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Show SIGNAL ENGINEERS TO CONVENETOMORfiOW Two Hundred Delegates to Annual Convention Will Arrive This Evening-. VANGUARD ON HAND Entertainment at Hotel Utah Tonight Will Precede Pre-cede Formal Opening. Approximately 200 signal engineers and their guests are scheduled to arrive, from tlic east on a special train over the Ore-eon Ore-eon Short Line at fi o'clock this evening to attend the twentieth annual convention of the Railway Signal asportation, which formally opens at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning in the Hotel Utah. The vanguard van-guard of the signalmen, coming from t he Pacific coast and from points not on the line traversed -by the special train, began be-gan to arrive a day or two ago and a large number of the scattered members of the organization are expected to arrive before the special today. Convention Tomorrow. Alt hough i he busi ness sessions of the convention will not begin until tomorrow. 1 here will be an entertainment for the visitors tonight on the Hotel Utah roof garden. Two business sessions will be held tomorrow, but only one on Wednesday Wednes-day end Thursday, unless unfinished business busi-ness requires extra sessions. The sessions ses-sions Wednesday and Thursday will be held only in the mornings, and the afternoons aft-ernoons will be given m-er to sightseeing and entertainments. Although the signal men have a bip three days' work before them, they also expect to mix some pleasure, and an entertainment programme pro-gramme has been arranged accordingly. At the opening session tomorrow morning, morn-ing, after the visitors have been formally welcomed to the city by Mayor Park or someone representing him. President Thomas S. Stevens of the association will deliver his annual address. Following this will come the report of Secretary-Treasurer Secretary-Treasurer C. C. Rosenberg and then the reports of the committees on signaling practice and relays. The afternoon session ses-sion will begin at 2 o'clock and will be taken up with the reports of the committees commit-tees on power interlocking and standard designs. Women to Shop. The women among the visitors will go on a shopping tour at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning and at 2 o'clock in the afternoon will be taken on an automobile tour of the city. A special organ recital will be given at tbe tabernacle at 8 o'clock tomorrow to-morrow night and will he followed by a formal da.nce at the Hotel Utah. The business session Wednesday will begin at 9:30 and before adjournment for the day Is taken at 12:30 the reports of the committees on "Mechanical Interlocking," In-terlocking," "Manual Block" and "Lighting "Light-ing Protection" will be heard. The women will amuse themselves at golf and tennis during the forenoon and In the afternoon aft-ernoon men, women and all, will be taken ta-ken to Saltalr. The annual dinner of the association will be held at the Hotel Utah at 7:30 o'clock. The final business session is scheduled sched-uled to start at 9:S0 o'clock Thursday morning. After the reports of the committees com-mittees on "Electric Railways and A. C. Signalling." "Storage Battery" and "Electrical Testing." miscellaneous business busi-ness will be taken up. The selection of the meeting place for the next convention conven-tion and the election of officers for the coming term will close the business of the day and adjournment will be taken at 12:45 o'clock. The women will again, try their skill at golf in the forenoon, and during the afternoon the male members among the visitors will stage their annual an-nual baseball game, probablv at Lucas field. Association Officers. The officers of the association are: Thomas S. Stevens, A. T. & S. F. railway, rail-way, Topcka. Kan., president; W. J. Eck, Southern railway. Washington. D. C, and Charles A. Dunham, Great Northern railway. St. Paul, Minn., vice presidents; C. C. Rosenberg. Bethlehem, Pa., secre-lary-treastirer; G. E. Ellis. Kansas Cltv Terminal railway. Kansas City, Mo..: A. R. Fugina. L. & X. railway. Louisville. Ky. : R. C. Johnson. B. R. T. svstem, Rrooklyn. N. Y. ; E. W. Kolb. B. R. & P. railway. Rochester. X. T. ; W. X. Manuel. Man-uel. Q. R. & I. railroad. Grand Rapids. Mich.; Charles W. Parker. Canadian Pacific Pa-cific railway, Montreal. Canada; J. M. "Waldron. int. Rapid Transft companv, Xew York City, and F. B. Wiegand, L. S. & M. S. railway. Cleveland, Ohio, directors. di-rectors. The chairmen of the standing committees commit-tees are as follows: C. C. Anthonv. C. J. Kelloway. F. B. Wiegand. W. M. Van-dersluls. Van-dersluls. G. S. Pflasterer. F. P. Patenall W. Kolb. C. H. Morrison, W. H. Elliott El-liott and R. B. Ellsworth. The chairmen chair-men of the special committees are J. B. Latimer. W. X. Manuel, E. G. Hawkins and J. M. Waldron. |