. American engineer and railroad journal . 00 class compared toone belonging to the $ class. The high priced manis not necessarily the best; but for the high price thebest can be secured. It is manifestly false economy to paya master mechanic $ a month, and give him chargeover one thousand or two thousand men with an aggregatepay roll of $60,000 to $100,000, when an intelligent $, bringing perhaps in his train a $ staff of assist-ants and specialists, can in six months lop off 15 to 30 percent, of this pay roll, and at the same time by system andspecialization and a
. American engineer and railroad journal . 00 class compared toone belonging to the $ class. The high priced manis not necessarily the best; but for the high price thebest can be secured. It is manifestly false economy to paya master mechanic $ a month, and give him chargeover one thousand or two thousand men with an aggregatepay roll of $60,000 to $100,000, when an intelligent $, bringing perhaps in his train a $ staff of assist-ants and specialists, can in six months lop off 15 to 30 percent, of this pay roll, and at the same time by system andspecialization and a method of reward according to merit,give increased and better service. Similarly, a $ fore-man is not an economical man to whom to entrust the requi-sitioning of thousands of dollars worth of material eachmonth; he will generally order perfunctorily and far beyondhis needs, and it is not usual for his requisitions to be ef-fectively checked up.—Mr. H. W. Jacobs in The EngineeringMagazine. 104 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD TEN-WHEEL LOCOMOTIVE—ST. LOUIS & SAN FRANCISCO RAILROAD. TEN WHEEL LOCOMOTIVE WITH WALSCHAERTVALVE GEAR. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad. The American Locomotive Company has recently deliveredfrom its Schenectady works an order of ten 10-wheel locomo-tives for the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad to whichan interesting application of the Walschaert valve gear hasbeen made. This order follows a previous one of five enginesof exactly the same dimensions which were equipped with theStephenson valve gear. Since this last order has been de-livered another small order to the same specifications hasbeen made. These locomotives are for heavy passenger and fast freightservice on divisions where there are numerous grades fromone to one and a half per cent., and the service to date isreported as being very satisfactory in every way. The general construction of the locomotive outside of the valve gear, whileshowing careful attention to details a
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