TTTE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: .TULY 16. 1911. IUL Y LIFE STORY OF LABOR LEADER Nracteristicj of Wirrta S. Stoae, IDEALS OF A FORCEFUL WOSKEi niae from aa Hinkl Farm 14 ta Lraaerefel, f Taeeaaa "-aeelmen litlnrrt f HI Metaaga. One crisp morning in .pternber. ir. c'en-llmbi. smooth-faced young man d'cglng pemt-holes on the edse of a farm In southeastern Iowa. The six feet of hla lithe and upstanding frame, the glow of health and youth In hla cheeks, th vigor and strength with which ha forced hla hovel deep Into the earth, made him a figure, that fit naturally Into the apadoua outdoor picture. Suddenly th shriek of a locomotive amote the air and from the dis tance came tha rumble of an approaching train. The youth pauaed In hla work aa the engine whlatled again, thla time much nearer. He stood leaning on Ma apada aa the swiftly drawn cara awept acroaa Ma vision and disappeared In tha wooda. leav ing a trail of amoke over tha tree tope. The boy flung down hla ahovel. strode back to tha farmhouse that perched on the crest of a elope, changed hia clothea and walked down to tha little town of Aln worth, one and a half mllea away. end took tha train for Eldnn. tha headquarters of that dlvtalon of tha road. That Bight ha ws flrlnr a Rock laland engine. With the flrat coal that ha hurled Into tha fiery maw of hia locomotira ha began a career big with algnlficance to the men of hia craft throughout tha whole of North America. That man waa Warren 8. Stone Today he I grand chief of tha Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, auprema head of a hoat of nearly TO.Ooo men. who are veated with a larger responsibility than any other group of worker and who com Brine the mode) labor organisation of tha world. When young Stone heeded tha call of tha cab that crisp autumn morning out In Iowa, back in the "70a, ho waa not eiactly fol lowing a awl ft Impulse. Tha deeira had been crystallising In hla mind for lorn time. Hia two brother were conductor on the Rock Island, which cut acroaa the family farm. To him they were Invested with a peculiar glamour because they cam horn with stirring tale of tha road. Mr. Stone waa a, huaky coal ahoveler. When he started firing ha weighed 187 pounds, he waa als feet tall and a giant In strength. Hla flrat Job waa on a "pusher" engine, used to help the regular angina shove car up a steep grade. Hla first regular run wu aa fireman oa a freight that traveled between ESdon and Wilton Junction. Ia., en tha astern dis trict of the Missouri division of tha Rook Island. Later on tha run waj extended to Rock Island. Prophecy Cease Trae. There Is nothing even mildly exciting In the chronicle of those early days. To usa Mr. Stone's own phrase. "There was no herolo performance." But one interesting thing happened that la well worth mention ing Mr. Stone ran between E3don and Wilton Junction, where the dispatcher for that division were located. Ore day there waa a new train dispatcher on tha Job. Ha waa trim, alert, wtda-awaks and energetic Ha had begun bis railroading by wooding en gines on tha Burlington. Then ha worked aa a section hand. Ha studied telegraphy at odd moments, mostly at night, and waa now a full-fledged train dispatcher. Tha men of th train crw, particularly Mr. Stone, liked him. for ha never was lata and alway had a ready word of kindly greeting. Many made tha prediction that ha would not remain a dispatcher all his Ufa How keen waa that ena of prophecy la attested by tha fact that tha smooth-faced young man who handed aut tha flimsy slip at Wilton Junction was no other than w. c c C. Brown, now president of tha New Tork Central llnea. master of en of tha great est transportation system of tha country Tha two ambitious men who met on the arrow train platform In Iowa back in the ' (A did not face each other until each had risen to high station. A Fall-Fledged Esglaeer. Altogether Mr. Stone fired for flv year In 11M he became an engineer, and for nineteen years ha worked on tha light aid of tha cab. He faced th usual trial of hla calling, but there waa nothing sensa tional or even dramatic In hi experiences. He did not. for example, guid a passenger train aafely over a trembling or name- rldden treetl. nor did he tick to hi cab In any wild ride down a mountainside. A a matter of fact, aav ta "fill In" oo- caalonally. h nvr ran a paaaenger train. HI own Ma af