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In addition, there are German and Scandinavian branches of the church. at which services are held in those languages. The Indian mission, also a branch work of the Latter-day Saints, has for its object the conversion of the Indians to the Latter-day Saint faith, and their civilization. There are several of these missions, one in Malad Valley, another in Thistle Valley, another in Tooele County, and still others elsewhere.
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SECRET SOCIETIES.
ANCIENT ORDER OF UNITED WORKMEN.
The Ancient Order of United Workmen is a general organization for the mutual benefit of its members and their families. It embraces in its mem- bership men of every vocation, profession and occupation-employers and
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employees-workers of all classes, whether their labor be mental or physi- cal. It has no connection with any religious sect, political party, or organ- ization for affecting the prices of labor or commodities, but is designed to promote fraternity, mental and social improvement and mutual assistance.
The most distinctive feature of the Order is what is designated as the Beneficiary Fund, by means of which the sum of $2,000 is secured to each member's family, or such person or persons as he may choose to designate.
Each person who becomes a member of the Order pays to the Finan- cier of his Lodge $1 for the Beneficiary Fund. The Lodges are notified at the first of the month to forward their portion of the Fund on hand ($1 for each member), and an assessment is made to replace the amount forwarded.
In the first year in the working of the Supreme Lodge (1873-4) the number of assessments made upon the members of the Lodge directly under its jurisdiction was 20; second year, 14; third year, 15; fourth year, 15; fifth year (1877-8), 14; sixth year, 16; seventh year, 22; eighth year, 21. The average cost to each member, therefore, has been $17. 1212 per year, being a little more than 412 cents per day as the cost of a completely secured guaranty of $2,000, to be paid on the death of the member.
No distinction is made on account of age in the cost of membership or insurance in the Order, but the average cost to individual members in Grand Lodge Beneficiary Jurisdictions, is about twenty dollars per year for carrying $2,000.
The Ancient Order of United Workmen beneficial system is simple, easily understood, economical in its workings, and in all its details comes under the direct observation and care of the members, who meet weekly in their Lodges, where the business is transacted, and where they enjoy the advantages of social and fraternal intercource, and of mental improvement.
All money paid on assessments for the Beneficiary Fund goes to the payment of death benefits, without reduction even for expenses, these being provided for out of a General Fund raised in each Lodge. There are no commissions, fees or salaries to be paid out of it, but the entire amount paid in goes to the widows, orphans, or other heirs of deceased brethren.
A medical examination is required, under such rules as are generally adopted by life insurance companies. The character of the applicant must also be investigated and the Lodge pass upon his application by ballot. Persons between the ages of 21 and 50 only are admitted.
The Order is composed of Subordinate Lodges, Grand Lodges, and a Supreme Lodge. Subordinate Lodges in States or Territories where no Grand Lodge has been established are under the immediate jurisdiction of, and report to, the Supreme Lodge until a Grand Lodge is established. A Grand Lodge for Nevada was instituted on May 19, 1881, with eleven Lodges represented.
When a Grand Lodge has over 2,000 members under its jurisdiction, it can be set apart as a separate Beneficiary District if desired. In this case the members are assessed only for the deaths which occur within such Dis- trict or Jurisdiction, and the Grand Lodge collects the assessments and pays the death benefits under the laws and regulations adopted by the Supreme Lodge.
The organization has had a representative Lodge in Salt Lake City since July 20, 1882, but since October, 1883, the order has commenced to grow in that city, until its present membership foots up 52. There are lodges organized in Provo, Ogden, American Fork, Park City. Frisco, Silver Reef, Beaver, Kelton, Bingham and Terrace, in Utah Territory, which, with the lodges in Nevada, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, form the Grand Lodge of this jurisdiction.
Total membership on March Ist, 1884: Pennsylvania, 14,000; Ohio, 3,622;
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Kentucky, 1,474; Indiana, 2,300; Iowa, 2,000; New York, 18, 535; Illinois, 13,459; Missouri,, 11, 370; Minnesota, 2,000; Wisconsin, 4,970; Tennessee, 2,098; Michigan, 7,635; California, 16, 121; Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, North and South Carolina and Florida, 870; Kansas, 5,429; Ontario, 7,679: Oregon and Washington, 3,744; Massachusetts, 5,100; Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware, 3,338; Texas, 1,807; Nevada, 2,300; Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, 728; Subordinate Lodges under the immediate juris- diction of Supreme Lodge, 251; total, 131,722.
FREE MASONS.
The Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of Utah was organized January 17th, 1872, by the three Lodges then existing in the Territory, viz: Wasatch, No. 1, with 48 members; Mount Moriah, No. 2, with 52, and Argenta, No. 3, with 24; total, 124 members. At the first annual communication, held October 7th, 1872, the Grand Secretary, Joseph F. Nounnan, reported four Lodges on the roll, with 165 members and $2,321.80 in their treasuries. At this communication, R. H. Robertson, Esq., (died January 4th, 1879), was elected Grand Master and Christopher Diehl, Grand Secretary. The Grand Lodge now holds its communications on the third Tuesday in January of each year. At the thirteenth annual communication, held January 16th, 1884, P. H. Emerson, Grand Master, presiding, the Grand Secretary, Christopher Diehl, reported eight Lodges in the jurisdiction, with a membership of 469. The amount of funds in the Lodge treasuries was $11,685.55, and their property was valued at $7,900. During the year they expended for charity, $1,201, and paid for Grand Lodge dues, $1,477. James Lowe was elected Grand Master, Samuel Kahn, Grand Treasurer, and Christopher Diehl, Grand Secretary. The following are the Lodges under the supremacy of the Grand Lodge of Utah:
Wasatch Lodge, No. I, at Salt Lake City, 100 members; Samuel Paul, Worshipful Master; Julius Malsh, Secretary. Regular meeting the second Friday of each month.
Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 2, Salt Lake City, 103 members; John F. Hardie, Master; Hugh Anderson, Secretary. Regular meeting the second Monday of each month.
Argenta Lodge, No. 3, Salt Lake City, 72 members; John S. Scott, Master; Moses Casper Phillips, Secretary. Regular meeting the first Tues- day of each month.
Story Lodge, No. 4, Provo, chartered October 8th, 1872, 44 members; A. G. Sutherland, Master; Benjamin Bachman, Secretary. Regular meet- ings the first and third Tuesday of each month.
Corinne Lodge, No. 5, Corinne, chartered November 11th, 1873; 21 members; Alexander Toponce, Master; John Kendrick Fowler, Secretary. Regular meetings the first Tuesday in each month.
Weber Lodge, No. 6, Ogden, chartered November 12th, 1874; 58 mem- bers; John D. Carnahan, Master; George F. Brown, Secretary. Regular meetings the first and third Tuesdays of each month.
Uintah Lodge, No. 7, Park City, chartered November 24th, 1880; 35 members; A. M. Grant, Master; A. B. Emery, Secretary. Regular meet- ings the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month.
St. John's Lodge, No. 8, Frisco, chartered January 18th, 1882, 33 members; Harry Craig Hill, Master; George Wilson Crozier, Secretary. Regular meetings the second Thursday of each month.
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
The James B. Mckean Post, No. I, Department of Utah, located in Salt Lake City, was organized September 18, 1878, with General George R. Maxwell as Post Commander, and with eighteen charter members. The
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object of the organization, as stated in the constitution, was to preserve and strengthen those eternal feelings which bind together comrades in the war of the late rebellion, to perpetuate the memory of the dead, to assist comrades and the widows and orphans of those who fell in the war, to maintain true allegi- ance to the United States of America, to discountenance whatever tends to weaken loyalty or incite to treason or rebellion, and to encourage the spread of universal liberty, equal rights and justice to all men. All soldiers or sailors of the United States army or navy who served between April 12, 1861, and April 9, 1865, in the war for the suppression of the rebellion, and who have not borne arms against the United States, are eligible for member- ship. The present name of the Post was given in honor of Hon. James B. Mckean-for a time Chief Justice of Utah Territory-after his decease. Since the organization of the Grand Army in Utah, now six years past, the membership has been constantly increasing, and the roster of the Post to-day shows a membership of nearly 100, with the following officers: Post Commander, E. Sells; Senior Vice-Commander, F. Hoffman; Junior Vice- Commander, J. C. Witherill; Adjutant, T. W. Lincoln; Quartermaster, T. C. Bailey; Officer of the Day, E. Michaelis; Officer of Guard, George Cooley; Surgeon, M. M. Bane; Chaplain, T. C. Iliff.
The headquarters of the Post are in Castle Hall, Walker Opera House. The regular business meetings are held the second Saturday night, and its Camp Fires the fourth Saturday night of each month ..
