The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1875-01-07

BHoN osCE wErE

thing wrong a. you say, OF they wouldn't
always be abusliu' 'Taiu't once, nor
twice. nor now aud then, for it's thing
a. is always 4 happening; and though
I've never had more than q scald or two
mgseif. I've seen some strange sigbts /;
men all blown to pieces, SO they we're
I picked up aile-ward in baskets men
taken TO the hospital with their flesh
hanging TO them In rags, aud there they'd
lie writbiBg and tearing 81 The wrap
pings IN such sgony that--there, ! amt
above owning it--l'vc cried like a child
to see my poor mates suferiugs And
/ there they'd be, day after day, till a sort
Of calm came over them, and the pain
went, when they'd quite smile II YOU
spoke 10 EN-, they seemed so easy; aud
/ Il would be because gentle hand wss
laid upon EN-, and they were going into
the long sleep,
/ Some gets better, but not when they
are scaIdcd badly; for IFS strange stuff,
T is steam, Well, no; I'm not afraid, and
never do feel afraid. What's the good
Ones got TO do, and there's the mouths
at home to feed SO one can't afford il:
aud then the odds are precious long ones
sgainst II being ones own bustin'. But
now so many more steam engines are
coming into use day by day IL seems as
( if something ought to be done in The way
| Of making bilers stronger. Cheapuess is
cheapncss, but then a things dear at any
price that makes suoh ruin as I've seen
sometimes; so why don't they try some
. tougher metal than irou;-lhough, GER
taiuly stcam's strong enough TO tear up
1 up anything But there seems to me to
be some fresh plan wanted for biIers. !
I didn't work there, bnt ! went aud had
look directly after that horrible acci-
/ dent at the works last autumn. Well,
there was about an acre OF buildings
sheds and setrer--swept away rs If you'd
battered 'em all down; great tire-bricks
weighing a hundred and a half, pitched
/ here aud there like chaif; sheets of lead
sent flying hundred yards; tall chin
neys powdered down; aud the big bust.
ed biler itself jumped right out of its
place; while as TO the middle OF it, that
was torn of, and crumpled up, and blown
like a sheet OF paper, to distance. Plen-
ty of life lost there, ,and plenty of escapes
but what took most notice Of was the
plates torn off the biler--torn off, us |
said before, like so much paper; while
these sheets or plates of iron had given
away at the rivets, and looked for all
the world like torn off postage stamps
torn of, Of course, along the perfors-
ting.
Now, then, says to myself, that's d
thing as wants altering. You perforate
the edges of your plates 10 admit rivets
and so take half their strength of'-per.
haps more, then you puts, perhaps hot
rivets in, and they perhaps crystalize:
the iron-only perhaps, mind, don'I
say SO, only the raw edges Of the biler
looked crystalized and brittle. Well
then, some day comes hexlry pressure
o. steam, and mp goes your biIer-busted
and spreading rnin, and death, and mis-.
cry around,
Then how are we to fasten our bier
plates, says you, if we don't rivet 'em
IIC,.. tLavll | trcu,g o;r'4 a rcfo,t; q
mani only stokes. But YOU amt a
going to tell me, are you, that You scien-
tGc men and biler makers can't find no
other way to make biers only by rivct.
ing them: Say you bends the plates
edge over, and hooks one into the other
like the tin sarspan makers does their
tin They'd stand some strain that way
aud YOU wouldn't weaken your plates,
amt biler maker, or should try that
dodge, think; but there, that's only
one way out Of many as could be found
by experiment.
Seems 10 me, sir, as il we Euglsl
people hates anything new, aud AWAY,
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