, 1886-10-07
Improved Order of Red Men.

Through the kindness of Mr.. James
q. Swan, Chief of Records OF China
cum Tribe No. l, of Port Townsend.
we are able to present some extracts
from the reports of the Great Coun-
ell Of the United States.
By the report of the Great & helf of
Records, Charles c. Conley, 92S Race
street, Philadelphia, for G. S. c.. 395,
answering to 1856, of our calendar, it
appears that the exact number of
Red lien in the United States is
sc, 263, Of which Pennsylvania num-
ber5 19,403, and stands at the head of
the list of states; New Jersey comes
next with G053, New York 5O98, Mary
land 2155, Massachusetts, 1881, Cali
fornia 1887, Deleware 1649, Virginia
1874, Ohio 1890, Indiana 1880, etc.
Massachusetts has made an increase
during the past year of fve hundred
PEI cent.
The order of Red Men is for benev
olent purposes, life insurance and
social amenities, and is Lre-eminent
among all organizations ia promoting
a feeling of social brotherhood among
its members.
During the past year the Order has
increased in most remarkable man
ner in all the states, and the interest
has extended here, Chimacum Tribe
having added over three hundred pr
cent to its membership since July 1st.
The true merits and prime motives
of this order as benevolent institu-
ton lp IND fn1-,-ol f,.D,,,
of business, which We find in its pub
lished Constitutions and By laws,
which are for public examination.
The first order of business is ii sum
mary of the work in the following
question: Are any of the brothers
sick, or in distress, or unable to fol-
low the hunt?" that is, attend to their
usual business. If any brother is
reported sick, a committee attends
him. If brother is in distress, a
committee aids him, and if brother
is unable to attend his usual avoca-
tions through adversely, accident or
casualty, committee counsels, ad-
yises and relieves him. These are the
grand principles of the order-to sue
cor the distressed brother, to pay a
weekly benefit while sick, to attend to
the burial of the dead, and to care for
the widows and orphans.
There is life insurance or bene-
ficiary fund attached to the order,
under the direction and guarantee of
the Great Council Of the United States
which is warrant for its integrity
and solidity. But paramount to all
in its attractive features are its social
gatherings of singing, dancing, lee
lures, feasts and other means of pro-
noting social intercourse, which have
made this order so peculiarly attrac
tive wherever known.
Now that the order of Improved
Red Men has taken such a start in
all the states, we may expect not only
that Chimacum Tribe No, l, of Port
Townsend, will have vigorous
growth, but that other Tribes of Red
Men will be instituted in this Terri
tory and British Columbia. For the
long nights of winter there is no as
sociation more attractive than the
Red Men, and none more correct in
principles or more benevolent in
practice.
AT the last meeting of the Great
Council of the United States, held at
Detroit, September 13, 1856, was the
discussion of the Degree of Poca-
hontas," which, if adopted will admit
the Queens of the Forest and Prin
cesses of the Tribe to attend certain
ceremonies, and be present in the
wigwam, on all convivial entertain
ments with their husbands and faith.
ers, who are members of the Order.
This last announcement will be sure
to attract the ladies who are anxions
to learn the meaning of the gorgeous
costumes and regalia of the Improv-
ed Order of Red Men, of which they
have been permitted to see occasional
exhibition.
The ARGUS will give its readers
still further information of this ad-
mirable Order as soon as it is per
mitted to pass through the Forest,
and enter the Wigwam of the Tribe,
and as there seems to be such Won
derful interest of late il is not un-
likely that some of us may join the
procession, if for no other purpose
than to give our devil chance to see
the pyTotechnics of the Improved
Order of the Red Men, and see if we
cannot adapt some of them to the
workings cf this Office.