The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-18
COMMITTEES APPOINTED
NEW ENGLAND ORDER OF PRoTEo-
TI0N NOTES.

SOuh'ys
F'raternal orders are now admitted
by all to be a power for good in the
community, and are no longer looked on
with the suspicion that they used to be.
The Bible injunction, "by their fruits
We shall know Them has changed the
attituted OF many an unbeliever in
these organizations, so that this class
of societies is now looked upon-next
to the church and the school-as the
greatest civilizer in the land, The vast
amount os good accomplished by the
different lodges in every section Of our
country proves conclusively the inn
mense value of fraternal orders and
shows that they are the destroyers of
poverty and the protectors of the de-
fenceless and the oppressed. 1t should
be the aim of every right minded clti-
zen to encourage good fraternal socie-
ties for the experience is that since
they have taken so many into their
fold, crime has been lessened, prison
patronage has subsidized, fewer persons
are compelled to go to the poor house
and saloons are not so much frequent
ed, while the burdens of the taxpayers
have been materially lessened.
OF all the fraternal organizations in
the New England states there is none
which is making more rapid advances
and none which has attained such
degree of popularity as the New Eng
land Order OF Protection. This order
was in never so flourishing condition
as at the present time, and is not only
leading all other fraternal organiza-
tions in growth, but also in the num-
Der of its assessments. The mortality
in the New England order is so low
that the average cost to it's members
is about $3.50 for each $1,000 of insur-
ance. The death rate has not increas-
ed in five years The order is about
eight years old and has already paid
out 81, 100000 in death benefits.
The present month is the beginning
of the fiscal year in the different states,
the time when the different grand
lodges hold their yearly session. All
the grand lodges of the New England
states have met, with the exception Of
the grand lodge of Vermont, which con-
venes at Barre on the 28th of the pres
ent month. The supreme lodge officers
are always represented at these lodge
meetings, and it will be represented at
this last meeting by Supreme Vice
Warden Lucius p Deming of this city
and Supreme Medical Examiner Her
bert o. Chase. M. D., OF Boston.
The reports of the different grand
wardens show that in the state of
Maine there are II lodges and 3.1S5
members; New Hampshire, 10 lodges
and 6S1 members; Vermont, u lodges
and sol members; Massachusetts,, 81
lodges and 9172 members; Rhode Is
land, II lodges and 720 members, and in
Connecticut, 54 lodges and 5,214 mem
bers.
The officers OF the grand lodge in
Connecticut are as follows:
Grand warden-Lucius P. Deming,
New Haven.
Grand vice warden--J. B. Weiant,
New Britain.
Past grand mathematician II. Ely,
New Haven.
Grand secretary-F. D. Grinnell, New
Haven.
sted. 2 tG
Grand chaplain-H. S. Eldridge, Tor
rington.
Grand guide L. Wheeler, Mantle.
Grand guardian-T. d. Coulter, Es-
sex
Grand sentinel-D. A. Plummer, New
Haven.
Grand trustees-F. e. Bulmer, chair
man, Meriden; e. S. Conklin, New Brit
ain; Fl. Huntington, Meriden.
The standing committees which have
just been appointed are as follows:
Executive committee--LuciusP Dem
ing, chairman, New Haven; ]. B. Wei
ant, New Britain; F. d. Grinnell New
Haven; J. w. Chaplin, New Haven; I'll.
Staby, New Haven; W. A. Bown, Wa
terbury.
Committee on laws-J. w. Chaplin,
chairman, New Haven; H. Seymour
Eldridge, Torrington; William A. Pei
ton, Meriden.
Committee on finance-H. Staby,
chairman, New Haven; L. ]. Kirkham,
East Haven; T. j. Coffey, New Haven.
Committee on appeals ard grievances
w. A. Brown, chairman, Waterbury;
G. A. Blackstone, Branford; George S.
Butler, Cornwall.
The different deputy grand wardens
who have bene appointed to the re-
spective lodges in and around New
Haven are as follows: Elm Tree, NO.
80, of New Haven, G. H. Bradley; Bea-
con, No. 60, of New Haven, Joseph T..
Wooster; Housatonic, No. 81, Of STRAIT
ford, J. Wall; Centennial, No. 80, of
New Haven, P. e. Whalen; Montowese,
No. 1874, OK Branford, S. w. Langley;
Charter Oak, No. 1888, Of New Haven,
James Gallagher, jr. Mozart. No. 1913,
of New Haven, Alfred Parlow; VIM
chester, No. POS, of New Haven, F. K.
Loveland; Gladstone, No. ZIG, of New
Haven, w. C. Mcintosh; Fort Hale,
No. 225, of New Haven, H. C. Dockum;
Princess, No. 229, of Branford, Mr.. G.
Jourdan; Seaview, No. 231, and BAidge-
port, No. 23S, of Bridgeport, f. w.
Dawless; Saltonstall, No. 25S, of East
Haven, D. A Plummer; Totoket, No.
271, of North Branford, F. Countryman.
This city is the great stronghold in
this state of the New England Order of
Protection. There are eight different
lodges in New Haven with a combined
membership of about seventeen hun
dred carrying insurance of over three
and one half millions of dollars. All
the city lodges have made large in
creases during the past year and the
working members of each lodge are
looking forward to still greater accre-
lions to its membership during the
year upon which they have just entered.