The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-17


fourteen branches, representing 1900
members in three states, met at Titus
vile in 1890. and the result was the
formation of a national association.
The growth of the movement has been
altogether in excess of the anticipa-
lions of its founders, for not only has
it almost 100000 members, but it has
paid out to beneficiaries of the in
sured $3,125, 900, has a reserve fund of
approximately 100000. and surplus
now on hand for emergencies of $751;
600.
Owing to a proposal to advance the
rates for insurance, and another plan
to change the representation in the trf-
ennial conventions, the sessions of the
st. Paul triennial promise to be inter-
eSting in the extreme.
Mrs. E. B. MCGOWAN has been presf-
dent, and Mrs. j. A. Roger. Erie. has
been recorder of the supreme council
ever since the organization of the su-
preme body, fourteen years ago, and
Of the hundred or more women who
have during these years occupied po-
sitions in the supreme council there
has not been single death.
Mrs. Mary e. CosteIioe for President
Mrs. Mary E. Costelloe, Brooklyn. N.
Y. will come to the triennial session
reinforced in her candidacy for SUI
preme president by the thirty-two
branches connected with the BROOKLYN
advisory board of the association.
Mrs. Costelloe, who is the wife of
John Costelloe, superintendent of the
Postal Telegraph Cable company in
New York, and visited St Paul in
1900, making one of the happiest
speeches Of the convention held that
year in this city.
A campaign committee was organ
the interest of Mrs. CosteIloe's canf3i-
dacy, and it is said she is supported by
the unanimous delegations from New
Jersey and delegations from Eastern
and Central New York, Connecticut
massachusetts,. Pennsylvania, Illinois
and other localities. Her connection
with the association dates back twelve
years, When she became a member of
the hrSt branch organized in RroolxIvr
and at that time she filed the position
OF supreme secretary's assistant for a
large Catholic mems fraternal asso-
clauon. She was elected at the RING
hamton convention of 1903 a member
OF the supreme board of auditors, ami
served in that capacity for two wears
at the end of that time being electe,;
supreme treasurer, to which she was
reelected at the Chicago and Ashmr1,
Park conventions
Mrs Costelloe is said TO he onnosa7
to a radical REIMBURSEMENT of the Man
OF insurance in vogue by the Ladies,
Catholic Benevolent association. ana
IN her candidacy she will probably
have the support of this element In
the ST. Paul convention Mrs. Cosfei-
loe is credited with the organizat tor
of hfty-one branches in New Yor,,
New Jersey~and Connecticut. and bv
lar the greater number were Organized
wholly gratuitously on her part.
Resolutions ind0Tsing the candidacy
of Mrs. Costelloe and paying her =.
handsome tribute were recently adopt-
ed by the Brooklyn advisory board
and copies have been circulated very
widely throughout the cities and towns
having branches of the national asso
citation. The Brooklyn Eagle of juno
II pays her a fine tribute in an in
dorsement of her candidacy for the
supreme presidency of the great Cath
Ole ladies' fraternal organization.