. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . n, and publishedfirst in 1776. We believe that the bookmentioned had more influence on the po-litical economy of nations than all otherwritings of a like nature combined. Smithwas a keen observer and a deep investi-gator of industrial problems, and much ofhis advice would have greatly profited theBritish nation, had it been heeded. Hewas the first to tell about the increase ofa workmans productive powers when hewas continually repealing the saine opera- selves, could make, each of tliem, upwardsof two th
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . n, and publishedfirst in 1776. We believe that the bookmentioned had more influence on the po-litical economy of nations than all otherwritings of a like nature combined. Smithwas a keen observer and a deep investi-gator of industrial problems, and much ofhis advice would have greatly profited theBritish nation, had it been heeded. Hewas the first to tell about the increase ofa workmans productive powers when hewas continually repealing the saine opera- selves, could make, each of tliem, upwardsof two thousand three hundred nails in aday. Cooke Locomotive for Wales. The eight-wheel connected, double-end-ed tank engine here shown was recentlybuilt by the Cooke Locomotive and Ma-chine Company, Paterson, N. J., for thePort Talbot Railway and Docks Company,Port Talbot, Wales. The engine weighs 169,000 pounds inworking order, of which 137,000 poundsrest on the drivers. The total wheel baseis 22 feet I inch, 15 feet 6 inches being thedriving wheel base. The cylinders are 19 x 24 inches, and. COOKE EIGHT-COUPLED FOR WALES. The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie manage-ment have recently adopted the policy ofsubjecting all applicants for positions inthe train service to a vigorous examina-tion for physical, mental and moral de-fects, at the same time charging them$ for the examination. There is con-siderable dissatisfaction among the would-be employes of the road on account of theexamination and the charge for the same,but we think that the company are per-fectly justified in putting it into condition of train service now re-quires intelligent men. and the right wayto have an intelligent set of trainmen isto see that intelligent men are hired in thefirst place. The $ charged is a smallmatter, but it will keep back the peoplewho are not likely to come up to the re-quirements. tion. but the practice never met with wideapplication until Eli Whitney, an Amer-ican, extended it to arm
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