Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-15

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bidder for the prize. The Rock Island
Industrial commission appointed COM
mittee to attend the Chicago head camp
and work for the head Offices for this
city.
After an interesting fight Rock Is
land won, with the condition that the
society should be provided a home site
free of cost. In keeping with the
agreement, the society closed its Of
fees in Peoria. Since the removal
the society has occupied the top floor
Of the Safety building, where Miss
Myrtle Dade, the supreme recorder.
has found it necessary, owing to the
rapid increase in membership, gradu-
ally to add to her assisting corps. The
society is cramped now for accommoda-
tions. While the Rock Island Club
quarters will serve for a time, 1t is
realized that shortly the society will
be compelled to provide itself with
more modern and adequate quarters.
Before the club building is occupied
it will be remodeled slightly, includ-
ing the installation of vaults for the
keeping of the records of the society.
Work of Industrial Commission.
The $4,000 paid for the north half
of the club lot came from the Greater
Rock Island development fund sub
scriptions, and before the site could be
formally rendered the society the requi-
site amount had to be collected from
the pledges. This work was accom-
plished by Secretary Mayer Levi, in
addition to his regular duties as the
active officer of the industrial COM
mission, and it was done with a dis
patch that reflects credit alike upon
him, his Office and the men who met
their obligations. H. E. Curtis car
ried on the legal negotiations on be-
half of the. club and the industrial
commission
1t might be interesting, In connec-
ton with the permanent requirement
of the Royal Neighbors society, to
state that the organization has today a
total membership of 254,592, and that
it is growing at a pace that gives
promise of its passing many of the
older fraternals of the country before
many years. 1t has total funds on
hand of $3.50. 1858, and the insurance
in force totals $199, 724,500. The
beneficiary membership Is 187,054, the
67,53S social members making the total
referred to.
FraternaI Community.
The location of the Royal Neighbors
on Sixteenth street and Third avenue
is another addition to the fraternal
group in that section of the city which
had its beginning with the erection of
the west half of the present magnifi-
cent Modern Woodmen headquarters
when that society was removed from
Fulton to Rock Island Since the To-
cation of the Modern Woodmen In this
city it's wonderful growth has necessi-
tated gradual expansion of its working
accommodations Following the addi-
ton of the east wing to the original
building has come the printery on Six
teenth street, and there are to be still
other structures, the society having
purchased adjoining property to serve
as sites for needed additions. While
the Royal Neighbors and Modern
WOOuHCA are
each Differed and managed independ-
emily. their relations and sympathies
are closely allied, and the new move
of the former will be most agreeable
and advantageous to both. While these
societies are not business rivals, mas
much as one is a mems and the other
a women's organization, still the wo-
men are setting a pace for the strong
er organization that indicates that the
women in time will be in position to
boast of at least equal membership
ROsenfeId's Hopes Realized.
When w. A. RosenfieId assumed the
presidency of the Rock Island Club a
year ago he announced as one of his
plans new home for the organiza-
ton. He has since constantly labored
towards that end, and his hope has
been realized in part, a fact that en-
titles him to the bouquets of his fell
low members and the community at
large. The Rock Island Club was or
ganized in 1897, having for it's first
officers F. w. Bahnsen as president.
J. T. Stafford as secretary and Mayer
Levi as treasurer. The club has play
ed it's part in doing things for the well
fare of the communidty. 1t has be-
come an integral factor, with its var
ious subsidiary auxiliaries, in the de-
velopment of the community, gaining
yearly in numerical strength and infiu-
ence, and that 1t is to have a new and
more centrally located home will occa-
sion universal rejoicing. The home
the club will erect on the new site
will probably be three stories, embrac-
ing all the features of modern insti-
tuition of its kind.