The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-06
ROYAL LIFE INSURANCE.
(From the Chicago Tribune.)

(ErOm the chicago .IrIDune.)
Few people in this country are aware
of the extent to which the reigning fami-
lies of Europe are customers of the var
ious life insurance companies, if one is
been created by the announcement in the
cable dispatches the other day that King
ton with several of the American insur-
ance companies, finally taken out a policy
sum of 100000
1t is true that one would imagine at
ed of the Lord would deem the future of
their families sufficiently assured to rem
der such precautions Superfuous. But the
fact remains that they are among the
bean and ID America9 INSURANCE % co ole
EoTr years b age f King ng Sa o S of PortH
being spread among several English and
Frederick. while still crown, prince, was
borhood Of s5.00O.S0O and was re regarded,
til the sudden and startling discovery.
only two years before his death, that he
bly, from his grandmother, the beautiful
Queen Louise of Prussia, of the Napo-
The queen regent of Spain has her life
insured for a large amount in behalf of
Companies and partly IN ai New N York ne eom
pany. She has followed therein the ex-
fonso Xii whose death mui eie English
and French insurance Companies. in
Inc late prince COnSOrt of Great Britain
was, insured for many hundreds of thou
sands of pounds-close upon a million
now in her possession, and her life ag aia
is very largely insured for the benefit of
her younger children and grandc hildren,
notably for PRINCESS Beatrice and the lat
ter's progeny.
policies Cancelled by the various compan-
les in which he was insured, when, in de-
accepted the proffered throne of Bniearias
and quilted Austria for Sofia During the
extent in constant danger of assassination
that no company would assume the risk
recently that he has been able to- ge fu his
life insured in some OF. the Austrian COM
panies by paying premiums that would be
regarded by ordinary people as altogether
The late President Faure's premiums
We're doubled by the companies in which
ne was Insured on his election to the pres
Carnot had convinced them that the office
ef+ GLIed M agiStFa6e OF the republic was
of reigning sovereign.
sured, and so. too, is the present king of
t Be1lglumi huge policies on his life. being
one Kind and another for money loaned o.
Particularly in connection with the Congo
The Prince of Wales is probably insured
even still more extensively than King
SELF for the benet tt Of his sS f innio Re3t
his life has been insured by his numerous
y moneS hR oan t9e PG e poees
TINS character are estimated at about So
been, insured by an immense number of
people who have never spoken to him in
their life, who have had no financial re-
lations, direct indirect, with him but
who have taken out policies in his name,
and for their own benefit merely as fin
anclaI speculation. 1 believe that this
would be impossible under the Insurance
laws of the United States. But if is FEAST
PIE on yonder side of the Atlantic, and in
who have heavy bets booked that the
PrlL li VIII preoecease the queen, there are
you'd you'd reap al big Peeuniary benefit by the
surance companies. In fact do not
Know OF any royal parsonage in Europe
whose death would constitute so heavy a
blow to the insurance companies as that
or the British heir apparent. The prince
little disturbed thereby that he is even or
record as having himself booked number
acquaintance that he will not outliVe his
mother, the understanding being that the
losers are to pay the amount of the bets
Emperor William is heavily insured.
noIdiins several policies in American COM
Panies, the negotiations with them having
been carried on through his former Ameri-
can friend; Poultney Bigelow. This is
not generally known in Germany. But it
was in consequence thereof that the EN-
peror declined to receive Bigelow or to
take any notice of his presence in Berlin
when he went there a couple of years ago
as the emissary of number of American
Prussian government a repeal or rodifi-
cation of the arbitrary measures that had
companies with the object of favoring the
Prusstan companies which were suffering
from American competition. The kaiser
was naturally afraid that if he gave any
countenance to Bigelow it would be resent
ed by the German companies as faVoring
their American rivals apJ 1I,o,1I5 ~ liI@
plotted BY the Germ;an TT press s''1 while he
it If it were to become known thai he was
insured in New York companies rather
than in those of his native country.