. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . y, X. Y. Mr. John Schrader, formerly night carforeman of the Xew York Central & Hud-son River, has been appointed general carforeman of the car department, MottHaven yards. Xew \Tork. Mr. G. M. Crownover, assistant mastermechanic of the Chicago Division of theIllinois Central, has been put in chargeof the Burnside shops, and his formerposition has been abolished. At the recent convention oi thi Brother-hood of Firemen ami Enginemen, heldat Columbu-. < H110. Mr. \\ . S, Carter waselected gr
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . y, X. Y. Mr. John Schrader, formerly night carforeman of the Xew York Central & Hud-son River, has been appointed general carforeman of the car department, MottHaven yards. Xew \Tork. Mr. G. M. Crownover, assistant mastermechanic of the Chicago Division of theIllinois Central, has been put in chargeof the Burnside shops, and his formerposition has been abolished. At the recent convention oi thi Brother-hood of Firemen ami Enginemen, heldat Columbu-. < H110. Mr. \\ . S, Carter waselected grand master of the order. Mr. 1 .111 c 1 ss from tlif State of 1 - having been horn in Austin, Tex., on the1 ith of August, [859. IK- received acommon school education, and his earlydays were spent on a cattle ranch, liebegan his railn ad can 11 as fireman in Feb-ruary, 1879, llh °ld Central & Montgomerj Railroad, which is now .1 pari oithe Somerville Division of thi Gulf, Colo-rado & I. Railroad At thattime on that road wood was used forfin;, valves and cylinders were lubricated. W. S. CARTER. through oil cups on the steam chest,and water was supplied to the boilerby pumps, the plungers of which weredriven by each crosshead. While moremodern devices had been introduced onsome roads, their use had not yet ex-tended to that section of the country. Heserved a- fireman on the Central & Mont-gomery Railroad and on the Interna-tional & Great Northern Railroad untilr888, except two years, which he spent inthe baggage department of that he was promoted to the rightside. and ran a switch engine on Interna-tional & Great Northern road for twoyears and six months, up to June. next ran an engine on Denver &Berkley Park interuban road during theyear 1800. and during the following year li tool ill- of engini di patcher and extra 1 ngim er on the Monterey \ican Gulf Railroad. Leaving that 1 id In took service as fireman on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad on Hou
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