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Show SIGNAL ENGINEERS CAST ASIDE CARES Members of Association and Wives Make Merry at Banquet. EVERYTHING IS FUN Men Burdened With Safety of Public Forget Big Problems. Approximately 1 50 members of the band of men burdened with the safeguarding" of the traveling public of America cant aside the cares of responsibility and business busi-ness last night and mode merry at the twentieth annual banquet of the Railway Signal association. Wives, sweethearts and guests of the members swelled the total number around the banquet board well above the 200 mark. Ordinarily men burdened with such grave responsibilities would be expected to be of a serious disposition, especially at the annual meeting, when the most carious questions presented them are being be-ing threshed out. And ordinarily they are of a serious mind, but everything whs fun last night from consomme to cigarettes. cigar-ettes. Numerous surprises were sprung during the festivities In the way of favors fa-vors distributed a mong the throng. Novelties Sprung. Flight In the midst of the consumption of the consomme a. whole flock of noise-making noise-making contrivances miniature metal slippers equipped with steel springs which clicked like a. hugn battery of telegraph instruments arrived on the scene. Scarce-Iv Scarce-Iv had the banqueters learned how to manipulate tho "clickers" when the second sec-ond round of favors was distributed. This round consisted of hundreds of toy balloons bal-loons in the "limp" state. But they remained re-mained "limp" an incredibly short time and for some minutes thereafter floating balloons cast a shadow over the bounteous spread. However, the balloons realized the purpose of their existence and the reports re-ports of exploding rubber brought all (he noise incident to a night on the firing line. . Mingled with the olhor merrymaking the R. S. A. song book was produced and the hldierousness of joking words of some well-known member, sung to the air of such classics as "The Rosary," provoked any mirth that any other devices had failed to bring out, But not all the parodies paro-dies were along that line some expressed pretty sentiments, and they were received with equal applause. Oratory Is Limited. The after-dinner oratory was limited to a Jalk by 1- R. Clausen, former president presi-dent of the association, on his trip through China, and an address by Governor Gov-ernor Sprv. Governor Spry welcomed the visitors to the state and took occasion to tell of the slate's wonderful natural resources re-sources and t'tah's belief In the education educa-tion of the vounger generation, all of which met with the heartiest applause- As a fitting close to the festivities. Vice President W. J. TCok. on behalf of the association, presented the retiring president, T. S. Stevens, with a handsomely hand-somely engraved watch fob, an Insignia conferred only to past presidents of the organization. This morning the session will be taken up with the reports of the committees on electric railways and A. C. signaling, storage batterv, and electrical testing, the selection, of the place for the next annual meeting and the election of officers offi-cers for the ensuing year. While the male contingent Is threshing out the business of the association, the women will compete in a golf-putting match at the Country club, and this afternoon the annual baseball game between the east and the west will be staged at Lucas field. Some Leave Today. Some of the visitors will leave . this afternoon, but the majority of them plan to go tonight. Some will return home immediately, but a good portion of them will go to the Pacific coast to visit the expositions. The business proceedings of the association will be adjourned at 12:45 and a t the close of t h e ball jja me the twentieth annual convention will become be-come history. It was practically conceded last night that the next annual meoting will be held at Mackinaw Island, Mich. Also there seemed io be no doubt as to the outcome of the election. From all indications indi-cations First Vice President W. J. Eck will be elevated to the presidency and Second Vice President C A. Dunham to first vice presidency. W. H. Elliott seems the unanimous choice for the second sec-ond vice presidency. and there is no question but what C. C. Rosenberg will be re-elected secretary-treasurer. The business session yesterday morning morn-ing was confined to the hearing of the reports of the committees on mechanical mechani-cal interlocking, manual block, and lightning light-ning protection. The session was ad-lourned ad-lourned at noon and the entire party went to Sattsir on a special train to spend the afternoon. During the mornings morn-ings the women members of the party were entertained at golf and tennis at the Country club. |