. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . s ash. The number of students enrolled in theInternational Correspondence Schools,Scranton, Pa., is about double the numberattending all the colleges in the UnitedStates. The Schools receive from theirstudents over 15,000 lesson papers anddrawing plates every week, which are im-mediately corrected and returned by mail,many of them going to the most remoteparts of the world. Considerably morethan $1,000 a week is spent for postage. April, 1901. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 169 Air-Brake
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . s ash. The number of students enrolled in theInternational Correspondence Schools,Scranton, Pa., is about double the numberattending all the colleges in the UnitedStates. The Schools receive from theirstudents over 15,000 lesson papers anddrawing plates every week, which are im-mediately corrected and returned by mail,many of them going to the most remoteparts of the world. Considerably morethan $1,000 a week is spent for postage. April, 1901. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 169 Air-Brake Department, CONDUCTED BY P. M. NElXiS. The Air Brake Convention. rates will he granted to members and theirThe eighth annual convention of the immediate families., as follows: ReceiptsAir-Brake Association will be held in Chi- should be taken for full fares which shallcage, 111., beginning April 30th, and con- be paid in Pullman cars en route to Chi-tinuing for three days or more. cago, and upon presentation of such re-Convention headquarters will be at the ceipts and member-hip credentials to FIG. I. ELECTRIC BRAKE WITH RAIL. AND WHEEL SHOES. Leland Hotel, on the corner of Michiganavenue and Jackson boulevard. Specialrates have been secured for members andtheir friends, as follows: American plan,$ per day and upwards for single per-son in a room; $2 per day for each person,where two occupy one room. Memberspreferring rates on the European plan maysecure rooms at the headquarters hotel(the Leland) at $1 to $ per day andupward for each person. Members are urged to stop at the head-quarters hotel, which is centrally located,within two blocks of all the elevated roadsand easy walking distance of the shoppingdistrict. Public Library and the Art In-stitute. The meetings will be held in the W. H. Reed, superintendent, room 309,Pullman Building, Chicago, free passeswill be issue^for the return trip. Any further ipformatiori regarding the than old hand form was seen w
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