Show FIRE GHIEF k IN CONVENTION Mii Who Fight Conflagrations T Are Given a Hearty Welcome T GOOD SPEECHES MADE Governor Wells Speaks in Behalf of Utah f THE MAYOR flAKES A TALK t r Chiefs Humphreys of Fittslmrer antI Taylor of Richmond Respond The t Indies Grace the Scene with Their Pres > ence Committees Appointed and Work Begins in the Afternoon After-noon The Ladies of the Parts Are Given ail Outing Proceedings of the Afternoon Session Grand Reception nt the Knuthford Last Aisht List of the Several Exhibits 4 Iow the Feminine Portion of the T Party Took in the City and County Coun-ty Building Programme for To ilay An Interesting Event in the History of the City Wheni President F J Roulette of the International Association of Fire Engineers En-gineers called the twentyfourth annual an-nual session of the body to order yesterday t yes-terday morning in Christensons hall here was a very pleasant audience In attendance To commence with there were chiofs from nearly every state in the union That was gratifying considering con-sidering the fact that Salt Lake city LL Is so many miles from any other place i But fire chiefs alone do not constitute consti-tute all there is to a convention of this kind The ladies added to the interesting I interest-ing features of the occasion If anyone should ask you the wiLe of the average > > r 0 I WORKiNG HIS FIRST LINE OF HOSE cnief of the fire department no matter what city she comes from is a mighty Interesting person To begin with she Is good looking That is one qualification qualifica-tion Next she is intelligent Finally Bhe is jovial good natured urbane entertaining en-tertaining jolly full of funin short she is just the woman you have been looking for all your days She was there when the convention opened yesterday yes-terday morning and she had a whole lot of fun and made everyone feel comfortable com-fortable Why Governor Wells and Mayor Glendinnlng would not have done half as well with their speeches had it not been that the chiefs wilfe or wives if you please encouraged them with their applause delivered in a most 4 goodhumored fashion This city will ever remember the wife of the fire ch f long may she live and prosper The hall was beautifully decorated VXfaen the various heads of the fire fighting brigades assembled yesterday morning It was a perfect bank of flowers the platform and the green tropical plants in front of the same I I formed a pretty picture Fire chiefs are like other people sometimes they are tardy It was past I the hour appointed ere the gavel of i the chairman fea yesterday morning i But when it did the bluecoated people tv4th the crossed trumpets came to order or-der like little men They maintained I order too which is something other people who assemble in convention cannot 1 can-not always say of themselves i Prior to the opening the boys walked up to the captains office that is to 1 jay the desk of the secretary and paid their dues It was noticeable that the 1 majority of them planked down sliver too and that gold was conspicuous for Its absence The fire chief Is getting I tccustomed to this sort of thing When he came here he was earnest in declaring declar-ing that silver was a cumbersome i metal that twenty plunks would wear 11 hole in your pocket that it was atom a-tom which could not be handled with jretfety to ones clothing and all thor g S > t now he has got so that he will pack KsKy slmeoleonB around with him and f wish he had more Why even Fisk the man who looks like Stanton when c he came here was vociferous for gold Fisk comes from Providence R I He wanted nothing but gold Gold gold gold was the burden of his strain r Silver was cheap money Notwith J tanfiing he had been handling silver certificates of the dollar denomination f flown east for years under the impres Bion they were greenbacks he wanted pold No slIver dollars in his thank I < jrou But now bless you he has silver In every pocket in his pants and he l has four and declares when he goes home he will take a peck or two to f pay off the men with and let those ninety cent boys who work In the factory fac-tory down there know what It Is to have a silver dollar with a jingle to Ir But all this is digression It hast has-t thlng to do with the meeting of the J lefs It will be in order to tell what J 1 they did as a body and not as individuals Individ-uals It was somewhere between the hours of 10 and 11 when the president of the association called the meeting to order The Denhalter band had just finished an Inspiring strain and Roulette felt good He was brisk in action and speech Ladles and gentlemen he said the hour has arrived when the International Association oC Fire Engineers shoolld be called to order You will please be in order Silence had an inning of perhaps thirty seconds when Chief Devine of this city presented to the chairman Governor Heber M Wells The introduction concluded the chair remarked Ladies and gentlemen I have the pleasure to introduce to you Governor Heber M Wells the first executive of the new state of Utah GOVERNOR WELLS ADDRESS The chiefs always cheer a governor and ours was greeted with a salvo of applause in which the ladies joined When quiet had been restored Governor Gov-ernor Wens delivered the following address ad-dress Ladies and gentlemenMany years ago when the fire department of this cilty was in its primitive or volunteer condition I remember to have read upon a banner carried by the boys in red the motto