Bisbee daily review., 1914-02-08

journal. Wolverine & Arizona is look ing better than ever and there is the Denn and others that are well worth mentioning. Combined they make a notable group and are important to the town in which they are devel. oping.
 Bisbee is interested in first-aid.to
 the.injured work, safety first work they call it. The Copper Queen com pany stated in last August and has made creditable headway since then. We attended meetings at the '. M. c. A. assembly room in the interest of this movement on the nights Of
 January 1Gth and 17th. There was much enthusiasm accompanying these
 gatherings. The compan's employees came in as they were liberated from
 their shifts and four meetings in all have been held so that all the men
 could have opportunity to be present.
 iany of Iron Ores readers in the
 Lake Superior country know Capt.
 Jos Hodgson, now superintendent of
 mines for the Copper Queen Mining
 company. and of his effective bulls
 eye-hitting talks to workingmen. He
 hasn't forgotten how. He appears to
 be better at it than ever. At these
 meetings be explained the object of
 the organization-the elimination of
 accidents to the minimum. He i'm
 pressed upon the men the importance
 of each of them cooperating with the
 company, each constituting himself a
 committee of one to do his best tC
 prevent accidents by observing care
 imsolf and by impressine the value
 of its upon his fellow laborer. Al
 the first meeting in addition to the
 fine, practical talk by Captain Hodg
 son, Mir J. c. Roberts, representing
 the United States government in res
 cue work for the western district with headduarters at Denver. gave { spirited talk. Illustrated the use o the triangular bandage and gave thu men much excellent advince. Mir Wallace McKeehan. in charge of thii new department for the Copper Queer company presented many under , ground views, by stereopticon pic
 lures he had secured with no littl, i trouble. and he made a short. point B ed talk on each, talk that was under , stood by the men and appealed t , them. Dr. Shine, head of the com :. panys hospital, and physicians, ad z dressed the men on the great advan |. tage of first aid work giving advic that was of great value. There wa song. "The Toilers," sung by Ton f Dowerick that would have "caugh P the crowd" fin any of the big metro .. politan theaters. It was a wonderful r lv pure voice of rare expression an n volume, a voice that could comman :. big money if sent to the front, son . delivered by a clean-looking,- modes :. young man. a miner skilled in hi ' profession we know And there wer " other songs and good music by an O U chestra in which a former Ishpemin 1" miner, MT. William Heavysides. pla, v ed the slide trombone with his ol 70 time skill. On the way out a min' 10 walking by our side said to us: s tell you our superintendent is a " risht. I've worked in this town f, 'i the last ten years and that's the fir 's time anything was ever given for u rs entertainment of the men," He ce IS tainly appreciated it. as did the hu G. deds of others attending. It wasr the safety-hrst cigars. or the picture 10 hut the warm feeling of good fello or ship. the fact that the company h. m asked them in to talk things over al
 to enjoy a visit, and because tn es had been told there would be oth le entertainments when their wives al he sweethearts would also be invited. he That was splendid, And with Il at- sort of communion between capi of and labor there will be less acciden to and less of labor trouble. In the l lis ter connection Iron Ore is pleas