The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-10-31
Engines and Engineers.
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THE GRAND INTERNATIONAL DIVISION
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LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS,
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Such are we al, unless we are idlers.
Ev cry man who accepts his share Of duty
whether that lead him to the place where l
stand, or to the place where you sat, when
at home upon the engine,-enters into this
brotherhood of toll. This is our lot. It 10
NJ imposed or entailed curse, but divinely
COMFORTS with the needs and nature Of
nan. Redemption from the curse of the
Law is not exemption from the law Of
labor-but it is that mastery of oue's
own powers and their righ.ful training
whereby man realizes tina: there is no
curse upon man save only as man be-
comes 3 curse, as he is law unto himself.
Whate-H- the field Of our activities, if ae-
cordins . our day and strength, we enter
Loyalty into the purpose and plan OF God,
we become part Of that plan and put Cur
finite powers in accord With the Infinite pow
ers Of C ID and in sure and certain sense
become " co-workers together with him."
Your form of industry was born Of ge-
MUS 1t is historically true that the pro-
rerties and functions OF steam, especially
its expansive force, were known prior to the
Christian Era. Heron, In his " Pleumatics''
two centuries before Christ, describes certain
experiments with steam Ii il also certain
that Archimedes prodaeed with is given me-
chanical effects.
But nc steam engine is Just q century
old. Watt produced and patented the krst
such engine in 1868. The locomotive en-
CINE, however, is less than half d century
old, for the fret really successful engine was
Seguin's the French engineers, who intro
duced che upon the RAILWAYS from Roanne
to Lyons, in 1875. say this was the first
successful working of the railway engine.
for Watt hiuself had suggested the feasa-
bliity Of such steam carriages, and in 1872
one Of our own countrymen patented a
steam wagon. As early as 1914 engines
with plain wheels were found to work fairly
on The English roads, for transporting coal
and ore.
The PRESENT perfection, in the construc-
ton and uses of the locomotive engine has
come about by series Of experiments and
Inventions made by men Of scientific apt
itude; men self.dev oted to the good and
advancement Of their fellows, and with the,.
names your labor is linked. To you science
has committed a responsibility, not in be-
us practical utilities. The contiBeutal com.
L.eree Of both worlds aud the sacred lives
Of Ii ousands of our fellow-beings are CON-
mitted in trust to tbs quick will and con
rolled nerve Of your profession.
Under the modern notifications Of labor
tae old caste lines are rapidly disappearing
Alllabor is being sanetitied by the holiness
Of its purpose, and the elevation Of tot
from its mere manual aspect by the new
thought that mechanical ingenuity and dis.
coysry is putting into it. The old reality
of capital end labor as distinct relative in
terests, is now passed into an unreality
they are not only identical in aim, but they
are in an increasing degree identical il
possession.
The capitalist labors not less really thar
they whom this capital employs, and from
generation to generation 1t comes g pas,
that the laborer becomes the capitalist. Ii
this country and time, there is fortune il
every field of industry. These hidden trea-
sures are found and worked by laws as ex
act as that which Fixes the earth 20 it's mas
sy centre.
Every wear, more and more forms of me.
ehanicsl and even manual industry are com
handing greater respect and wiser remu-
neratlon. This will become finally self
adjusted as the basis Of education becomes
commensurate with the children of the Re
public The day draws nigh when all labor
will be intelligent labor. Educated mind
cannot seek solely the more learned pro.
fessions for its activities, but must dignity
and ennoble the most So called mental serv-
ice. When this prophecy Of to- day, written
as Il is in the symbolic language OF our free
schools, has it's fHltilment, then the function
Of invention will begin a career Of which
the past has given no faint foreshadow ing.
Too day, in Salem, it is the hand Of the
manufacturer chat tnrns of from his lap
stone and sewing machine fourfO,d the
number Of shoes known to the old
fashioned cobbler. But the time will
come when the brain Of tina shoemaker
will do the work of the hand :, when
each educated youth who heeds The
grace and calli-g of God TO make shoes,
will attempt the solution Of tins economic
problem, how to so make one palr Of boots
that ID win serve the feet longer than the
four pairs Of former and fimsier days and
be, the educated boot builder, have leisure
to read Mill on Liberty" or Auerbach's
I" On The Heights"
What possibilities and miracles are yet
wrapped up in locomotive engine. Robert
Slephenson's Rocket put on the Man
chester and Liverpool read in 1926 weighed
about four tons, ran at an average of four
teen miles, an hear, with gross lead Of
seventeen tons. Compare these data with
the locomotives turred eat at The Patterson
shops-these things Of strength and beauty
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toe TO shout Eureka Il have found il Bot
the next half century must dc bs.ter thas
the past, or Else matter will continue its
mastery over mind Among he most tedious
and tiresone things . nineteenth- century
man does is bis railway riding.
A fine lady has no suspicion Of what dust
and dirt means until she wakes up some
morning IN an ordinary sleeping coach and
finds upon hooking into TIE ubiquitsas mir
ror that she is literally covered with smoke
ard einderss aAd hesifatesto deeidewtather
il Is really she, the identical woman wiz
went to sleep the night before. But we
would, if the need wea ., all consent to hsve
our faces minstreled over with burnt cork
Ly tie railway homogeneous II they would
only manage to maks the distance from
Chicago to New York twenty hours.
The halts for wood and water belong 10 =
past and crude time, certainly not to ours.
1t used TO require months and sometimes
more. to paint e Tx ness, now the sun wreats
the penal from the artisl's hand kna does
the work in q minutes time. q trsdesman
transaets . millions bsrgsin aorpsb the
whispering gallery Of the SEQ In lissrsily no
time A. Gl+=fsrs eiectriaityssa I'D TSicker
speed than the sun., Theg lime viii come
Mhsn the rays Of the sun will DO conssn-
trstsd upon water 90 % 10 form steam--in
fact, Capt Ericsson has already construeted
a solar engine in which he 6nds that 100
feet surface viii give one horse powsr.
no1ble tracks, hotel carriages pH{oet
rails through trains, and snelnes that win
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