together. In fact, we had paid him
about the sum figured out of $50 policy
holders
And did he break his neck on the
fourth OccasionE'
He did not :" mournfully replied the
agent. mo. he couldn't afford to do
that; he had too soft a thing to kill the
goose. He got out after a time and went
back to his books and as he got over the
next Fourth of July all right l began to
breathe easier. But he was biding his
time. He stood in the doorway of the
store where he was employed
anu u6dNA uOOI was DlONu Suub
and caught his right hand, smashing sew
eral bones and playing hob generally. I
was in town at the time and paid him a
visit. When I saw that he was good for
about $500 of our money / offered him $500
spot cash to surrender his policy The
look of reproach he gave me will never
fade from my memory
it?''
Not by joyful. That man has been
drawing S26 week from US at least seven
months in every year for seven years. He
has had some five different accidents to
his right shoulder. He has had two acct
dents to his eyes, one to his back, and one
TO his hip. His lightest claim has been
S125 Last fall, about three months after
we had ceased paying him on an accident,
d big stone fell OFF a passing wagon and
smashed his foot. 1 believe we paid him
$3.50 before he got out. Now comes this
street car accident, and you can't blame
ME for feeling hard towards him. He'll
get from $500 to $500 on this last invest
ment. and who can tell when the end will
be reached"
But should say he was laundering
big ad. for your company"
That's where you are way of" re-
piled the agent ION the first two or
three losses, l worked him up strong. and
used him for all he was worth, but by
and by the public began to argue our pol
icies were regular 'hoodoO" and they
dropped them like hot bricks. Aside
from this, hundreds and hundreds of dol
lars we have paid this man, he has about
knocked out my Buffalo business. am
going east tomorrow and shall call on
him. I'm going to try to get him to sur
render that policy. l shall coax. fiatter
threaten, issemble-anything to get it,
If he is obdurate-if it is apparent that
he intends to keep right on getting hurt,
and making us put for him-why, there
is but Que thing left for me to do"
And that"
BLOW him up with dynamite and pay
his heirs s., 900 and have done with it,"