Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-02-15
A REMARKABLE RECORD!
The Maccabees Close a Most Prosper
Gus Year-1OOOOO Members.

Among the 700 Maccabees OF January
LIST, 1881, there may have been some who
dreamed of the time when the Order
would number its 100, 900 members, wher
1t would become power among the fra
ternal beneficiary organizations OF the
land in their mission Of protecting the
widow and the fatherless. This Is nc
longer dream, but reality. They be-
gin the year 1893 with a membership OF
99,31S, fourth In numerical strength
among the great organizations composing
the National Fraternal Congress, and ell.
joying greater prosperity than ever before
The history Of this Order has been most
remarkable one, even from the day OF It's
birth, but the year 1899 eclipses all that
have gone before, as the following state
ment Of its business will show:
The membership Jan. LIST, 1892, was:
Supreme Tent, X. o. T. NJ, 24,O4O
Great Camp for Michigan, 31,112
Ladies OF the Maccabees 1900
Total, G2,35o
The membership Jan. LIST, 1893, was:
Supreme Tent, K. y. T. NJ, 39,S7S
Great Camp for Michigan, 48,94O
Ladies Of the Maccabees, 1880
Total 99,318
A net gain during the year of SO, 966 men,
bers.
Since January LIST, 1892, there had been
a net gain Of GA subordinate branches of
the Order, making the total number Of
tents and hives at the present time 1924.
In the Supreme Tent 40 death claims
have been paid during the year, amount
ing to 1914, 765, and 81 disability claims,
to $4,000.
In the great camp for Michigan 1893
death claims amounting to 1906, 1850
and 101 disability claims amounting to
ZOO; while the Ladies' OF the Macca-
bees have paid out during the year for
death claims $22, 900, making the total
expenditures during the year for death
and disability claims as follows
Supreme Tent, $500, 756
Great Camp, SOC, 055
Ladies of the Maccacees, $4,000
$643,711
One OF the most gratifying results Of
The year Is that this large amount Of
money and great number Of death and
disability claims have been paid at less
expense to the members than In the year
previous, one assessment less being call
cd In 1892 than in 1891. The deaths have
been less than five to each ZOO members.
This is a very low rate for an organlza-
lion Of Its age, and evidences the care
aiken In the selection Of It's members.
The cost to members under 35 years of
age in the Supreme Tent during the past
year, exclusive Of Tent dues, was 80 for
zach 81 900 ollie benefits carried at As
,ears 1t was 30 per 81 200.
In the Great Camp 1t was 80 for 81 900
It the age Of 80, and $3.50 at the age OF
I5.
These figures are less than one-fourth
What life benefits would have cost I'm the
Did Life Insurance Companies, while tho
daccabees furnished disability benefits
rising from sickness, injury or old age,
n addition to life benefits, without extra
figures above quoted cover
ng cost of all these benefits for the year.
I Is little wonder that IL has grown so
adidly, whom IL offers such advantages
o the people at so low cost.
The total amount OF death and disabil-
ty claims paid by the Order since It's or
'anization to Jan. LIST, 1893, is 81, 912, $751;
8, every claim being paid Immediately on
Presentation Of proper proofs.
The Order Is now established In 90
tates and provinces, and growing more
apidly than any other similar society OF
he country, as Is shown by It's business
or December, when It received over 4, 800
APPLICATIONS for membership and organic
d over 90 subordinate branches.
Its membership must be composed
Rrgely Of young men, as we find the