THE HILL OF TARIK IN AMERICA 
There is no place where one feels the greatness of the Prudential quite 
so much as in the vast granite piles which have been raised for the company’s 
home buildings. They rise above the Jersey meadows as Gibraltar does above 
the sea, a convincing witness, surely, to the growth and to the strength of the Pru- 
dential. But they are not a cold, gray rock, but a living organism throbbing from 
vital contact with millions of policy-holders. There are now four of these great 
buildings, all occupied by the company. 
Today the Prudential is paying over 300 claims a day, or about forty each 
working hour. On many policies settlement is made within a few hours by the 
superintendent of the district; on the large policies a report is sent immediately 
to the home office and settlement authorized by telegraph. And on over 45 
per cent. of the claims more money is paid than the policy calls for. From the 
beginning the Prudential has followed lines of great liberality. 
t would be interesting to describe the broad activities that hum in the great 
buildings at Newark, but they would more than require an entire article themselves. 
So, too, with the equipment and furnishing of the buildings which, in the way of 
complete adjustment to their particular work, are probably unequaled in the 
world. Thousands who go to the World’s Fair at St. Louis will find in the Pru- 
dential’s exhibit in the Palace of Education a fine model of all the buildings, and 
also the fullest data concerning life insurance that have ever been brought together. 
But the last word about the Prudential is not told at any exposition. It is 
found in the 5,500,000 policies which form a stupendous exhibit on the value of 
life insurance in developing thrift, safe investment, and home protection in a 
nation. Of course, such an exhibit could never have been possible if the Pruden- 
tial had not worked out safe policies that would meet the broad needs of the 
American people. 
