. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . inent. Mr. E. T. Sumner, mastermechanic at East Cambridge, is oneof the leading experts in America onlocomotive firing. He has been nearlyfifty years in the service. He is a greatbeliever in brick arches in fireboxes,;!nd when you enter the big round-house the fifty-three pits seem sep-arated from each other by walls offire brick. One could hardly tellwhether some of the busy mechanicsare masons or machinists. The brickarches are no ramshackle structuresthat tumble to pieces at the first touc
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . inent. Mr. E. T. Sumner, mastermechanic at East Cambridge, is oneof the leading experts in America onlocomotive firing. He has been nearlyfifty years in the service. He is a greatbeliever in brick arches in fireboxes,;!nd when you enter the big round-house the fifty-three pits seem sep-arated from each other by walls offire brick. One could hardly tellwhether some of the busy mechanicsare masons or machinists. The brickarches are no ramshackle structuresthat tumble to pieces at the first touchof a slicing bar. With crowning pedi-ments and transverse openings theyare stronger and kept in better repairthan the arch of Constantine. In the seemingly unimportant mat-ter of starting a fire something newwas in evidence in the shape of sheetiron receptacles filled with sawdust andshavings. The fireman took a pailfuland from an adjacent tank mixed thesawdust with crude oil. A momentlater the firebox was like Vesuvius ineruption. The passenger locomotiveswere in perfect condition, nearly all of. MT. WASHINGTON them being equipped with the Wal-schaerts valve gearing, which is hi,ghlyspoken of among the railroad men. Mr. Summers educational work isably supplemented by Mr. T. J. White,the scholarly chief clerk. It was grat-ifying to see the kindly spirit existing 3iS RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE EXGINEERIXG July, 1909. between the workmen and the office door is open at all is no ante-chamber where sad-faced employees nursing some real orimagfinary grievances are waiting theirturn to see the master mechanic or thechief clerk. They walk right in, andare welcomed like men. They aretaught self-reliance and self-respect,and a manly feeling of working to-ward a common end pervades the en-tire establishment. ON j.\cobs l.\ earliest and many of the clever-est engineering works were done onwhat is now part of the Boston andMaine Railroad. The Hoos
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