. The locomotive engineer . ave the boys a good speech, and they encouragedhim with applause, but while he was telling howmany hundred times the engineers bad come to himto correct some wrong, and how quick he saw thepoint, and how quicker he grante<l the request, wewere wondering how It is that so bright a man asbe did not himself sec the wrong first and apply he introduced the speakere, and the way be didnot inflict the audience with letters of regret, andhis omission of flowery speeches of his own—hesimply iclroduced the speaker by name and title,and turned him loose. Most chairmen lake
. The locomotive engineer . ave the boys a good speech, and they encouragedhim with applause, but while he was telling howmany hundred times the engineers bad come to himto correct some wrong, and how quick he saw thepoint, and how quicker he grante<l the request, wewere wondering how It is that so bright a man asbe did not himself sec the wrong first and apply he introduced the speakere, and the way be didnot inflict the audience with letters of regret, andhis omission of flowery speeches of his own—hesimply iclroduced the speaker by name and title,and turned him loose. Most chairmen lake occa-sion to smuggle ft speech of their own inlo theaudience between each act. We never attemptedto make but one speech, and then the chairmanprefaced us by fifteen minutes of rot—some of thevery things we meant to use—and as we bowed andwaited for him to quit, we forgot our speech, age,name, and previous condition. The man wroteour oratorical obituary, and choked off anotherClay or Webster from the halls of Congress,. Jay Gould has in contemplation the build-ing of a very flne structure in the neighbor-liiiod of One hundred and for the freeuse, aslihmry, gym-nasium, of theelevated railroademployes. Hecould welt afford lomake this the heatbuilding of the kindill the city. H& H. runs less thanfifty miles in tlicSlate of New York,and claimed that,in its case, the pen-alty for not heating cars by steam in that .State diilnot c«unt. The Court of Appeals has allirinedthe order of the lower court, taxing iheni J7,00f)In fines. The Brothnrhdud ConTentloiis. The firemen convened this year at Sao Francisco,luid the enginei-rs at Pittsburgh. The reports ofthe olUcers of both orders nhow a flattering condi-tion of the llmiiicial deparimeuts, and increasedmembership and new lodges mem to be the orderof the day. The Hremen increased the salaries ofall their gmml oIllcerH $1,0011 per year, and unani-mously re elected E. V. Deba secretary, treasurer,a
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