The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-15

ing the past year, invited to become Honorary" members of the "club, :" without dues, and the printed list be- fore us headed by the name of William Mckinley and including a brilliant list of we'll known railroad officers, is evil
 dence of a prevalent suitability and trustfulness. It is safe to say that the trust Is mispalced and that those rail road officers who have allowed the use
 of their names to promote a question: able scheme have an immediate duty to perform.
 The club was incorporated in New
 York early in 1896, the objects stated
 being far-sounding but vague. The
 bylaws form an elaborate product of the mind evidently bent on securing
 sole power, and assurance of perpetua- ton of power, in the hands of the managing governor" They are long, complicated, somewhat difficult of final interpretation and not unskillful, con- ! sidering the end kept plainly In view. l It becomes important to know, there | fore, that the managing governor, C.. | E. Weisz, is not railroad officer or a railroad employee; that while a conduc-
 tor he was uncommonly active in en-
 deavoring to convert the Order of Rail
 way Conductors Gan insurance society," into a strike organization; and that his | last position in railroad service was
 with the New York, Ontario and West
 ern Railroad company, from which he | was discharged about eight or nine years ago His associate in the board, J. D. Brazee was discharged by the
 same company in 1895.
 | Weisz is at present entirely occupied
 in the promotion of the two projects named above. He has a down town
 private office in the Potter building, 1 New York, and employs men to travel
 and solicit large contributions to the support of the club" from the well to do among his Honorary members" " | Within a few weeks a wealthy director
 was on the point of contributing $1,000 when a chance inquiry prevented this | abuse of his generosity. There is evil dence that the solicitors have met with
 success in many cases The club has
 a house at 115 East Thirty-fourth
 street, New York city, which has been l bought, IufnlSneu anu HedNlly HlOIL-
 gagged. Liquors are sold there, and the register shows average daily visits of i, four members, the names of c. F. Weisz and a few other governors ap- bearing with surprising regularity. We have not been able to learn of a reput- | able conductor in the vicinity of New
 York who avails himself of the club;
 from large number of them the testi-
 mony is uniformly that it is unworthy. | It evidently has but one object.
 | The National Railway Protective League" is quite a different affair In 1t, Weisz invites the membership of all
 railroad employees, for fee of $2 a year. The consideration offered to the
 employe is free preliminary advice and
 diagnosis by local doctor when such employe meets with accident also free preliminary counsel by a local lawyer in case of either accident or legal diffi- culty with the employing railroad com. pany. It requires little effort of imag-
 ination to see in this simply an organ
 ized method of soliciting damage
 claims, and their prosecution for con.
 tingent fee, a vicious practice witt
 which all railroad officers are familiar