We aim to add and we work to save It made an impression im-pression on my then youthful mind that has never been effaced It set me to thinking what a noble occupation that of a fireman is whose sole object ob-ject in life is to save the lives and property of his fellowmen It is with feelings of more than usual pleasure pleas-ure and warmth that I greet you the fire chiefs of the United States for I know that your calling is one that developes the best side of mens natures na-tures and that no man can be a good fireman without being more or less a hero So that for your profession and your good selves we bid you thrice welcome to he Beehive state Utah throws open wide her spacious gates and bids you enter Our balmy air whispers to you to partake of its ex htlarartCon and rest in the cool of its mountain breezes Our wondrous inland in-land sea in softest cadence invites you to be borne upon its bosom and be strengthened by her saline elixir of life Our vast fields of grain now shining shin-ing in the sun our great orchards groaning under the weight of luscious fruit our patches af matchless potatoes pota-toes and sugar beets and watermelons and our thousands of other products of the soil bid you note the triumph of modern irrigation of which onr fathers were the pioneers and witness wit-ness the living monuments on every hand to the industry and thrift of a happy people Our perpetually snOwcapped snow-capped mountains as if sensing their wondrous beauty and solemn grandeur gran-deur loftily salute you and invite you to traverse their delightful canyons and angle for trout in their streams of melted snow beneath the shade of the birch maple and willow And did time permit they fain would have you i visit the mCning camps that dot their I sides from base to summit and witness the sturdy miner as he strikes wealth from their giant rocks Thus Utah in the strength and beauty of her maidenhood smiles sweetly upon you and greets you cordially cor-dially She trusts your sojourn within with-in her borders may be most pleasant and that when you depart you may have cause to remember her with yearnings to return and to exult in praises of her rich endowments Governor Wells speech was especially espec-ially well received the assembly rewarding re-warding him with longcontinued ap pause When this had subsided Chief Devine introduced the mayor to the chairman who in turn presented him to the audience MAYOR GLENDINNING The mayor took a whack at the president of the United States in his speech and judging from the applause he received the majority of those present pres-ent were not Cleveland men by any means The full text of the address of welcome delivered on behalf of the city is as follows Ladies and GentlemenI have the honor and it gives me great pleasure to welcome to our midst the fire chiefs I of the nation with their ladies and friends You are here by invitaticn of our city government extended to you by Chief Devine on behalf of all the inhabitants in-habitants of Salt Lake city It is a matter of regret that we are not in all respects up to that high standard of intellectuality and Christian Christ-ian example marked out for us by the chief executive of the nation but with tire limited advantages afforded those who are compelled to subsist upon the frontier of civilization I sometimes wonder that we behave as well as appearances ap-pearances indicate You must keep in mind the fact that we are far removed from the civilizing civ-ilizing influences of the home the school the church and the great institutions in-stitutions of learning which the people of the east always have the advantage of and that under adverse circumstances circum-stances to which I have referred we are simply making a struggle to do the best we can Notwithstanding all this we will I endeavor to make your visit to Salt I Lake city an interesting one You will find here men and women with generous gener-ous hearts and willing hands whose hospitality is as boundless as humanity human-ity whose latch strings are always out and who vie with each other in ev ery good work I These people will take you to their city and country homes to the garrison garri-son overlooking the city on the east and to the Dead Sea of America on the west You shall visit with them at the great tabernacle and listen to the strains of mightier and grander music than is possible to hear In any city between the oceans And such of you as may snare the time shall go with us to the heart of the Wasatch mountains and make personal Inspection Inspec-tion of the greatest silver mines in the world All these and much more shall be shown you so that after the deliberations delib-erations and work of your convention is finished you may return to your homes with the satisfaction that you made no mistake in visItipg the City of the Saints Ladies and gentlemen I bid you thrice welcome to our city and trust that the business which has brought you together will have most useful and pleasant termination The mayor was rewarded with considerable con-siderable applause for his effort the members of the convention being greatly great-ly pleased with the sentiments expressed ex-pressed HUMPHREYS OF PITTSBURG There are orators among the fire chiefs too They can talk as well as fight fire When the mayor had completed com-pleted the next number on the pro gramme was the address of Chairman Varlan of the fire and police commission commis-sion but he was ill and could not