If your JOURNAL address is not correct, or you fail from any cause to receive it. fill out The B. of L. E. Journal. CHANGE OF ADDRESS. OFFICE OF ASSOCIATION, ROOM 1136, B. oF L. E. BLDG. To the Division Secretaries L. E. M. L. and A. I. A.: Four assessments for payment of these claims are hereby levied and Secretaries ordered to collect $1.00 from all who are insured for $750. $2.00 from all who are insured for $1,500, $4.00 from all who are insured for $3,000, and $6.00 from all members insured for $4,500, and forward same to the General Secretary and Treasurer. Members of the Insurance Association are required to remit to Division Secretaries within thirty days from date of this notice, and the Division Secretaries to the General Secretary and Treasurer within ten days thereafter, on penalty of forfeiting their membership. (See Section 25, page 100, of By-Laws.) Secretaries will send remittances to and make all drafts, express money orders or postoffice money orders PAYABLE TO M. H. SHAY, GENERAL SECRETARY AND TREASURER. Secretaries located in Canada will please remit by draft or express money order. We will not accept packages of money sent by express, unless charges have been prepaid. The JOURNAL closes on the 18th of each month. Claims received after that day will lie over until the succeeding month. 496 Jas. A. Keys..... 58 14 Mar. 1. 1898 Feb. 15, 1913 Chronic nephritis. 497 Geo W. Bishop... 70 498 Frank W. Stewart 49 499 W. B. Dismukes.. 29 500 Lewis A. North.. 55 501 V. K. Frost.. 66 502 L. B. Roberts.. 41 503 E. E. Frizzell. 501 J. 8. Reese 505 Al Ault. 53 Oct. 30, 1885 Feb. 16, 1913 Diabetes 506 1. A. Stoner 41 Marg't M. Decker, w 3000 Mary G. Manker, w. 1500 Mrs. Jas. A. Keys, w. 3000 Mary A. Bishop, w. 1500 Julia Stewart, w. 1500 Self. 1500 Martha E. North. w. 1500 No. of Div. 61 69 508 C. Barnwell.. 509 W. M. Higgins.. 46 Date of Admission. Date of Death or Disability. Cause of Death or Disability Am't of Ins. To Whom Payable. 68 Jan. 17, 1901 Feb. 19, 1913 Heart failure... 256 Mar. 10, 1890, Feb. 19, 1913 Nephritis.. 396 Mar. 24, 1909 Feb. 20, 1913 Nephritis.. 732 Dec. 30, 1902 Feb. 21, 1913 Suicide 769 July 22, 1890 Feb. 21, 1913 Heart failure.. 507 June 13, 1905 Feb. 21, 1913 Pernicious anæmia 304 Oct. 21, 1900 Feb. 23, 1913 Pneumonia, 321 May 31, 1897 Feb. 23, 1913 Killed. 177 May 15, 1902 Feb. 762 May 1. 1907 Feb, 315 Feb. 4, 1871 Feb. 418 June 12, 1910, Feb. 200 May 4, 1910 Feb. 25, 1913 Tuberculosis 290 Sept. 1, 1905 Feb. 26, 1913 Heart trouble. 712 Feb. 15, 1895 Feb. 26, 1913 Killed.. 743 Aug. 31, 1903 Feb. 27, 1913 Suicide 259 Dec. 24, 1893 Feb. 27, 1913 Nephritis 478 Sept. 22, 1910 Feb. 27, 1913 Typhoid fever... 176 May 29, 1905 Feb. 28, 1913 Killed 487 July 11, 1896 Mar. 190 Jan. 28, 1907 Mar. 167 June 21, 1903 Mar. 102 Aug. 20, 1899 Mar. 713 June 5, 1907 Mar. 96 Apr. 2, 1877 Mar. 53 Sept. 24, 1884 Mar. 569 Nov. 23, 1889 Mar. 76 June 27, 1910 Mar. 71 Dec. 27, 1905 Mar. 37 Apr. 4, 1880 Mar. 369 Nov. 9, 1903 Mar. 170 Dec. 17, 1903 Mar. 25 Mar. 26, 1900 Mar. 783 Dec. 7, 1890 Mar. 51 Oct. 20, 1903 Mar. 486 Nov. 24, 1879 Mar. 736 Mar. 14, 1902 Mar. 265 Jan. 20, 1908 Mar. 10, 1913 Thrombosis. 47 Sept. 15, 1890 Mar. 10, 1913 Arterio sclerosis.. 116 Apr. 1. 1890 Mar. 11, 1913 Bright's disease.. 339 June 6, 1909 Mar. 11, 1913 Killed 24, 1913 Left leg amput'ed. 1, 1913 Arterio sclerosis.. 1, 1913 Abscess.. 2. 1913 Sepsis.. 3, 1913 Rheumatism. 3, 1913 Cancer.. 3, 1913 Pneumonia. 3, 1913 Killed 4, 1913 Pericarditis 4, 1913 Left foot amput'd.. 4, 1913 Suicide 4, 1913 Apoplexy.. 6, 1913 Both legs amput'ed 7, 1913 Bladder trouble.... 8, 1913 Bright's disease... 8, 1913 Diabetes.. 9, 1913 Cancer. 9. 1913 Arterio sclerosis.. 9, 1913 96 June 24, 1878 Mar. 12, 1913 Dia betes.. 488 May 16, 1903 Mar. 13, 1913 Apoplexy. 