Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-12 | Page 2 | Railroad Engineers Meet in Los Angeles

RAILROAD ENGINEERS MEET IN LOS ANGELES Will Select a Successor to Their Lato Grand Chief Arthur. Ar-thur. LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 11. The sixth biennial convention conven-tion . of tho International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers En-gineers assembled in this city today with between COO and 700 delegates in attendance. At the samo time the ladles la-dles of the order assembled In Blanch-ard Blanch-ard hall. The work of greatest Importance before be-fore the present convention Is the selection selec-tion of n grand chief engineer to fill the place left vacant by the death of P. M. Arthur last July. The present chief, W. S. Stone, who was chosen to fill out Mr. Arthur's unexpired term, will be a candidate can-didate to succeed himself. Other candidates candi-dates who will have strong followlngs ore J. C. Currle, second grand assistant engineer, and T. S. Ingraham, first grand engineer. In the auxiliary Mrs. W. A. Murdock, founder of the order and Its president, during the entire eighteen years of Its existence, will succeed herself. Tho convention will continue in session ses-sion until June 2. Tho delegates assembled at the Mason Ma-son Opera house In the afternoon. Mayor LI. P. Snyder extended a welcome wel-come In behalf of the citizens of Los Angeles, both to the engineers and the ladles' auxiliary delegates. Response was made by Second Assistant Chief Engineer James C. Curry. Other speeches were made by James J. Byrne, general passenger agent of the Santa Fo lines In California; W. H. Carlson, R. W. Kelly. R H. Ingraham, E. T. Gibbon and Chief Engineer W. S. Stone. Business sessions of the engineers and the auxiliary will begin tomorrow.