. American engineer and railroad journal . Fig. 2 Vol. LXVIII, No. 7.] ^AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 303 here on salaries. They arc located at the foot of a hill justabove the month of the Han River aud a aboil distance backfrom the Yangtsc Kiang. There is a railroad being built in the northern part of theempire, and the regular appropriation set aside for this hasbeen $3,000,000 a vear. This northern railway is the onlyworking road in China. It has been pushed rapidly withinthe past year or so toward the Manchurian frontier, and wasof service to the government in the recent rebellion there. Itis for
. American engineer and railroad journal . Fig. 2 Vol. LXVIII, No. 7.] ^AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 303 here on salaries. They arc located at the foot of a hill justabove the month of the Han River aud a aboil distance backfrom the Yangtsc Kiang. There is a railroad being built in the northern part of theempire, and the regular appropriation set aside for this hasbeen $3,000,000 a vear. This northern railway is the onlyworking road in China. It has been pushed rapidly withinthe past year or so toward the Manchurian frontier, and wasof service to the government in the recent rebellion there. Itis for the purposes of defense that the Chinese will build rail-roads. This northern road was first built to take coal from themines to the Taku forts and the naval ships. Five years agoit was only about 80 miles long. It has now about reachedthe great wall, and will soon penetrate Mongolia.— AUTOMATIC WATER-TANK TnE Automatic Water-Tank Company, of 143 Liberty Street,New York, have placed an apparatus upon the market whichis intended to do away with pumping stations for railroad ser-vice. The principal advantages claimed for the apparatus arethat its first cost is no more than that of an ordinary pumpingstation, and, under some circumstances, will be even less, andthat it does away entirely with all necessity for attendance, sothat the wages of the men who attend these stations as well asthe fuel consumed in the bailers used for generating steam todrive the pumps are saved. The general system by which the apparatus works is thatsteam is taken from the bailer of the locomotive and carriedto the top of a tank tilled with water, pressing down upon thesurface of the latter and forcing it up through a pipe leadingfrom the bottom of this tank into the lender of the steam which then fills the tank is allowed to condense aDdthus forms a vacuum, causing the water to
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