The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-24
N. r. o r.

Great Success of the Order in New Haven.
 Among als the fraternal orders in this
 country there is none that is making such a rapid advance as the Naw Eng
 land Order of Protection. Incorporated
 a little over eight years ago under the
 laws of the Commonwealth of Massa-
 chusetts, it to-day has about two hun
 dred and seventy lodges, with a total
 membership of twenty thousand.
 It is essentially a New England or
 der-no lodge being formed outside of
 the New England states-and, on ac-
 count of this, claims as a result lower
 cost of insurance, present or future, as the territory of New England is now
 conceded by all good judges to be the
 safest risk.
 At tine present time it has about forty
 millions of dollars worth of insurance in force, and has paid out in benefits
 over half million of dollars.
 There are eight lodges of the order in this city with a combined member ship of between fifteen and sixteen hun dred.
 The following are the names of the different lodges: Elm Tree No 35, Bea- con No. 69, Centennial No. 92, Charter
 Oak No. 1888, Mozart No. 193, Winchester No. POS, Gladstone No. 217, and Fort Hale No. 225 The insurance carried by f1,A have Nf kt.s A.. on January 1 amounted to over three and one-half millions of dollars.
 The organization was never in such a hourishing condition as at present, it being estimated that the lodges in this city are making fifty to seventy
 new members monthly. One reason for this is that the cost of insurance has been exceedingly low, while the medi- cal examination, however, is a very rigid one The system of assessments is the best--a graded one-the cost of
 carrying $1,00O insurance for person
 between eighteen and twenty-five years from January, 1895, to January,
 1896, being but $4.20.
 The beneficiaries of deceased mem bers in the different lodges in New Ha- ven have received sixty-two thousand dollars, the amount received through
 each lodge being as follows: Elm Tree No. 30, $35,000; Beacon No. G9, S15, ,00O; Centennial No 92, $1,O00; Charter Oak
 No. 1SS, s2,O00; Mozart No 193, $7,0O0, and Winchester No. POS, $2,00o
 | To prove the progressive spirit of the order, a comprehensive directory of the | organization in this city has just been sal, I | lodge of this state, under whose au- 1 spices it has been published. This work of sixty-eight pages contains the off | cers of the Supreme lodge and the off | cers of the Connecticut Grand lodge as we'll as the name, date of institu-
 ton, place and time of meeting, and 1 the officers of each of the eight subor-
 dinate lodges in this city. In addition | to a mass of other information relative l to the order it gives the name and the residence address of every member in New Haven, together with the particu- lar lodge to which the member belongs | The work of obtaining these addresses was an arduous one, it being ascer- | tained that no lodge roster of any fra l ternal order in this city, as kept by | it's secretary, had the residence address | of it's members, and therefore no. de- | pendence could be placed on informa- tion from this source. The work of ob- | taining the names and addresses as well as the compilation of the same was | left to Past Warden Mcintosh of Char
 ter Oak lodge, assisted by the secre-
 taries of each lodge, and the result is Q
 work that is invaluable to the members and one which will be in constant use | in the lodge meetings.
 Grand Warden L. P. Deming and | Grand Secretary F. D.SGrinnell are botr we'll pleased with the publication and I feel that the New England Order ot i Protection has set the pace which will most probably be followed by some ot l the other fraternal orders in this city.