Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-01
RAILROAD Y. NJ. c. A. TEAMS
SMASH PREVIOUS RECORDS
Enroll 1892 New Members I'm Seven
Day Whirlwind Cam
paign.
PRESIDENT STEVENS SPEAKS
Locomotive Works Teams Take First
Place-High Praise Given to Sea-
mans and Jellison-Bishop Denny
COmmends Efforts.


Commends Efforts.
Smashing all records for campaign
work among railroad associations. the
Railroad Young Mems Christian Associ-
alton closed It's big membership cam
paiEn last night. adding a grand total
. Of l.J22 new members to the roster
making the total membership of tho
! local institution the greatest in the
state OF Virginia and perhaps tho
largest railroad association in the
| United States, outside OF New York
, The contest was the warmcat the city
| OF Richmond has ever witnessed, the
work being accomplished by twenty
nEc teams in seven days.
! The closing meeting was one of en-
| thusasm from the opening prayer to
the hcnedictiOn, and men prominent in
! railroad life mingled with their en-
/ ployees. sharing the joy Of the victory
! with the zest of school BOYS. When
the grand total was announced n cheer
rent the air. shaking the windows Of
inc big building, while dozens Of
/ whistles, automobile horns and sirens
! took up the sound in a deafcning echo
| Men leaped to their feet shouting them
| selves red In the face, and from then
until the end OF the meeting the audi
torium was in an uproar
owing TO the fact that Campaign
Manager MacArt had 10 catch Il train
i the reports Of the days work were re.
cclv"d early. and before s o'clock the
bulletin board had been completed
showing daily total OF 256
LOCOMOTIVE WORKS TEAMS
\ TAKE FIRST PLACE
Mr.. MacArt presented the pennants
TO the winners. the American Locono-
tive Works taking high place for both
i divisions and teams, the Chevrolet team
capturing the pennant for the highest
individual team. w, s. Scamans, Jr
DIVISION chairman OF the American Lo-
connective Works, was presented with a
bouquet OF flowers FOR his efforts Di-
vision y, r. l.. OFT. chairman. won sec
ond place, while the teams were as fol-
lows: Locomobile, Captain Matt Elan
nagnn. second place: Overland, Captain
IL. /. Moist. third place.
George ". Stevens, pres dent OF tho
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway the first
speaker, gave fitting touch 10 the big
campaign By declaring that ii the pres
ent building was not large enough to
care for the new members. there was
only one thing TO do. and that was
either get new building or enlarge
tho present one. lie announced that
the Chesapeake and Ohio was now sup
porting eleven associations along its
route and had appropriated $4,000 for
a new railroad y. NJ. c. A. which will
w 'tiit at lSObd!. W. Va wish
could tell you how proud I am OF tho
results of your. work, but with such
} men rs Mr.. Jellison and Secretary
Thomas at the head OF the movement
1t was the only result you could have
had" he concluded.
BISHOP DENNY URGES
WORK FOR NEW MEN
/ Bishop Collins Denny of the Mctho-
dist Church, South, followed Mr.. Stew
W oil
work which is to follow the campaign.
that of caring for the new members
He said that every member of the teams
had made personal Investment in tho
association by bringing in new mem
bers, and II was up to each of them to
that you have brought men into tho
association" he declared. but you
must keep him here and help him with
all your power"
w. ID. Duke. assistant to the presi-
, dent of the r., f. & Z. Railroad, made
brief talk on the experience gained
through the campaign, pointing out
that the teamwork which had been car
rid on would teach each man valu-
able lesson in his daily life If he would
but profit by II.
Secretary S. L. Thomas, Of the asso-
citation, closed the meeting with an
appealing talk on the merits of the
railroad association. pointing out .he
duties of the men to the new members
and how by friendship they could make
the association Il wonderful factor in
their lives. The responsibility of the
organization to the new members was
, dwelt on a. length by the speaker. and
he eNactcd promise that every man
present would aid in making the new
men at home whenever they visited the
building
4 CHEERS GIVEN FOR
CHAIRMAN JELLIsON
Cheers were given for b. T. Jellison
purchasing agent OF the C. &c O., who
acted as general chairman OF the cam
4 paign 1t was due largely to his ef-
forts that the undertaking was sue
! cessful.
Short experience talks were made by
4 the chairman of divisions and team
! captains, in which the workers were
4 heartily thanked for their co-opera-
4 ton. a resolution was adopted giving
a rising vote Of thanks to the women's
auxiliary which served the suppcrs dur
Ing the campaign, to the newspapers
for their liberal space and to every per-
son who had in any way contributed to
] the success of the movement. The
meeting closed with the singing of the
Il "Doxology"
The results OF tho last days work
by the teams was as follows: Locomo-
bile. As; White, IA; Packard. IS; Pierce
Arrow, s; jeffrey. .: Cadillft. S; stan
i Icy, G; REQ. not reported: Maxwell, 4
Peerless. 3; National. Z; Hupmoblc, 4
4 Premier. i6: Metz. .; Hudson, / Re-
nault. 2: Ford. Z: American, o. ChaI-
i mers, 9; Stcvens-Duryea, 0: Dodge. 10
i Overland. SO; Buick, 3; Studebaker. 8
Haynes. 10; Alec, not reported King
not reported; Chandler. not reported
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