The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-09
into A NEW HOME
Modern Tonties Compelled to
Get New Headquarters.
ORDERS RAPID GROWTH
More Than 5000 Members
Added Last Year.

The Modern Tonties have moved to the
fourth floor fthe Sedgwick block, where
the office space is doubled and where more
recording and auditing clerks and STEM
ographers can be- employed. AS soon as
possible other rooms will be added to the
new ones, for while they are now double
the size Of the old headquarters, they
are much too small. 1t will be only a
short time until it will require a space
equal to the entire half of the floor of
the Sedgwick block, on which the Tontie
Office is now located, to accommodate this
growing young order, which people are
rapidly coming to see embodies the genius
of organized and systematic investment
and reliable protection. The Modern Ton
ties will, in the life of its present Off
GERS, be one of the great financial and
protective institutions of America, for the
principles upon which it is organized and
operated are unassailabIe. evolved from
the logic of a long experience in mutual
insurance.
The order has already passed the ex-
perimental stage. Three thousand mem
bership certificates were issued during the
year, which closed with the month OF
April, each month showing a large in
crease over the corresponding month of
the preceding year For example, the
month of April. 1882 shows an addition
Of IA members, while in April, 1900, 359
new members were added.
There is no longer any doubt of the
stability of the Tonties, and the people
of southeastern Kansas should feel a just
pride that the national office of this
young and vigorous order is located here
in Wichita. For the amount of business
done and the percentage Of increase the
Tonties probably have no equal among
the fraternal companies which are doing
business in this state. Indeed, only two
orders in Kansas have a larger member
ship, but the business of the Tonties is
not limited to Kanas alone. They al
ready have eighteen established councils
in Oklahoma, fifteen in Texas and the
order is meeting with wonderful success
IN Kentucky, Arkansas, Colorado, Wash
ington and other states.
The secret Of success with this remark
able fraternity is found chiefly in the fact
that it IS SO well adapted to present con-
ditions and needs. The annuity feature
is particularly attractive.
1t requires little argument to convince
the average man or woman that it is a
safer protection, if not in all respects ct
ter, to receive 10 per cent interest on Sc 900
for ten or twenty years or for life than it
is to receive 5000 in a lump sum and i'm
mediately proceed to spend it. 1t is no
uncommon thing for a man or woman to
De paid policy by some insurance COM
pany and in a few months be again at
the door Of poverty.
This association is now uDon a firm
foundation and IS amply able to pay every
obligation incurred, by it's certificates or
otherwise. and it is especially to be noted
that, unlike most other fraternities. its
ability to pay does not depend upon an
increase Of membership nor upon the
youth of its members. In ordinary fra
ternal insurance the enlisting of new
members is the only resource for the
continued payment of policies. but the
Tonties are SO constituted that. should
new members cease to come in even now.
every obligation could be paid in full:
It's plan for the Investment Of surp- us
funds IS unique, and probably one of the
safest that has yet been devised.
Indeed it seems remarkable that so
comprehensive and perfect a plan of pro-
lection should not have been long ago dis
covered and put into practical operation.
but the same can be said of every new
invention or Improvement.
While the Tonties are what many ra-
gard as the best fraternal protection
known. il IS by no means claimed by its
friends that its plan may not be improved
upon but 1t is claimed that the order of
the Tonties presents the very best posi-
bic protection which has yet been devised