St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-18
SOME HOT CONTESTS
For Fat Offices in the Broth
erhood Of Railway Brake
men.
Candidates Are Plentiful and
Campaigns in Full
Blast.
The Grand Secretary Relieved
Of the Editorial End of
Work.
Discussions and Gossip Among
the National Brake
TWiStepS.

Yesterdays session of the Brother
hood of Railway Brakemen was dev0t-
ed to routine business In the morning,
and to listening to an address from Il.
5. Coffin. of Iowa. A pile of commun-
ications were disposed of by reference
to the appropriate committees. The
committee ON claims will have plenty of
work to do in dealing with the many
delicate points referred to it.
The convention decided to accept the
invitations of the ST. Paul Young Mems
Christian Association, offering the use
Minneapolis railroad mems reading
room. 1t was the original intention
of The committee on arrange
ments to go over to Minneapolis in a
body, spending the afternoon there. but
there is so much business to transact,
and the time is so limited, that this idea
has been given up. The transportation
possessed by each delegate is good on
short line trains, so those who desire to
see Minneapolis will have no difficulty
in doing so. Arrangements have also
been made for attending service i'll
body on Sunday. The delegates will
assemble at the Clifton hotel as soon
after 2 o'clock as possible and march to
the cathedral in body, where services
will be held and addresses delivered by
Archbishop Ireland and Rev. Father
Nugent, of Liverpool. England.
The most important step taken at
yesterdays session is the change in the
management of
THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL.
of the order. The grand secretary and
treasurer has hitherto been editor Of
this paper in addition to his other du
ties. e'finds that he cannot possibly
do justice TO both, so the constitution
has been changed and he will no longer
have these additional editorial duties to
perform. The salary of the editor was
fixed at 81, 800 year, and thoroughly
competent man will be appointed to fill
the position. The method of diStrib-
uting the papers has been somewhat
changed. They have been sent from
the grand lodge to the subordinate
lodges. and by them distributed to the
Individual members. For many reasons
this has been found to work badly.
Henceforth the grand lodge will mail
the papers direct to the subscribers.
The secretary is exceedingly pleased to
will now have all his time to devote to
the regular duties OF his office.
The address of l.. $. Coffin occupied
nearly all the afternoon. He talked
straight gOods.' and won loud APP
plauSe, the only complaint the men have
to make beng that he does not know
when to stop. and always talks too long.
He talked about safety appliances prln-
cipally. and was evidently highly appre
ciated by his hearers, who are thor
Oughly and unanimously opposed to
link and pin couplings and old fash
stoned hand-brakes. Mr.. Coffin has
taken up this subject as his life-work.
He advised them to pass resolutions
asking the subordinate lodges to pass
memorials to congress, and to present
these 10 the congressman from their re-
spective districts for presentation to
congress. After devOting good deal
of tune to this and urging 1t strongly
upon the dele gates, he gave them some
good advice. SObriety and devotion
to home were the leading points he
sought to impress upon them. He told
them that for certain things he had TO
go to the general managers and master
car-buiders of roads. but for anything
personal he had to come to themselves.
The preceptS of the order were taken as
text and impressed upon the minds OF
his hearers in language at once honey
and eloquent, as the SureSt means To
success and promotion.
Perhaps the most interesting feature
of the convention will be the election OF
officers. There are to be elected
grand master, first and second vice
grand masters. and two grand trustees.
These positions ale well worth having, as
the salaries are good. The grand master
is paid $1,000 year and all expenses.
He spends majority of his time travel
ing from place to place, so expense ac-
counts must run up fairy high. The
vice grand masters are paid S1.S00
year and expenses, while the grand see
rotary is allowed $1,000. The election
for grand and vice grand masters
WILL. BE HoTLY CONTESTED.
Several candidates are in the field for
all the offices. and active canvassing is
being done. The candidates themselves
and their friends are doing some hard
work.. and are spending much of the
time between sessions in making friends
among the crowd that assemblies in the
Clifton hotel lobby. The present grand
master is very popular and has many
friends. Other candidates are 2. H.
Morrissey, eX-chief clerk in the
grand lodge Office, which position
he held for three years. He
is a freight conductor on the Chicago IL
Alton. Robert Nfcllroy is supposed to
be in the field: he is now chairman of
the grand board of trustees, and if he is
not elected grand master may be given
one of the vice grand maSterShips. w.
q. Edens, who is now second vice grand
master, is candidate. J. C. Glenn is a
prominent aSpirant, as is Mr.. Rourque,
of Boston. The man who seems to be
in the lead at present is Mr.. MorriSSey.
His friends are doing some tall hustling
for him, and claim to be able to elect
him without difficulty. ID. j. Mccarthy
will probably be. reelected to the inn
portant position OH the board of trus-
tees. He is one of the original eight
men who organized the brotherhood,
and is immensely popular among the
boys.
The most important matter to come
ND is the coalition with the other
brotherhoOds to form the federation of
railroad employees. The bretherhoods
of brakemen. firemen and conductors
are unanimously in favor of this, and
it is expected that the firemen will take
similar action at their convention now
in session.
Their Stomachs Spared.
Another telegram was received by
Mayor Smith yesterday regarding the
entertainment of the Pan-American