. Electric railway journal . t then wesaid above that they are Americans, did we not? Technical Men the Hope ofthe Boiler Room What then is the hope of the boiler room? I reallythink it awaits the day of the thoroughly technicalchief engineer. That day hasnt come, but it is a man knows the field intimately at present he knowsthat the full advent of the day is distant even yet. Andthe reason for this is simple, it will not be here untilthe older men have left the field. Even that will not beenough; men must be graduated in larger numbers thanat present, and a greater proportion of tho
. Electric railway journal . t then wesaid above that they are Americans, did we not? Technical Men the Hope ofthe Boiler Room What then is the hope of the boiler room? I reallythink it awaits the day of the thoroughly technicalchief engineer. That day hasnt come, but it is a man knows the field intimately at present he knowsthat the full advent of the day is distant even yet. Andthe reason for this is simple, it will not be here untilthe older men have left the field. Even that will not beenough; men must be graduated in larger numbers thanat present, and a greater proportion of those graduatedmust continue working as engineers. The young fel-lows who are in power stations now in capacities moreor less vague and nondescript, and there are many ofthese but many more are needed, must stay and growup and find themselves eventually in charge by a sortof inevitable inheritance. Then, too, certain fast-van-ishing prejudices which now exist must be banishedforever. And when the day comes when power plants, in. Our job is to make this pile gofarther February 23, 1918 ELECTRrc Railway Journal practically all cases, are in charge of trained technicalmen, will economy have improved and if so howwill it have been improved? After all, the techniqueof power station operation is not of great with a scientists field the days work of apower plant engineer may be arduous, but it is notcomplex. Indeed, its very simplicity is a handicap, forit can hardly attract the ablest men. Scarcely any ofthe essentially technical features of power generationare entirely outside the knowledge of men operatingpower stations to-day. They have heard of them atleast, although their grasp upon the underlying prin-ciples may not be of the firmest. The chief difference,is that in that future day the men running power sta-tions, technically trained men, will more truly believein these principles. They will believe them to be moreworth while; they will believe them to be more
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