. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nd came, and to callme when all was over. When I awoke itwas eight oclock in the morning, and thesun shone bright into my room. I hur-ried to my office and asked at once ifFairchild was dead. My stenographertold me that he was working in the round-house. I repeated my question and re-ceived the same answer, which broughtme to the conclusion that the sten-ographer must have the calentura him-self. Then I turned towards the shops,and there, to my disgust, beheld Fairchildtaking down the back end of a main
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nd came, and to callme when all was over. When I awoke itwas eight oclock in the morning, and thesun shone bright into my room. I hur-ried to my office and asked at once ifFairchild was dead. My stenographertold me that he was working in the round-house. I repeated my question and re-ceived the same answer, which broughtme to the conclusion that the sten-ographer must have the calentura him-self. Then I turned towards the shops,and there, to my disgust, beheld Fairchildtaking down the back end of a main rodbrass. Everybody had a smile on him,and I asked my friend Paddy McNulty,the blacksmith, if I was dreaming, but hetold me this was an old trick of Fair-childs, who drank a gallon of cognac the at once fired Fairchild and took up a gen-eral collection to send him back to Godscountry, where they dont have suchthings as calentura. The Baldwin Locomotive Works, Phila-delphia, met with quite a loss in the bigfire in Philadelphia recently. Their pub-lications were in the hands of the J. VIEWS ON SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD— MOSSBRAE FALLS. The Hancock Inspirator Company, Bos-ton, Mass., is the first to send us a 1900catalogue, and it contains enough inform-ation on inspirators to make every prac-tical railroader want a copy. There aresixty pages—9 x 12 inches, of course—and in addition to the inspirator end ofthe business several specialties are shown. Lippincott Company, and the fire leavesthem destitute of cuts for the have the originals, however, and newones will be ready shortly. In this re-spect they are more fortunate than wewere a year ago—both originals and plateswere destroyed. We extend our sinceresympathy. 24 What is a Good Workman ? DOING WORK TOO WELL. SKILL GUIDED BYJUDGMENT. When we wish to pass a pleasant hourof mental recreation we frequently turnto a work which affords us an endlessfund of amusement of a profitable char-acter. This is readin
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