Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-03-04
RED MEN INSTALL BIG
CHIEFS FOR THE YEAR.
Order Leads the Country in Caring
for Children.

! With the impressive ceremonies
characteristic of the order the great
chiefs were last Friday installed at
| the session of the great council of
the Improved Order of Red Men in
this State. The ceremonies were in
| charge of Wilson Brooks, of Chicago,
who is a great chief of records, and
were witnessed by an interested au-
| dience. The great chiefs who were
the principals were Great Prophet
Emil w. Schabilon, of Hackensack;
Great Sachem Henry J. Rathbone, of
| Trenton; Great Senior Sycamore John
Thompson, of Asbury Park; Great
Junior Sycamore John B. Wright, of
| Camden.
Following the raising of the great
chiefs, Great Chief of Records Brooks
addressed the order. He showed that
at the present time the Red Men are
caring for 500 orphans, of whom 127
are full orphans and 373 half orphans
| The cost of this work for the year will
be between $4,000 and $4,000. In
New Jersey there are forty-one or
phans being cared for, the order hav-
| ing received for their care more than
| $4,000 during the year.
| In addition to the money received
| from the orphans fund of the great
council of the United States, the indi-
vidual tribes having charge of the
children cooperate with the orphans
| fund committee and have contributed
! from $25 to 500 year for each child
When a parent dies the committee
requires, if possible, that the child be
placed with blood relations, but if
this is impossible it is placed in a
home of a member of the order. One
| of the other requirements is that
the children must be kept at school
for the entire term prescribed by the
Board of Education of the district in
which they are living. The money
for the care OF the orphans is paid to
the tribes from the orphans fund and
disburseds under the direction of the
tribes.
The great keeper of records also
called attention to the fact that on
] January 25 last President Roosevelt
and conference at the White House
| with 100 of the representative phil
anthropists of the country, as result
| of which it was agreed that the best
system for caring for dependent chill
dren was that which has been in vog-s
| ten years.
He said the credit for the Red Mems
system in caring for it's orphans is
due to M. A Marks, formerly of In
diana, who inaugurated the plan. Mr..
| Brooks who assisted in raising the.
1 chiefs by Great Tocakon Joseph Now
rey of Camden, who holds the high;
est appointive office in the great
/ ooupo;I of tbo TTpifod Cfotoc
Before the final adjournment Of the,
great council, Great Sachem Rathbone
announced the appointment of the
following officers and committees for
the ensuing year:
Great sannap, Charles M. Curry,
Camden; great mishmewa, Harold T.
Blenn, Burlington; great guard of
| wigwam, Charles T. Grace South Am
boy; great guard of forest, Robert
Lincoln, Gloucester City; finance COM
mittee, M. B. Spofford, Bayonne; J.
A. Karet, Hackensack; Josiah Tice,
New Brunswick; board of appeals, A.
w. Stiles, Atlantic City; Thomas H.
Sprague, Burlington; Walter S. Whit
more, Oceanic.
Law committee, John Hackett, Mill
Vile; Linwood S. Smith, Morristown;
Aaron w. Allen, Camden.
Addresses at the closing session
were made by Great Incohonee, Joseph
Farrar, of Philadelphia; Past Grand
Incohonee, Thomas X. Donnelly, of
Philadelphia, and Great Keeper of Re-
cords, Edward J. Boyd, of New York.
The great council received tele-
gram from the Jr O. U. A. M. congrat-
ulating the order upon the stand taken
yesterday in protesting against the
reduction of the amount now con-
tributed by the state toward the pub
lie schools. The great council voted
down a resolution providing for the.
payment of travelling expenses of ap-
pointive officers, who will be compell-
ed to pay their own bills as hereto
/ FORE
The convention adopted resolution
condemning Governor Fort for his
proposition to divert the school mon
eys because of the present condition
of the State finances. The resolution
was urged by Joseph K. Blattner, of
Cape May; and David G. Baylor, of
4 Wildwood, both members of school
boards in their respective municipali-
| ties.
One of the most important matters
considered was the laying of a foun-
\ dation for home for the aged and
INDECENT members of the order. A
resolution was passed for the appoint-
ment of committee to ascertain the
probable cost.
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