. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . lucky as JohnJones; he has run an engine for fortyyears and had good luck. And his workwith the resulting trips up on the carpet. get by, then fading from his memory asdaylight turns to night. If we require nothing from a child,that child renders us no service, butrathei I i peel ervice fri im us— man is but a grown up child and willrender only such service as is required ofhim, the manner of service performed willdepend greatly nil firmness of those inauthority, who having placed the require
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . lucky as JohnJones; he has run an engine for fortyyears and had good luck. And his workwith the resulting trips up on the carpet. get by, then fading from his memory asdaylight turns to night. If we require nothing from a child,that child renders us no service, butrathei I i peel ervice fri im us— man is but a grown up child and willrender only such service as is required ofhim, the manner of service performed willdepend greatly nil firmness of those inauthority, who having placed the require-ments for qualification at a high stand-ard to insure efficiency insist on require-ments being conscientiously compliedwith. We know the evil exists and the remedyis obvious, still we defer the operation,because we lack faith in ourselves andour own knowledge of men. The importance of changing methods ofexamination was impressed on my mindand the practicability of same positivelyproven in the year 1890, on one of thelargest railroads of the northwest, whenthe superintendent of motive power be-. ATTACHMENT OF SPEED REDUCER ON CAR AXLE TURNER. shows the trend of his mind. Six weeksafter promotion 90 per cent, of these mencould not get by the examination againif they were unexpectedly called up forit, because they have put off being inter-ested in their work any more than to getin the time and draw the salary. Hypno-tizing themselves into believing that theyTiave got lots of time, as they arepleased to term it, because, Bill Smithpassed and he does not know any morethan I do, the examinations are easy, andwhat I dont know the road foreman of•engines will tell me, they need the menand cannot turn me down, as the timefor examination draws near, and it is al-most too late, they will resort to strenuousmethods to get hands on and commit tomemory stereotyped answers to the ex-amination questions, lacking in compre-hensiveness, and being so far as under-stood by the prospective asp
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