. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . efor a greater bearing surface, and higherphysical properties in the steel. Thisfollows a mechanical law, though it i. Visiting the : Most of tlie railroad shops have aniron-clad V-welded rule not to allowvisitors in working hours and our shopwas no exception, but the rule was of-ten broken for the special benefit andedification of the fair sex, who evinceda decided interest in watching the work-men at their allotted tasks and the op-erations of the difTcrent machines. machine make
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . efor a greater bearing surface, and higherphysical properties in the steel. Thisfollows a mechanical law, though it i. Visiting the : Most of tlie railroad shops have aniron-clad V-welded rule not to allowvisitors in working hours and our shopwas no exception, but the rule was of-ten broken for the special benefit andedification of the fair sex, who evinceda decided interest in watching the work-men at their allotted tasks and the op-erations of the difTcrent machines. machine makes the pieces as rapidly asihey can be heated and fed to it. I had remarked that I was the inven-tor of this device to the ladies and oneof them asked me what kind of a ma-chine it was and I answered a bolt-header, and she took a kind of cursoryglance around it and answered that itwas a funny name for it as she didnot see any boat for it to hold one wanted to know if that Fig 4. BLACKSMITH SHOP KINKS. The comprehensive and original re-marks of the fair sex concerning theaforesaid, was very amusing if not in-structive. It fell to my (shall 1 say fortunate?)lot to be the pilot of a party of fiveyoung ladies and while there was nobones broken or airship flights, we hadquite an exciting time one afternoon. There is an old saying that wheneverthere is trouble look for the woman inthe case and remembering this saying,when the party of young ladies proposedto visit me at the shop I scented dan-ger at once and made the excuse thatno visitors were allowed, but this wasknocked out by one of the young la-dies, saying that she knew very well thatMary Ann Splivins and Polly JaneCatchem had been allowed to go throughthe shops, etc., etc. I thought I wouldhead them off by telling them if theygot a permit from the office I woulddo the rest with pleasure. When awoman will, she will, and this is howthe memorable visit came to pass. One day they made their appearance,escorted b
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