. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . long inany situation. This may have beentrue enough, and Markham did not Varnish-Making in China and Japan. The production and manipulation oflacquers and varnishes in China and Japanis shrouded in mystery and is always kept;i profound secret; but from all we canlearn they may be classed as naturalvarnishes, and only require the peculiarclimatic conditions for their application,their methods are not likely to be intro-duced into Europe or this country, be-cause of the want of the natural mate
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . long inany situation. This may have beentrue enough, and Markham did not Varnish-Making in China and Japan. The production and manipulation oflacquers and varnishes in China and Japanis shrouded in mystery and is always kept;i profound secret; but from all we canlearn they may be classed as naturalvarnishes, and only require the peculiarclimatic conditions for their application,their methods are not likely to be intro-duced into Europe or this country, be-cause of the want of the natural material,which, when imported, becomes extreme-ly costly, and because the process is in-direct and tedious, and, with the highprice of labor, would be impracticable. We trace the use of varnish back 2,467years, and the origin of its name 2,150years, But in parenthesis the writerwould say that the earnest student islearning much of its mysteries to-day. The introduction of varnish-making inmore than one hundred years. A story isthe United States does not extend backtold that William Tilden saw a German. FIG. 2.—FREIGHT TANK ENGINE FOR THE WESTPHALIA RAILWAY. deny it. but he never seemed to be outof a job for long. He was known tohave worked in at least three depart-ments of the Long Trestle & HighBridge Railway, and he had had manyand fleeting business experiences. Hehad faithfully served one firm in sev-eral capacities, and had in the endbeen peremptorily turned out to makea place for a favored relative of theboss. None of these things dis-couraged Markham, he just went on with a large tray on his head filled withtoys, was attracted not only by the brightcolors, but also by the high lustre, sostopped the man and asked him how heobtained the bright finish, and, the storygoes, that he hired him to make varnishfor him at 115 Norfolk street, New York,and that was the foundation of what be-came the great firm of William Tilden &Nephew. William Tilden is reputed tohave died worth three
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