. Railway mechanical engineer . re at the rear of tlie firebox, asthe action of the blower will draw it ahead. To light thefire oily waste is dropped inside the door, and a light bloweris at once used. The fire is allowed to burn until it is wellstarted, and the draft is then gradually increased. In a shorttime, under ordinary conditions, the coal is ignited, andthere is a good fire over the entire grate area. A strongblower is an important factor in reducing smoke. If the coal is proj)erly placed and of sufficient amount itwill not be necessary to add more until the engine leavesthe roundhous
. Railway mechanical engineer . re at the rear of tlie firebox, asthe action of the blower will draw it ahead. To light thefire oily waste is dropped inside the door, and a light bloweris at once used. The fire is allowed to burn until it is wellstarted, and the draft is then gradually increased. In a shorttime, under ordinary conditions, the coal is ignited, andthere is a good fire over the entire grate area. A strongblower is an important factor in reducing smoke. If the coal is proj)erly placed and of sufficient amount itwill not be necessary to add more until the engine leavesthe roundhouse, unless the boiler has been filled with coldwater. This will give approximately 100 lb. steam with aboiler full of cold water in one hour and forty the boiler full of hot water and no steam pressure, theengine can leave the house in one hour. With this mannerof firing we do not get over a No. 2 .smoke at any time if theblower ig properly convention of the Smoke Pre- Tips From Chief Clerks to Supplymen. THE EDITOR received in the morning mail a few weeksago a letter from the chief clerk to a master mechanictelling of the mistaken idea one supplyman had ofhow to do business in a railway office. The first impressionwas that the experience was an unusual one; the next thoughtthat it might be well to check it up with the experience ofother chief clerks. A dozenchief clerks to mechanical de-partment officers were there-fore asked for frank expres-sions as to their letter which caused thediscussion follows, as well asabstracts from several lettersw-hich were received from otherchief clerks. \ BAD START BY A MASTER MECHANICS CHIEF CLERK Recently a gentleman, well-dressed, entered a master me-chanics office in a more or lessexcited state, approached thechief clerks desk, making in-([uiry for the master mechanicin the following manner: Twould like to see Mr. Jones. The chief clerk, after real-izing that he had a very ex-cited mentality and unedu
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