. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ledto discover it. Weeks passed by and asubstitute was made, and the loss becamean addition to the long list of mysteriousdisappearances which excited day the foreman was congratulatinghimself on having so competent an engin-eer, who had lately contrived to keep upsteam even when hard drawn by the ma-chinery. He supposed he had made somerepairs, and possibly stopped some leakin the boiler. One morning he was almostalarmed at the spiteful outrush of beadysteam from the safety valve,
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ledto discover it. Weeks passed by and asubstitute was made, and the loss becamean addition to the long list of mysteriousdisappearances which excited day the foreman was congratulatinghimself on having so competent an engin-eer, who had lately contrived to keep upsteam even when hard drawn by the ma-chinery. He supposed he had made somerepairs, and possibly stopped some leakin the boiler. One morning he was almostalarmed at the spiteful outrush of beadysteam from the safety valve, and goingto the boiler room—the engineer being atdinner—he noticed some string woundaround the safety-valve lever. A closeinspection showed the missing spanner,weight some eight or ten pounds, tied onthe further side of the lever, so as to beout of sight, and adding an immense addi-tional pressure per square inch to the boil-er. The engineer was simply followingthe general practice of the shop, and keep-ing a tool adapted for one purpose busyin some other branch, when not other-w-ise The Canadian Locomotive Works, atKingston, Ont., have been sold to Harty, M. and he has deter-mined to equip them with the most ap-proved modern tools, which will enablethem to compete with Unite 1 States loco-motive builders. Mr. H. Tandy, who wasfor years assistant superintendent of theBrooks Locomotive Works, and who isthoroughly familiar with United Statesmethods, has been appointed general su-perintendent. The firm has received or-ders for twenty-five locomotives and theywill be built according to modern methods The American School of Correspon-dence, Boston. Mass., are sending out aspecial money card to be used by engi-neers and others desiring to examine theirinstruction papers and text books. Thecard contains a place where a silver twentyfive-cent piece may be inserted and secure-ly sealed. This card contains also a placefor name and address and text bookwanted
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