Show BROTHERHOOD OF FIREMEN The local Brotherhood of Locomotive Locomo-tive Firemen of Salt Lake city and all the lodges throughout this intermountain intermoun-tain region are subordinate lodges of the national organization Salt Lake Lodge No 4178 was organized August 4 1873 just ten years later than the national organization The charter bears the following names B H Chapman Chap-man V J Home A MCambell T J Bult W J Buttle and R J Rugg Since its organization It has had a large membership and has contributed contrib-uted liberally to charitable purposes besides being the medium through which the sum of 9000 was paid to the families of deceased members Its future appears as bright as Us past and it apears sfe to assert that all members mem-bers of the lodge are made better by their association with the rank and file of the order The officers at present pres-ent are R C Brown master A D Springhalt vicemaster A 1 Davis secretary John Mace receiver George Woodruff collector The men wh make up the rank and I file of the Locomotive Firemen pcssess superior qualities The public rarely ever meet them and have but a faint idea of their duty and are therefore unable to appreciate the exacting requirements re-quirements of their position I is avery a-very correct estimate to say that less than one out of every ten men who are placed firing an engine stay it i cne year as they find themselves unable to perform the duties incident to the work To be successful a young man must possess to a high degree physical phys-ical strength and endurance vigilance intelligence activity industry and perseverance per-severance Perhaps in any other rail road position one might only have a few of the qualities named and yet be very successful but unless the fireman fire-man possesses them all to a high degree de-gree he will be < a failure at his work |