Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-09-07
TEAMS
MAKE MERRY
As THEY
FEAST
Guests of Dinner Given in Their
Honor at the Country Club BY
Warren District Commercial
Body.
RESULTS OF CONTESTS
SERVED AS COCKTAILS
Miners Had to Hear the Names
of Winners Before They Could
Turn Their Attention to BOun-
tiful Report.

The Warren District Commercial
Club was host at a particularly enjoy
able dinner held last night at tho
Country Club in honor of the Helmet
Squads and First Aid teams which
took part in the contests Of the South
western Mine Safety Association.
Among the guests were officials OF
the several companies who sponsored
the contest, and officers Of the Com
mercial Club.
Interest in the outcome of the com
petition was so intense that announce
ment of the standing Of the teams was
made before the assemblage Turned its
attention to the bounteous feast
served TO $50 men seated at the long
tables forming hollow square There
were salvos of applause when Secre-
tary Wallace McKeehan read the de
cision of the judges who assigned
premier honors in the First Aid Con-
test TO the two teams of the Ray Con
solidated Mining Company. which tied
and to Team No OF the Calumet q
Arizona Mining Company in the Mine
Rescue competition The order in
which all the teams finished in The two
contests, and the percentage of each
are given in another column of this
issue
Because of the lateness or the noun
when the events were completed at
Warren, it was nearly O'Clock before
dinner was served This delay was
tempered with much enjoyment, how
ever by the Copper Queen band which
gave a concert on the veranda of the
clubhouse and later played through
out the dinner. While Steward Hen
derson's viands were being discussed.
the members of the contesting teams
and their friends canvassed the work
of the day and dwelt on the merits or
demerits Of the contestants
Gerald F. Sherman. Superintendent
of Mining of the Copper Queen was at
the head Of the tables as POSTMASTER
and near him were General Manager
Stuart M French, of the Copper Queen
/ Consolidated Mining Company; Dr. j.
/ c.. Roberts, of the Mine Safety head
quarters in Denver; Wallace Mckee
han, Secretary Of the Mine Safety AS
sociation President John J. Bowen,
/ Director Moses Newman, Secretary
Joseph Gray e. w. Beddow. c.. s.
/ Thompson, representing the CONNER
cial Club; and other civic and indus
/ trial leaders In the Warren District
Secretary McKeehan was introduced
/ by Mr. Sherman as spokesman Of the
occasion to pay tribute to the fairness
and ability of the judges of the con
/ tests. Mr. McKeehan said he alsd
wished TO thank the members of the
/ several teams for their hearty par.
/ ticipation in the competition which
was bound to have more losers than
winners. Mr.. French was called upon
TO respond to the first toast, welfare
of Employees" He said in part:
THE first thought that comes to us
as we study the history of the welfare
movement is, why all this interest
within recent years when ten years
ago we heard nothing of it? Our en-
ployers are no more humane than they
were a decade ago And competition
and concentration In. business is ever
keener. II is not the enactment of
laws. either State or National, that
stirred up the subject for such laws
as are in effect are poor and inenect-
ual and what employers are doing is
far beyond that which any law clum.
silly prescribes
I'VE cannot thus explain this ac.
itivity II is not because Of agitation
Of the employee. for we well know
that our hardest fight is to get the EN-,
ployee TO wake up to the subject.
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