The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-12

AsheviIle, y. c., September c.-Ffnal
arrangements were made for the recep-
ton to President Roosevelt in this city
today. The presidential party VIII
spend the night at Hot Springs, where
the train will be side tracked Inc
train is scheduled to arrive in Ashevllle
at $50 in the morning. Shortly AFTER
10 o'clock the president will deliver a
speech from a platform in the public
square. School children will be station
ed on Battery Hill and Will sing the ma
tional anthem as the president passes to
the public square. After the conclusion
of the presidents address the party
will go to BiItmore and will be driven
over the Vanderbilt estates. The pres
idential train will leave Biltmore at
1910.
Chattanooga. Tenn, September s.
President Roosevelt today was elected
an honorary member OF the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen. He attended
the executive session Of the order in
the morning, walking from the hotel to
the auditorium. a distance CT a few
blocks, escorted by Grand Master Sar-
gent, a committee of the brotherhood
and a detachment of troops B.. state
guard.
The brotherhood first held its execu-
tive session, which the president attend
ed. Acting Grandmaster
welcomed the president, stating that his
attendance at the convention would do
great good to organized labor. not only
in this country, but in Canada and other
countries as we'll.
The president returned his thanks
for the welcome and said he was glad
to be with the brotherhood He said
the iremen's brotherhood was the result
which naturally comes from the appl1-
cation of the principle OF common
sense to their work. He said that Or
ganized labor never mad made an un-
reasonable request of him and that II 1T
had he would have denied it. In speak,
ing of the appointment Of Grand Master
Sargent, of the brotherhood. TO be COM
missioner general Of immigration, the
president said it was one of the most
satisfactory appointments to him and to
the public he had ever made. Mr.. Sar-
gent, he said, has a sound heart and not
a soft ead
John F. McNamee, Of Columbus, O.,
one of the grand officers and demo-
cratic member of the legislature, moved
that the degree of grand honorary
membership be conferred upon Presi-
dent Roosevelt. This motion was re-
ferred to the committee on constitution
and bylaws, whose recommendation
was unanimous that the motion be &C
copied. The report OF the committee
was adopted unanimously by a rising
vote amid cheers.
The president thanked the convention
for the compliment paid him, and Grand
Master Sargent then gave him a pass
-, which admits him to all meetings of the
motherhood.
At this point the brotherhood adj
journed until 8 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing and the public was admitted to the
auditorium to hear the presidents adj
dress. While the audience was being
seated the band rendered America"
the president and the others in the hall
rising.
Mayor Chambliss delivered a short
address of greeting N whict. he well
coined to Chattanooga all the hremen.
whether they came from Canada, Mex
leo or Oyster Bay" After an address
of welcome in behalf Of the state by
Governor Mcmillan and an address by
Grand Master Sargent, President Roose-
Welt was introduced by Acting Grand
Master Hannahan. His reception was
most enthusiastic, the audience rising to
it's feet n cheering. When the presi-
dent addressed the convention aS My
Brothers." he was cheered again and
again. He said he was glad TO be here
and joined with the others in extending
a cordiel welcome to the visitors from
canada and Mexico. He needed no
Iressing, he said, to come TO this meet
ing.
greatly the railroad men OF the country
and / do not see how any one who be-
Ieves in the fundamental principles of
citizenship, can fail to do So" He COM
pared the railroad men to soldiers who
are accustomed to taking risks. acting
on their own initiative and obeying or
GERS. In raising his own regiment, he
said, he got a number of railroad men.
OF course, the first requisite was that a
ma should know how TO ride and how
to shoot. Giving them these two qualities
he found there was no better group
from which soldiers could he drawn
than railroad men.
The president said ne hoped and be-
lieved that the danger Of war would be
less in the future than III the past. "At
the opening of the twentieth century
we face conditions vastly changed from
a century ago We as a people find
awaiting US problems which need ouI
best thoughts to solve them" The pres.
ident referred to the good work accom-
plished by the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Biremen.
Il believe emphatically,' he said, 'ir
organized labor. The worth OF an or.
ganiZation depends upon it's being han.
died with the courage, the skill. the wis
dom the spirit of fair dealing as between
man and man and the wise self re.
straint which I am glad to bs able t.
say your brotherhood has shown"
The president spoke OF the necessity
of work. "I pity the creature who doe:
not work. he said, Eat which ever enC
of the social scale he nay regard him
self as being" He said the law of worl
we'll done secures the successful Amer
lean line.
Discussing the benefits which hav,
grown out of the organization of TIL
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen tn
president said the brotherhood doe:
much good for all frenlen, but he firm
ly believed that the individual fireman
since the growth of the brotherhood
a been more. not less. efficient THAI
he was twenty years ago.
"A great deal can be accomplished
he said, "by working each for all ant
all for each, but we must not forge
that each man should go or and worl