. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. Construction Company,Tamaqua, Pa., and two of similar con-struction for T. Burke, Scranton, Pa.,and two for Button & Timson, Secreton,Sask, Canada. Man Slayers. India has about ten times the popula-tion of the United States and the materialincrease has been restrained a little bythe ravages of wild beasts. In 1910 fifty-five persons were killed by elephants,twenty-five by hyenas, 109 by bears, 851by leopards, 318 by wolves, 853 by tigersand 688 by other animals, including wildpigs. No less than 22,478 died from thebite of poisonous snakes. The grandtotal o
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. Construction Company,Tamaqua, Pa., and two of similar con-struction for T. Burke, Scranton, Pa.,and two for Button & Timson, Secreton,Sask, Canada. Man Slayers. India has about ten times the popula-tion of the United States and the materialincrease has been restrained a little bythe ravages of wild beasts. In 1910 fifty-five persons were killed by elephants,twenty-five by hyenas, 109 by bears, 851by leopards, 318 by wolves, 853 by tigersand 688 by other animals, including wildpigs. No less than 22,478 died from thebite of poisonous snakes. The grandtotal of mortality is 24,878. During the same year 93,000 cattle werealso killed by wild beasts and snakes. The losses on the part of inhabitants ofthe jungle were nearly but not quite asgreat as those of their human enemiesand domesticated animals thousand one hundred andfour snakes and over 19,000 wild beastsof various kinds were killed. The natives of India do little to keepdown the number of man-slaying animals,. OIL BURNING LOCOMOTUE 0.\ TIIK \.\U controlling valve on each of the injectors,and the operation of driving is, of course,the same as with coal fired locomotives. The fire-box, in addition to the cus-tomary fire brick arch, is equipped with afire brick wall to protect the copper frontplate from the effects of the extraordinaryheat given out by the oil fuel. It is to be noted on the accompanyingillustration that these special fittings areof such a kind as permit of the engine us-ing oil fuel, or coal, as found desirable. The company has at present 927 locomo-tives in service. The following are the principal dimen-sions of the passenger engine illustrated: Gauge, 4 ft. 8-$ ins.; cylinders. 184 by26 ins. Driving wheels—Diameter, 6 ft. 6 ins.; Canadian Pacific. The Canadian Pacific Railway is call-ing for tenders for constructing machineshops, roundhouses, turntable, and repairtracks in Victoria West, expenditure$100,000. Such w
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