The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-02
WOO.DMEN Of WORM
HOLD BIG |NIT|A1N|
One Hundred and Forty II.
Members Are Added 10
Order.
ADDRESS Is DELIVERED
BY HEAD CONSUL ROi
Refreshments and Yaudeyi|
Entertainment Are Also
Pleasant Features.

One hundred and forty new Wood,
of the World were made Wedncsa.
night az big initiation in which
Of tho camps in Utah participated M.
than 300 Woodmen from the difA,.|
CITIES Of the state were NJ tho initial;
which began last evening and continu|
until nearly midnight.
!. /. Boak. head consul Of the Pad
jurisdiction. comprising nine wcst1
states. came 10 salt Lake from DIN,
aud took charge of the initiation. IA
| lowing the inrtiatory ceremonies. Cor.
! Boak gave an interesting talk ON +
principles OF Woodcraft. lie GOES
! Ogden this evening 10 initiate anofl
class, and from there 10 Logan.
Mr.. BoalS complimcnied the No
mon Of Utah on their extraordin>
growth. In Salt Lake City there
more than 1000 members of tho ORA
| and there are large camps in ev,
town in the state. Those initiated N.
nesday evening viii he members OF 4
three Salt Lake camps. and The caf
of Bingham. Garfield and Ogden.
Following Mr.. Boak S talk, rcfre
ments were served and an improml
vaudeville entertainment was piv
Congratulations 10 the members OF 4
Salt Lake camps who did the deg
work and words of welcome 10 tao IA
members kept the Woodmcn in The
mory hall until after midnight. In
address Mr., Boak traced from the
ginning the wonderful growth Of
Woodmcn of the World,
Mr.. Boak's Address.
"Ten years ago be said, "we n
inst breaking even. What We coles|
from members as dues SIC paid out
next day in benefits We Just mana
To keep even. But wc grew. and
kept growing, Today we are five d
stronger. numerically; FIVE times strs
CT. financially; five times safer, and
protection whIch we offer TO our u|
bers is I'VE times greater than il 4
then.
"We are growing, not gradually.
phcnomcually. We are the stronl
fratcrnal organization in the Uni
States, both numerically and 6u
cially. In tho Pacific jurisdictiou
have a surplus invested of $2,000l
This is all invested in municipal ho
in our territory. No investment is %
in bonds Of any city OF less than ID,
inhabitants, or with assessed valua'
of less than Sl.000,000. -
Z" Not long ago | was in attenda
on the meeting OF the sovereign con
for the. eastern jurisdiction. The q
crn jurisdiction comprises all Of
states Of the United States
incIuded in the Pacific iurisdic'
which includes our nine TcsI
states. There the orators of the 1
were explaining the great work (
were doing, telling of the strength
the order in the east and south. !
Tells of the West.
"Finally, at the conclusion Of I
talks, ! arose 10 report the progfes!
tho Pacific jurisdiction. I congratnl'
the east upon its great work. but
minded them that while they were
ing so much work in the east. we Y
doing a little something out hert
the mighty west took up their
urcs aud showed them that out Of I
S0,000,000 people 10 draw from they
but SO members for every 100000
popula tion, while in orr iurisdici
with 100000 people scattered abou
sparsely settled localities. we had u
members for every 100000 populaf
! showed them that for each 1000 i
ulailon they had less than seven m
bcrs, while we had 2l0 | showed q
that their capital WAS about so
member, while our g was $50.
' Yes, we re growing, and we do.
want TO stop growing. While n
are boosters as loyal as there are
Salt Lake we arc going To contjnut'
phenomenal growth. a year ago
made readiustmcnt Of our rates
expected 10 lose 10000 of 10000 N
bers affected, Imagine our sufp
when VIC found that we lost only y
And we'rc getting them all bscl
hundredfoId.
Mr.. Boalg closed by urging all Of
members TO work hard for the order
asked that each of the 500 WoodmeI
the meeting bring in new member
fore 1910, He suggested that lcf
be sent 10 every person in Utah chg
TO membership inviting each one To-,
the order.
For the initiation nj Ogden tom
special train Will be run over
Oregon Short Line. leaving Salt l
at o'clock this evening and ref
ing at IL q o'clock. Mr.. Boak and,
members of the Salt Lake camps
assist In tho initiation.
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