heroism U th railroader or any other man wh doe nil jod aay oj day and doe It well. Neturaily. on of th flrt thing that Mr. Stona did whan ha becam an engineer wa ta Join tha brotherhood. It did not eceur ta th obscure country engineer then that h was taking at that moment me miut important step of his llf. For yeare thla organization haa been making Its way to a peculiar eminence. Jt was not only dua ta th high character f tha man. their Inherent was af loyalty. and their almost ubllm devotion to ha ardoua duty, but alao t th fact that they rigidly tood by th rule which they laid down for themaelve. Their contract were sacred things, and wo matter If they worked a harasnip to tha order, they were lived up ta In th strictest letter of th law. Before long Mr. Stona becam ecretary and treasurer of hi local division. Then ha became local chairman. Thla put him en th general committee of th order oa the Rock Island, and brought him tftte contact once a year with the principal offl ciala of tha road at Chicago. In VOt he w made chairman of this general cam Keilogg's Ant Paste will make 'Ants disappear from any house within twenty-four hours 25c At JQrccrsand Drujjgista When the I m c HT.H ASSISTANTS Nvr wa sweet charity ao thoroughly appreciated a on Friday, when a hundred or mor shut-In wer given tha ft ret real enjoyment of th1r live. Under the-direction of th Associated Charltiae tha In. firm, tha weak and tha deformed wer given an outing, which Included a Joy ride In big maehlnee and a booateoua picnic upper served on th lawn of one of Omaha's beauty spot. Crutehea were for gotten, dim rooms wer banished from th mind and miserable Uvea war refreshed In th maae of free-given cheer. Llttl children, who have never known a happy moment, and older persona, who misery haa been intensified by th memories of happy childhood, all Joined In tha merry party. Tha past wa forgotten and all Joined In breathing th fresh, pur air and drinking In tha glories of nature. Even th blind could Imagine the refreshing verdure. Th outing for th hut-in waa arranged by the charitable organisation of th city. A call had been sent out from th chari ties for twenty-five auto in which to carry tha unfortunate, and tha charitable owner ponded cheerfully and quickly. The machines wer driven to th home of th crippled and th picnicker were taken for a tour of tha Omaha park and later plcnlo auper waa served at Riverview. mitt. He was running big engine all tha while. But he waa doing more than this. In tha regular meeting with hla brother and In th Important conference with officials of tha system, he began to Impress a quiet efficiency. H wa terse and epigram matic of speech, but what he had to say had meat In It. and it generally hit th mark. Hia post aa general chairman took him ip and down the line, and wherever he want employer and employe remembered him. People began to speak of "Young Stone of the Missouri division" as a per son of force, a man to be reckoned with. So conscientiously did h perform his work as general chairman that the engi neers of the Rock Island voted him a salary and asked him to retire from the road and devote ail hla time te their In terest. Thus, in IKS, he forsook hla cab never to return to th throttl. When h retired, he hsd not risen to b a paaaenger engineer. There were still two men abea of him In the "pool." Other things likewise bad not stood fell X He saw the Rock Island grow from 1. 500-mile litem Into an empire ef mort than 12,000 miles. Hla own brotherhood bad risen, from humble beginnings to a vaiit power In th industrial world. Ita head and watchdog wa tha veteran P. M. Arthur, who had been chief since 1174. Callod te the Chief talaahlp. The gray-haired cnieftain, who stood head and shoulders over anything that th world bad yet produced aa a labor leader. and who had carried the order around In hi head and hla heart eo long, waa Bear ing the end of hi long and loyal service One hot July day In 1101 be fell dead while making a labor addree at Winnipeg. . dramatic situation developed. Be yond the Canadian border the eld chief lay dead; at Cleveland, hi first assistant. A. B. Toungson. the man slated ta succeed him. was dying. Some one had to take tha vacancy at th head of th brotherhood. Ail th while Mr. Stone wa down la Indian Territory adjusting soma griw aacea. Ha waa away about two weeks, and moat af the time