The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-18
THOUSAND WOMEN
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National Convention of Ladies'
5 Catholic Benevolent ascot.
alton Opens Tomorrow

r About fifty delegates who will attend
this week the eight national convention
of the Ladies' Catholic Benevolent as
ISOLATION arrived yesterday. Before
Tuesday morning 1 1000 delegates and 500
visitors are expected, fer the benevolent
association will have more delegates at
tending it's. convention this year than will
any other national association of Ameri-
can women.
Many delegates will reach st. Paul this
morning. About Sis o'clock Wisconsin
Central train will bring women from
Southeastern New York 1850
/ This train will also bring 200 delegates
from Brooklyn and New York that are
coming to support Mrs. Mary E. Costelloe
OF Brooklyn. leading candidate for SUI
preme president. The Greater New York
party travelled in four Pullmans over the
Lehigh Valley, Grand Trunk and Wis
consin Central railways
AT 10 o'clock this morning will come
North Western train, in two or three
sections, which will include special cars
from New York state, from Western
I Transatlantic, from Ohio and from va
r1ous Southern states. This train, which
was made up at Chicago. will accommo-
date 100 delegates. They will include Mrs
h. Il. MCGOWAN of Buffalo. supreme pres
ident; Mrs. A. J. Royer, Erie. Pa. SUI
Il PiCiliC 1CCOiuc CdHS w. .1drrOI, M. d.,
I Buffalo. supreme medical examiner; Mrs.
M. III. Murphy, Buffalo, Mrs NJ J. Far
rell, Manchester. N. D., and Miss Mar
garet Kelly, Cleveland, supreme auditors;
Miss Elizabeth T. Burns, New York; Miss
kate Mahoney, Troy, N. Y: Mrs M L.
Yeungblood, Newark. n. J., and Mrs. K.
j. Dowling, Rochester. supreme trustees;
Miss Margaret O'Neill, Titusvile, Pa;
supreme guard. and many other women
appointment in the association.
More than half hundred delegates
twho went to Duluth by boat will reach
st. Paul this afternoon. There will also
be numerous arrivals from the West
, Minnesota Has Only One Delegate
strangely enough. only one delegate
VIII be welcomed from the state of Min
nesota. She will represent a local branch
of the association at ST. Cloud. But in
view of the many thousands of Catholic
women who are SO active in all social
spheres throughout the Northwest, there
is; little doubt that Minnesota is merely
awaiting an opportunity to reinforce not,
ably the, ranks of the benevolent asso-.
cation. 1t is even understood that soon
after the national convention adjourns.
II not before, large local branches will
be established in the Twin Cities
b. Today the women will either arrive or
rest after arriving. The single number
on the social programme is a reception
to be given to The delegates and the
visitors by the supreme. officers at the
Hotel Ryan. The Ryan will be the
national headquarters. But delegates will
be registered at all Of the other local
hotels. and not few Of the women will
De entertained at the homes of friends
AT o'clock tomorrow morning spe-
c1af service for the delegates will be held
at the Cathedral, Sixth and st. Peter
streets. The sermon will be delivered by
Archbishop Ireland. The benediction will
be pronounced by Right Rev B. J. Nc
Quafd bishop of Rochester supreme spir-
1tual adviser Of the association
The convention will open at 1:SO o'clock
tomorrow afternoon In the Peoples
church. Pleasant avenue Addresses of
welcome will then be made by Gov Van
SAINT and Mayor Smith. The supreme
president. Mrs. E. B. MCGOWAN, of Buff
falo. will deliver her annual address.
Bishop MeQuaid will also be heard
Public Not Admitted
After this opening session the public
will not be admitted to the convention.
Announcement will be made from day TO
day, however, of the results accomplished.
Three proposals will specially engage
the attention of the delegates. One sug-
gestion will be that assessment rates
should be adjusted in the insurance de-
partment of the, association. This does
not mean that the rates will be in
creased: but simply that the extra amount
now collected occasionally by double as
sessments- double headers"-would be
distributed and the assessment rate be
thus made uniform.
So far from finding it difficult to pay
it's insurar1s benefits the Benevolent as
ISOLATION Lds been extremely fortunate.
1t is said to have been the very first in
surance society organized among Amerf-
can women and that no farther back than
1880. 1t had to combat from the be-
ginning, the widespread assertion of IN
surance companies that men are safer
risks than women. The fact proved
quite the opposite. The death rate in
the Ladies of the Maccabees, the next
largest of wemen's insurance societies,
was found to be slightly lower than the
average rate in mems societies. Thus
the Benevolent association has been en-.
abied to pay more than 100000 to
the beneficiaries of Its Insured MEM
berS, and to accumulate a reserve fund
of 5000. 900 and a surplus fund Of 1921 600.
Yet In justice to the average member
carrying insurance the association may
adopt this week proposal to scale the
certificates" in certain cases with a view
OF preventing new members from profit
ing by gamblers chance. This pre-
posal would make it impossible for a
beneficiary to receive $1,000 in insurance
after the insured had paid but $3.50 in
assessments. The certificate of a new
member would be worth fourth its
face value should the member die in
three months after entering the asso-
ciation; one-half of the face value in
case of death in six months; three-fourths
the face value. if the member died in
nine months. But membership for one
year would assure the payment of the
full face value.
The third "mootsd change" testifies to
the rapid growth oNthe association The
ratio of representa- Non in the national
! convention may be changed SO as to re-
duce the number of delegates Each
local association. according to established
rule, has been entitled to send one dele
gate. That meant $40 delegates aft De-.
treit In 1901, when the association voted
to hold thereafter triennial instead of
| biennial conventions.
But now. within three years. the num-
Der of local branches has increased by
nearly seventy per cent. Each of the
AL new branches is entitled to send one
delegate this year Even if the usual
percentage do not arrive the total present
will probably be LOCO delegates. Should
the association continue to grow with
unchecked rapidity, the national body
will soon. become un'wieldy. Such. at
least. is the argument to be advanced at
the Peoples church
DisraeIi's Devoted Wife
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