. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nvention is patent applied for. and already quiti .1 number id are ar- M■■■II ..I it adoption, j. B. Barnes, S. M. P. & M., Wabash R. , III. $ & $Treatment of Employes on Russian : As one win. ,rs ac- tively engaged in the motive power anilMMi liincry department of the Nicolasand other Russian railways, I have readwith much iiiiii- 1 the article on Rus-sian Railways, written In \l i \V. J. Mc- there was a landing rule lor lln payment of every Other year to each faithful emplo


. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nvention is patent applied for. and already quiti .1 number id are ar- M■■■II ..I it adoption, j. B. Barnes, S. M. P. & M., Wabash R. , III. $ & $Treatment of Employes on Russian : As one win. ,rs ac- tively engaged in the motive power anilMMi liincry department of the Nicolasand other Russian railways, I have readwith much iiiiii- 1 the article on Rus-sian Railways, written In \l i \V. J. Mc- there was a landing rule lor lln payment of every Other year to each faithful employe, m receipt ofmonthly wages, a bi lal to two months salary; and also another rule,which entitled all such on quitting thee, or being retired therefrom, to r. -reive one months salary for every year .1service r< ndered. I should add that nearly all, outside of mi tnd la- came under the rules men!Mr. W. J. McCarroll sp .rably of Russian passenger cars on the whole,but complain- of their p lation and lighting. He seems to have-looked the fact that the cars on tin. Locomotive Engineering BAKNKS FEED WATER HEATER. Carroll, which appeared in your Februaryissue. For many years Russia has been a goodfield for mechanical engineers and fore-men in machine shops and foundries, and,no doubt, will continue to be so for sometime to come; but it can offer no induce-ments to enginemen and trainmen equalto those they enjoy in this country. Thelanguage, which is of course essential toanyone doing business in the countrv,i~ difficult to acquire, and but few foreign-ers learn to speak it with accuracy orfluency. As to the treatment accorded to em-ployes on Russian railways I can. frompersonal experience, say much in its of the railways, in my time, weremost liberal in the distribution of dividends to stockholders times for the employes. On theNicolas Railway (the Pennsylvania Raii- olas Railway are lighted with gas. Asfar back as 1878 the cars r


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