. Railway mechanical engineer . bscriberAdministration Hendquar- ters (Wash :i 1,014 ]00. $502,000 $ Eastern 532,173 96. 54,697,200 Southwestern 170,333 21, Central Western 307,546 36,082,850 Pocohontas Southern 7S. 16,253;200 \llegheny ,100 Northwestern 27, Throughout the the employees of the mechanicaldepartment made a splendid sho^^ing. In the Eastern regionthey contributed $17,604,850, or about one-third of the total,97 per cent of the men i
. Railway mechanical engineer . bscriberAdministration Hendquar- ters (Wash :i 1,014 ]00. $502,000 $ Eastern 532,173 96. 54,697,200 Southwestern 170,333 21, Central Western 307,546 36,082,850 Pocohontas Southern 7S. 16,253;200 \llegheny ,100 Northwestern 27, Throughout the the employees of the mechanicaldepartment made a splendid sho^^ing. In the Eastern regionthey contributed $17,604,850, or about one-third of the total,97 per cent of the men in that department subscribing. Inthe Northwestern region per cent of the mechanicaldepartment employees subscribed. Perhaps the best recordmade was on the St. Louis roads, where every one of tlie40,889 employees under Federal Manager A. Robertson sub-scribed, the total amount being $6,665,500, or $163 peremployee. The mechanical department employees sub-scribed more heavily than any other class of employees onthese 6AI?^ DEPAKTMEfffi ADAPTING BAKER HEATERS TO BURNSOFT COAL BY A. KRESSINSteamCtter Foreman. Chicago. MiUvaukee & St. Paul The question of using soft coal for heating passen-ger cars equipped with Baker heaters is important atthe present time on account of the shortage of hardcoal. These heaters are all designed for anthracite coal andif bituminous coal is burned in them as the) stand, the smokeand gases will escape into the car. The high price of hardcoal and the difficulty of obtaining it at this time led theChicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul to investigate the possibility
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