was spent la obacura, aimoat inaccessible places. He waa at tending to business, unmindful of the fact that destiny waa working overtime for him. On reaching his homa at Eldoa a tele gram came from Cleveland tendering him th post of grand chief. Ha accepted and hastened to headquarter. Meeting, Diftlealt SHaatlea.. He faced a staggering situation. Her waa a locomotive engineer who had never had one day office experience In hi life; who had never dictated a letter, and who knew nothing of th routine of administer ing te a large body of men. Yet he waa up against th task of being the real active head of mor than 40.009 of hla fellow men who carried 173.000,000 insurance. A room full of mall had accumulated. To add to the difficulty of the situa tion, Mr. Stone found that Mr. Arthur had carried all tha detail of th office in hi mind; he had kept no organised system of past decisions, and had not maintained any files for reference. About 4 o'clock that afternoon of the first day th office fore (hut down th desk and went home, as had been their custom. Mr. Stone waa left alone In the throne.reora of his new power, but It looked pretty desolate at that moment. He walked ta the window and looked down on th busy squar. at th boat of people hurry Ing homeward. Then he brought hi fit down on th window sill and aald: 'Thla Job must be done and It will be don!" Prom that day began a new era In the life of the brotherhood; the epoch of sys tem, order, expansion, and constructive and economic development In every quarter. Th way to reorganisation was difficult. In th first place. Mr. Stone had only been appointed to fill an unexpired term. Ths next year was a conveutlon year, and the . --c y . J : : , . ; - Shutins Had Their Outing at Riverview K .-I r- w- .:.f i&swt 1 Pil 'ill . Is. ti t M r III 111 I V kt V p0 qhe QF, TEE3EDT-im " WEO WERE Jtf meeting wa held at I Angeles, Cal. Her wa a real ordeal. The new chief had never presided over anything but a mere handful of hi fellow engineers, and had never mad a speech la his Ufa. Now he had to fac several thousand engineer who knew every angle of the work and there I always some hostility to a new man in a big organization. But he was game and confident. "It other men can do this thing. I can at least try my best," he said. He had been so busy during the period since his appoint ment that he had had no time to study parliamentary law or even learn the con vention rope HI main dependence for thla waa T. S. Ingraham. The convention had only been In session a few days, and had hardly begun to run smoothly. During th morning session. Mr. Ingraham waa presiding. At tha close of a speech on th policy of the organisation, as he turned to hand the gavel to Mr. Stone, i suddenly toppled ever dead. One or death had stepped in at a critical eriod In Warren Stone's career. Mr. Stone waa thrown absolutely on his own resource, yet he met the ordeal with such dignity, such quiet but affective fore, that when th time cam for th election of a chief he received fifty mora votes than were necessary an th first Informal ballot. Tha brotherhood doe not believe In nomi nating speeches. His (lection was then mad by acclamation. . The Steae Method. It did not take the brotherhood many month to find out that it had a real leader. H stood for an Iron Interpretation of th law of th order. Many labor organisa tions regard contracts merely as Instru ments to be broken. It 1 different with th railroad engineer. Th (lightest deviation mean revocation of charter. This authority rests with th grand chief, and th only body to whom he New State Tuberculosis Hospital at Kearney V4 , sir X: This ts a her the Slat Board vf. Public Lands and Buildings has located the nsw tuberculosis sanitarium at Kearney. Neb., purchasing for that purpose the Elmwood aanitortum from Dr. Oeorglna Grothaa. The property, which waa formerly known as the Frank residence, waa built at a coat ef over IA0.0O0 snd In 199? and 13M was remodeled and used for a private sanl teiium. The house ta built of Colorado red aandstone and la three (torlea and a basement, a lth roof of Imported French if : V4f 'F a - j - 1 answerable Is th convention, and this only meets every two years. Here Is th way Chief Stone stood by his obligations: In IX tha brotherhood made a working agreement with th Interborough Rapid Transit company governing the motormen on th