Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-11-24
WHY THE TRAVELLERS?

There are certain and very definite ad-
vantages in insuring in THE TRAVELLERS,
both as regards accident and life insurance,
which cannot be found elsewhere.
In the first place, as an accident company
THE TRAVELLERS admits of no rival. None
| other is as old, and consequently none has
such an experience to base its rates upon
| with equal certainty of correctness. There
are certain classes of risks which are
profitable at low rates, there are other
make satisfactory. A younger or more in
experienced company can find out the facts
only by long and careful experience with
all classes. Many have tried to compete
with THE TRAVELLERS in this line of bust
ness. Most OF these are now dead but the
original company grows stronger each year.
Its long experience has taught it just how
low it can afford to sell its policies with
safety to itself and it's policy holders, and
| made clear what occupations are extremely
hazardous and unsafe to handle except at
very high premiums.
All this makes plain the fact that The
TRAVELLERS is able safely to sell its policies
| at the lowest possible price. The enormous
accident business done during the last
| thirty seven years has shown how great
was the need which THE TRAVELLERS was
| created to meet. The laughter and incre-
| dulity which greeted the beginning of the
| business is never heard in these days; the
| daily papers furnish too much practical
| evidence Of the need of such insurance by
their accounts of numerous and more or
less fatal injuries every day of the year.
| During the last thirty seven years 2, 941, 1855
| policies have been written and 355, 916
claims have been paid, showing in rough
| figures one out of every eight persons of
those seeking insurance at some time re-
| ceive disa bling or fatal injuries. w hen
the amount paid out is considered, the
good accomplished becomes even more
apparent, amounting monetarily alone to
$25, 074, 1862, really immense sum. This
is not all, for the average per year of claims
| paid Is very much greater now than ever
| before, amounting last year to 16, $50 claims
paid, or 81, 379, 1868. With such statistics
1t is useless to deny the necessity of acct
| dent Insurance. No other company can
come within speaking distance of such
figures, and none can afford to offer such
advantageous policies.
In the matter of life insurance THE
| TRAVELLERS makes splendid showing
There are larger companies, but there is
| none which offers better policy or is safer
in any way. There are great many ways
of writing large business and of making
a very fine showing on paper; for instance,
there are some companies which point
| with pride to having written twenty or
thirty millions of new life insurance
as duly set forth in their statement, but
what is not so set forth plainly but can be
have lost by la pses during the year almos,
as much as they wrote. That company is
the best and safest which holds its mem
bers, which does not rush to get any one
and every one without regard TO the quality
Of the risks, but goes carefully ahead, con-
tent to write less business in order to gel
better and safer risks. ANY one can SEE
that it is better to secure 10, 900 good healt by
men and keep 5000 of them, than to secure
10000 men of somewhat inferior quality
and keep only 10000 of them.
THE TRAVELLERS endeavors to get as
many good men at it can and to keep
them, and in this it is eminently success
full. 1t has no desire to get large mum bers
merely for the sake of saying that it has
written so many men, but it seeks anC
gets men who take insurance, not from
mere hasty impulse (for such men drop il
just as hastily but from the firm con
, viction that it is their duty to get it ane
. that they will want it just as badly mex
year as they do this.
Another advantage of insuring in TIKI
TRAVELLERS lies in the quality of insurance
which it furnishes. Any man can take VI
a policy OF insurance in The TRAVELLER
aud understand It's provisions thoroughly
there are no technical bubbles or catcl
phrases, it is clear and concise and mean
! just what it says. The regular life ant
endowment policies are well known Al
l among the best and most reasona BILE in tn
market, while such policies as THE TRAv
j, ELERs' Principal and Income Bond AM
Guaranteed distribution Life Policies ar
famous throughout the country for thei
liberality and their ability to meet the de
sires of business and professional men an
r thrifty workmen 81 ,543, 1861 exces
above all possible iabibtes, are securit
against every possibility of accident G
: misfortune. And the characters of til
officers and directors is in itself a securit
', for fairness and impartial justice to ever
- policy holder present and to come. P.
e Webster, agent, Barton, Vt.