Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-07-02

stand true to their trust. I then feel graft
fed in their name in Growing you this day
with the civic horrors of a great peoples
fullest confidence ard love. Cheers.
l remember well in those dark DAYS from
1861 to 1866 the important part you played
in the struggle. Ny duties called me con
stantly over the military lines of railroad
in the South, and 1 remember now, CRATE
fully, with what confidence 1 have laid
down IN the quiet of box-car mot very
luxurious sleeper and slept the sleep of
peace, knowing that though passing
through a hostile country-over mountains
and across rivers-in the dusty and smoke
grimed man who held the throttle had all
that intelligence and courage, quickness
to think and to act that the situation de-
manded.
The railroad interest has grown now to
be part of the necessities of
our daily life. Forty years ago we
could number the lines in the
United States on our fngers-now their
number is legion, they enrich the earth,
they gridIron the land. They have linked
ocean with ocean and made the waters of
the great lakes and the southern gulf as
one. They have opened up the prairies to
the worlds million. Why the very spot
where now speak lIt5Ie more than a score
of years ago, the council fires of the red
man lighted the sky. St. Paul, proud mis-
tress of the northwest, with the fact of
her hundred thousand inhabitants
to-day, and VII d future so glow
ing that tt widest imagining
Of the widest dreamer will fall
short Of that fatUr e's reality, is the growth
of the marvellous system of railroads that
has overcome every obs.2cle, surmounted
every difficulty, 50 fat ne barrier placed
by nature across ne land, and which
seemed to sag to thl restless enterprise of
the age, thus far and no farther shall We
60. has crumbled away, and the eagles
are startled in heir Rocky mountain eyrie
by the shrill scream of the
LOGON olive to-day in The hands
of one Of your order Cheers.
And of all this you, gentlemen, and men of
your profession, are an essential, abso-
lutely essential factor. Upon your faith
fulness, your skill, your sobrietY the sue
cess of all these enter srizes must and does
depend.
While personally 1 know nothing of
your order, l am pleased to hear from
your grand chief how much good you have
done and are doing. I am especially
pleased to know that you have made pro-
visions for the families of those who die
or are MANNED in the service.
This is especially commendable in view OF
the fact that by the very nature of your
employments it is well nigh impossible to
effect life insurance except at ruinous
rates. I also noticed with great pleasure
the rules as to temperan 3e-for if a man
needs to be strictly and always temperate,
it is surely locomotive engineer. That
you are generally so, and that your organ
ization has dene q good and great
work in that regard, it is only
necessary to compare the few
persons injured with the numberless thou
sands who are carried upon railways.
Ladies and gentlemen, I thank you all
sincerely for the honor of this call, and
1 particularly thank you for your patience
in listening to my crude remarks this very
hot afternoon. 1 will therefore conclude
by wishing Mr.. Chief Engineer and all of
you, that when for Zach of Us the last sad
signal shall be blown to put on the brakes,
1t will be to usher Us into that great union
depot where there is perfect happiness and
uneAding rest, by the pillars of that fair
city not built by hands, eternal in the
heavens" Applause.
TIE CONCLUSION
Mr.. J. J. Egan was also called upon and
made few appropriate remarks which
we're very gratifying to the audience.
The entertainment was closed by Miss
Marie Geist giving q grand piano solo by
Weber, entitled The Invitation to the
Dance" in which this accomplished piano
player executed the many difficult pas
sages of the selection with brilliancy and
striking effect.