. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ce, one ofhis earliest ambitions having been tomake a steam engine. With suchtastes it was not surprising to find thathe entered the shops of the great pio- The Falls Hollow Staybolt Companyof Cuyahoga Falls, N. Y., have got outa very artistic calendar for 1908. It isin fact a colored reproduction of thefamous painting by Franz Charlet,called The first days of spring. Thepicture is brimful of life. The call ofthe season has come to three littlefellows in a Belgian fishing town. Oneof them has
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ce, one ofhis earliest ambitions having been tomake a steam engine. With suchtastes it was not surprising to find thathe entered the shops of the great pio- The Falls Hollow Staybolt Companyof Cuyahoga Falls, N. Y., have got outa very artistic calendar for 1908. It isin fact a colored reproduction of thefamous painting by Franz Charlet,called The first days of spring. Thepicture is brimful of life. The call ofthe season has come to three littlefellows in a Belgian fishing town. Oneof them has sniffed at something in thebreeze, and suddenly there is in himno desire so keen as that to hunt uphis top, which all winter has lain for-gotten among his possessions. Hepasses the word along to a chum. Thesport is on, and the brick paved wharfsoon beholds a little group of boys inbright colored jackets, balloon-liketrousers and wooden sabots, spinningtheir brightly painted tops. The FallsHollow Staybolt Company are to becongratulated upon the useful reminderthey are sending out to their THE LATE M. N. FORNEY. neer locomotive builder as an appren-tice in 1852. He spent three yearsworking in the shops and one year inthe drawing office. At the end of hisapprenticeship he obtained a positionas draughtsman in the shops of theBaltimore & Ohio, then in charge ofHenry Tyson. He remained in thatposition three years. Thinking that prospects of successin life were very meagre on Forney left railroad work and en-tered mercantile business in the attractions of machinery wereupon him and three years of businessfound him ready to return to his firstlove. The resulting change was toenter the employ of the Illinois Centralas draughtsman under Samuel , superintendent of machinery. In the course of an autobiographypresented to the Xew York Railroad < lub in [902 M 1 F01 icern- ing the Chfcagi During my employment on the Illi-nois Central Railroad
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