The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-09-05

applied themselves to the consideration OF
the cheapness and advantage Of mineral
fires. The Baltimore and OHIO, the Read
ing and some other Of its Penney lyania
associates, use it; the Hudson River is ex-
perimenting with it successfully, and is j.
found OF the latter that by the change $780,.
900 a year may be saved TO the company
This will pay the interest on million OF
its debt. There is gain also in the distance
rum besides the absolute saving in cost, as ton
Of bituminous coal, if prices were equal, will
carry locomotive much farther than Its equ,-
vslent in wood. The use Of this material has
come into universal use at sea-why not on our
rails:
To assure, however, the general adoption OF
coal upon our railways we must have furnaces
and boilers adapted to its combustion. The igno-
rant attempts Of patent seekers must be failures
| Of course. while the man Of science, who knows
how to mix the gases Of the furnace with their
due proportion Of oxygen ana what should oe
| the form Of the fire chamber-who knows what
| to do with the smoke and howto eccnomize and
regulate the heat produced will alone under
stand what kind of apparatus is necessary LOT
MS, ~, mas been solved
'no pu.p "a England aud the Tinted
successfully learn from new a..s No .tsrlu
Publication on Permanent Way and Coal
Burning Locomotive Boilers work which
will do more to save our railway interests from
destruction than any other scientific effort that
has yet been made
If, then, those who have invested their money
in railways wish to save something out of the
wreck, they must demand an entire change in
the management Of their companies. Let
bankers and money jobbers do the financiering
if they will, but let none but men who are
thorough and practical engineers manage the
roads themselves Let attorneys and counsel
be employed when their services are really Ne
cessary, but let them keep their hands out o!
The treasury and their opinions off the track
In one company, which has lloundered in Wall
street for many year, sudden cnange in the
principle of management, suggested By the
HERALD in this ana prev ious articles, is steadily
efecting saving Of from twenty to twenty five
thousand dollars month, without lessening its
efficiency or accommodations for the public.
The leaks we have thus in part pointed oui
are only to be discovered and guarded agains,
by educated and practical engineers, and vic
are not to be blinded by the tricks aud dscep.
tons of those employees and sub-ags1ts who
thrive on the misior tunes and mishaps oil rail
way Companies To them breakdown is like
a wreck to the wreckers: they grow rich
while the stockholders grow poor. There is
nothing go profitable or SO desirable TO certain
class Of men connected with railway manage
ment as the mshaps, smashes, crashes and
deaths on a railway.
A smooth and permanent road, we'll ballasted,
well laid, well drained, well watched with en-
| gines clean and in order, well trucked cars,
| good coal furnaces and boilers, with first rate
mechanics In the machins shops, u scientific
economy OF time and money, aud entire free
dom from the opportunities of contracting aud
| specializing directors, are indispensable TO the
| production Of that almost obsolete fsst-a rail-
way dividend.