534 Apr. 11, 1912 Mar. 14, 1913 Pneumonia. 428 Nov. 10, 1879 Mar. 15, 1913 Nephritis.. 46 Nov. 1, 1897 Mar. 15, 1913 Tuberculosis.. Total number of claims, 69. Total amount of claims. $156,000.00. Financial Statement. CLEVELAND. O., March. 1, 1913. $750 Sarah A. Crouch, w. 3000 Wife and children. 1500 Kate Higgins, w. 4500 Lizzie McNaught, w. 1500 Mrs.G. Armstrong, w 3000 Flor'ce A.La Bayne,w 1500 Phyllis Derrick, w. 4500 Ada E. Cogbill, w. 3000 Self. 1500 Martha A. Berio, m. 3000 Emma Taylor, w. 3000 Ella C. Pickard, w. 3000 Minnie Benson, w. 3000 Minnie Hampson, w. 3000 Mrs. W. W. Tull, w. 3000 O. L. Linkenhoker.w 1500 Flor'ceH.Freeman,w 1500 Bernice McGuire, d. 1500 Margaret Theiss, w. 3000 Kate B. Walker, w. 1500 Minnie Smith, w. 1500 Nellie McAuliff, w. 750 Ella C. Adams, w. 3000 Maggie Marcil, w. 3000 Anna Marshall, w. 3000 E. I. Henicker, w. 3000 Florence E. Sirene,w 3000 Self. 3000 Cecilia M. Kiple, w. 4500 Lillian Bird, w. 1500 Self. 3000 Mary E. Maley, w. 1500 Katherine Stein, m. 1500 Elizabeth D.Baker, n 1500 Annie E. Morgan, w. 3000 Mrs. D Cameron, w. 1500 Lena Walter, w. 3000 Mother and wife. 1500 Amelia C. Pease, w. 1500 Maggie McCarthy, w 1500 Sallie E. Strickler, m 4500 Nephews. 1500 Thos. M. Reese, f. 1500 D. A. Tranbarger, w. 1500 Daughters. 4500 Sons and daughter. Statement of Membership. FOR FEBRUARY, 1913. $750 $1,500 $2,250 $3,000 $3.750 $4,500. 10 3,845 1,890 20 Balance in bank Feb. 28, 1913.. SPECIAL MORTUARY FUND. Balance on hand.. Received in February, 1913.. 703 16$151,985 40 $259.147 97 $80.823 93 17.186 41 and reinstatements deduct poli cies termin ated by death, acci LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY THE BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS Vol. XLVII C. H. SALMONS, EDITOR AND MANAGER 1124 B OF L. E. BUILDING. CLEVELAND, OHIO MAY, 1913 The Greatest Memorial Day Oration. Memorial Day is not an American institution. These services which we hold in honor of our fallen warriors are not manifestations of any spirit of reverence new in the world; they hark back far into antiquity, into times so remote that the earliest historians of the race refer to them as already old. It has always been accounted a noble thing to die for one's country-and men who would have deemed it infamous to go to court in private quarrel have never scrupled to seize bow and spear, or saber and gun, and march away in defense of what they account the rights of the fatherland. Perhaps wrongs are greater for being large ones, perhaps justice is nobler on a large scale; at least warfare has never NUMBER 5 lacked for illustrious names, and the proudest of all orations are those pronounced over the ghastly litter of the battlefield. The pulse of mankind never stirs so bravely as when some chosen speaker, mounting the rostrum, recounts the exploits of the brave dead, brushing away the tear of sorrow with the smile of pride, and so to give emphasis to the glory of the military spirit. The greatest Memorial Day oration in the world was delivered 2,341 years ago, in the city of Athens. Pericles was the orator, and the occasion was the honoring of those who had fallen in the opening engagements of the Peloponnesian war. Athens was in her golden age. Fifty years had passed since the Persian invader had been driven from the shores of Hellas, back into Asia, with shattered forces and loss of the vast fleet with which he had set out down the Hellespont and around the northern shores of the Ægean. Marathon and Salamis were now as dim in the popular memory as Bull Run and Gettysburg are today in the minds of the present generations. But peace had not reigned over Greece in the interval of these 50 years. Athens had learned her own might in the struggle against Xerxes, for it was her ships and her soldiers