Show ENGINEERS S BANQUET A GREAT SUCCESS at the get together banquet of the engineering gi council of utah given at the hotel utah monday evening last it is claimed that never before in this state was any gathering of technically trained men so solidly represented at one function among the approximately men in attendance all of the engineering societies of utah were represented and there was a gratifying representation of unaffiliated engineers and high public officials as well the great banquet hall was so permeated with a feeling of Z good fellowship and enthusiasm that every participant just naturally felt at home the moment he entered the room and that thai was what the gathering was planned to accomplish the speakers of the evening included governor mabey who created much enthusiasm in his address on the engineer and the commonwealth prof pro f R R lyman registered a ten tem strike in his discussion of the value of T technical ech training while chas al woods an architect of ogden injected lifo life and humor into the proceedings through 6 his swedish dialect reading 1 aided by a trio of ogden engineers who impersonated a swedish band mayor clarence Q 0 also contributed to the general enera I 1 gope feeling by tellin ug some stories which he followed byi describing the engil engineering n earing feats that were doing so much to benefit and beautify salt lake hylon T plumb chairman of the engineering council discussed the aims of the organization and W R armstrong chief engineer of the oregon short line railroad described the life of the pioneer road builders and the rev J sherman wallaces address building for a future pointed out the necessity of building well spiritually so that the individual might achieve character to the enrichment of the world sidney J jennings vice president of the united states smelting smelling Sm elting refining mining t company spoke interestingly on the value of the pittman act and its importance to the silver mining industry without which he declared the silver mines could not operate under prevailing conditions lafayette hanchett presided as toastmaster and kept the ball rolling in splendid fashion from beginning to end of the festivities the committees having the affair in charge were deserving of all the good words expressed and when it came time to adjourn the sentiment was unanimous that much had been accomplished in cementing the friendships of the various engineering societies of the state and in starting the recently organized engineering council on its career for good in a fashion that would surely yield results |