The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-04
AN ILL-USED FOREIGNER.
BUSTING A BRITISH BULLGINE
WITHOUT ANY WARNING.

KnocIxed Out by a Poor Little Drill
Engine Because the Time Was Being
Made Nearly as Well as by an Amer
lean.
The experiments which the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad people have been trying
with the English locomotive which they
imported are temporarily at an end. Inc
Britisher has been knocked out OF time
by a mere switching engine.
AS has already been stated in THE JER-
sEY CITY NEWS, the Pennsylvania people
brought the locomotive over to this
country in order to ascertain what adj
vantage English locomotives possessed
over those of American build in making
fast time. The locomotive was built IN
Manchester last year and is furnished
with all the latest improvements known
to the English builders. The main point
in which it differs from the American
locomotive is that it has three cylinders
arranged after the principle of the com,
pound engine, the steam being used
twice, at high n at low pressure.
H TESTS.
The driving wheels, which are larger
than those of any Pennsylvania locomo-
tive, are six feet three inches in diameter,
and each pair is worked independently OF
the other. One pair is driven by high
pressure, the other by low. When the
Britisher reached this country it was
without pilot or cab. The Pennsylvania
people supplied both of these deficiencies
and thus robbed the engine of much OF
its original ungainly and awkward ap-
pearance.
1t was first put at work upon the west
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discovered that it could not equal the
American locomotives, either in speed or
hauling capacity. AS those divisions are
plentifully supplied with curves and
grades, the Englishman was transferred
to the New York division, which is more
level and much s%traighter. and set hauling
one of the lighter and slower express
trains between Philadelphia and this city.
1t behaved itself much better this time,
and began to maintain something of the
reputation it enjoys on the other side.
A DRIVER WITHOUT ms"
The locomotive has been driven by an
English engineer, or driver, as he is
called, who came over with it. He is a
short, stout little fellow, with a grizzly
gray beard and a most decided antipathy
for the letter "h." His British soul has
been filed with anguish by the failure of
his pride to beat the Hblarsted Hamerican
hengines," and many are the explana-
tions he has gwen in pallation thereof.
He confidently informed me the other
day that the whole fault lay with the
"bloomin' Hamerican carriages, which
hare so 'eavy you might has well try to
pull han 'ouse, dontcher know"
The performance of his engine on the
New York division, however, somewhat
revived his dropping spirits, and he had
almost regained his wonted cheerfulness
when the company contemplated a step
which UOU16 have I1ndOI1 htQllU made him
wish he had never been born. 1t was
nothing more or less han to hitch his
engine to one of the heavy Pullman eX-
press trains which make extra fast time,
and look to him to and the passengers in
Philadelphia on time. But before this
nefarious scheme could be consummated
the BritiSher met with an accident.
KNOCKED OUT.
Ever since the Englishman made it's ap.
pearance in the yard the American loco
motive engines have looked upon him
with suspicion. They have pulled and
snorted with true patriotism, and it re-
quired all the watchfulness of their engin-
GERS and firemen to keep them from re-
senting the intrusion of the foreigner.
Especially has this been the case with the
saucy little drill engines, which are con-
stantly darling in and out of the depot
and lodging their larger companions. So
long as the Englishman failed to make
any record the little drillers did not trou-
BILE it much, but since it has been picking
up IN the New York division they nave
been kept with difficulty from bursting.
One little rascal, unable to contain
itself longer, saw a good opportunity one
day last week to resent the Britisher's
presence, and as the imported locomotive
came sailing down from the round house
TO the depot, putting on more airs than it's
performance warranted, the little fellow
gathered himself together and ran against
the Britisher with such force as to knock
him completely out in a single round.
The Englishman is now at the Meadow
shops, undergoing repairs, and the heart
of the driver is sad.
1t is rumored around the depot that the
Pennsylvania people will send a Flong-
legged No. 10" to England, to show Brit
lsh railroad men what an American loco
motive can DO with a heavy train.