. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ll prob-ably remember his Chapter X of LittleDorrit, in which he expounds thewhole science of government as hownot to do it. He humorously warnspeople against the danger of being lostin the Circumlocution office, and ofhow the oflficials of that famous depart-ment when they got hold of a piece ofbusiness, muddled the business, ad-dled the business, and tossed the busi-ness in a wet blanket. You will see, ifyou pursue this simple tale, that themantle of that great department hadfallen on the s
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ll prob-ably remember his Chapter X of LittleDorrit, in which he expounds thewhole science of government as hownot to do it. He humorously warnspeople against the danger of being lostin the Circumlocution office, and ofhow the oflficials of that famous depart-ment when they got hold of a piece ofbusiness, muddled the business, ad-dled the business, and tossed the busi-ness in a wet blanket. You will see, ifyou pursue this simple tale, that themantle of that great department hadfallen on the shoulders of an otherwiseobscure individual. Snapper Sharp was chief clerk toGoodrich Wells, second vice-presidentof the Rock Ballast & No Dust Rail-way. Wells had charge of the purchas-ing department of the road, and Snap-per did things with a rush. He hadeverybody on the loud pedal whenthere wasnt much in sight, but showedthem down when a cloud of businessno bigger than a mans hand appearedabove the horizon. Snapper was a4-4-2 high-speed simple, with the E Tretarding apparatus in good working. •stornxc; for water by the way. order. Mr. Wells was a business man,wide awake, efficient, courteous andkind, with no frills, just a plain communicated himself, or,rather, his atmosphere, to the officestaff, and they were all able to size upa man at first sight, to their own satis-faction, spot a man when he shows September, 1910. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 359 up, Snapper said a million times to theboy in charge of the outer office rail-ing, and get a line on his contour, forthis collateral is more useful to me thanwhat he thinks he is going to do withthe boss. A. B. Cancelli, the boy, soon becamea great adept at collateral and gaveSnapper lots of tips that werent soabout men who called. One particularman gave rise to heaps of collateral, by
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