Show QUEER Thousands of Policies Made Nade Collect Collectable Collectable able by the Queens Death sew New Orleans One of the most curious incidents in connection with the passing of Queen Victoria remarked a prominent laser insurance ance ane man of this city will be the col lection of thousands of policies on her life have J en carried for years yeam past b all classes of bf people ta In Eng land Most of o this insurance was taken out oy y trades people and was purely a businesslike precaution They assumed death of the queen would be fol k lowd wd by a period of court mourning last In from froes four to months during which time no great state be he beheld held and society would be in iii retirement The elect effect of bf such a season on business was certain to be ing extreme and nd it was war easy to foresee that it would mean a falling off in Ia the tune of millions of pounds The insurance was written as an offset to won snob a contingency and ranges range all the way from the little 20 policy of humble shopkeepers up to lump sums of thoua thousands ands The bulk of It was wan taken out many years ago because no prudent company would care car to assume the risk after the queen passed a certain age and she has lured so snuck much longer than the average human being particularly the average crowned head that the insurers have had hada a good deal the worst of the bargain I Icare dare care say most of their premiums have trebled or quadrupled the face of the poll poli i cj f it has always been possible to ob oh 1 tain such Much insurance however in iii a few companies that made a speciality of writ Ing it and md it is a well known fact that an sum was placed on the queens life fo for the hours covering her celebration All the London storekeepers counted apon spon gathering tn in an Immense harvest on that day and they were thunderstruck when a rumor went out shortly before that the venerable sovereign had had a serious seizure It was said afterward that the story was started by insurance and If so It was one of the and heartless pieces of Commercial strategy on record But be that e it may it resulted m in wholesale injuring against the possibility that the a would week fall fU to take place ac according cording to the and it was w in good authority that the Insurers mended not only the common run of I but Yolks folks who had rooms to rent street tall stall to hire litre and proprietors of Ot temporary place of amusement That remind me us jy y lie 9 e way that the prin prini i theatres are said to be establishments that carry the t regular policies on the queen queena s liFe Iti In their thuir cae galie the flue precaution car can be easily Understood for their business has been strongly affected bv by occa of public mourning A few days of i the court following the death of some Mime minor member of th tho royal roval family reduces receipts to a extent and I think most of them will sim H close their doors during the theof of or tha queen |