. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . g to make a reputation. Like many other men who inherit or The new general manager had be< n toa dinner of railroad men, where the irre-pressible oil crank read a memoranda olthe miles hi i ngim I run on a pint of oil,and showed what a saving in [tints his management had made. Mind yon, he didnt say a word aboutdollars—for the saving in them wouldntpay his salary lor tl I Well, the new manager took notes ofthe miles and the pints, and when he gothome he compared them with tin- pelformance sheet furnis
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . g to make a reputation. Like many other men who inherit or The new general manager had be< n toa dinner of railroad men, where the irre-pressible oil crank read a memoranda olthe miles hi i ngim I run on a pint of oil,and showed what a saving in [tints his management had made. Mind yon, he didnt say a word aboutdollars—for the saving in them wouldntpay his salary lor tl I Well, the new manager took notes ofthe miles and the pints, and when he gothome he compared them with tin- pelformance sheet furnished by Skeevers—then he wrote Skeevers a letter put his ii et on the window-sill and com-II ed to think. Skeevers thought of a way out of theditln ulty. There was one way—a first-class ma-chine shop had offered him a job assuperintendent; hut that seemed like aretreat to Skeevers, and Skeevers is notmuch of a retreatcr. Skeevers cami ranks on this very railroad, learned the trade inthe si 1 and run engines for years, and knew a lot of things about oiland the craze on skimping GKOTJP OF All; HKAKE OFFICIALS. marry a pull that puts them in posi-tions of command, the new general man-ager had an idea that to be familiar withall the details, and run them, would showhis ability to swing everything on a bigrailroad. The new general manager had beentaught in his youth, as most of us old, old chestnut about looking afterthe pennies and the dollars would lookafter themselves. This proverb is good for boys and inthe small affairs of life, but its suicide fora man in charge of a big railroad. It wasnt a letter asking if he couldntget the boys to do better on oil, or ifthere were any local conditions that pre-vented a better showing—there wouldntbe any authority in that—it was a letterstating that the amount of oil used wasout of all reason and must be stopped atonce, that so-and-so many pints for valvesand so-and-so many pints for engineswas enough—
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