. Railway master mechanic [microform] . -General Worman, stating that the Bavarian governmenthas decided to construct a large number of new loco-motives from the designs of the American locomotivesintroduced by the railways of Bavaria nearly fouryears ago. During the next two years 40 locomotivesare to be replaced by 70 new locomotives, and 5,000,000marks ($1,190,000) are to be expended for this pur-pose. The two locomotive building establishments inMunich, the large establishment of Maffei, as well asthat of Kraus, are to be favored in the distribution ofthese contracts. A Washington pre
. Railway master mechanic [microform] . -General Worman, stating that the Bavarian governmenthas decided to construct a large number of new loco-motives from the designs of the American locomotivesintroduced by the railways of Bavaria nearly fouryears ago. During the next two years 40 locomotivesare to be replaced by 70 new locomotives, and 5,000,000marks ($1,190,000) are to be expended for this pur-pose. The two locomotive building establishments inMunich, the large establishment of Maffei, as well asthat of Kraus, are to be favored in the distribution ofthese contracts. A Washington press dispatch states that fifteen of theInterstate Commerce Commissions inspectors of railwaysafety appliances were presented to President Roosevelton Dec. 17 by Edward A. Mosely, secretary. The inspec-tors were in Washington in connection with an applica-tion for an extension of time for the adoption of thesafety appliances required by act of congress. January, 1904 RAILWAY MASTER MECHANIC 17 The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. HE American Society of Mechanical Engi-neers convened for its forty-eighth meetingat its house in New York City, Tuesdayevening, December 1, 1903. After an in-formal gathering of an hour or two, themembers were called to order. PresidentJames M. Dodge then delivered his presi-dential address, on the Money Value ofTechnical Training, in which he made avery careful comparison of the eminence attained by thetechnically trained man, the trade school graduate, theshop trained man and the unskilled laborer, pointing outthat the progress of the world calls for a better andmore speedy means of producing trained men thancould ever be developed by the methods of self-in-struction. The business meeting opened Wednesday morning at10 oclock in Mendelssohn Hall, the first thing on theprogram being the presentation of reports of the variouscommittees. The tellers of election of members pre-sented their report through the secretary, showing that58 new full memb
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