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Show RAILROAD IN ANMFA1LY The committee appointed to raise a subscription for the aid of Mrs. X. A. Gabltas aud children wife and chlldro nof the Jate N. A. Gabltas, has finished its pleasant labors and turned over to Mrs. Gabltas the sum of $631. Those most active In the committee were Fred Johnson and J. A. Gill of the office of Assistant Superintendent Thomas Fitzgerald. Mr Gabltas was an employe of the Southern Pacific. He d.ed a few months ago. The subscription lists show that some of the money raised "by the committee came from as far away as tho Nevada & California branch 'and from as far west at Reno, all employees em-ployees of tho Salt Lake division contributing liberally. Mr. Gabltas was employed as a section sec-tion foreman on the Southern Pacific and a few months before his death ho marrlod a widow who had several children of her own. These, with Gabltas' own children by a former marriage, totalled s.even, and it Is claimed byjhls friends that the man was ono of the most; Jlberal, and kind-hearted kind-hearted men they, h'ad 'oven known. When his death occurred at the Dee Memorial hospital in this city after a brief Illness from pnoumonln, thorc was a pronounced effort manifest to aid the woman and fatherless children. chil-dren. Mrs. Gabltas purchased a home at West Weber and resides there at the present time. |
