. American engineer and railroad journal . in China. Consul Read, of Tientsin, has transmitted the following letter tothe State Department from Messrs. Taylor & Company, of Tientsin,China: China, in the nest few years, will be a buyer for all classes ofmachinery, and especially railway materials. It has been demon-strated that America has chances as good as those of aoy othercountry to secure orders. If our American manufacturers will make the proper efforts itwill result in millions of dollars of trade. A commercial representative should be selected, care being takenthat he has irjfluence in
. American engineer and railroad journal . in China. Consul Read, of Tientsin, has transmitted the following letter tothe State Department from Messrs. Taylor & Company, of Tientsin,China: China, in the nest few years, will be a buyer for all classes ofmachinery, and especially railway materials. It has been demon-strated that America has chances as good as those of aoy othercountry to secure orders. If our American manufacturers will make the proper efforts itwill result in millions of dollars of trade. A commercial representative should be selected, care being takenthat he has irjfluence in the proper quarters, which, as you know,is absolutely essential. This representative shoula be the soleagent in tbe East. He should be authorized in the proper form, asare the representatives of Kuronean houses, with the seal of theforeign office; aud his name should be registered here in the con-sulates. In the construction of a railway the Chinese require rails, sleep-ers, couplers and structural iron for bridges and locomotives. If. Box Cars Without Carlines—Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. believed that this will give the best distribution of loads upon thesupporting cables. The effect of the changes of the method ofoperating the bridge will doubtless, be to greatly increase its capa-city, and after this plan is put into effect it is difficult to see howprovisions for further increase of ti affic can be made. It is the in-tention to continue the present bridge trains, but it seems questionable whether the trolley cars will not deprive them of a largep irl of their prejent business. Box Cars Without Carliaes—Cheasapeake & Ohio Railway. In reply to a numbe of inquiries coucerning the method ofconstruction of box without carlines, designed and built byMr. W. S. Morris, Superintendent of Motive Power of theChesapeake & Ohio, we present the accompanying illustrationtaken from a drawing kindly furnished by Mr. Morris. This design is for cars of 60,000 pounds capacity, their p
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