be present so that portion of the pro gramme was omitted Chairman Roulette called for the man whose gifts of tongue qualified him to make a fitting response to all which had been said Chief Humphreys of Pittsburg and Humphreys came Continued on Page 5 > vAA X 11 V FIRE CHIEFS CHIEFSCONVENTION IN CONVENTION f c Continual from pagrt L lie wanted to speak from the floor when Chief and had begun to do so Devine took him by the arm and with the remark The people of this city are always used to look up at the speaker led him to the platform > Once landed there the man from the erstwhile Smoky City made the following t fol-lowing entertaining address 4 Mr President His Excellency the Governor His Honor the Mayor of Salt Lake City ladle and gentlemen and Fellow Chiefs I must confess that the position 4 assigned to me this morning by the president of this association is indeed F I a very embarrassing one from the fact that I am fully convinced that no > r leeble words that I may be able to command can In any commensurate degree convey the appreciative sentiments sen-timents of the members of this association r r asso-ciation in response to this very eloquent Y elo-quent cordCal and kindly greeting t I might say to these gentlemen or through these gentlemen to the people whom they have the honor to represent repre-sent tey this is the twentyfourth annual meeting of the Association of Fire Chief Engineer of this county l1 The object of this association Is that of spending the Vacations alotted to us by the municipalities we serve in the best possible way for the purpose of cornIng corn-ing together to counsel with each other and In order to learn from each other I methods and means whereby we can F t SAVED FROM TlfcE FIiVMES pursue our calling and vocation with a greater degree of effectiveness Coupled with this is a social feature that predominates in l organizations socialism that Hf this character a socialsm 1 binds us together with ties of friendship I friend-ship and a condition from which emanates w ema-nates greater efficiency in the vocation i which we follow I would indeed I presume be buperfiuous upon my part to attempt tom to-m anything with reference to the itevotion of firemen and their heroic efforts L ef-forts at all times and in all seasons in response a the distinguished governor gov-ernor has said to the call of duty and the desire t save from destruction millions n mil-lions worth of accumulated industry This is the theme and topic that these t good fellows whose mission i is to chronicle events a they pass write up day after day so that the reports are read by the teeming thousands and millions not only of this country but L of the world t f I might say too gentlemen that h our association if to a certain extent a fr migratory one We first met in the faouth then in the east then in the north and nw we have come to the IL west Two years ago we gathered at j the great head waters of the St Lawrence L Law-rence river we glided down the bosom < of the powerful stream as it rushed t through its great rapids and landed finally in the Dominion of Canada Wet We-t learned much there that we have 7 profited by since There we were able I to witness a country where in the past I undying scenes were enacted and of t which we had read much when we f were boys at school From there we f I glided down to Quebec examining that old fortress where Woolfe and Mont calm died and I remember that we met an old English soldier who showed us a cannon that had been used on i Bunker Hill I was proud of one of Hi our men when he said You captured the cannon but we kept Bunker Hill J te Last year we met in the distant south in the great growing and hospitable hos-pitable stat of Georgia I think ingoing in-going to that convention I had the > t greatest experience of my life An old I time estimable friend insisted that we should gather in the great metropolis of New York and for the first time in our exnerience we left there for Savannah Sa-vannah by the Se I once read of a old Welsh preacher going across the ocean He was the only preacher onboard on-board and on Sunday they insisted that h should Dreach He could announce a text and preach a good sermon in Welsh but he was unable to speak English But he made the attempt and his text was And the wind did blow and the sea did rise After a few words of introduciior he subdivided t subdivid-ed his sermon as only a Welshman can and said he invited their attention to three divisions first the wind did > blow secondCy the sea did rise and a thirdly the sea did rise because the r wind did blow We experienced everything 1 every-thing in the sermon exp and subdivided i sub-divided by that old Welch preacher 0 how those winds did blow and how I those waves did toss Finally we held a council O war and determined that t there was a Jonah on board and time the Jonah was the very man who got r up the excursion We got a wunding street and were going to request Chief McDonnell t take the principal role f in the burial service But we finaily landed safely in Savannah and had a t profitable convention 1 A Today we meet in the great city off of-f Salt Lake Our numbers are not so i great a heretofore I presume the long journey deterred many from cornIng corn-ing I presume that some already here r reluctant in coming owing to the great distance but the fact that this L city had sent it chief to our convention r 1 conven-tion determined a gal many of us t nnd