Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-06-13
THE D-MASTERS.
FOURTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION or THE
ASSOCIATIONS TO BE HELD HERE.
Welcome by Mayor-Elsct Rllyson-Prsysr
BY Rev. Or. Coopsr-1nformation
About the Organization.

The fourteenth annual session OF the Yard
Masters Mutual Beneficial Association OF the
United States will begin this morning In the
Broad.Street Opera-House at 10 o'clock.
Rev. DIR. George Cooper, OF the First Bap-
tlst church, will open the proceedings with
prayer, and Msyor.elect J. Taylor Ellyson
will deliver brief address OF welcome.
BENEFICIAL.
The association, as can be seen from lis
name, is a beneficial organization. On the
death OF any married member his widow Is
paid 81, 900. and on total disability $1,000 Is
paid 10 the disabled member. There are about
1000 OF the 5000 yard masters In the United
States in the association, and there Will be
over a hundred delegates TO this session
from all parts OF the country. The members
are all active yaTd.masters-men who send
out and make up freight aud passenger trains
in the car-yards. No firemeD, conductors,
or brakemen are in the order
WHY RICHMOND WAS CHOSEN.
The last meeting was held in Detroit,
Mich, and Richmond was chosen as the
next place because there is no branch of the
association here, and by holding this session
in this city II was hoped that some interest
might be awakened and branch association
formed.
OFFICERS.
The president OF the association was Mr..
L. NJ. Carter, OF Wilmington, Del, but he
has died since the last meeting. and The nrst
vice. president, Thomas &. Gresham. Of Az
lanta, was recently killed In that city. 30
president and first vice-presldent Will have TO
be elected at this session. The second vice.
president, Mr.. William Blow, OF Windsor,
ont, will preside for the present. The
only saaried officer OF the association Is the
grand secretary and treasurer, hr. Joseph
Sanger, OF indianapolis.
MEMBERS PRESENT.
All the members travel free; and as a
number have had some trouble making their
arrangements with the railroads, all have
not yet arrived. The following, however,
were last night found registered at Fords
Hotel, the headquarters OF the Associa-
ton: Messrs. q. Nebber, Milwaukee;
j. G. Finch. Leavenworth, Kan; +. Robert
and NJ. Madden, Louisville; Charles {.
Rosser. Evansville. Ind. L. b. johnson.
Algiers, La.: J. W. Fletcher, Detroit; {. III.
Willard, Detroit; j. W. Proctor. Detroit;
james Gordon. Trenton, n. j.; {. A. Nc
Alpine, Mansfield, Mass; William Blow,
Windsor, Ont. II. NJ. Butler, Pittsburgh,
Pa; G.. NJ. Hugo, Pittsburgh; G.. NJ.
Anderson, Altoona. Pa; }. NJ. Thomp'
son, Philadelphia; c. II. Cantwell,
Wilmington, Del; Charles Howard, Phila-
delpba; Charles C. Weaver, Harrisburg,
Pa. IL. :. Decker, Harrisburg; J. c. Camp
bell. Derry, Pa; James McAleer, Pitts
burgh, Pa; william Baird, Philadelphia;
l.. II. Smith. Philadelphia; j. NJ. McJankin,
Blairsyille, Pa. Simon Kelly, Weebawken,
Nd; W. J. knight, Delaware, o.; Charles
Fox, Toledo, o.. Edwin Adams, Hanni-
bal, Mo-; Henry Miller, Hannibal. Mo-;
W. +. Wiiherbee, Toledo, o.; n. e.. Gill
lette, Toledo, o.; w. +. w. Burns, COlum-
bus, o.; J. II. Tails, Windsor, Ont; }. IL.
u. Chamberlain. Columbus, o.; f. i. De-
Long, Alliance, o.; W. d. Harrington,
Cleveland. o.. Peter L. Lythall, Cleveland,
o.; j. II. Hcllman, Cleveland, o.; X. D..
Keith, Chattanooga, Tenn; j. j. Bresnahan,
Denver, Col. Z. ;. Fairbanks, Atlanta. Ga. (;
NJ. Carson. Kansas City, Mo-; William Nor
ris, Amigo; J. Reilly, Antigo; L. NJ. Firmer,
Kansas CITY, No.; George Bradshaw, Kansas
City, Mo-; G.. W. Wood, Atehmulss, han. 4;
+. A. RaynOr, Atchison, kan.; +. Hyde,
Atcbison, Kan. {. 4. Bell, Cincinnati, .. ;
william Stevenson, Danyille, H.; NJ. A.
courtney, Ddnhilt, III, brol Sc nv
indianapolis, lad; j. Callahan, Clncin-
natl. o.: :. T.. Parker, Cincinnati, o. p;
r.. o. TirSlev atlanta, Ga; A. &. Guion,
La Fayette, Ind. J. T. Hicks, indianapolis,
tau; IL. r. ensball, Cincinnati, o.; Robert
Minor, Pittsburgh, Pa; h. 5. Kennedy,
Pittsburgh, Pa; l.. J. Cummings. Leedville,
COL; j. o. Wheeler, Nashville, Tenn;
Joseph Sanger, Indianapolis, Ind; W. A.
Reynolds, Hastings. Neb. Charles 4. Che
rolet st. Cloud, Mimi. John j.. Owens,
Burlington, Iowa; j. l.. Kepler, East Hart
ford, Conn.,. George W. Chipman, Chicago,
H.: @. L, Saunders, Minneapolis; IL. r..
Hopkins, Chicago; W. Z. Neagle. Allegheny,
Pa W. j. Walpole, Colorado; W. 7. Pres
ton, East Saginaw. Wis. b. ". Murphy
Chicago. Ill; o. c. McKinn. Des Moines.
Iowa; John ". Smith, Chadion, Neb.; j.
NJ. Glunt, Minneapolis.