The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-11
NO grievance have they
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers
C0nyencs Here.
FROM BUFFALO TO HOB0KEN
Every Division on the Entire System
Was Represented. but Not Single
Delegate Had Anything OF
Which to Complain.

Eighty-five locomotive engineers rep
resenting every lodge Of the brother
hood on the Delaware. Lackawanna
and Western road met in this city yes
terday afternoon in what is known as a
System meeting"
These meetings are held at irregular
periods at various points on the road.
The last one was held in Buffalo in
September and the next will be held In
Elmira. towards the close of the year,
the date having not yet been decided
upon. They are, as rule. held on Sun
day and are attended by all the engin-
GERS VINO can conveniently do so,
Yesterdays meeting was not az large
ly attended as the previous one, owing
to the busy times that obtain Just at
present, when almost every engineer,
particularly engineers ON coal trains,
are making overtime Very often ma
tional officers of the brotherhood attend
these sessions, but owing to their en-
gagements elsewhere yesterday as ar
bitrators or members of grievance CON-
mittees, and the fact that there Is alb
Solutely no need for them in .uch capac-
tiles on the Lackawanna road there
were none in attendance at this meet
ing.
They CONGRATULATED Themselves.
AS there were no grievances to be
considered the meeting was simply a
congratulatory love feast in which the
engineers felicitated themselves upon
their present happy and contented con-
dition resultant from the present period
of unusual prosperity and the very
friendly relations existing between the
men and the company. Several of the
speakers touched fittingly upon this
s. mewhat remarkable meeting.
The meeting which was held in the
hall Of Sam Sloan division, NO. 276 at
1874 Wyoming avenue, lasted about two
hours and at its conclusion the visiting
engineers were shown about the city
until evening, when special train bore
them to Moscow, where as much fun
was had as could be properly enjoyed
on Sunday.
Railroad Young Mems Christian as
sociation meeting was held in the Meth.
odist church. at which addresses were
made by Silas Davidson. of Washing
ton, N. j.; Benjamin Locke, secretary
of the Railroad Young Mems Christian
association at Hoboken; John Peters. of
Jersey City; John r. Trock, of this
city. and Eli y. Vail, of Moscow, at
whose invitation the engineers took
the excursion to the country cousin of
the Electric City.
Shandy Maguirc Was Present.
The day was morever made memOra-
BILE by the presence of one of the best
known and most brilliant railroad men
of the United States Engineer Fennell
of Oswego, known better by his nom
de plume Of 'Shandy Mcguire" He is
an orator of no mean ability and an
ever ready wit, but his principal fame
rests in his poetry, which has won for
him reknown far beyond the confines OF
railroad organizations. Several of his
WORKS have received the merited dis
tinction of a place in the leading maga-
zines and periodicals.
The party returned to this city at 10. 80
o'clock in time for the night trains. All
spoke in glowing terms OF the hospital
ity they received during their stay, and
If Scranton ever wants anything in the
way of national convention 1t can
well nigh command the votes of all the
orgaizations represented here yester-
day.