The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-11-29
She Makes All Sorts of Trouble
in st. Louis Insurance
Circles.
Prominent Insurance Firm Ex-
PEELED From the Boards For
Championing Her.
Agents Acknowledge They Fear
ed Competition From a Par
ticular Woman.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 2y.-The new woman
is making herself felt in all walks in
life, but it remains for st. Louis to fur
nish where she has succeeded in max
ing all sorts Of trouble in such all influ-
entail body as the board of fire under
writers by forcing the insurance agents
to admit that they are afraid Of compe-
tition of a oma This is an achieve
ment any woman might well be proud
Of, but there is a doubt whether Mrs.
Esther M Getz, the woma in question,
is a. proud of it as she might be. The
victory of forcing male insurance
agents to confess feminine superiority
as solicitors is tempered with sorrow by
reason of the fact that the firm of F. D.
Hirschberg & Bro, one Of the foremost
in the city. and her friend and cham
pion, has been expelled from the honor
able board simply and solely because it
stood up for her rights.
willed His Business to His Wife.
Mrs. Getz is the widow of a gentle
man who was for a number of years a
sub-agent for f. D. Hirschberg q Bro,
representing two of the companies in
their Office, the Scottish Union and
National and the British American.
| BY the terms of his contract in 9 of
his death his business was to revert to
his wife, and when he died several
months ago, the firm, in accordance
| with the terms of the contract, 50 ar
ranged the business that Mrs. Getz, a
thoroughly competent and estimable
lady, took charge of it. Messrs. Hirsch.
berg made application for her admission
to the board of underwriters and the
application was refused, much to Their
surprise, because there is a woman in
the board now, Mrs. Meyer Goldsmith,
who was appointed in August, 1891.
Admitted They Were Afraid Of Mrs. Get,
Messrs. Hirschberg protested against
the rejection of the application Of Mrs
Getz and so forcibly. but withal &
politely, that the board put the matter
in the hands of a committee, which
recommended the registration of Mrs
Getz. Notwithstanding the very posi-
tive recommendation of this committee
the board, at its next regular session
decided to ride over its decision AM
still refused to admit Mrs. Getz.
It now becomes apparent that tn,
doughty insurance agents, who ar
generally supposed to fear nothing from
the devil up, were afraid of the com
petition Of frail little woman, ant
some Of the agents confirm this b,
asserting that a woman, upon an equa
footing a regards rates, can get a risl
away from a man any time. They ad
mitted that they were afraid Of Mrs
Getz.
The final outcome of the contest i
not yet apparent. The expulsion of tn
Messrs. Hirschberg has followed thei
championship of the cause of Mrs. Getz
though the admission is made that the,
are honorable insurance men. The,
have the undoubted backing Of thei
companies and a certain amount Q
added public sympathy in their fight 70
the rights of Mrs. Getz. Smalle
things have been known TO break u
l local boards Of underwriters, and Their
is no telling what will happen when tn
new woman gets after them in earnest