. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . selfa master workman skilled in handlingmen, but also an inventor of command-ing ability. He was a man who inherited mei hanical skill from a lim oi no i who had bi en li ad< i in ii dui trial di ■, i 1- ipment i .a idi scope i his in ■ • nt» eand consl ructh i ti ndi n ii s I he firstpattern making work which lie did wasal \ I i [ron l- undry in South Bi ist< n,u hi i e he w as engagi I mal ing pattei nsfor cannon and other ordnance. A panii having struck theUnited States in
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . selfa master workman skilled in handlingmen, but also an inventor of command-ing ability. He was a man who inherited mei hanical skill from a lim oi no i who had bi en li ad< i in ii dui trial di ■, i 1- ipment i .a idi scope i his in ■ • nt» eand consl ructh i ti ndi n ii s I he firstpattern making work which lie did wasal \ I i [ron l- undry in South Bi ist< n,u hi i e he w as engagi I mal ing pattei nsfor cannon and other ordnance. A panii having struck theUnited States in 1837, Mr. Souther wentto Cuba and was engaged iii a foundrythat made a specialt) of sugar business he took up on returning tothe United Stales a few years later. In1839 Ilinkley & Drury began building lo-comotors and John Souther went towork for them as pattern maker, andunder lock anil ki \ m ide all the patternsfor their first engine, the Lion, Three. JOHN SOUTHER. years later he started the Globe Locomo-tive Works in South Boston and wentvigorously into the business of locomotivebuilding. He had been thus engagedwhen the Tredegar Works of Richmondprevailed upon him to join them in loco-motive building, and accordingly hemoved most of his machinery and a largeforce of men to Richmond. That lineof work was carried on until the warbroke out, which ended Mr. Southerscareer as a locomotive builder. John Souther invented the first suc-cessful dredger, also the first steam shovel,effecting many improvements upon thesedevices and bringing them up to present-day appliances. From Mr. Southers fac-tory in Boston a steam excavator wassent to Peru to dig gold, which was thebeginning of a good trade in that line, atrade that embraced Great Britain, Japan,the Amoor River, Russia and the Trans-Caspian. Another important invention ofhis was the automatic fire extinguisher. Mr. Souther t in- education for ni i iii m New England to . stablish a
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