. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . if I REMEMBER RIGHTLY, MR. PRESIDENT. ing able to do that which they cannotthemselves do. Can they set valves or runan engine? No, sir; but they have thenerve to tell other men how it should bedone. It has of late become the correct thingfor university graduates who have takenthe civil engineering course to work onthe section in order to gain practical ex-perience in track work. McCarthy, a sec-tion foreman, not long ago had a studentassigned to his section. About a weekafter the students appearance McCa
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . if I REMEMBER RIGHTLY, MR. PRESIDENT. ing able to do that which they cannotthemselves do. Can they set valves or runan engine? No, sir; but they have thenerve to tell other men how it should bedone. It has of late become the correct thingfor university graduates who have takenthe civil engineering course to work onthe section in order to gain practical ex-perience in track work. McCarthy, a sec-tion foreman, not long ago had a studentassigned to his section. About a weekafter the students appearance McCarthywas heard holding forth to the machineshop foreman somewhat in the followingstrain: Phwats that yez say? Yez havewan of thim college bhoys wurking foryez? Begorra, and its mesilf that has wanav thim same bhoys, and a divil for larn-in he is sure. Says he to me th , Mister McCarthy, says he, whinyez next ordther shovels phy not ordtherthim two sizes larger, for, says he, thebhoys will pick up more dirt with a larger. Proposed Legal Deadheading on a LargeScale. Senator Chandler has introduced a billin the Senate at Washington which he in-timates is for the purpose of increasingthe efficiency of military and naval grad-uates. To us the measure reads like ahuge joke. He proposes to amend theeducational course at West Point andAnnapolis to dispense with the study oflanguages and of higher mathematics andsubstitute therefor courses in athletics,to embrace especially golf, bicycling, base-ball and football. He further proposesthat contests in athletic sports shall beheld annually in Boston, New York,Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, , San Francisco and a number ofother towns. About the funniest part ofthe bill is Section 4, which reads: The various railroads subject to theInterstate Commerce act of February 4,1899. and the amendments thereof, mayand shall carry free to and from the afore-said national contests all cadets and in- GOT THERE BY SHEER HARD WOR
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