I. O. O. F.
The first Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows instituted in the Territory, was Utah, No. 1, which received its dispensation from the Grand Lodge of the United States (now the Sovereign Grand Lodge) on the fourth day of May, 1865, the charter members being R. T. Westbrook, Past Grand; J. M. Ellis, Past Grand; Willard Kittredge, Past Grand; Max .Wohlgemuth, Fred. Auerbach, L. J. Whitney, Charles Popper and Joseph E. Merrill. This Lodge struggled along alone for years, and at one time it was thought the members would have to abandon it entirely. In the early part of 1872, however, an application was made for a dispensation to organ- ize Salt Lake Lodge, No. 2, with the following charter members: William Haydon, Past Grand Master, W. A. Perkins, A. Leebes, Past Grand, E. M. Barnum, Past Grand Master, and H. A. Reid. This Lodge was duly instituted on the twenty-eighth day of March, 1872, under and by authority of the Grand Lodge of the United States. In the following year Jordan Lodge, No. 3, was brought to life with the following charter members: William Samson, Julius Jordan, Fred. G. Willis, Alexander Czoniser, George Arbogast and A. J. Kent, Past Grand. This Lodge was duly instituted on the seventeenth day of November, 1873, by the same authority as the pre- ceding Lodges. The order now having been firmly planted, the advisability of forming a Grand Lodge was taken into consideration-the three Lodges above mentioned being attached to the Grand Lodge of Nevada for work- ing purposes made it somewhat inconvenient. The following year, 1874, brought Corinne Lodge, No. 4, into existence, which was instituted on the twenty-seventh day of February, when the Past Grands petitioned the Grand Lodge of the United States for a charter to establish a Grand Lodge in this Territory. The petition was received and a dispensation granted, and the Grand Lodge of Utah was duly instituted on the twenty-ninth day of June, 1874, by special Deputy Grand Secretary J. C. Hemingray, Fred. H. Auer- bach being the first Grand Master, William Sampson, Grand Secretary, and J. C. Hemingray the Representative to the Grand Lodge of the United States. Since the institution of the Grand Lodge of the Territory, the order has been steadily increasing until it now numbers 10 lodges, with a membership of 550, scattered in all parts of the Territory, there being 2
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Lodges in Ogden, 2 in Park City, I in Bingham, and the balance in Salt Lake City. The Lodges in this city have recently leased the upper story of the new Union Block, on Main Street, for a term of ten years, and fitted it up with great taste.
During the past year the order has distributed over $4,000 for the relief of its members-in sickness and distress. To have a true conception of the amount of charity this order bestows on its members throughout the coun- try, one need but read the following statement taken from the report of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, of 1882:
From 1830 to December 31, 1881.
Supreme Lodges (Sovereign, German Empire, Australasia)
3 60
Subordinate Grand Lodges, .
42
Subordinate Encampments,
1,851
Subordinate Lodges, 81,195
Encampment members,
489, 363
Lodge initiations,
1, 224,869
Members relieved,
996,459
Widowed families relieved,
132,79I
Members deceased,
96, 119
Total relief,
$32,777,554.34
Total receipts,
87,574,260.03
The present elective officers of the Grand Lodge of Utah are: Henry Cohn, Grand Master; E. Pearce, Deputy Grand Master; William H. Turner, Grand Warden; Louis Hyams, Grand Secretary; L. L. Baumgarten, Grand Treasurer; E. H. Murphy, Grand Representative. The next session of the Grand Lodge will convene in Salt Lake City on the 21st of April, 1885.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
On the 15th day of February, 1864, a number of gentlemen assembled for the purpose of organizing or founding a society to be of a secret character, its ultimate object being friendship, charity and benevolence, and on the 19th of February, 1864, the first member of the order took the obli- gation and oath of brotherhood. The first Lodge of the order was instituted February 19th, 1864, at Washington, D. C .; the first Grand Lodge on April 8th, 1865. The Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias was organized and established as the head of the order, the 11th day of August, 1868. During the years 1867 and 1868, Lodges were instituted in several states, and it has continued to spread until it has obtained a footing in every civil- ized quarter of the globe. In August, 1877, at the session of the Supreme Lodge, held at Cleveland, Ohio, an Endowment Rank was adopted. The object of this rank is to secure to families of deceased members of the rank a sufficient sum to keep them from immediate want. The Endowment fund has paid to families of deceased Knights in five years, ending March 3d, 1884, $2, 135,936. The number of policy holders March, 1884, was 26,947. The Uniform Rank shows a membership of 4,319 Sir Knights. The total membership of the order is 139,230, and they have a surplus in the exchequer of $1,427,624.06.
There are 43 Grand Lodges; 1,866 subordinate Lodges and 82 subordi- nate Lodges under control of the Supreme Lodge, with a total membership of 139,230. The last report shows that the subordinate Lodges in the Grand jurisdiction have a surplus of $408,904.25, and those under the supervision of the Supreme Lodge, $18,719.81; cash held in the exchequer's hands of the subordinate and Grand Lodges is $1,235,591.61, making a total of $1,427,624.06.
