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Show GENE! FOREMAN IS' ' BACK FROM BIG COIENTION J E Stone, general foreman of the I Southern Taclfic shops in Ogden, has; returned from a general foremen's convention con-vention in Chicago, which was followed by an educational trip that took the 156 members oer a hi gpart of the east- ern railroads Mr. Stone was accompanied by his I wife, who visited relatives In Michigan and other central states. j Erom Chicago, the lailroad foremen pro. ceded to Cleveland, then on to Buffalo. Albany, New York, Thlladel-' phia, Washington, Baltimore. AlfoonaJ back to Chicago then to ihe SelVUSI shops on the Rock Island At one round house on the PeUnsyl- ' ania system. Mr Stone said 135 passenger pas-senger nnd 280 to 360 freight engines wen bandied in 24 hours. The local Southern Pacific foreman came back with many new ideas, but ;he was pleased In note that at some' of the larger shops the ByBtem of, scheduling work as inaugurated in the ogden shops was employed Mr. Stone brought hack with him a slcn made ol radium paint which bei - iyv js beinK placed at railroad crossings cross-ings At night the sipn can be Been at a distance, giving off bright violet ra-v- ooJ |