Railway and Locomotive Engineering . thecold. There was no reserved spot wherehe could place the soles of his weary feet,not speaking of his multiplex collection ofblue prints and miscellaneous notes andqueries, and his accumulating wean-wilderness of mail, including papers and in by day, and the radiant glow of Edisonselectric lamp by night. Then there is anEtruscan vase filled with rainbow blos-soms every morning, summer and winter,in fact there seems to be no winter work goes on like a sweet song. Asthe poet says:—There is no sorrow inthy song, no winter in thy year. LikeDiogenes
Railway and Locomotive Engineering . thecold. There was no reserved spot wherehe could place the soles of his weary feet,not speaking of his multiplex collection ofblue prints and miscellaneous notes andqueries, and his accumulating wean-wilderness of mail, including papers and in by day, and the radiant glow of Edisonselectric lamp by night. Then there is anEtruscan vase filled with rainbow blos-soms every morning, summer and winter,in fact there seems to be no winter work goes on like a sweet song. Asthe poet says:—There is no sorrow inthy song, no winter in thy year. LikeDiogenes with his tub he is philosophicallyserene. Or rather like Alexander when hegave away cities and towns to his choicestsoldiers, one had the thoughtfulness to askthe great man what he kept for himself,and the mighty conqueror replied that hekept his sword. So it is that the capableman never grumbles. We are not preach-ing against improvements. We are preach-the everlasting gospel of trying to getalong with what we have, and when the. VIEW OF A FOREMANS OFFICE IX A LOCOMOTI\E C.\i; pamphlets. A shattered wing of a par-tially demolished antedeluvian relic of aprehistoric period remained, a primitivekind of roomy sentry-box where a cor-porals guard might have been ensccncedin the civil war times, and the superin-tendent ensconced himself unconcernedlythere and went on with his work. We have referred before to the fore-man of the car department of the Roanokeshops of the Norfolk & Western Railway,J. D. Mayo, and we have been furnishedwith a photograph of his office. Itconsists of a discarded locomotive call, andwe take pleasure in reproducing a sideview of the structure. j\Ir. Mayo desiresnothing better. It was his own has the unclouded sunshine streaming golden time comes when the railroads willliave bulging bank accounts, no kind ofmarlile structure, ornamented with theportraits of past-presidents, or the busts ofby-gone big-wigs will bring more con-tentment to a man o
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