The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-11

SAVED FROM THE FLAMES.
pursue our calling and vocation with
greater degree of effectiveness.
Coupled with this is social feature
that predominates in all organizations
Of this character, a socialism that
binds us together with ties of friend I
ship and a condition from which ema-
mates greater efficiency in the vocation
which we follow:
ut would indeed. I presume, be
superfiuous upon my part TO attempt 10
iay anything with reference to the 1
devotion of firemen and their heroic ef- |
forts at all times and in all seasons /
in response, as the distinguished gov
ernor has said, to the call OF duty and .
the desire to save from destruction mil /
liens worth of accumulated Industry. /
This is the theme and topic that these /
good fellows whose mission it is to !
chronicle events as they pass write up /
day after day. so that the reports are I
read by the teeming thousands and
millions not only Of this country, but
of the world.
Il might say, too, gentlemen, that
our association is to a certain extent a i
migratory one. We first met in the /
south, then in the east, then in the !
north, and nav we have come to the |
west. Two years ago we gathered at |
the great head waters of the St. Law /
renee river; we glided down the bosom
of the powerful stream, as 1t rushed I
through it's great rapids, and landed |
finally in the Dominion Of Canada. We /
learned much there that we have (
profited by since. There we were able |
to witness a country where in the past !
undying scenes were enacted and of !
which we had read much when we !
were boys at school. From there we |
Glided down to Quebec, examining that |
- T.
calm died; and 1 remember that we
met an old English soldier, who showed
us a cannon that had been used on |
Bunker Hill. I was proud of one OF
our men when he said: You captured
the cannon, but we kept Bunker Hill
Last year we met in the distant
south, in the great, growing and nos
pitable state of Georgia L think in
going to that convention l had the
greatest experience of my life. An old
time estimable friend insisted that we
should gather in the great metropolis
of New York, and for the first time III
our experience we left there for Sa-
vannah by the sea l once read of a.,
old Welsh preacher going across the
ocean He was the only preacher on |
board and on Sunday they insisted that
he should preach. He could announce
a text and preach a good sermon IN
Welsh. but he was unable to speak
and his text was, And the wind did
blow and the sea did rise After
few words of introduction he subdivid-
ed his sermon, as only a Welshnlan
can, and said he invited Their attention
to three divisions, first, the wind did
blow; secondly, the sea did rise, and.
thirdly, the sea did rise because the
wind did blow. We experienced every
thing in the sermon delivered and sub
divided by that old Welsh preacher. o,
how those winds did blow and how
those waves did tossi Finally we held
a council OF war and determined that
there was a Jonah on board and thar
the Jonah was the very man who got
UP the excursion. We got winding
sheet and were going to request CHER
Mcdonnell 70 take the principal role
in the burial service. But we finally
landed safely in Savannah and had
profitable convention.
To-day we meet in the great city Of
Salt Lake. Our numbers are not SO
great as heretofore. l presume the
long journey deferred many from com
ing. ! presume that some already here
were reluctant in coming owing to the
great distance, but the fact that this
city had sent its chief to our conven-
ton determined a great many of us
and created within us a spirit Of re-
cinrocity that we desired to show to Salt
Lake that we appreciated their acton
in sending their chief to our convention.
And OH what a magnificent journey
1t was Vino was there in that COM
pany whose heart did not swell within
him with the knowledge THAI this was
still America; that these great plains
of green, verdure; these mountains filled
with precious minerals, were a part of
this great country OF ours. (Api1lause.)
Whose heart did not swell 10 think
that this boUndless area was yet to be
the home Of millions upon millions of
freemen. And how our hearts glad
dened as we landed in this city and
met some whom we had met before, and
whose fathers and mothers we had met
IN the east. What pleasure it was to
be in this beautiful valley, this great,
growing and magnificent city and yes
terday TO attend the service i'm the
great tabernacle, where we listened TO
a magnificent sermon upon the word
that touched the hearts of all who have
been born in a land of Christianity,
that God so loved the world" etc.
Il congratulate You, my fellow chiefs,
on account of the fact that to the best
of my knowledge we as an association,
composing a civic body of this kind,
have had the honor of being welcomed
by the first governor of this state of
Utah and being the first, as l am in
formed, who, as an organization, have
been welcomed to the borders of Utah
by the governor.
1--WE can observe without any re-
search that Utah has a great future
before her; that here in time VIII be
the garden of America We trust that
her affairs may be so managed that
prosperity may crown the efforts of
her people, so that the forty-flfth state
In the great constellation viii take her
place equal with any in the great
sisterhood of states. Gentlemen, we
shall sojourn with you but few days.
We traSA that when we are gone we