. The Locomotive . SAVE YOUR COAL»FIRE THE KAISER HERES HOW! 1. Keep boiler tubes clean from soot and scale both inside and outside. 2. Stop air leaks iii boiler settings, flue doors, and cleaning holes. 3. Repair leaky steam pipes and valves. 4. Keep side and bridge walls free from ashes and clinkers. 5. Keep ash pit cleaned out. 6. Keep your fire thin as your draft allows. 7. Fire at short intervals and in small qu£mtities. 8. Keep your fire bed level by spreading coal over thin spots. 9. Do not stir your fire unless necessary. To do so will cause clinkers. 10. Do not fire lumps larger than


. The Locomotive . SAVE YOUR COAL»FIRE THE KAISER HERES HOW! 1. Keep boiler tubes clean from soot and scale both inside and outside. 2. Stop air leaks iii boiler settings, flue doors, and cleaning holes. 3. Repair leaky steam pipes and valves. 4. Keep side and bridge walls free from ashes and clinkers. 5. Keep ash pit cleaned out. 6. Keep your fire thin as your draft allows. 7. Fire at short intervals and in small qu£mtities. 8. Keep your fire bed level by spreading coal over thin spots. 9. Do not stir your fire unless necessary. To do so will cause clinkers. 10. Do not fire lumps larger than your fist. 11. Regulate draft with dampers not with ash pit doors. 12. Work your fire by your automatic damper, not your steam gauge. THOMAS W. RUSSELL, Connecticut Fuel Administrator 20 THE LOCOMOTIVE [January,. C. C. Perry, Editor. HARTFORD, JANUARY, 1918. Single copies can be obtained free by calling at any of the company^! price 50 cents per year -when mailed from this bound volumes one dollar each. Earlier ones two of matter from, this paper is permitted if credited toThe Locomotive of The Hartford Steam Boiler I. & I. Co. This issue of The Locomotive marks the beginning of a newvolume. We have taken advantage of the opportunity to changethe size of the type with which the body of the magazine is of our best friends believe that The Locomotive has lostsome of its possible usefulness by retaining so conservatively thetj^e face in which it has appeared since 1880, reasoning that thetype page, when unrelieved by illustrations, was somewhat tryingto read. We think the criticism a just one and as we earnestlydesire that the material, to the preparation of which we give ourbest thought, shall be presented to our readers in a fo


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