. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ing of this man that he might safely andjudiciously leave certain details of theshop management to be carried on bysubordinates. That would have givenhim time to attend to duties of greaterimportance than that of being his ownshop foreman. Mr. Name is a representative man of arapidly diminishing class, who take creditto themselves for taking no holidays and attending personally to every detail ofthe work going on. That sort of egotismis very comforting to those who indulgein it ; but in nearl
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ing of this man that he might safely andjudiciously leave certain details of theshop management to be carried on bysubordinates. That would have givenhim time to attend to duties of greaterimportance than that of being his ownshop foreman. Mr. Name is a representative man of arapidly diminishing class, who take creditto themselves for taking no holidays and attending personally to every detail ofthe work going on. That sort of egotismis very comforting to those who indulgein it ; but in nearly every case it is un-fortunate for the company they serve. Inever yet found the head of the mechan-ical department so overwhelmed withbusiness that he could not go away for aholiday, but what the companys businesswas mismanaged. It is the small calibremen, whose business is too great for theircapacity, that cannot find time to attendconventions, railroad club meetings andother gatherings of their class, wherethey are likely to learn things that willstimulate them to push into the line MUSGROVE RAIL JOINT. New Rail Joint. Very favorable reports are being madeon a new type of rail joint that is beingtested on several railroads in the vicinity
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