| Show WAS LOCAL CONDUCTOR I E E Clark Well Known in This Region ON STRIKE COMMISSION I Twenty Years Ago Ho Ban a Freight Out of Ogden and Then Went to the Old Utah Northern Then to the Rio Grande and Run a Train Out of This City Being a Successful Railroad Rail-road Man and Popular With the Public and Railroad Men Railroad Notes j Many oldtlmo railroaders In this city were surprised and pleased to ri ad yesterday yes-terday that one of the members oC the tommlsfllon appointed by tho President to settle tho great strike won E C Clark grand chief of tho Order of Railway Rail-way Conductors Many were slow Lob Lo-b IJee It wan the same genial Clark who used to cry All aboard on the old Utah Northern and later on the Klo Grande Western but It Is so E E lurk first carau to Ogden about twcntythice yeara ago and wasi a freight conductor on the Central Pacific Pa-cific running out of Ogden He was avery a-very efficient man and wae well liked by all with whom he came In contact Later he was given a passenger train on the narrowgauge Utah Northern llun running through Logan to the north It IH Hald bf the line that It was I one of the very beat paying properties in the Went I nsi It had practically a i monopoly of the new Montana mining tiafllc Passenger trains although I nariowguuge were of the I owtt and It WOK always a great thing for a conductor con-ductor to havr a passenger train In thoso days on thin line His good record rec-ord cnuaod him to he In demand and the Rio Grande Western then a part of the longest narrowgauge system In the world secured the services of Mr 1 Clark and he won given one of the fast through pa ngcrc between Ogden and the East All the oldtimers remember him well and they all have something pleasant to say of tho man nnd the railroader Ai H grand chief of the powerful 0 R 1 C ho has made a splendid record and his friends are not at all surprised to 5e him honored in the Way be haa been It Is paid of the O R C that It In one of the most conservative organizations organ-izations In the labor world and strikes are almost unknown In the order a fact that speaks well for Ito members and management Mr lark has nerved continuously plnce ls1 na grand chief of the Order of Railroad Conductor He was born at Lima N Y February 18 1S5C His father died six years lator He came West In 1S72 and after serving as a hrakcman on various roads became a conductor of the Denver Rio Grande In ISSt Ho was elected grand senior conductor of the Order of Railroad Conductors at Denver In 1SSS and In 1S0 at Rochester N Y was chosen grand chief conductor Since 1SOO ho has been unanimously reelected each II 1 year Mr Clark Is a Republican In politics Now Montana Wonder Story I Missoula Monl Oct 16 Conductors rn tho Northern Pacific are to he sup plied with field glasses and a hell OfT ph outfit for communication with the head hrak mcn and engineer This I will work all right on vome parts of I the hue hut on the Coeur dAleno branch It will sulll he necessary to use the Ions distance telephone as the trains are BO long that the curves shutoff shut-off the view of the engine from the conductor On the whole oldtime railroaders are Inclined to the opinion that the best scheme Is the longdis Lance telephone Back on the prairies of the Dakotas the heliograph would be ajl right except In a blizzard but up here In the mountains It would not be at all practicable |
