Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-21
GeR. Bakers Address. The Programme
for the Excursion.

0ooiCoiy any IuIHS mas Deen Or could
be learned of their proceedings. They are
pre-eminently modest men, and know how
to keep secret. A more intelligent and
orderly body of men never met in this
city. Their vocation has a tendency to
make them thoughtful, serious and dis
Greet, and even when absent from their
posts of duty they carry with them their
heavy weight of responsibility. Thousands
npon thousands of lives are daily depend
ing upon their watchfulness, and it is no
wonder that they are men of deeds rather
than of words.
The GLOBE has gwen all that could be
made public of their proceedings, and ell
pit can give now is the election of the fol-
lowing named grand officers for the ensu-
ing year:
G. G. &C. S. Wheaton of Elmira.
G. A. G. CD. W. Robinson of Milwau-
kee.
G. S. and T.-W. ?. Daniels of Cedar
Rapids.
G. S. C.-Levi Green of Denver.
G. j. S.-Geo. j. Johnson of La Crosse.
G. 0. SIS. E. Freeman of Canada.
Ex-Com.-J. S. Randolph of Canada.
Jr. Conn.,. o. Soule Of Cedar Rapids.
These officers were duly installed at
Market hall yesterday afternoon in the
presence of number of our leading citi-
zens. st Paul would gladly and willing
ly made some public demonstration in hon
or of the association but all overtures
looking that way were respectfully and res
oluteiy declined. All that the association
would accept was the use of Market hall
rendered by Mayor Rice for the installation
ceremonies of the grand officers and which
took place at p. m. yesterday. Shortly
after that hour the delegates with their
wives arrived and the assemblage was
called to order by Past Grand Chief Con-
ductor, G. A. Stinchfeld, of Creston, Ill.
The grand officers named above were
each invested with the regalia of their
rank by the past grand chief conductor,
after which they were escorted to seats
upon the platform by Grand Marshal
James Loughlin of Kansas City, and Grand
Conductor. Samuel Phipps of Phillips
burg, N. Y.
Rice of st. Paul, Mayor Ames of Mime
apolis, City Attorney Murray, Gen. J. h.
Baker, Aldermen Roberts, johnson, McCar-
thy, Dowlan and others. The ceremony of
installation being ended Mayor Rice arose
and addressed the assemblage as follows;
MAYOR RIcI's REMARKS.
Mr.. Grand Conductor, Officers and Mem
bers of the Ordor of Railway Conductors
of the United States and Canada: I am
greatly gratified in having witnessed the
beautiful ceremonies of the installation of
your officers.
extend to you hearty welcome from
the people of this city. No class of our
citizens is more worthy of our high re-
spect.
Your calling demands the exercise of
all manly virtue. ass.
Upon you devOlves every day the :. re-
sponsibility of protecting the lives of
great numbers of people, and of Drawing
patiently the exactions of the ignorant
and the weak.
The confidence in which women under
take long journeys, and children are sent
from one part of the continent to another
in the care of railway conductors is a guar
anty of the esteem in which you are uni
versally held.
The philanthropio branch of your order,
than which no object in life can be more
worthy, also commands the respect of all
people. But known as you are to be cool,
patient and brave, these qualities are not
more conspicuous than your galllantry.
And now,gentlemen, many of you who no
doubt remember st. Paul as an outpost OF
civilization, will see within few days the
foundation of future cities beyond. trust
that your short sojourn here, and that OF
your fair companions, may be made
agreeable to each one of you.
Mayor Ames was next introduced and in
few happy remarks invited the order to
visit Minneapolis, promising them the
freedom of the city.
GEN. BAKER's ADDRESS.
Gen. J. II. Baker, railroad commissioner
of Minnesota, was next called out. It il
needless to say he was received with every
demonstration of respect, and his remarks
we're listened to with interest. Gen. Baker
was in one of his happy moods and his Ell.
oquent remarks were frequently interrup.
ted with applause. The following is but a
brief synopsis of his address,:
With yoar vocations, duties and aspira.
tons, 1 feel the most lively interest and
sympathy. The new force which came
| with George Stephenson's locomotive
affected the whole world of commerce, OF
! travel and of civilization itself. That
force overturned old systems and built all
things anew. No discovered power, except
the invention of printing, has wrought
such changes among men. .Expunge the
railroad from modern life and you will
have thrown the world back for century
| of time. This new force brings it's at.
tendant train of new employments and
more diversified pursuits of life
From the mine to the workshop, from the
dead ore to the breathing engine, every.
where its vital power is felt. Scan mod.
ern life and SEQ how many things are here
present, which, but for railways, would
have NO existence. Its vast ramiicationi
spread and thread into every avenue OF
life. Consider our condition if this force
was e1punged from the activities of the
age? It has given the nineteenth centu.
ry a broad, full and progressive life. II
has given Us new vocations and inc.ted
new invention
And it is pleasing to note that this tire
uiendous physical power carries with it