Compressed air . there is always some such highly inflammable material becomingdamaged through sparks from the prevent this the locomotive boilers are filledwith compressed air. A train load of severalthousand bales of cotton can be hauled by theselocomotives at a rate of 12 miles an hour,although no fire whatever is used in workingthem. COMPRESSED AIR. 4III EDUCATION OF APPRENTICES AT THE TARRYTOWN SHOPS OF THE RAND DRILL COMPANY. Written fdr Compressed Air by axApprentice. For several years previous to the consolida-tion of the Rand and Ingersoll-Serseant Corn- throu
Compressed air . there is always some such highly inflammable material becomingdamaged through sparks from the prevent this the locomotive boilers are filledwith compressed air. A train load of severalthousand bales of cotton can be hauled by theselocomotives at a rate of 12 miles an hour,although no fire whatever is used in workingthem. COMPRESSED AIR. 4III EDUCATION OF APPRENTICES AT THE TARRYTOWN SHOPS OF THE RAND DRILL COMPANY. Written fdr Compressed Air by axApprentice. For several years previous to the consolida-tion of the Rand and Ingersoll-Serseant Corn- through the shops. This sums up in a lewwords the policy of the Rand Drill Company;their salesmen came in through the office andthe only shop work done by them was whatthey wished to do of their own free will. Infact they were left to work out their owneducation in their own way and were notplaced under the orders of shop foremen or inany way made to feel that manual labor wasexpected of them. On the other hand, how-. A CLASS OF APPREXTICES AT THE TARRYTOWN SHOPS OF THE KAMJ CO. panics there was maintained at the Tarrytownshops of the former company a most uniquesystem for training prospective salesmen. other large manufacturing concerns, theRand Drill Company did not believe in settingthe young engineers who applied for positionsin their company to work in the shops, but pur-sued a course of systematic training in theoryas well as in practice. The president of oneof the largest machinery houses in the UnitedStates once said to the writer, after hear-ing about the Rand training system, that hisexperience had always been that the best sales-men came in through the office and never ever, they were expected to work, and to workhard. To this end a list of over 300 questionswas handed to each applicant on iiis arrivaland to answer all of these correctly meantthat many a night was spent in hard stutlyand in writing out infijrmation acquired (lur-ing the flay. These question
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