Subordinate Grand Encampments,
7,557
Lodge members,
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The Utah Lodges are as follows, with membership and date of organ- ization:
No. of Members.
Myrtle Lodge, No. 1, Salt Lake City. Instituted November 15th, 1873,
100
Rocky Mountain Lodge, No. 3, Salt Lake City. Instituted Sep-
tember 22d, 1881, 70
Calanthe Lodge, No. 5, Salt Lake City. Instituted June 26th,
66
1883,
Ogden Lodge, No. 2, Ogden City. Instituted May 23d, 1881, 64
Park Lodge, No. 4, Park City. Instituted October 16th, 1882, 66
Total, 360
On March 27th, 1884, the Representatives of the several Lodges met in Castle Hall, Walker Opera House, and organized the Grand Lodge of Utah, with 29 Past Chancellors.
TEMPLE OF HONOR.
On December 5th, 1877, under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Council of the Templars of Honor and Temperance; an organization was effected by Rev. G. S. Allen, in this Territory, under the name of Salt Lake Temple. No. I. He was commissioned Deputy Worthy Grand Templar, with instructions to organize Temples in different parts of the Union while on his lecturing tour, as he was at that time laboring in behalf of an organization called the Blue Ribbon Brigade. Through the efforts of Rev. Allen and some eight or ten persons who were desirous of advancing the cause of tem- perance and sustaining the organization, money was raised to procure the charter, and it was granted. The first regular meeting was held in Cisler's Hall, on Friday, January 9th, 1878. Since the organization of Salt Lake Temple, No. 1, other branches have been added to the order, and the roll call of the different branches show a membership of between 150 and 175. On the 21st of December, 1880, Fidelity Social, No. I, was organized, with a membership of about 30. One of the principal features of this order is the admitting of ladies. This department is under the management and control of ladies. A subordinate Temple was organized March 26th, 1881, which is known by the name of Temple, No. 2. At its organization there were 18 charter members, and the number is steadily increasing. January 2Ist, 1882, a Council of select members was formed, under the name of Western Star Council of Templars, No. I. It consists of 18 members. In this department the three degrees of Love, Purity and Fidelity are conferred; also those of Tried, Approved and Selected Templars. On May 2d, 1883, was organized the Salt Lake Junior Section, No. I, of Temple of Honor and Temperance, which admits of children and youths, aged from 12 years upward. This department is officered and managed by boys belonging to the order, under the guidance of a Governor appointed by the Temple. At the age of 18 years they are qualified to join either of the subordinate Lodges.
BENEFIT SOCIETIES.
BUILDING SOCIETIES.
There are three building societies in the Territory; one in Ogden and two in Salt Lake. The object of all is similar, though the details are some- what different.
THE PIONEER LOAN AND BUILDING ASSOCIATION was organized in
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March, 1884. It is a co-operative savings institution, its general features and principles of operation being the same as those which now govern such organizations everywhere. By its articles the association is authorized to issue up to 5,000 shares of stock, each holder of shares to pay into the treasury $1 per share per month. The income thus obtained is loaned out on real estate security, thus earning interest; and as the interest is also regularly loaned out month after month, the result is that compound interest is practically earned upon the investment. The income and earnings are accumulated until the total amount under the control of the association is sufficient to pay to each member $200 for every share he holds. When this point is reached, a general division of the funds is made. The association began business in April, 1883. It has averaged a membership of about 900 shares; has outstanding loans of about $14,000, and has made a profit of over 18 per cent. upon the investment during the twelve months ending April, 1884. Directors: George Cullins, M. Kirkpatrick, J. Barnett, Henry Stratford, S. Bamberger, Zera Snow, Theodore J. Baker, G. F. Culmer, R. Shelton, John Dull, Thomas Carter, F. K. Morris. Officers: S. Bamberger, president; Henry Stratford, vice-president; J. Barnett, treasurer ; F. K. Morris, secretary. Principal place of business: 227 Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah.
CALEDONIA SOCIETY.