subway trains. Employed on th subway were members of various other unions, most of them affiliated with the Amalgamated Electrical Workers. Pome cf these unions become dlsssfsflel and ordered a strike. The motormen went out. This waa a flagrant violation of their agreement with th Interborough. Mr. 8ton hurried to New Tork, and without even going near a striker, revoked their charter and suspended every member of the division. Sl In number. Thla Incident Illustrates on of th char, aetertstlc attitude of th brotherhood. It will not permit Its member to Join any other labor organisation. The purpose la not monopolistic, but protective to aii in terest. If th engineers wer permitted to Join other bodies, they might he called out on a sympathetic strike In which they had no Interest or grievance, and would then break faith with their employers. Evidence of th big, broad, generous policy of th brotherhood la shown In Its "open shop" feeling. It doe not compel any man to Join in order to run an engine. It 1 content with fixing condition under which any engineer may work. Instead of regarding th nonmember as a leper. It really act as his friend. Any engineer who Is not a member of the brotherhood can have hi grievance adjusted by the brotherhood, and hi case has precedence ever those of members. The result is that Instead of th union seeking the man, tha man. In thla case, seek the union. Fewer ef the Organisation. The transportation wisards of the coun try have found Mr. Stone always firm but fair. The way ha forced soma western tin i t fill I . ft"i JtWVi-u Jaw , tile. The grounds contain more than thir teen acrea and have a goodly lot of elm and other trees from six to ten Inches in diameter. They are adjacent to tha Kear ney canal and have Irrigation privilege that make the place an ideal ona for the purposes for which th state will us It. In fact 1 ha been pronounced only second to the George A. Joslyn property in Omaha as to beauty and permanency. The location at Kearney. In the central part of the state, make th Institution easily ac jrv; -.1 w'-. K i - ... .caJYMJ. wrWM .an. askr1-' ".)' " ' " . ' k '-- I Vf a r NaV?. HZ BC2BTS& roads to a wage agreement is typical of the way he goes about hia task. He saw the eost of living rising mountain-high, and yet no appreciable Increase In the wagea of the engineer. When ha went to the heads of the various roads they said, "We are paying aa much as sny other system." This was th truth. Mr. Stone urged an Increase in wages, but tha railroads could not see it. Then he did a characteristic thing. He divided th country into three sections. The roads of each of these could be han dled or negotiated with as a unit. Then he asked the general managera of the roads of ona section (the western), to meet with him for a wage conference, and they paid no attention to him. Mr. Stone then prepared to order a strike on a doxen roada. A strike of locomotive engineers Is a serious thing. Ninety percent of all the engineers of ths country are in the brotherhood, and you cannot trust 11m. tted trains to cubs. The general managers suddenly found time to meet Mr. Stone. A memorable conference followed. Fifty five roads were represented. On one ide of the long oak table aat Mr. Stona and four assistant grand chiefs, and behind him th fifty-five brotherhood chairmen of those roada. On tha other side of tha table sat ten general managera. In reality it was a battle between ten men and flv men, and the flv men won out. Vnder his quiet, merciless logic, every argument fell away. Th result of th meeting was that the wages of engineers were raised from I to U per cent. High Ideal. So it has gona In score of episode. Each one reveals soma phase of hi btgh Integrity and his unswerving sense of duty. Th brotherhood believe, among other things, that a man shall pay his honest debts. A case ones arose concerning an f ' I , V. cessible, being on th main line of th Union Pacific railroad and on tha Bur lington road, with branches. Th eleva tion at Kearney being M7 feet, la alao a desirable altitude for' an Institution for tuberculosis sad patient can hav every advantage that climate and pleasant sur roundings may afford. Dr. Georgtna Grotban will close bcr Kearney offic this fall and take a European trip and while there take post graduate work at aom of the beat school in Germany. 