E. C. Bradley has been elected a director of the Iowa Central.

J. G. Metcalf has been chosen president of the Mexican International.

W. B. Leeds has been elected president of the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf.

J. F. Holden has resigned as second vice-president of the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf.

R. E. Cahill has resigned as division superintendent of the Missouri Pacific at Nevada, Mo.

H. McCourt has resigned as superintendent of the Chicago division of the Illinois Central.

Charles W. Culp has been appointed assistant general manager of the Washington Southern.

W. F. Elrod has been appointed assistant trainmaster of the Hocking at Columbus, Ohio.

W. G. McCormick has resigned as trainmaster of the Mexican Central at Ciudad Jaurez, Mex.

George J. Mosel has been appointed general yardmaster of the Hocking Valley at Columbus, Ohio.

Louis W. Hill has been elected president of the Spokane Falls & Northern, vice J. N. Hill, resigned.

A. E. Sweet has been appointed assistant to general manager Mudge of the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe.

A. J. Smith has been appointed trainmaster of terminals at Memphis, Tenn., for the St. Louis & San Francisco.

W. H. Fox has been appointed trainmaster of the Centralia district of the Illinois Central at Carbondale, Ill.

E. N. May has resigned as trainmaster for the Evansville & Terre Haute and is succeeded by James Douglas.

Stanton Ennis has been appointed division superintendent of the Missouri Pacific. Headquarters at Nevada, Mo.

A. S. Johnson has beeu appointed trainmaster of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Office at Kansas City, Mo. Vice A. E. Sweet, transferred to Las Vegas, N. M., as trainmaster.

C. W. Bliss has resigned as assistant general superintendent of the Boston & Albany.

W. H. Mills has been appointed trainmaster of the Santa Fe Pacific at Needles, Calif.

John H. Harris has resigned as general superintendent of the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf.

N. J. O'Brien has resigned as superintendent of the Greensboro division of the Southern Railway.

Joseph B. Stewart has been appointed superintendent of the Boston & Albany. Headquarters at Boston, Mass.

R. McLawrence has been appointed general yardmaster for the Plant System of railways at Waycross, Ga.

J. E. Hood has been appointed trainmaster of the Delaware division of the Erie. Office at Port Jervis, N. Y.

J. R. Welch has been appointed trainmaster of the seventh and eighth districts of the Chicago Great Western.

W. K. Hallett has been appointed assistant superintendent of the Bangor & Aroostook. Headquarters at Bangor, Me.

Patrick Hays has been appointed trainmaster of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley. Office at Deadwood, S. D.

J. B. McMann has been appointed assistant superintendent of the Bangor & Aroostook with headquarters at Houlton, Me.

P. W. Resseman has resigned as general superintendent of the Ottawa, Northern & Western and Pontiac Pacific Junction.

G. B. Beale has been appointed superintendent of the Bedford division of the Pennsylvania railroad. Headquarters at Bedford, Pa.

Robert Williams, heretofore vice-president and general superintendent of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern, has been appointed general superintendent of the Northern district of the C. R. I. & P., which was formerly the B. C. R. & N. Headquarters at Cedar Rapids,

Iowa.

W. S. Andrews has resigned as trainmaster of the Centralia district of the St. Louis division of the Illinois Central.

M. J. Dooley has been appointed general superintendent of the Minnesota Transfer Railway. Headquarters at St. Paul, Minn.

W. E. Mullins has been appointed superintendent of transporation of the Central Vermont. Office at St. Albans, Vermont.

Ollie Rowe has been appointed trainmaster of the Second division of the Houston & Texas Central. Office at Ennis, Texas.

P. T. Bauman has been appointed general superintendent of the Tennessee & North Carolina. Headquarters at Newport.

E. H. Coapman has been appointed superintendent of the Danville division of the Southern Railway. Office at Greensboro, N. C.

L. G. Coleman has been appointed assistant superintendent of the Northern division of the Grand Trunk. Office at Ottawa, Ont.

W. J. McKee has been appointed superintendent of the Missouri Pacific, in charge of lines between Haisington, Kansas, and Pueblo, Colo.

Charles L. Coon, a cousin of Brother W. A. Coon of Division 17, has been appointed city passenger agent for the Grand Trunk at Buffalo, N. Y.

J. G. Hartigan has been appointed superintendent of the Arkansas division of the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern. Headquarters at Little Rock, Ark.

G. H. Schleyer has been appointed superintendent of the new southwestern division of the St. Louis & San Francisco. Headquarters at Sapulpa, I. T.

W. N. Royall has been appointed genéral superintendent of the first division of the Atlantic Coast Line. Headquarters at Wilmington, N. C.

R. H. Dwyer has been appointed superintendent of terminals of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern at Little Rock, Ark.

H. C. Barnard has resigned as superintendent of terminals of the St. LouisLouisville lines of the Southern railway, at East St. Louis.

E. A. Sherman has been appointed trainmaster of the Cincinnati division of the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific. Office at Lexington, Ky.

M. Sheehan has been appointed assistant division superintendent of the St. Louis & San Francisco. Headquarters at Birmingham, Ala.

J. C. Batts was appointed general yardmaster of the L. & N. R. R. at Howell, Ind., effective May 1, 1902. Vice J. H. Neimier, resigned.

T. F. Maloney has been appointed trainmaster of the Mahoning division of the Erie, vice T. C. Eddy appointed general yardmaster at Randall, Ohio.

D. E. Cain has been appointed general superintendent of the western grand division of the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe. Headquarters at La Junta, Colo.

J. E. Hurley has been appointed general superintendent of the eastern grand division of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Headquarters at Topeka, Kas.

W. S. Kinnear has been appointed assistant general superintendent of the Michigan Central, vice A. B. Atwater resigned. Headquarters Detroit, Mich.

