The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-11-14
English-Made Engines in Ireland.


On Monday night the fortnight!
meeting of the Dublin United Trade!
council was held in the hall, Cape
street. The chair was occupied by the
president f. L. Richardson.
w. P. Partridge said that letter hat
been received from the secretary of tbs
Great Southern & Western Railway
company formally acknowledging the
receipt of the communication from the
council and he complained that that
was merely a copy of a letter sent tC
them twelve months go. The engines
! imported We're admittedly $500 dearel
per locomotive than these made in the
works. There We're imported engines
there which, after running three
months. were brought in for repairs
whereas the Irish built engine ran for
three years withoutsrequiring repair. II
was ridiculous to talk of exhibitions if
| this class of injustice were to be con-
| tinued. The workmen had now the
onus cast on them to join in focusing
public attention to this matter. The
action of the company was little short
of criminal, Those who We're respon-
sible for depriving Irish Workmen and
their families of bread should be made
to account for it.
The chairman said that he was sure
that the council would give every as
sistance in their power to aid Mr.. Part
ridge and his friends in the matter.
Rewards For Irish Calamity.
The Royal Humane society on Thurs
day began its investigation of consid-
erably over 200 cases of gallant action
in saving or alternating to save life,
and made the following awards in Irish
cases: Bronze medal to John Meers,
railway clerk, Limerick, for his gallant
rescue of Daniel Ryan at Kilkee Coun-
ty Glare, on July % Ryan became ex-
hausted in the rough sea and was I'M
able to reach the landing ladder when
Meers plunged III and. with much diff
ftculty, rescued him. Bronze medal to
John Owens, Wellington quay, Drog-
heda, for his plUcky action there on
June q. A boy named Sarsfeld fell
into the Boyne and was carried some
200 yards by the strong stream running.
Owens was called from his work some
distance off, and at once plunging in
he succeeded in saving the lad, who was
unconscious for nearly an hour after
being taken from the water. Testi-
monial to Thomas Burke, dray driver,
Cork. for CALAMITY plunging into the
Lee there on July II and saving an
Old man named Buckley who in an at
tempt at suicide had thrown himself
in. Testimonial to James Heating, a
member of the Corporation Fire bril-
gade Cork, for his pluck in saving
Country, who had escaped from
the lunatic asylum and thrown himself
into the Lee on July IA. Testimonial
to James Henshaw, North King street,
Dublin, for rescuing youth named
Cairns, who had fallen into the Royal
canal at Broom bridge or' May %.
Bronze medal to Sergeant ]. f. Tyndall.
r. /. c., Dungarvan. for his plucky res
cue of Arthur Williams, who fell over
board from a steamer at the quay on
Aug. 6. Bronze medal to Mrs. Teresa
Murphy for her coura geous rescue of
a boy from nine feet of water in the
Shannon, at Limerick. on July 5. ,Fes-
timonial to Private T. Jameson, Sea-
forth Highlanders, for rescuing a COM
rade from the Liffey, at Dublins on Feb.
20 Both men We're pulled on to the
quay by a rope, there being no landing
near.