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Show PASSENGER MEN II HIIJIECTI! Oratory and Witty Badi nage Characterize Annual Meeting and Banquet GEORGE RELF IS HOST Contest for Presidency of Organization Is Close, J S Earley Wins Amid oratory and -witty badinage the Salt Late City Passenger as eoclation elected off cers for the ensu ing year last night at the annual meet ng in the Hotel Utah the mem bers being the gue6ta of George 0 Keif lit the banquet Close contests and great enthusiasm -were the leatures of the meet ng The newly elected of ficers are J B Earley of the Salt Lake Eoute pres dent A W Gorey of the Chicago & Horthwestern first vice president Charles Pr ce of the Oregon fehort Line second v ce pres dent J E Will ams of the Bingham & Garfield secretary treasurer In the absence of Pres dent F N Jenkinson who was ill Vice President W M Fuller occup ed the chiir unt 1 the arguments be ame so fur ous that he could pot be heard when he retired in fa or of Harrj Cushmg former pres dent of the organizat on who ruled as a genial despot ' Bun ' Hanson Scores E ery candidate had eloquent fol lowers and as everyone knows talk Is the passenger agent s stock in trade The only reason there want more talk was because the czar talked the louder Even then Bun Han on the Char e Alurphy of the passen ger assoc at on made himself heard and 6 eceeded n p lot ng all of his can d dates through sucesstully The b g f ght was for the pres ieney J S Larlev of the Salt lake Route and Seth O Tholes of the Oregon fohort L ne were the cand dates Har ry Cushing acted as Earley s cam paign manager and IL H H nkms ser ed in a s m lar eapac ty for Rhodes J ach manager had prepared an eloquent address to be delivered at the meeting but m -the fir t mixup when Fuller retired as chairman of the meeting in a or of Cushing the chair ruled that wind jamm ngr was out of order and proceeded to enforce the ruling w th aned success In order that orators might rel eve their feelings Mr Cu h mg suggested that they get together in the ha 1 and deliver the r speeches to each other He all but carried his point Gives Talk, on War F P Gallagher was the guest of honor it the meet ng and the pnnc pal speaker He gavo an nterest ng talk on the European war mclud ng h s views of the came the poss ble resu t and the advisability of increasing the Un ted States army and navy Following the usual order of busi ness the secretary treasurer s repdrt was read and accepted and the follow log new members were duly elected Clen O Smith of the Salt Lake Livery Tian.si:er company C T Burroughs A. T & S T i A Wile Wabash, launce Tanner, Southern Pac f e C J Evans Oregon Short L ne F T Spauld lug Chicago & Northwestern A latter from the. Salt Lake Transpor tat on 1 b was i ad offering the roon s ot the club for a dance to be giv n bv the passenger m n some t we th s month A vote f Uanks was tendered the Transportat on club and ho matter was refe red to the enterta nmont com mlttee Pres dent Julian Bamberger of the Transportat on club addressed the gather ng and said that if the dance was not to be held th s month the rooms were at the service of the pas senger men at any time that did not conflict with the meet ngs of has club Constitution Amended Amendments to the const tntion to the effect that Ogden passenger men (be accepted as members of the organize tion and that a majori y vote De re qu red to elect any otf cer were offered and will be acted upon at the next meeting J H Manderfield and L S Mari'er spoke on the advisabl ty of d stnbntPng another bunch of Salt Lake folder! and a comm tteo will be named within b few days to handle the matter to a conclusion The members of the associat on were the gueits of Manager George O Relf of the Utah hotel at a banquet preced Ing the election Besides furnish ng an excellent repast. Manager Eelf had printed a special manu card for the oc casion. He was tendered a vote of thanks and given three cheers by the assemblage About 100 members were present |