. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . lled and one member has been re-instated, making the present member-ship S7S witli Siime thirty applicationsto be Tted uiioii. Rusiness being re- proven satisfactory. The for best results with one fireman,and, if necessary, shorter divisions formen firing heavy locomotives. Quite ananimated discussion followed the paper,the consensus of opinion being Mnt thethird man was not necessary and thatmuch could be done in the way of light-ening the firemans work by proper in-struction f
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . lled and one member has been re-instated, making the present member-ship S7S witli Siime thirty applicationsto be Tted uiioii. Rusiness being re- proven satisfactory. The for best results with one fireman,and, if necessary, shorter divisions formen firing heavy locomotives. Quite ananimated discussion followed the paper,the consensus of opinion being Mnt thethird man was not necessary and thatmuch could be done in the way of light-ening the firemans work by proper in-struction from traveling firemen. Thequestion was asked, Why have two fire-men on an engine when the firementhemselves do not request it? The dis-cussion was closed by a motion whichwas seconded and carried that each roadand switch engine should have one engi-neer and one fireman. At this stage of the proceedings a re-port of committees who attended the lastMaster Mechanics convention, and whichreferred to the work of that read, accepted and ordered primedin the T, E. .\ssociation ATLANTIC BALANCE COMPOUND FOR GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY OF Desiription on page 4bS. and without its limits, a beautiful riverand the Cadillac Hotel, second to noneas a convention entertainer. Promptlyat 10 oclock President Benjamin calledthe convention to order in a fine hall inthe hotel set apart for the meetings andintroduced Rev. Dr. Moekridgc, whooffered a fervent prayer. Mr. C. B. Conger then presented thepresident with a gavel, who follow-edwith an alile address. He referred tothe last convention, then stated that hishearers were again together to take upthe work mapped out at that time. Ref-erence was made to the care and thoughtgiven by the committees in preparingpapers to be read, and urged all to takepart in the discussion. The importancewas pointed out of co-operation of thetraveling engineers with both the menunder them and the mechanical otticers;difhculties encou
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