IN MEMORY OF A FALLEN COMRADE

IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY AT EASi'OWN HAiLWA'i WORK-

SHOPS

At 9 o'clock oil Thursday morning the employees of the Eastbwn worksnops assemuleti rounri tne flagstaff to pay their last respects to their, late f elio\v shopmate, late Private Ueorge Beck, who gave his lite for his King and country.

Mr. J. JJonaidson, leading carpenter, acted as spokesman and delivered the following eulogy:— Fellow-workers.— Once again the war lias claimed all that a soldier can give, and we are assembled to pay a small tribute to the memory and gallantry of another of our shopniates, Private George Beck of the 15tli Reinforcements, who has served his country to his uttermost, and laid down his life for you and I, so that the future years of our race will be a time, of peace. This is a small ceremony in itself, but it has much significance. Who among you is devoid of imagination, to picture in some small j degree its meaning ' J At the call of I duty thi* young man, among many others, went forth to give their services tor humanity, to protect the weak against the bully, to safeguard the right, jagainst. the /unrighteo us aye, to let a peoplo according to the "dictates of conscience, and the inalienable birth-right-of God, live, rie has served, and ikj.v all he ..had,to give, has been given, and the giving adds another broken heart of a. widowed mother. God knows how much grief and sorrow has been brought to mothers, through the lust of world-dominion ot these German devils wiio plunged the nations into this vortex of slaughter, until the whole earth where this carnage is pro- ' eeeiang is drenched in blood. The bioou of our young manhood, the flour or our race, is being eaten up in this light lor liberty. l> o we appreciate the ;:w----lul saenncer If there is one coward enough among us who does uol anu who is not willing to carry the Fiery (Jross around in rim w<....a f . j^-.. L.. and even kiss the bayonets of these rellow-men, our soldiers, and swear to ' be avengcu, 'ieo mm irom ;unon.«st us. let him turn and flee, for such is' an enemy, and among our enemies let him mingle^ until he meets his ignominious fate, xxere was a young man for whom Hie held all its endearments; the future was a rose-strewn path, and now it is ended. But he stands to-day among the national heroes, having done his part He has trod the, path of duty. His cheery laugh, as we remember it, is silenced, and this place which Knew mm for neariy eight years will know him no more- but his memory Will live in the records of this young and gallant country, and wlien the name and tame of the British is named we shall see his image through the mist of sorrow. I ask you to stand bareheaded in silence for a few moments and pass the following resolution to be forwardc«,,t° T the dead soldiers mother: "We, the fellow-workmates of Pt<? George Beck, late of the 15th Reinl tovcements, who has played the noble part in serving Ins country and fallen m battle, extend to his sorrowing mother our heart-feTt sympathy and • trust that God will sustain and'comfort her at this time of bereavement " some other part of the Dominion *