. The locomotive engineer . M. of the Le-high Valley at Sayre, Pa., has used the device sue-ces-sfuJIy on 140 locomotives burning both hard andsoft coal, Mr. Bakers experiment is not a veryrisky one. Watson & Stillman, of this city, are getting outpatterns for a small size of Vreelands TransferJacks designed especially for removing the inter-mediate pair of wheels in 6-wheeled trucks, Thepresent method of jacking ear body off the truckand IboD the truck above the central pair of wheelsis expensive and takes lime. Carehil Engineers. In a recent letter toMayorGrant, of New York, Jay Gouldmakes t
. The locomotive engineer . M. of the Le-high Valley at Sayre, Pa., has used the device sue-ces-sfuJIy on 140 locomotives burning both hard andsoft coal, Mr. Bakers experiment is not a veryrisky one. Watson & Stillman, of this city, are getting outpatterns for a small size of Vreelands TransferJacks designed especially for removing the inter-mediate pair of wheels in 6-wheeled trucks, Thepresent method of jacking ear body off the truckand IboD the truck above the central pair of wheelsis expensive and takes lime. Carehil Engineers. In a recent letter toMayorGrant, of New York, Jay Gouldmakes this remarkable eta la-ment : Tp to the 1st of Jauuoiy,1889, the lines operated by the ol^*^,Manhattan Companybavetrans-porled 1, pa-ssengers,of whom but one has been killedwhile in the cars, and those whohave lost their lives ugxin thestructures of the comytany arebut 47 in all. not one of whom,the olHcials of the componyclaim, was fre* from some actof negligence which directlycontributed to the fatal The McGonway & Toriey ■ if Pittsburgh, have placed onI lie market a new rail joint thatliiis some novel features. Itconsists of angle splice bars tomaintain the line, and a heavyclamp that wedges the lowerflanges and plates firmly to-gether by a heavy bolt. Thissecures surface, and preventsthe action of the wheels frombattering the end of the an 18 months trial, in which17,048,440 wheels passed overthe joints, they remained in-tact, with but one tighteningand one surfacing of track. Toncli and tio. The Ltieomolire, puhlisheil hy the Hartford SteamBoiler Inspection and Insurance Co., states thatthere were 246 boiler explosion.^ in the UnitedBtales in 1688; number of persons killed outright,831 ; number injured, .105—fully 100 of Iheni fa-tally. This is a total of 836 killed and maimedduring the year; this does not include the manyminor accidents not reported. A First-Class Stack for Less than TenHollars. As neat straight stacks as are to be .se
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