Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-18
RAILWAY CONDUCTORS.
Meeting Sunday Next to Organize bivis-
Ion in st. Paul-Objects and Workings Of

Meeting Sunday Next to Organize bivis-
Ion in st. Paul Objects and Workings Of
the Order.
The Order of Railway Conductors is an Or
ganized and chartered society of railway con-
ductors, the object OF which is to improve
and elevate their standing as such and their
characters as men. Opposition to all strikes
of railway employees under any circumstances,
prohibition of its members from the use or
traffic of intoxicating liquors as beverage,
relief and care of its members and their famil-
les by all honorable means, these and many
other beneficial features have given it sttc-
cess and favor unprecedented In the annalse OF
social orders, all OF which have been nnhesi-
tatingly endorsed by the railway companies to
whose cognizance it has become familiar. I
Within the past few years its nagnanim Gus
influence has spread far and wide throughout
our vast continent Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Neva-
da, California, Texas, Georgia, Virginia,
Maryland, Pennsylvania, New: Jersey; New
York, Vermont; Iowa and other points, also
good working condition. Recently division
was instituted in Canada with 100 charter
members. Another division is being organized
in Milwaukee, Wis, by D. G.. c. c., John A.
Robinson, passenger agent of the Lake supe-
rior line Of the c., NJ &
st. P. railway. A division was instituted a
few weeks ago in Toledo,
Ohio, with twenty-five charter members, who
named it "Morford Divisions" in honor of
Past Grand Chief Cond'r of the order, Mr.. j.
B. Morford, of New York city, who is super
iuteDdent OF the C. r. R., of New Jersey, and
under whose mastery administration the order
has prospered with excellent favor and -four
ishing success, and bids fair, under his sue
cessor as Grand Chief Cond'r, Mr.. Calvin 8.
Wheaton, of Elmira, N. Y, to go ahead
grandly. Truly, as he remarks, the order is
booming. ldesi lr73a ~ lsgssg r
Some of the conductors of Minneapolis and
St. Paul have lately become interested in
this extensive and attractive organiza-
ton, and had an appointed meeting
with some of d the grand officers
of the order at the Merchants hotel, in st.
Paul, which resulted il determination to in
stitute division in this State, also to be To-
Gated in the city of St. Paul, with the appro-
pirate name of Minnehaha division O.. Ry. c.,
las that beautiful Laughing Water" is about
| midway between the twin cities) and the de-
| sire is unity of all the best interests and So
| cial facilities of this splendid selection of
railway conductors. Or, perhaps some other
| more appropriate name may be selected at the
institution of the division, which will take
place next Sunday evening; the 21st inst, be-
ginning at 9 a. M, at the Merchants hotel,
| st. Paul. During the day there will
be an election of officers for the ensuing year,
and delegate to the grand division to be held
in Buffalo, New York. the first week in Oc-
| tOber next.
| All railway conductors and those who have
| been conductors at least one year, provided
they be at present connected with any depart
ment of railway service, are only eligible
| to become members of this order. F
| Wherever its benign influence was estab-i
| in 1877, it prevented many an outbreak of de-
struction, and elected the encomiums of many
railway officials For instance, the
great Pennsylvania Railroad company,
whose board of directors, through
| their honored president, specially COM
mended the conductors and employees
of the N. G. railway. and their superintend-
good and influential men among his faithful
assistants.
That little band of brothers, Collins Division
No. S, o. Ry. (named in . respect
| to it's founder, the honored VIM. L. Collins,
of Hornellsville, N. T., the veteran chief and
author of the present ritual of the ORDER I'M
der the official management of Conductors
Dewey, BOSley, Hess, the late lamented r. B..
Whereby and others, of the Baltimore division
N. c. railway, worked assiduously but quie t.
| Iy, and with discretion, in the best interests
| of it's employees, and by their permeating in
fluences, standing up boldly to their duties,
effectually resisted the ''blizzard" of insane,
destructive, blind and desolating rush Of the
mob, that only a few PAGES distant, in the
same city. of Baltimore, was wreaking horrid
vengeance against the B. & o. railroad at its
passenger and freight depots in that great city.
That great and desolating trouble of 1877
originated at that station of the B. s. o. rail
road and where the adjusting influence of the
order of railway conductors was not feature
in the working of that great railway company
at that time. when such an auxiliary to its
best interests could and would have done
much good. ri
Among the grand officers of the
order of railway conductors to be
present in this city next Sunday, 2lst inst, to
assist in organizing and instituting the first
division of the order in Minnesota, will be
Messrs L. r. Carver. G. A. Stanchfield, oil
Iowa, Conductor Herman, of Nebraska, j. A.
Robinson, of Wisconsin, Hy. Shew, of Mary
land, G.. C. Phillips and j. R. Roberts, OF
Iowa, and others.
! All conductors of the several railways run
ming into st. Paul and Minneapolis, who can
do so conveniently, will be in attendance