created within us a spirit of reciprocity re-ciprocity that we desired to show to Salt 1 Lake that we apprecHLed tfiieir action in sending their chief to our convention t And oh what a magnificent journey L i was WHO W there in that company com-pany whose heart did not swell within him with the knowledge tha this was I I f etill America that these great plains I I J of green verdure these mountain fiilled geen with precious minerals were a part of this great country of ours Applause Whose heart did not swell to think that this boundless area was yet to be k t tis bundle6 a wa ye I the home of millions upon millions o freeIl And how our hearts gladdened glad-dened a we landed in this city and F met some whom we had met before and whose farthers and mothers we had met In the east What a pleasure it was to be in this beautiful valley this great growing and magnificent city and yesterday terday to aittend the service i the great tabernacle where we listened to J a magnificent sermon upon the word that touched the hearts of all who have di r ir been born in a land of Christianity that God so loved the world e I congratulate you my fellow chieffe on account of the fact that to the best of my knowledge we a an association composing a civic body of this kind have ha the honor of being come by the first governor of this state of r Utah and being the first a I a informed in-formed who a al organization have been welcomed t the borders of Utah the by Ue governor We can observe without any research search that Utah has a great future before her that here in time will be the garden of America We trust that her affairs may be sO managed that prosperity may crown the efforts of her people so that the fortyfifth state In the great constellation will take her place equal with any in the great sisterhood o states Gentlemen we shall sojourn with you but a few days Wa t that when we are gone we c t < t I shall have left some impressions that I I will b pleasureahle and profitable I Certainly we shall carry away from I here within our hearts the kindliest feelings toward the people of Utah I 11 1 hope that the property and wealth of your commonwealth and city may be I unbounded For this kindly and cordial I cor-dial greeting to the Engineers association thanks associa-tion I return you our heartfelt I TAYLOR OF VIRGINIA The chairman said the meeting would not be a complete success it ex I Clef Taylor ofRichmond did not have I a chance to say something and called I upon that gentleman to say something i Taylor Is a speaker who says something I some-thing every time he opens his mouth He did not speak long but what he II I did say was amusing and entertaining I His remarks reduced to cold type I i were identical with the appended Mr President His Excellency the Governor the Mayor Ladies and Gentlemen I Gen-tlemen and Brother Firemen j I had hoped that our worthy president I presi-dent would not call upon me today to I say a word m response to the warm greeting we have received after listen I ing t the eloquent words that have j fallen from the lips of the silver tongued orator from Pittsburg Pa I but I would be recreant to the obligation I obliga-tion I owe this association if I did not I in some feeble way attempt to give expression to my feelings on this occasion oc-casion and to thank the gentlemen who have so warmly welcomed us to Salt Lake r Lke I feel that no words I can say will I express my feelings on this occasion but I will say that about thirty years ago in the far eastern country there lived a gentleman whose name is familiar fa-miliar to all of you I refer to Horace Greeley After the late unpleasantness between the north and south he once said to an ambitious youth Go west young man go west I must confess g my timidity and therefore after hearing hear-ing of the horrors of the western country coun-try of the Indian and the tomahawk and scalping knife I did not > take his advice I was afraid to cross the Mississippi Mis-sissippi and Missouri and enter the dark recesses of the western forests But if I had painted such a picture a I have seen I assure you Mr Governor and Mr Mayor I would long ago have been a citizen of this state and would have now been filling the place so well and honorably occupied by my namesake name-sake Elder Taylor of the Mormon church Laughter I say I am glad to be with you and I know I voice the sentiments of my brother firemen as well as the ladies and all the representatives of this association sociation when I say we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your kind words of welcome I know our I stay will be one of pleasure and profit and I trust that when our deliberations I are over and we return to our homes I we will carry away pleasant recollections recollec-tions and the thought hereafter of this occasion will form a green spot on memorys tablet This concluded the speechmaking and the convention settled down to business On motion of a delegate the following committee was appointed Ion I credentials Chief Burrs of Columbus Co-lumbus i Ga Chief Hale of Kansas 1 City and exChief Johnson of Philadelphia Phila-delphia This done Chief Devine announced I that in the afternoon the ladies would I be taken in the Raymond and the Utah coaches for a drive around the I city and that all were expected to meet at the Knutsford at 2 oclork sharp to meet chaperons Councilman I OMeara and Chief Pratt The convention then took a recess I until 2 oclock |