The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-06
MIR. KELLOGG AND THE ENGINEERS.

SEATTLE. Feb. 5, 1891.
To THE EDITOR: / notice by your paper OF
January 81 that the chief of the fire department,
Gardner Kellogg, proposes to write 20 Grand
Chief Arthur, the head of the Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Engineers of the United States. in
relation TO the correspondence about Captain
kelleher. | would Like to have Mr.. Kellogg ex-
plain through the columns of your paper what
position he holds in the Brotherhood of LocoTo-
tive Engineers which entities him to question
the dealings between the local division and the
Grand International Brotherhood. The nerve
shown by Mr.. kellogg in investigating the at
fairs OF an organization of which he is not a
member, and which ne is not likely to
be permitted 10 ioin is entirely in keeping with
the general makeup OF that gentleman. II Mr..
kellogg has any surplus energy to spend IL
might be used in investigating Paragon hose,
and explaining how IL comes that he recon-
mends the purchase of hose at Sis per foot,
when the same is openly offered both before and
since his recommendation at 30 cents per foot.
These are things the public are interested in.
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers is
entirely capable of managing their own bust
ness. We do not need any assistance from Mr..
Kellogg, and we decline with thanks the help
be so gratuitously offers. When we need his
advice We will not hesitate to call on him for it.
For his information We will say that not word
has ever been said in our brotherhood relative
to the appointment of either officers or men for
the Seattle fire department. 1t is true that men,
bers OF our order are on the force, but this is
easily enough explained when 1t Ia understood
that more than thirty thousand of the best en-
gineeTs OF the United States are members of our
order. For twenty.six years this order has
striven to promote the interests of locomotive
engineers, has spent money freely in protecting
the lives OF its members, in causing dangerous
appliances to be abandoned, and in taking care
OF the afflicted and fatherless families of
brothers who have gone to the other shore. We
stand by our brothers when living, and protect
their children when the natural protector is no
more. That is the business of our organization,
and that alone. We do not interfere with
petty ward politics, and defy Mr.. Kellogg
or any one else to show where
our organization has exerted itself to secure
positions for its members by any unfair or dis
honorable means. 1t is pure and unadulterated
falsehood that this organization ever wrote to
any authorities of West Superior or ST. Paul or
any other place TO rake up evidence against Mr..
kelleher. Laying aside the question as to why
man should object to have his character shown
up as being out of place in these columns, we
simply desire TO fully settle this question as to
whether this organization has done as Mr. Kel-
logg charges in your columns. We maintain
that 1t has not, and urge and demand that Mr..
Kellogg prove his assertions. II he canflet him
do so, and IL not let him withdraw his SANDER
Gus insinuations against our organization.
T. r. SPALT,
Chief Engineer of Puget Sound Division, 3s9, B.
of l. E.