The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-17
|fIGINEERS SET
STAKES AGAIN
third Annual Banquet Last
Evening an Enjoyable
Affair.
STORIES, IALkS' moSIC
,zrIcERs NOMINATED FOR EN-
SUING YEAR.

..---.be-s of the Uiah Society Of
.-- .rfoved their third annual Dan
lH--+ tho Commercial club last even
Tie company was sedtcu az iOti7
t5i rr4f. bright with many pink ana
l-o. r7rra uots ana strings of smueX
N-.t-..-.ug Tie tempting menu President
Na-flf who occupied place Al
D. -.4 of The table. made Few appfo-
.s.-s remarks Of Introduction ana tneh
H,-r -ra evenings program IN me cdpa-
lands Of TodStmaster r R Lyman.
',r- LYMAN spoke briefly, paying
.ir- tribute to the engineers and their
he said that he really believed
n.y.. fra engineers accomplished more to-
--'r7 The actual progress Of the country
.-r any other society. He then intro
7 81 r DoTemus. who read a highly
.--artairfug story on "A Record Run
mis- particular run was made in ls65'
trs story went. and never before or
..7as have "a group OF civil engineers made
.rs record that the little party equipped
y. Sa1r Lake did at this time. Captain
r5aras Bates of the union army was at
r-e head OF the party, and his first as
-a4-f was Fred :. Hodges. a banker 3
En- nom Boston. The second assistant
s f. smith, ST.. OF salt Lake, and
serrieI T. Reed was at the head Of the
nest end division. The story related that
ne men In the two divisions got to boast
4-r OF their proves as engineers and a
,-8ra- finally resulted. The outcome was
,sf The .'run" to the Truckee river a
distance Of nearly tWenty miles. was
r-s5a fu one day. The winning party
worked like TrOjans to secure the vic
r.-r ana establish a new record while the
other party is said to have had a fine
-ma fishing for trout along the way. Mr..
n1umus story brought a brief bit Of
carly history 60 mind. and at the close
Of the reading he was enthusiastically ap-
lie next number Of the evening was a
talk on the Block System of the Union
Pacific Railway. by William Ashton.
chief engineer of the oregon Short Line.
UT Ashton told of the benefits of the
automatic block system ana OF the pro-
lection TO trains and passengers by its
USE lie said that last year ninety-fOur
cases where trains had been stopped for
inspection by the automatic system had
rppn reported to the Oregon Short Line.
Upon Investigation 1t was found that six
tv-iive of these cases had been caused
Or broken rails, three from main switches
left partly open, several from derailing
caused by switch being open, ten where
cars had been left too close to the main
line, a number because trains We're in the
wrong block. a few because switches had
been broken, and several from other rea-
sons. He said that it was estimated that
there are at least 11S,500 miles Of block
signals now i'm use in the United States.
The lnterurban's Mission.
The Mission of the Interurban Rail-
way was discussed by Sidney NJ BAN
berger When Mr.. Hamburger was asked
10 give a toast at the banquet. it is said
that he expressed a desire to talk on the
subject 1t Is More Blessed TO Give than
t9 Receive and he would not promise to
lake part I'm the entertainment until he
EARNED that the word mission" was
mentioned iu Ie toast assigned him.
topic bordering ON the religious always ap-
Ieals To Mr.. BamberEer. so il seems. salt
Lake MI Bamberger said, is destined to
hc great center for interurban railways.
He tolu OF having studied the matter
deeply. taking d keen interest in the cleo
IN. method of transportation. The sum-
Uar business of an iuterurban line is to
bis notion only little something on the
side ald more substantial and COntiuu-
Gus patronage must be looked after to as
sure any iuterUrban railway an estab-
tSIld success.
a. +. Parker, city engineer at Ogden,
smoke OBJ The Civil Engineer as a Trail
Blazer. He said that the engineers Of
To-Day must follow the trails made by
l'e pioneers I'm certain sense, but must
look Co the blazing of new trails that
iloSe Co come may follow on and not lose
t1c track
George o. CLANCY. assistant in the CITY
engineers department read a paper on
The Gravity Sewer of Salt Lake City"
giving many important and interesting
facts and figures about the outlet canal
one thing he mentioned was that the We
t-nths feet per second. and its length is
about seven and eight-tenths miles
Following the regular speakers, Dr.
lalmdge was called upon for a few
words. He responded with some bright
stories and accepted the invitation ex-
Tended him by the members Of the society
To- become one Of their number.
It. D. householder and Benjamin r. Lib
ay also made remarks. A happy feature
O. lHe evenings pleasure was vocal mU-
SIC 1y Fred Smith and numbers by Mer-
Hls orchestra
Nominations.
TIE nominating committee announced
ore following officers of the society for
NE ensuing year: President. Joseph F.
'..'rII. director state school of mines
wee president. William Ashton. chief en-
t.aeer Oregon Short Line; second vice
PRESIDENT, Louis G.. Kelsey, city engineer:
secretary. ID. McNicOl. manager Postal
r.-ErapH d Gable company; treasurer,
l'aH o.. Hornlmg. resident engineer.
yHe lay member is to be selected by the
officers
me Entertainment committee, in charge
me banquet. was composed OF NJ d.
gross. r. r. Lyman and Q. p. Overfield.
secretary ID. McNicol also assisted ma
.-T'a..T iu making the affair the pro-
t...-uC success il was.
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