7 r .7 V engineer who had taken advantage or tne j bankruptcy !aw t avoid psylng his ob- ligations. Vha Mr. Stone bard of (his 1 he said to the man: "Tou par your debts or the organisation will see that ou ceese In n i member of 'the ord' r ' The rran raid his dobts. No other labor oranlitirn laj t.e wor'.J exerclws such a rtg d cenorhlp ver the moral of Ita men. Therefore, the man at the head of It muet be the very personifi cation of Its Id' at in charade;. It only remalna to speak of one more mdem-e'of his vision snd Judgment When he was a young engineer spooling over the fowa pralrla he dream-d of a permanent home for the brotherhood. It took shape aa a lanre. Imposing structure, rearing its many-storied height in a great city, dedi cated for all time to the good of the ordrr When he became chief he advocated the Idea, but at first It waa derided. From convention to convention he took his pro- Ject. Finally his colleagues said: "Tou can build If you don t assess us." All that Mr. 8tone wantrd was authority. He devised the financial plan, and th reault la that today, without one cnt of xtra cost to the brotherhood. It owns a magnificent twelv-story office building In Cleveland, O.. prolably the finest struc ture of the kind In the community, repre aentlng an investment of ll.JjO.OM and yielding a net Income of JsoKvj a year. Thla will no doubt be devoteJ to the ihar Itable work vt the broth -rhood. which is considerable. One of Its tenants Is the Lake hore railroad. It Is probably th- first time In history that a great railway i system rented from a labor organization. Both In and out of his craft, Mr. Rone has received many honors. Theodore Roosevelt found him a man of his own kind, and made him a member of the in ternational Peace commission which Is the custod.an of th Nobel prise fund. He Is a member of the executive committee of th National Civic federation. Such la tha type of man who has rl.-en from tha rank to be the head of nearly 70.0 men who carry HM.CmO.0tX In insur ance in their brotherhood. When you come to sum up hi personal achievement you find that It may be atated In two simple phraaea: He dominates his fellows and he keepa hia word. As such he personifies the high est type of Industrial democracy Hugh Thompson In tha Railroad Man s Maga sine. DOVECOTES FOfl NEWLYWEDS Apartaneat Heste Snaagerlee so fern part that Tenant Tsrs Areaad la Hall. May a young married couple live In a one-room apartment and still observe the emenltle of life? Th completion of a new apartment house near Michigan avenue. Chicago, makes It possible to answer the question in th affirmative. The ingenuity of Chicago builders In ef fecting space economy and In the adoption of numerous disappearing devices has I worked marvels In reducing the necessary I also of the apartments of city dwellers. The one-room apartment for young cou plea Is the Ideal toward which they have been reaching, and they have arrived. The bride who believes she must have a Hat of four or flv room In order to keep up .appearances must now change her Idea. Her alster In a one-room flat may put up a better "front" to callers. In future the young housewife may rise in the morning and. by giving the bed a slight push, make it disappear Into ths wall. She need not even make It up. be cause the compartment Into which It dis appears la ventilated from an outside air shaft. Another compartment conceals a tiny kitchenette and pantry, from which she may prepare breakfast. After hubby leaves a few minutes' work over the dishes snd with a broom com pletes her household duties and sh ta ready to shop or visit. Don't think th apartment haa any ear marks of the bedroom or kitchen or din ing room when her work is completed. It has been transformed into a cosy little sitting room. The one-room apartment makes the young housewife independent of maids and the labors of household supervision. In other apartment buildings being erected in Chicago there are additional de vices which help to make living in small quarters a pleasure. There is the dis appearing gas range, for cooking and baking, and tha disappearing smoking stand, with places for pipes, tobacco and smoking utensils. By pressing a few but tons in the wall ths room may be trans formed Instantly Into either a kitchen, dining room, parlor or bedroom or den. Chicago Record-Herald- DstBcna F Bailxt. 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