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Show IBS.8T0I I SALT UKE Salt Lake. Oct. 11. "Many a person per-son has died from starvation for a kind smiln nurl n tio-irtv hinDi.i.n "Flowers on a coffin throw no fragrance fra-grance back over life's woary way." With such epigrams simple, beautiful, beau-tiful, expressive Warran S. Stone, grand chief of the International Biotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, drove home the ideala of fraternalism last night to the members of the local lodges or the Brotherhood at a meeting held in the Eagles' club ' Mr, Stone, with his wife, arrived in Salt Lako yesterday on the way to San Francisco to attcud the Panama-Pacific Panama-Pacific exp6sition, and, Incidentally, to make a short talk Wednesday night before the railway commissioners of tho United States and Canada. The trip. Mr. Stone declared, was in the nature of a vacation and had no other significance. He stopped here to meet the members of the local lo-cal organizations of the engineers and firemen and their auxiliaries and to talk with them about things of great Importance to the order the upholding uphold-ing of its present high staudard and ''nstilling into it the maximum of fraternalism. fra-ternalism. , Special Meeting Held. A special meeting of lodges No 222 and No. 713 of the brotherhood and No. 10S of the woman's auxiliary was called for last night in 'order that the members might meet the grand chief and his wife. The meeting was held In the Eagles' hall. After an executive session, during which Mr. Slouo talked for nearly an hour and a half on things of vital importance import-ance to the organization, a reception was given in honor of the distinguished distinguish-ed visitors and a program of musical selections, recitations and short talks was carried out. As a part of tho urogram, Mr. Stone was called upon f6r another tail: and again he took advantage of the oppoitunlty to impress upon his hearers hear-ers the ideals of fraternalism Ho said: i "Let's not wait until a man dies to shower flowers and kind wordB upon him. r would rathef have a single carnation in my buttonhole today than a bank of flowers four feet deep on my coffiu. And by that I mean that . the same spirit should be carried into in-to the home life. If a mans life at home is whnt it should be his life outside out-side is what it should be. Advice to Women. "So I say to the good sisters of the organization, send your husbands, fathers, fa-thers, brothers and sons to their work happy. Then they will go to work with clear brains and capable of giving giv-ing the best 'service that Is within them. The great majority of railroad rail-road disasters charged to englnenien, if traced back, would be found to have beon due to domestic troubles troubles that took the mind from the highly exacting work at hand. All fraternalism should begin in the home" Tho meeting "was largely atlendod, nusny members of the organization coming from Ogden, Helper and Grand Junction. On account of the heavy traffic on all roads a great many of the members were unable to be present and some who did attend at-tend were called fruni the meeting to go out on their runs. Mr Stono expressed himself as highly pleased with the general business busi-ness conditions throughout tho country, coun-try, lie asserted that traffic was exceptionally good on railroads throughout the country, the business due largely, he said, to the Immense orders for munitions and provisions from the European countries at war. Heavy Business Ahead. With unusually heavy crops soon to be moved, he predicted an unprecedented unprece-dented business for the railroads within with-in the net few months Even now, he declared, the Pennsylvania and 'some of the other big roads of the east report that they have not an idle car on tneir lines "Of course the west feels the great demand for war munitions." said Mr Stone, "but the people of the western west-ern country cannot appreciate the extent ex-tent of the demand, unless they have been in the east recently Some of our largest factories that worked only eight or twelve hours a day under normal conditions, are now working twenty-four and then can't keep up with their orders." This is Mr Stone's second visit to Salt Lake. With a number of other delegates he stopped off here on the way home trom the national convention conven-tion in Los Angeles eleven years ago. He commented on the great change in the appearance of tho city and made special mention of the metropolitan metro-politan aspect of tho downtown district, dis-trict, and paid a high compliment to Salt Lake's newest hostelnes. Mr. and Mrs. Stone will be taken on an automobile trip around the city and will be tendered a special organ recital in the Tabernacle this morning morn-ing and will leave over the Western Pacific at 12:15 for San Francisco. |