The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-12-12

il has beoo,ue viii them 4 mechanical
Apollo, aud they would ne nnonsr listen 10
any proposed 10 give L new f6rsns than
would the genius 81 sruin<nfe a. Ia chosen
discinlos. "a Transform ths ebef fraeye 81
the Belvidere gallery jnto Ale fradit,onal
tripedal ABORIGINAL Of nlanx. or. a either
words. che three legged ouocuness jtcsris
sta5if Of the Isis of Man. The marine enzi-
neer NAV cut and carve hss shrines in q
hundred wnvs standias ,han a, tke,r heads
Or their heels ar wing shem ON 'sheir bscks
or thar bell,es IN COR thev ara f,either fish.
flesh nor fowl, o., q ssiiors would say,
',hog, dog nor DEVIL bat animated msssss
OF ironsaongefy, and nothing better. But
the locomotive engine is horse Of another
color, and more than half of al the iocoma-
tive engineers in the world wonld. we are
surp NJ, - thev ia onen their hesrss nra.
noss,c. ,h.;S f.va,;ss rail;n. = 4, .I n.
becanss !, can moi a.. hesvsr = i. J D.
xasus. and thew woald dwell ,npon his
'spoints,'' klbel that DO has neisher name
nor tai, with the Affection Of Jockey ca
ressing the favoFite. for the two thousand
guneas. PEI
Now. without exactly translating the iron
horse INTO A Qeldins. Il Is REQUISITE that be
should be materially altered. Good looking
as he may be, he is never sheless the greatest
beast that paweth the valley and his paving
rs really more tnsn tne valley can with.
stand. Ia pain Enghsa, the locomotive o.
1900 70 . monster whicn ell good engineers
should unite to destroy, Hels the stalking
horse Of railway bankruptcy, the Raunt
steed OF railway ruin. IL Is time he was of
to the knackerss and his carcass sold Tor
what u viii ietch an gun metal )preei0cs IT.
tle) and old iron. There are several counts
Ut the indictment against this heast. Bot
chi AZ be will perfoI nd his nlungine. racing.
h-ek,ny and shying only unop an iron raj.
wav And AZ his ser,nnsd.l ar octnu.,,.l
hoofs there i eensr.llv one ra;r a. vh;eh
from ten to fourteen tons of bis carcass are
supported With these he will often let
out' ia q manner 10 grind fire from the rails
bsneath hin. Harnessed a. bis best, the
traiE If traps at his heels has nowhere q
wheel loaded to more than three or four
tons-the latter very, very seldom i.de,d.
although the load is d9ubtless growing with
the free Of bad example Now, TO draw
the line somewhere, no railway ought ever
TO be strained with q load OF more than four
tons 70 wLeei, We can remember the lo-
comouve shortly after ne was ioaied, and
when, rs q colt, pc beat toe devi's tattoo
with bis little Wbetls-heels we mean
weighing not more than five tons On the
hunI pair and he was four footed locopo.
tive then, and not 9 SIX or eight footed nom
descript as now. Bless his little boiler he
could, as he was tben, ride ON the footpla.e
If the hard.mouthed stations that tear over
1 the rails now. and thew would never feel !,
although The raceco urse. 'scleut s.perma.
nent way" might, But he has grown alto
gether too big, ard he must either have
more legs put under MIN Or else be knocked
on the head. There Is a NAN pair OF legs
70 every egg NJ .hrouso wn'cn y must ex'
err all IFS strength OF pun. FOR strong
pull AL the legs mi s. plli together, aud al
must keep exact stp with each other
This can only be secured by means Of Ger.
tain harness known as coupling rods, bcI
when more than SIX legs AZ m"st are cou
pied, there Is iretting and cbahng. What
With the difference Ia shoelng, and 40 the
weight OF each pair OF legs, there is con-
slant tendency TO .et out Of step, whIch on
/ Iy the coupling rods can restrain. When
the beast has eight, ten or twelve legs, as
some Of them have, coupling rods may be
carried altogether too far. The weight /.
well distributed, no doubt-say to four, OF
at most, i've tons on q hoof-but the coup
ling rods do almost more arm than good
and in turning Tottenham Corner, or, in
other words, . sharp curve, the of wheels
are playing mischief with every thing OF
that side. The fact Is. very long beIfied
horses, a the breed We are now dealing
with. will never ride well 10 shs ring
Dropping the metaphor, eight, ten or twe'v'
coupled engines, having, therefore, necessar
ny long wheel Bases tear the way TO pieces
and themselves TOO
Aud yet larger engines than almost an,
now in u.e are required 70 work heav)
goods traffic with economy-say forty tiv'
70 eighty trucks, IN train on reasonabl,
good l'nes. We sse no solution Of the prob
lem OF sly ton or sixty ton engines, excep
Il hos a