. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . s to have a main-bearing fixed or crank disk balanced, orerosshead lined up—did ever a man try to 191 the wrong oil, forgot to cross himself andtip his bat as he came in the room, or someother good mechanical excuse, designedby Tomkins, or on lines and formulas laid last one that came back to be doctoredcaused the same talk, and one of my hoysasked me what ailed the beauty 7 andafter mentally thinking which part of herwould be least likely to be seen. I said. the frame cracked between the valve andtbe cy
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . s to have a main-bearing fixed or crank disk balanced, orerosshead lined up—did ever a man try to 191 the wrong oil, forgot to cross himself andtip his bat as he came in the room, or someother good mechanical excuse, designedby Tomkins, or on lines and formulas laid last one that came back to be doctoredcaused the same talk, and one of my hoysasked me what ailed the beauty 7 andafter mentally thinking which part of herwould be least likely to be seen. I said. the frame cracked between the valve andtbe cylinders, and gave him a job at theother end of the shop—he is too in-quisitive and investigating when thereis something you dont want him to Next day I was sent out to see another,and 111 be whipped if they didnt put thathoy of mine to taking her apart, and twastoo late to mend matters when I gothack. He began to quote to me aboutSolomons saying regarding the truttifnl-ness of men. which was, to say the least,applicable to the case, but then I couldntlied so much ; Tomkins sprung \. had his reasons. He had been foremanfor years, bad seen as many as eight su-perintendents over him, and Blinkei-s said,on the quiet to his few bosom friends, that the real 1 Blinkers with corrugated teeth which twisted the ruth into a lie before his mouth shot off. If Blinkers had told tbe solemn, bald-headed truth on every occasion he wouldnthave held his job six months, and Blinkersknew it. And knowing that nobody knew which, but Tomkins knewthat could be fixed all right, and went onbuilding more of em. But blower No. ididnt quite suit, even if it was ■ perfect,the foundations wouldnt stand the shake,and something had to be done, and asTomkins wasnt able to get the shake outof her in a little over a years trial, theowners took her in hand, put on ordinarycompressor cylinders and valves, and thefirst perfect blower ceased to be ; butnewspapers and medals of award kept thesuccess booming, and
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