. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . st office leaving tothe government employees the work ofarranging the packages for their properdestination. That is not permitted. TheDepartment has worked up rulings thatlequire publishers to arrange their mailby districts and towns, reducing the laborof post office employees to a minimum. People using the Parcels Post cannotpay for the service by using ordinarypostage stamps. They must use ParcelsPost stamps to perform the work ofbookkeeping for the department. Theconvenience of the public


. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . st office leaving tothe government employees the work ofarranging the packages for their properdestination. That is not permitted. TheDepartment has worked up rulings thatlequire publishers to arrange their mailby districts and towns, reducing the laborof post office employees to a minimum. People using the Parcels Post cannotpay for the service by using ordinarypostage stamps. They must use ParcelsPost stamps to perform the work ofbookkeeping for the department. Theconvenience of the public receives no con-sideration when the interests of the PostOffice Department are in question. A Cleaner for Brass. In some recent laboratory experi-ments the following solution was foundto cleanse brass very quickly withoutharm to the hands or the metal. Anounce of alum was put into a pint ofboiling water and the solution rubbedon the brass with a cloth. Stains aswell as tarnish were quickly solution is inexpensive and easilyprepared. February, 1913. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 75. SpeakirT of mixtures,said Old Jerry as he re-filled his jimmy pipe,Ive never used a coolermixture than flake graph-ite and oil. In the old days, con-tinued Jerry, when 689was the fastest engin onthe road, the boys usedto wonder why it wasnever laid up in the tink-ers shop an why it neverbroke a schedule. FineoleenginJerry,they usedto say. Nix, flake graph-ite, I says. And takin anold Dixon ad from my pocket I read: Write forGRAPHITE PRODUCTS fOR THE RAILROADand Sample No. 6 9. YYou see I didnt mind givinaway the dope.)And, | udgin by the wavDixons Flake Graphiteis bein used nowadays,every mothers son ofthem, an their friends,must have wrote for thatbooklet and Dixon Crucible Company RAILROAD NOTES. I! < hicago & Western Indiana issaid to have ordered 3,000 tons of steel1 ails. Rutland ha ord< red 7 looFrom the American Locomotive Company. The Erie has 10 Pacific l


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