. American engineer and railroad journal . ailway inthe world that has paid more to an engine-driver than to itsmanager, the last-named funclionary receiving, according tothe account of 1840, tlOO per year, the tralhc-in-spector £60, and a cashier at each terminus .£40 ; while theEnglishman, a nominee of Stephenson, who attended to theiron steed, eked out a merry existence upon an annutil stipendof £135. Notwithstanding Ihe competition engendered by theconstruction of a tramway between Nuremberg and Fiirth in1880, the railway company has continued to fiourish, and lastyear it paid
. American engineer and railroad journal . ailway inthe world that has paid more to an engine-driver than to itsmanager, the last-named funclionary receiving, according tothe account of 1840, tlOO per year, the tralhc-in-spector £60, and a cashier at each terminus .£40 ; while theEnglishman, a nominee of Stephenson, who attended to theiron steed, eked out a merry existence upon an annutil stipendof £135. Notwithstanding Ihe competition engendered by theconstruction of a tramway between Nuremberg and Fiirth in1880, the railway company has continued to fiourish, and lastyear it paid its usual dividend of 21 jier cent., the receipts hav-ing been £15,800 and Ihe expenses, .£12,200. The reserve-fundalready amounts to £66,600, while the share-capital, it seems,.still remains at the original tigure of £8,000. The presentmarket value of the shares, we may add in conclusion, is atrifle over £50 each.—Troro. 438 THE AMERICAN ENGINEER [September. 1893. miw-minifrimTrniiiirJiiiiiiit-iiiiirprriiiiiniiiniinmiiifiiTiMi. WC*^A — ^^-^^C ^ f r^^ ^ Y^ ^ V tri ^Z-^ ^^^^-^ti 2£ = £ = ?23 -? c 5 r i/- — — fc- So:; - H C 9 O ~ - u * — -^ ■= S S -S == cc i ^ _ =: tio- •= 5 = . = ? ? tlliliilJtFJiii^Jlll „-o/. t-^Eo^-ogS^CSrSAi^^.r — ■/. 5 i|.:-^il- = £| 1-1.^1=1 E«^ = £ 2 5 £ S 2-^ i:-? =Sg i^ ii^ ~ = g^-^ c^^ =; == SN- ^ - C C w jj _^ ••— H X _s *r w p tj (■> ^ -*- •— *C Z r- a; !;u)zz (J) B ct:u (/)uiH tnQ U) H Z D f= =■ ~ t c ■r ;; = !r 5 .— »i *^ c; = t: u ., <« S X c .i: .c •= g c o = = S - 2 3C C^i S - s° &2 J-^(—■:3~c~_ =co-5-«C- I. o Ei a g^ g 5 :.5-5- -•5: ■- c s £. c-3 uts = • a Vol. LXVII, No. 9] AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 439 -t- y o o Ed cc 3cao :/: ta< CO QM atJ la M O ■«! J !U Mo o a lO-in. valve. The brass pipe is 10 in. in diameter and is madeof metal So. 14 thick Birmingham wire K^uge, and eachcourse in the shell of the Ijoiler is composed of three
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