The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-12
By telephone.

Hello! Hello!
Is this the office Of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company?
Yes!
What's this industrial insurance 1 hear
SC much about?
It's simply life and endowment insur-
ance sold in small amounts, premiums
payable weekly. 1t is sometimes called
Family Insurance"
How so?
Because all the healthy members of a
enty may be insured.
What's the premium on these indus
trial policies?
Five cents week and upwards.
Any difference in the cost to males and
females?
Not bit.
Any extras required for initiation fee.
admission charge, extra assessments,
medical examinations. ETC.?
Not cent; only the payment of the
fixed weekly premium.
/ suppose policy-holders have to go to
the office each week to pay?
No; the company sends an agent every
week to the homes of the policy holders
Suppose a policy holder moves?
If he tells us where he is going, an
other agent will call and collect at his
new address, or he will be instructed how
to pay.
How long after person dies do you
take to adjust his claim?
Right off-thc company telegraphs me
authority to make payment the day the
proofs are received and approved at the
home office.
A person don't have to die to get the
amount of an Industrial Endowment
policy, does he?
No; the money is paid to him in per
son, in cash, at the end of his endow-
ment term, or, if he dies meanwhile, it
is paid to his representatives.
Suppose / want to give up after / have
paid a number of years. do l lose what
l have paid?
Well, you don't want to suppose that,
if you can possibly hold 1t, but If you
can't possibly pay after you have been
insured a prescribed time, a paid UP
policy, on which no further payment of
premium is required, will be issued pay
able to you upon reaching certain age
or at death according to the terms of the
policy you originally selected.
Well say-Keep off. Central-I amt
through-wait minute-Hello, Metro
politan? Are there many companies de-
ing that kind of insurance in this coun-
try?
Oh, yes, a dozen or SO; but the Me
tropolitan is known the world over as
the Leading Company Of America.
You must be doing quite business?
Well, little; we've got over six mil
lion policies now, outstanding-abo
half of all the insurance policies in the
United States.
Whew! How many people have you
got working for you2
Over fourteen thousand.
You must pay quite number OF
claims?
More than three hundred day.
Have you paid any bonuses on these
industrial poicies-that is have you Civ
en- back anything to the policy-holders
out of what he paid you other than tc
pay the policy when it comes due?
Well, should say SO. We have dis
tributed over three millions OF dollars
the last five years in that way.
Well, now, your business certainly
looks inviting-just half a minute Cen
tral-Do you issue policies for large
amounts?
Do we? We write policies for from
$l.00 to 500, 900 on individual lives. in
the Ordinary Department and policies
for an even $500 in the intermediate
branch No better policies are issued By
any company in the world.
Want any agents?
Yes, sir! And they can have perman
ent and profitable employment.
Any chance for EN- to get ahead?
No better chance with any company
An honest, capable, industrious agent
who will study the business and acquire
practical experience, can, by demon
strating his capacity establish claim t.
the highest position in the field. 1t il
within his certain reach.
What your name?
MITCHELL. d. Mitchell-and my offic
is in The Home Building, Raleigh, NJ
| Come in and see me.
/ Tbanks I'll do it. Central's gettins
mad and I'll have to ring off. Good bye
/ Goodbye and good luck.
/ Smoke LA Josephine" sc. Cigars.