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Show age, hut Is permitted io continue until . lie Is 70 If he parses the examination The pension granted is a sliding one. If an engineers wages for the Inst ten years averages $100 u month his pension pen-sion would be $H a m nth. There are plenty of engineers who stay the limit, for few men care to become in active " ENGINEERS SACK FRMJETiHUTi Members of the local union. Brotherhood Broth-erhood of Locomotive Enalnoers, who attended the national convention of the order, on of In most Important and successful In years, have returned return-ed from Detroit. Mich, thoroughly plens-d with the legislation enacted, officers elected and business transacted. trans-acted. Jbn W. Smith of Sparks officially of-ficially represented Ogden Of Interest Inter-est to nil railroad men Is the following fol-lowing account of one dav's proceedings proceed-ings which appeared In the Detroit Free Press of last Tuesday: Members of the Brotherhood of loconioilve Knglneers are delighted with their new office building In Cleveland, but they do not In ,entl ment Interfere with business. Thev enjoyed themselves for two days ile-dlraUng ile-dlraUng the building, but Ihey were on hand bright and early yesterday for the business session and took up the question of financing the enterprise. enter-prise. The office building will cos! a lil-t lil-t lo over J 1,201, linn when completed Of this amount $1 ono.nnn has been paid, having been taken from the surplus fund of the order, which Is a pretty concrete example of the fact that tho brotherhood Is enjoying prosperity Regarding the balance du the piopo-sition piopo-sition came up as lo whether it should be raised by assessment or let the building pay Itself out Earning Capacity Good. No decision w-as reached, a point of order putting the matter over, hut It Is quite probable that the balance will I paid from the earnings of the building, which are conservatively placed at J50,0iuj a year. In addition to the 400 offices tlie building has a fin? auditorium, seating 1400 and equipped with a magnificent organ. Thorp are a number of singing societies so-cieties In Cleveland which will rent the auditorium at $100 a night and as the seats can easily be removed It will also be frequently used for assemblies as-semblies and dances. II. K. Wills, vice Crand chief of the order, left tor Washington yesterday yester-day to look after the Interests of two Mils now before congress which the brotherhood favors. One provides for the federal inspection of locomotive hollers similar to the inspection of marine boilers, and the other reduces the number of continuous hours men engnged in the movement of trains can be worked from Ifi tr 14 hours. Take Time for Discussion. Most of yesterday afternoon's session ses-sion was devoted to the discussion of proposed amendments to the contl-tution contl-tution and by-laws, and whether they pass or not the delegates want to thresh them out. "You know," said one of the officers, "our men are a pretty steady lot, who doni lay off more than once in two years. Nowadays the managers of railroads want their engineers to work steadily and they do it. Before I became an officer I ran an engine 22 years straight and did not lay off a month lu lhat time." To prove his assertion the officer called to a passing delegate, "Say, pal, how long since you laid off?" "Well," answered the delegate, "this Is the first excursion I've had in 2D years, and I am making the most of It." "He Is a fair sample of the run of delegates," continued the official "Of course the same set of delegates never nev-er get together, and In every convention conven-tion new ideas come up which are discussed and voted on We aim to do our work thoroughly, for nothing is gained by trying to rush matters. Besides, the convention is in the nature na-ture of a vacation, for the delegates, and they are entitled to time for enjoying en-joying themselves." Test Stopping Device. Tho feature for the engineers today will be the testing of an automatic train utopping device, which will take place at 2 o'clock this afternoon on the Pore Marquette railroad Dear Michigan avenue. The device is such that where !i train enters a block already al-ready occupied the air brakes are automatically au-tomatically set and the train brought to a gradual stop. The inventors are K M. Cain und John La Barve both o'd railroad nu n on the Pennsylvania system, aud today's to-day's test will be under the supervision super-vision of the block signal and train control l.oard of the Interstate commerce com-merce commission. Professor M. K. Coohy of Ann Arbor, chairman of the honrd. nnd W. P. Borland of Washlncton, secretary, will be present pres-ent and ihey will have the assistant o of .lames Burl and D P. ('al)ioiin, government gov-ernment Inspectors. A special train earrylnc 'he invl'ed guests will le.ive the I'lilon depol. at 1 o'clock ibis afternoon. aft-ernoon. Preliminary lefts of the device were made yesterday and they proved eminently satisfactory. A light engine, en-gine, running 40 miles an hour, stopped stop-ped in 100 feet, and later tho same engine with the throttle wide open was stooped in about the samo distance. dis-tance. For the third test an out hound freight consisting of an engine and 22 cars, was given a grade, and It w -n stopped In thlrtv seconds, (he distance traveled being "75 feel. Running Engine 42 Year. One of the old timers amone the engineers Is Robert Murphy, of Kansas Kan-sas Cltv, who pulls a throttle on the Union Pacific Ho Is nearly f years of age. straight as an arrow and does not use glasses. "I have been running an engine for 12 years now," he said yenh rd ty afternoon, aft-ernoon, "and they will lot rue continue con-tinue If I can pass the examination for another year, s'1'' a ha'f. Then they will pepslon me. Until a spell ago I had a through run, hut I gav It up for an accommodation run which gets me home every night, and I only work three days a week. 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