Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-25
LONGyIEW.
alad of MIR, Abey's ImprovcmeDt-The Lo-
connective Eiremen.


aIad of MIR. Abey's ImprovcmeDt-The Lo-
connective Eiremen.
special to the Gazette.
LoNGyIEw, TEX, April 24.--The con
tinued favorable reports regarding the
condition Of Past Grand Chancellor Abey
are received here with gladness, and the
fully accepted statement that his present
serious condition Is the result of an acci-
dent rather than an attempt at self.de-
struction is reason for thanktulness and
deep satisfaction In the minds of those
who know him best, and are therefore his
best friends, 1t Is with much feeling that
the hope Is expressed that the stricken
Knight may soon be seen upon the streets
Of his home city In health and strength.
An open lodge meeting OF the order of
the Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engineers
was held last night in the opera-house,
which was packed to overlooking by our
citizens, both ladies and gentlemen, TO
listen To the lecture on the aims
hopes, purposes and desires OF the order.
After touching prayer by Rev Mr., bod
son, Col. Ragland upon whose broad
shoulders the newly elected mayor threw
his mantle as the colonel assembled the
stairway In very happy speech well
coined the represent tiyes OF the order In
behalf Of the city.
Il. r. Sargent, grand master of the or
der, then spoke a hali-hour, giving It's
history and brushing away the cobwebs
that naturally hang In the mind in rela.
tion to any matter not perfectly under
stood. His speech was listened to Will
pleasure.
Mr.. Il, V, Dobs, grand secretary anC
treasurer of the order, followed with an
other half-hour's lecture, intersperset
with beautiful thoughts,s sensible sug
gestions and prlckly points, pungent anC
! powerful, all OF which so enthused tn,
audience that cheer after cheer was giver
/ spontaneously at intervals throughout the
| speech. His denunciation Of strikes was
bitter In the extreme---claimed that they
We're deleterious in their effects upon
those who engaged in them; believed
that II grievances We're laid before
proper officers In proper spirit
they would be properly listened to
and employer and employe be baud
ed closer together instead OF be-
coming antagonistic toward each other;
prophesied the coming OF near future
when the labor organizations would be
looked upon by capitalists as their assist
ehtS lhSNVau Va tHSlI cutUleHt luhsmuCn
as the aims and desires Of the orders are
to elevate the minds Of their members, to
make better men of them-me who
could be depended upon to do more and
better work by reason Of the fact
that they are made better by hay-
Ing inculoated those principles that make
the true man in the best sense Of the
word, and that having these principles
and abidiug by them, they would work
more TO the interest OF their employer
that the latter might be better able to do
better for the employe, The condition OF
the railroad man as 1t Is now was CON-
pared with his condition few years
since, showing the rapid and upward
growth In all that makes men honorable
socially and morally.
G. G Foster, Jr., grand organizer and
instructor Of the brotherhood OF Brake
men, made some excellent remarks rela-
tive TO the order which he represents.