. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . bbing plate. Four studsare screwed through the steam chest coverinto the rubbing plate, and adjustable jannnuts are used to adjust the plate exactlythe proper distance to clear the valve. January, looo. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING Adventures of an Engineer in TropicalAmerica. FIFTH LETTER. While my companions were taking inthe town and enjoyed their ChristmasEve to suit their own fancy, my Spanishhost invited me to partake of the graubaile, the function of the evening, but Ipreferred the seclusion of my own r
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . bbing plate. Four studsare screwed through the steam chest coverinto the rubbing plate, and adjustable jannnuts are used to adjust the plate exactlythe proper distance to clear the valve. January, looo. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING Adventures of an Engineer in TropicalAmerica. FIFTH LETTER. While my companions were taking inthe town and enjoyed their ChristmasEve to suit their own fancy, my Spanishhost invited me to partake of the graubaile, the function of the evening, but Ipreferred the seclusion of my own room,from where I could Hsten to the sweetstrains of the guitars below, from time to and brutality; but I reassured my newfriend by telling him that I could handleCramer and a dozen like him. During my short stay in Gualan I hadbecome quite attached to it. The placewas situated on the camino real (royalroad) to Guatemala City, and afforded themain resting place for mule teams fromand to the Caribbean coast towns. At the end of three days we sightedCramers procession, which approached in. VIEWS ON SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD—HOTEL DEL MONTE, FROM THE ROSE GARDEN. pleased, and that in case of any argu-ments he would at once call upon the re-serve soldiers from Zacapa and have usall shot. This threat at once roused myYankee blood, and being by no meanswilling to submit to his authority, Idoubled my fist and told him if he wouldrepeat his words I should kill him on thespot. The big Dutch savage saw that Iwas in earnest and did not repeat them,but took water and offered to pay mein full, whereas my mates would have tocontent themselves with one-half of theirclaims. To this arrangement I agreed. On reaching my room I at once pro-ceeded to make a few changes in thebooks in a way that where thirty dayswere set down I marked sixty, and in allinstances doubling the amounts of thewages, which was quite safe for me to do,as Roberts and I alone knew the affairs,and the former was safe in jai
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