. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nt asit is for us, might be of priceless valuein France, where the United States Gov-ernment have miles of railway behind theAllied line. Here, mistake, inadvertence, or acci-dent may destroy a sectional block oftrack, and we would find the telephonewith this feature of the highest so, in degrees of convenience only,in France. There the enemy of Liberty,free thought, and strong development,constantly endeavors to break the con-tinuity of the line. If evil fortune per-mits him, wit
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nt asit is for us, might be of priceless valuein France, where the United States Gov-ernment have miles of railway behind theAllied line. Here, mistake, inadvertence, or acci-dent may destroy a sectional block oftrack, and we would find the telephonewith this feature of the highest so, in degrees of convenience only,in France. There the enemy of Liberty,free thought, and strong development,constantly endeavors to break the con-tinuity of the line. If evil fortune per-mits him, with some high explosive, todestroy a block of track, he but ham-pers a bit of the line, because the tele-phone can reach trains on either side ofthe damaged portion. Thus are thosewho have enslaved science and made herwork for ignoble ends, and prostitutedthe knowledge God has given us as a re-ward for hard labor and conscientiousthought—these men are beaten at theirown game by applied science, and it isfrom this country that the new thoughtand impulse comes. It is not for us to prescribe a course. TELEPHONE CONNECTION BETWEENENGINE AND TENDER. of action to the Government or to saythat this or that remedy is infallible. Weoffer this suggestion, however, that theGovernment look into this whole matterof telephone connection to a moving trainand the adjunct that goes with it, ofreaching trains separated by an impass-able area, or trains in distress, or thosethat as they proceed may pick up infor-mation priceless to the army. If not used here at present, the tele-phone will some day be so used, but itsutility for military lines looks to us to beof the highest value today, when freedomstands with its back against the wallfighting for the right. The State of the Railway Business Association hasrecently issued a bulletin for the use ofits members, dealing with the railway sit-uation as it is now. The whole docu-ment, which is too extensive for repro-duction here, is neverthel
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