The university in overalls; a plea for part-time study . f the extent of scientific knowledge, andamount of mechanical skill required, in order to span astretch of country with two parallel lines of steel. Thetraveller will begin to understand that the building of arailway embankment, or the digging and blasting of arock-cut, involves more labor and hardship than is everput on record in the Government report, to say nothingof the actual toll paid in workmens lives. Anyone mak-ing such a trip will afterwards implicitly believe that rail-road building is an art. The passage over a hundred mileso
The university in overalls; a plea for part-time study . f the extent of scientific knowledge, andamount of mechanical skill required, in order to span astretch of country with two parallel lines of steel. Thetraveller will begin to understand that the building of arailway embankment, or the digging and blasting of arock-cut, involves more labor and hardship than is everput on record in the Government report, to say nothingof the actual toll paid in workmens lives. Anyone mak-ing such a trip will afterwards implicitly believe that rail-road building is an art. The passage over a hundred milesof construction will result in the conviction that Solomonshould have sent the sluggard, not to the ant, but to therailway navvy. It must not be forgotten that the hun-dred and one tasks performed by the so-called unskilledlaborers are so technical that a tenderfoot, eventhough a college graduate, cannot perform them. The first question a foreman asks an instructor whenthe latter arrives at camp is What can you do? If it Frontier Labor is skilled At a logging camp in British Columbia, preparing to lioist the bull-block on a giant spar-tree. It takes three years to make a goodfaller.
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