. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . rrests were ordered to be made. GeneralHenry B. Carrington was to make them,and by preconcerted arrangement the per-son directing this order was the officer modern pop steam valve was author was a vise hand in the shopat Indianapolis—his name, Robert lives to-day in Topeka, Kansas, andis a plumber and gas fitter. He got itpatented and sold it for a song almostto a Mr. Richardson, who made a fortunewith it or out of it. The first one evermade was constructed at the railroad shopsof th
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . rrests were ordered to be made. GeneralHenry B. Carrington was to make them,and by preconcerted arrangement the per-son directing this order was the officer modern pop steam valve was author was a vise hand in the shopat Indianapolis—his name, Robert lives to-day in Topeka, Kansas, andis a plumber and gas fitter. He got itpatented and sold it for a song almostto a Mr. Richardson, who made a fortunewith it or out of it. The first one evermade was constructed at the railroad shopsof the old Indianapolis & Cincinnati Rail-road. This was placed upon Engine , James Watson, engineer, who is stillrunning a locomotive for that company(now the Big Four). I will send you later a first tracingof the Mood valve, as was placed uponthe No. 20 in 1864, from actual drawing,with the apparatus for compressing thespring to any tension desired by the en-gineer after the valve had been set to itsutmost limit allowed by the master ofmachinery. A great many of the locomotives. TO TARIFFVILLE GORGE. upon locomotive No. 8 (a Baldwin), andno less a person than General Alvin , of Indiana. At Indianapolis fromthe Sentinel office I witnessed threedray-loads of arms, labelled Sunday-school books, taken to the barracks atState House yard at this time. Arrestswere made of persons named: Bowles,Milligan, Hefifner, Dodd, Horsey andothers, who were tried afterwards forhigh treason, convicted and sent to Co-lumbus penitentiary for safe keeping. Just before this event, while in Canada,boarding at the Hirons House—WilliamHirons, proprietor—I had at the tablesuch notables as Beriah McGoffin, gov-ernor of Kentucky; Major Glass, of theConfederate Army, who made his escapefrom the Union camp where he was aprisoner, and Clement L. Vallandighamand his son. Hot times were theseamong the different adherents of oppo-site sides. It was during these times the around Cincinnati
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