. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . a new and im-proved valve gear which is simple, strongand durable in construction, and easy tomanipulate. The complete absence of ec-centrics or cranks adds to its simplicity,and it is said to be well adapted to thepresent type of large locomotive. In all labor there is profit, said a wiseman, but the talk of the lips tendeth topenury. An employer of labor on beingasked to recommend a certain workmanfor a superior position testified: George withstanding there were only two of themand they wer
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . a new and im-proved valve gear which is simple, strongand durable in construction, and easy tomanipulate. The complete absence of ec-centrics or cranks adds to its simplicity,and it is said to be well adapted to thepresent type of large locomotive. In all labor there is profit, said a wiseman, but the talk of the lips tendeth topenury. An employer of labor on beingasked to recommend a certain workmanfor a superior position testified: George withstanding there were only two of themand they were very much smaller. 1 hemen running the planers changed places,and immediately the old planer began tobreak bolts. The man with the breakingtendency had too much beef and too lit-tle judgment. This kind of man is found m everyline of mechanical work, and he S alwaysbreaking things. These are the men whobreak tool-post wrenches on lathes. Theybreak any kind of an open-ended wrenchyou give them. A monkey wrench vola-tilizes in their hands. They strip boltsand nuts, and spring face plates and angle. TtJNNEE, JAIAN. is far from being an industrious work-man with his hands, but v;hen it comes tolaboring with his mouth no person in theplace can equal his performance. 43^ RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING October, 1909. Traveling Engineers Association Convention at Denver. The Seventeenth Annual Conventionof the Traveling Engineers Associa-tion met in the Albany Hotel, Denver,on Sept. 7, with President J. A. Talty,of the Lackawanna Railroad, in thechair. After prayer being offered by alocal clergymen President Talty calledupon charter member Angus Sinclairfor an opening address, making compli-mentary allusions as to the fitness ofDr. Sinclair for such a function. DR. Sinclairs Sinclair began by referring tothe rapid growth of the Associationinto size and popularitj-, based on theuseful work it is doing. He attributedmuch of the prosperity enjoyed to thefort
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