. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . n-sideration of Power. It is beautifullyillustrated with half-tone engraving.:.The New Union Station at Washington,D. C. is ilhHtratcd and described. Mr. A petition in involuntary bankruptcyagainst the New York Car Wheel Works,of Buffalo, was filed in the United StatesDistrict Court, one day last month, thepetitioners being the Rochester Car WheelWorks, of Rochester; the Keystone CarWheel Company, of Pittsburg, and Tim-othy J. Murphy, of New Jersey. The pe-tition shows that the claims of the


. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . n-sideration of Power. It is beautifullyillustrated with half-tone engraving.:.The New Union Station at Washington,D. C. is ilhHtratcd and described. Mr. A petition in involuntary bankruptcyagainst the New York Car Wheel Works,of Buffalo, was filed in the United StatesDistrict Court, one day last month, thepetitioners being the Rochester Car WheelWorks, of Rochester; the Keystone CarWheel Company, of Pittsburg, and Tim-othy J. Murphy, of New Jersey. The pe-tition shows that the claims of the threepetitioners aggregate about $30,000. It is-also set forth in the petition that the ag-gregate amount of the liabilities of York Car Wheel Works is about$800,000. Assets are said to be about $250,-000. A movement was made recently to-combine all these wheel makers in a trust,,but it docs not seem to have exercisedmuch saving grace. An increase in wages to employee*of the twenty car and locomotive repairshops of the Chicago & NorthwesternRailway has been granted. The increasc-. SANTA KE ;-I0-2 SELF-ADJUSTING PISTDN-ROD PACKING Riiitwiiy ^ Lueoiitoliv BETWEEN CYLINDERS. IL H. Bryne contributes an article onBerkeley Springs, the Fountain of proposed B. & O. articulated freightlocomotive weighing with tender niworking order, 415,000 lbs., is shownin a line cut with specification and di-mensions. Two historical articles con-clude the intellectual menu. One is onthe town of Frederick, Md., the home ofFrancis Scott Key, the writer of theStar Spangled Banner, which has re-cently, by government order, become thenational anthem of the United other article, by R. M. Cheshire, ison the Story of Bladensburg and theSacking of W^ashington. Any one desir-ing to know how Key came to write thewords of our national anthem while warwas going on should send to the man-ager of passenger traffic, B. & O., Cen-tral Building, Baltimore, Md., and askfor a copy of t


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