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Show DECLARE MEETING WAS BIGSOCCESS Employees of Harriman Lines Return From 'Safety First' Convention. Special to Tho Tribune OOfPEX. Nov. CI. Oeorgo O. Hvophy. assistant superintendent of tho Fnicin Pacific, and Alfred Kutherleo, chirf clerk at tho company's local office, have returned from Kvanslou, YVyo., where they nttoudivi tho unuiuil "p;ifety First" mooting of tho Wyoming divi-sion. divi-sion. With more than iOd emplovees at each session of tho business mooting tho convention, which was hold yesterday, yester-day, was declared to bo one of tho most successful mooting 0f tho kind ovor hold on the llarrimaa svstem. livery department oi tho road was reprosonted from superintendents rlowu to section foremen. The reports ou tho results obtained through adopting "satety first" suggestions from tho employees showed that in the. past ton months there had been twentv nino less deaths and 1130 less injuries in comparison com-parison with the record for the previous ten months. The convention programme included an automobile trio for tho visitors, vis-itors, business sosmou, public meetin" banquet and 'Safety First" ball. Local Lo-cal railroad officials contend that tha success of tho convention was largely due to the interest displaced bv lio citizens of Fvanston. |