This society was organized on the 9th day of February, 1884. The object of the society is recreation, amusement, social gathering, out-door pastimes and intellectual development. It has no affiliation with other associations and is purely a local affair. No nationality standard is imposed, the only conditions being good moral character and the acceptation of the applicant by the members of the society. The initiation fee is $1, and a quarterly due of $1 constitutes the income. Grounds have been secured and arrangements made for out-door exercises on South Temple street. A library and reading room are to be established, and a committee looking after the intellectual welfare of the members, will provide for lectures and other seasonable and intelligent entertainments. Upon the death of a full member, a given sum is paid to any person the deceased may designate. The officers are: D. O. Calder (deceased), president; W. C. Dunbar, first vice-president; D. A. Swan, second vice-president; D. M. McAllister, secre- tary; D. L. Murdock, treasurer; and George Swan, W. H Rowe, R. T. McEwan, D. C. Dunbar and R. R. Anderson, directors.
FIREMEN'S MUTUAL AID SOCIETY.
In 1870, the Firemen organized a Mutual Aid Society. This was prior to there being a paid fire department for Salt Lake City, and the design was to form a closer organization among the volunteers, and to render each other help in case of sickness, not resulting from immorality or excesses, or where accident might occur at a fire. The initiation fee is $3, and monthly dues $1. A member sick receives $8 per week. It is purely a Firemen's society, and therefore does not grow. The officers are: R. Simpson, presi- dent; R. H. Hardy, secretary; H. Brewer, treasurer, and W. G. Workman, H. Arnold, W. R. Adkins and W. J. Hooper, directors.
RAILROAD AID ASSOCIATION.
Some years ago the employees of the Utah Central Railway Company organized a Mutual Aid Association. Its object is to assist members who may be sick and render help to the families and relatives of those who lose their lives or die while still members. The organization is divided into classes, and amounts are paid in regularly, according to the class to which the individual belongs, and he receives from the society in case of sickness
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or withdrawal from the association, or his family does in the event of death, an amount proportionate to the sum he contributes and to the class in which he is numbered. Its operation has been full of benefit, and for the amount of charity done in a quiet way no local society is its superior. It becomes stronger each year, and its power to do good is proportionately increased. Membership in the society requires that the person shall be an employee of the Utah Central Railway Company. The officers are: President, George Swan; vice-president, G. G. Bywater; secretary and treasurer, R. C. Bad- ger; directors, James Sharp, J. H. Rumel, Jr., Francis Cope, Joseph Sharp, Zeb. Jacobs, James Latimer and Peter Larsen.
ZION'S BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETY.
This society was duly incorporated under the laws of the Territory, by the filing of articles with the County Clerk of Salt Lake County, on the 26th day of June, 1883. The original incorporators are: Thomas G. Webber, William Langton, H. W. Naisbitt, James Watson, Charles W. Stayner, Francis Cope, John Schofield, Arthur Parsons, W. J. Bateman, L. S. Hills, J. T. . Little, James Sharp, H. Dinwoodey, John Nicholson, William H. Rowe, George Romney, Abraham H. Cannon, A. W. Carlson, George G. Bywater, David James, John C. Cutler and John H. Rumel, Jr. This society is in every respect a benefit organization. Its capital stock is placed at $1,000,000, divided into 10,000 shares of $100 each. No member is entitled to hold more than fifty shares in his own name, nor more than fifty shares as a trustee. The ultimate value of each share is to be realized by accumu- lating subscriptions, together with the profits declared as dividends by the board of trustees as provided for in the by-laws. Loans are made to stock- holders of the society only, and as near as can the interest on the money loaned is to take the place of rental; so that, instead of paying rent, the stockholders to whom a loan is made is expending only the same sum as for rent, and at the same time paying for his own building and the interest on the money borrowed. Everything that could be thought of which would make the stockholder safer and prove of more benefit to him has been taken into consideration and provided for. Its membership is very exten- sive; its loan system absolutely safe; the interest as reasonable as can be; and the society is one of the best of the kind known.
In addition to these there are also a Typographical Union, a Telegraph Association, a Locomotive Engineers' and Firemens' Society, and an organization of conductors and brakemen on the railroads, a Plasterers' Union and other societies, besides a number of clubs and purely social organizations, not, however, of as widely known a character as are those referred to above.
BENEVOLENT AND IMPROVEMENT SOCIETIES.
HEBREW SOCIETIES.
The Hebrews of Salt Lake City have two societies, both of a religious and benevolent character, the B'Nai Israel and the Ladies' Hebrew Benevo- lent Society. The former has a membership of 55, with the following officers: M. C. Phillips, President; L. Hyams, Secretary ; E. Kahn, Treas- urer. The above, with M. Hirschman, H. Bamberger and Charles Popper, form the board of directors. The latter society has 30 members; Mrs. N. Boukofsky is President; Mrs. L. Woolf, Secretary; and Mrs. S. Kahn, Treas-
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