. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ng the claims madeis that nearly all the working parts oper-ate in a bath of oil, and the other partsare continuously lubricated in a very thor-ough manner. An item worthy of noticewhich at^ects the economy of the machineis that the coinprcssor operates only whenair is being used. The automatic governor,supplied with each machine, stops the number who have tried to gain is a constant influx of farmer boysinto railway service, and many of themwho succeed in finding employment maketh
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ng the claims madeis that nearly all the working parts oper-ate in a bath of oil, and the other partsare continuously lubricated in a very thor-ough manner. An item worthy of noticewhich at^ects the economy of the machineis that the coinprcssor operates only whenair is being used. The automatic governor,supplied with each machine, stops the number who have tried to gain is a constant influx of farmer boysinto railway service, and many of themwho succeed in finding employment makethe mistake of their lives in leaving of them while pursuing the monot-onous labors in the fields watch the trainspassing to and fro and imagine that thepeople manning the trains must have adelightful time, with little to do, follow-ing an eventful existence where fatigueand weariness are unknown. There islittle time for weariness among train-men, but there is daily hard work of acharacter so trying, so wearing and soexacting that the farm youth never didwork to approach it. Seldom a week. STEVENS AUTOMATIC STOKER. motor as soon as the pressure reaches apredetermined maximum, and starts itagain when the pressure is reduced to aminimum. Copies of this catalogue may be had bypersons interested on application. Thecompanys New York office is at 135Broadway. Farming Preferable to Railroading. Some of the most successful men inrailway life have spent their early youthon farms. The training of hard work re-ceived on farms has been valuable in de-veloping the quiet perseverance and theuncomplaining endurance that do somuch to insure the success of men in rail-way work; but the prizes gained by farm-raised boys are small in proportion to the passes when we fail to receive lettersfrom farm hands, many of them sons ofsubstantial farmers, asking us to advisethem how to proceed so that an appoint-ment as fireman can be secured. Afarmer is about the most independentman in the commun
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