. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . n Pacific service. No wonder the delegates to tile En-gineers Convention looked with wist-ful eyes at their Los Angeles brethrenwith their contented, satisfied expres-sion of countenance. This contentmentamong the employees is due to Mr. Small, general superintendent of mo-tive power and machinery, who has hadthe foresight to surround himself withable subordinates. He has the welfareof all at heart and realizes that con-tentment among employees is one ofthe cliief factors in the companys
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . n Pacific service. No wonder the delegates to tile En-gineers Convention looked with wist-ful eyes at their Los Angeles brethrenwith their contented, satisfied expres-sion of countenance. This contentmentamong the employees is due to Mr. Small, general superintendent of mo-tive power and machinery, who has hadthe foresight to surround himself withable subordinates. He has the welfareof all at heart and realizes that con-tentment among employees is one ofthe cliief factors in the companys suc-cess. Joseph A. Baker. insisted upuii the ntvv form as shown uithe cut, which form of stud I have dem-onstrated with 25 years experience tobe right, some of the present repair menwould be likely to say something com-|)limeiitary. John E Sweet. Extracting Broken Studs. Mr. James Kennedy (on page 471, Oc-tober number) gives a good way for re-moving broken studs, and as I have foryears been practicing a better plan, wishto present it to your readers. He says:In the event of the stud being broken. NKW FORM f)F STlll. close to the metal into which it hasbeen screwed. Did anyone ever seeone broken anywhere else? My remedy for the trouble is to avoidit by making all studs one size largerwhere they go into the casting. That isto say, a i-in. stud is to be i>^ ins. whereit screws in and i in. where the nutgoes on, for when such a stud is brokenit will break at the bottom of the nut,and by chi;)ping flats on the stub, thepiece can be removed in as many min-utes as it would take hours to drill outone of the ordinary sort. Of course,what we have now is what interests en-gineers, and the addition of a few dol-lars to a ten thousand dollar engine willprobably prevent studs being made rightfor another generation or at least untilsome man like Cornelius Vanderbilt getshold of it and relieves posterity of thepresent nuisance. If master mechanics ordering engines Ways of a Good
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