that had borne the brunt of the fighting. And now she was making the most of her discovery. The inner power that had been revealed to her was expanding. By virtue of treaties with nearly all the Greek-populated countries along the Persian coast of the Ægean and the coast provinces to the north, and with practically every island in the thickly-sown sea, Athens had bound to herself ostensibly for defensive purposes a great circle of allies. But in the course of 50 years the terrors of another Persian invasion had grown faint and almost disappeared. The real motive for the alliance was no longer apparent; yet Athens maintained it, sometimes by persuasion, sometimes by force of arms. Gradually the confederate provinces became tributaries, vassals, drained of men and money to feed the treasuries and fill the armies which the sovereign state was equipping and sending out in every direction. For Greek art and literature it was a splendid thing. These enormous revenues made possible the work of Phidias and his contemporaries, and the city-state which all this wealth fostered in its perfection brought forth and nurtured those schools of philosophy and history that have made the renown of Greek letters and sculpture what it is today. But whereas posterity was to gain, Greece itself was to be disrupted and plunged into an internecine strife that was to leave the way open and easy for the Macedonian and the Roman conqueror. One portion of Greece alone stood out against the exactions of the Athenians, watching the growing power of Attica and its dependencies with anxiety and apprehension. This was the ancient kingdom of Lacedemonia, or Sparta as we more popularly call it. Of a different race from the Athenians, the Spartans had little in common with their northern neighbors except a sameness of language. Sparta, too, was the center of a confederacy, which embraced all of Greece south of the isthmus of Corinth, and some outside dependencies; but none of these states was in any sense a tributary. The confederacy was purely voluntary, and only formed its links securely as, during the course of some 50 years, it watched the course of Athenian powers and saw it constantly creeping out in every direction, even southward where sat wall-less Sparta in its fruitful plain. Just a year before Pericles delivered his great oration, the long-awaited, longdreaded blow fell. Under pretext of aiding a colony, Athens engaged in an expedition which meant either the humiliation of Corinth, one of the strongest cities in the Spartan alliance, or an open breach between the two confederacies. The moment had come when war could no longer honorably be deferred. The choice was made and Greece was plunged into the historical struggle called the Peloponnesian war. For 27 years it was to involve every state in Hellas, and every island of the Ægean, in a turmoil of unbridled bloodshed. Thucydides, the historian, writing of the war, makes much of the fact that pestilence, eclipses and earthquakes marked the entire duration of the struggle. It was one year after the opening engagement of this war that Pericles pronounced his celebrated funeral oration. In accordance with an old national custom, the ceremony was held at the public expense. As Thucydides pictures the ceremony, three days before, the Athenians erected a tent in which the bones of the dead were laid out and everyone brought to his own dead any offering which he pleased. At the time of the funeral the bones were placed in chests of cypress wood which were conveyed on hearses, one chest for each tribe. They also carried a single empty litter decked with a pall for all whose bodies were missing and could not be recovered after battle. The procession was accompanied by all who chose, citizens or strangers, |