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Show -? - LIFE INSURANCE IS VAST. Assets of Companies In Mew York State Declared to .Exceed Two Billions. i If the atbots or all the life Insurance companies erigatted In business In the , " United States were distributed equal: to all the population ot the world, each man, woman und child ot every cuntl-Hunt cuntl-Hunt und every country, from Africa to Labrador, would receive- two dollars v each, says n writer In tho Era Mngu- V ' sslno. There would bo two dollars (or : j, every human being on the globe. 'lh , assets of tho lite Insurance compantis of this country that Is. tjie actual prop-' prop-' 't crty, rent estate, bonds, ttocl.s, etc., ' which they own amount In tho aKrc- V j,'ate t more than 12,000,000.000. The companies doing business In New Vork stato, ar.d these Include also practically ( all of tl.c companies with headquarter"! w In other states had at the close ot 1U0:I, ' nsscta In exact figures, equal In valuo to $2.2:0 423,202. Such Is the magnt-' magnt-' ttide of the Institution of life Irsuiiince! xlf" if all thendult men In America, of every " race and occupation, should contributo j !. simultaneously $100 each toward a fund, - i that enormous sum would not equal the "v alue of the property owned by the American llfo Insurance companies '' ' More than $500,000 of the money paid i f to the companies every car by policy i i ' holders goes to defray the expense of maintaining a spy system. AfteraJlthe preliminary precautions tiavo been ' taken, the medical examination made. y. the references looted up after the pol- - Icy hns been granted, detectives aro em ployed to watch policy holders Your money Is paid to employ men to follow i you through )nur dally walks, track you " Into restaurants to Interview your serv- . ants, to use nil the other low and con- A " temptlbla means which these creeping . " snadowers employ. The spy system of the "comblno" Is Interesting. |