. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . erence tocapacity of car, then the illustration, , should be made to conform to the O. ! York, N. Y. Proposal for Foremen to Get : I note in your February issue that alittle controversy has arisen between F. Fay, president of the International order to be successful, must have specialqualifications, such as lots of grit, a thickskin and the get-there-quick ability. Nodoubt this is true. On the other handthe machine shop foremen, boiler shopforem
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . erence tocapacity of car, then the illustration, , should be made to conform to the O. ! York, N. Y. Proposal for Foremen to Get : I note in your February issue that alittle controversy has arisen between F. Fay, president of the International order to be successful, must have specialqualifications, such as lots of grit, a thickskin and the get-there-quick ability. Nodoubt this is true. On the other handthe machine shop foremen, boiler shopforemen, etc., must also have specialqualifications to be successful in theirparticular line, and in order to promotesuch qualifications it is necessary thatwe get together occasionally to discusssubjects pertaining to our profession. As president of the N. E. LocomotiveForemens Association for the last twoyears, I am able to state that the minglingtogether of the different classes of loco-motive foremen has been of general bene-fit not only to the members of our as-sociation, but the railroad as ENGIXK Willi SUNFLOW I !-■ - ! ^ i I ^T.\CK.(Photographed by A. IV. Aiiiszrorth, Denver, Col.) Railway General Foremens Association,and Mr. .\. B. Glover, of Marquette, rela-tive to the merits and demerits of theGeneral Foremens Association and theNew England Locomotive Foremens As-sociation. If all locomotive foremen are entitledto membership in the General ForemensAssociation it is not known or so under-stood in this part of the country. The term general foreman is an elasticone and may apply to any man that hassupervision of men and work, from atrack foreman to and including a mastermechanic, depending on the railway andthe locality. Nevertheless, locally tineterm does sometimes draw the line andmake a distinction between the differentclasses of locomotive foremen. Mr. Glover seems to put special stresson the fact that a roundliouse foreman, in In order to further improve the st
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