. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . e atonce saw the conductors idea was a capi-tal one, and set about installing the bell-cord signal system, practically the sameas it exists today. -ATTENTION! ling, when you are outside damn to yourhearts content; but as long as you are apart of the institution, do not condemn you do, you are loosening the tendrilsthat hold you to the institution, and thefirst high wind that comes along, you willbe uprooted and blown away, andprobably you will never know why,as many have experienced.—ElbertII ubbard. The more we talk safety and advertise it, the


. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . e atonce saw the conductors idea was a capi-tal one, and set about installing the bell-cord signal system, practically the sameas it exists today. -ATTENTION! ling, when you are outside damn to yourhearts content; but as long as you are apart of the institution, do not condemn you do, you are loosening the tendrilsthat hold you to the institution, and thefirst high wind that comes along, you willbe uprooted and blown away, andprobably you will never know why,as many have experienced.—ElbertII ubbard. The more we talk safety and advertise it, the same as something good to eat, the more interest themen will take in it.—Thomas E. Banks, Conductor, Ohio Division. We would rather that the cars come together and go back again any number of times in order to giveyou time to open the couplings than that you should be injured.—President Daniel Willard. 21 DREAM ENGINES AND STEAM ENGINES Major J. G. Pangborn Special Representative of the Baltimore and Ohio III. THE MODERN LOCOMOTIVE. EORGE STEPHEN-SON was not theoriginator of any es-sential of the loco-motive. A carefuland painstaking re-search throughoutthe files of the BritishPatent Office failed to disclose one patenttaken out by him in his own name alone;always with an associate. It was as thepromoter of locomotive operation, not theFather of the Locomotive itself that heshould have been placed in history. Tohim first and foremost will the honor everbe accorded of compelling recognition ofthe feasibility of the conduct of the rail-way by steam power. When skepticismand distrust, very largely predicated uponhis own failures, were rife; when the pio-neer of the English railways, the Liverpool& Manchester, had decided to abandonall thought of operation by locomotivesand throughout the Kingdom the univer-sal opinion was adverse to further experi-menting at so ruinous a cost, Stephensonby his indomitable determination to over-come every obstacle succeeded, throughthe demons


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