W. S. Jones has been appointed assistant to the president of the Arkansas & Choctaw Railway and the Choctaw Construction Co. Headquarters at Hugo,

I. T.

H. P. Greenough has been appointed assistant superintendent of the Illinois division of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific. Headquarters at Rock Island, Ill.

W. G. Tiffany has been appointed superintendent of the Memphis division of the St. Louis, Memphis & Southeastern, from Paw Paw, Mo., to Luxora, Ark.

J. H. Davisson has been appointed trainmaster of the Waco, Houston and San Atonio divisions of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas. Office at Smithville, Texas.

E. M. Alvord has been appointed superintendent of the Cherokee, Parsons and Neosho divisions and branches of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas. Headquarters at Parsons, Kans.

W. C. Jones has been appointed general manager of the Arkansas & Choctaw, vice J. G. Stacy, resigned. W. B. Barkley has been appointed general foreman of construction, vice J. V. Hughes, resigned.

C. M. Hunt has been appointed general superintendent of the St. Louis & Southeastern in charge of the lines from Cape Girardeau, Mo., to Hoxie, Ark., and from Mingo, Mo., to Hinton, Mo. Headquarters at Cape Girardeau, Mo.

The Steubenville & Wheeling Traction Co. has just purchased two 500 K. W., Westinghouse railway generators, to be used in the operation of an electric railroad running from Steubenville, Ohio, to Wheeling, W. Va., and also a line from Wellsburg to Wheeling.

The Inspectors of Safety Appliances under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission have been placed under the civil service rules and all appointments to such position will hereafter be made after examination by the Civil Service Commission and according to the civil service rules.

A steam railway 40 miles long, the Cincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth Ry., is shortly to be converted from steam to electric traction. The Tennis Railway Equipment Co., who has the contract, has recently purchased from the Westinghouse Electric Mfg. Co. two 600 K. W. A. C. generators and a number of 300 K. W. rotary converters for supplying current to the line.

No person would think of engaging young girls to perform service in line with a brakeman's work, because of the danger that attends such work, but there are other dangers that are far more destructive which are overlooked when we place our children in sweatshops and factories. The Carolina factories, for example.

The Chicago Record-Herald is a conspicuous example of the success with which the public rewards fearless nonpartisanship in the columns of a great metropolitan daily paper. It is an independent newspaper in which men and measures are invariably viewed wholly from the standpoint of the public good and not from that of the interests of any particular political party. It is the very reverse of neutral-fearless and outspoken on all the great questions of the day, but presenting its editorial opinion upon independent judgment and entirely regardless of political affiliations. Partisanship is barred as strictly from the news columns as from the editorial page. All political news is given without partisan coloring, thus enabling the reader to form correct conclusions for himself. In the ordinary partisan newspaper political news is ordinarily colored to such an extent as to make it difficult if not impossible for the reader to secure a sound basis for intelligent judgment.

Eminence, Ky., has a citizen who has been confined to his bed for several months with a low fever. Advantage was taken of the temperature the body afforded by the wife, who placed four dozen eggs in the bed to hatch. The experiment proved a success, only four of the eggs proving non-productive, and has also been the means of restoring the man to health. The idea was a clever one, but had the woman been a Yankee she would have followed up the advantage and whittled out a wooden bill for the father of the brood.

The New Orleans Picayune in commenting upon the defeat of the bill to prohibit ticket scalping, in the Louisiana legislature says: "The measure was not proposed by the railroads, but by the business interests of the city. Ticket scalping is responsible for much criminality, such as the false impersonation of individuals whose names are mentioned on railway tickets and the unlawful signing of their names. It has prevented the securing from the railroads of advantageous excursion rates. house has decided the matter against the business interests and in favor of the scalpers."

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The week of August 3-9 has been designated as Labor Movement week at Chautauqua, N. Y. Hon. Carroll D. Wright, U. S. Commmissioner of Labor, will preside at a series of conferences on the labor questions each afternoon. President Wm. R. Harper, of the University of Chicago, F. P. Sargent, Commissioner of Immigration, John Mitchell, President of the United Mine Workers, and other prominent men will deliver addresses on Aug. 5, 6 and 7 respectively.

The labor movement is coming to the point more prominently and is receiving more consideration and attention than ever before.

The Iowa State Fair will be held at Des Moines August 22d to 30th and will be even a bigger and better show than those which have preceded it. Last year more than 650 cattle were exhibited at the Iowa State Fair, being only 50 less than were shown at the great Fat Stock Show at Chicago. Special premiums will bring out larger numbers this year. Arrangements have been made for presenting Pain's celebrated production, "The Last Days of Pompeii." One hundred and fifty-three entries have been made for the six stake races, the entries for which closed May 1st. Other races are open to August

The increasing number of Divisions that observe the day designated for services in memoriam for our departed Brothers indicates that in a few years more the observation will be very general. We have received a large number of newspapers containing accounts of these memorial day services held by our Divisions. This observance is but one more evidence of the strong fraternal feeling that is entertained by our membership and the influence must certainly be for good to our members individually and to our Order. Such observances are bound to command respect in any community. Some splendid and intensely interesting sermons have been delivered this year at these services by ministers who are always found ready to assist in work of this kind.

In putting on faster trains between the east and west, the railways have done great service to the business interests of the country, by affording greater expedition to the mails. By the plan of mail distribution now made possible, a letter mailed in New York on Monday afternoon will be delivered in Chicago on Tuesday morning, and the reply may leave Chicago at noon and reach New York on Wednesday morning, a possible gain of 11⁄2 days. By closing the mails six hours later than before, Saint Louis and the great southwestern region will gain from twelve to twenty-four hours; Kansas City will gain nineteen hours; the western and northwestern states will