Telegram-herald., 1890-03-19
TRICKS N AL TRADES.
A knight @ tae 1hrottls" Tells
Coed Story.
WhSs the tdisness Of Ts0 dandred MSH
Ae1ns ~ sn tmploy -hos Per
sistsot Sslesns4 NOrk Purchaser

whss the ldisRess Of I've aandred Msn
Ae1ns - sn tmploy er-Hos Per
sisteot >slssn-e4 M0Tk Purchaser
.sThere are tricks Ia a trades, ! sup
pose, but / VAS never fooled ID travel
iag salesman but oaoe," remarked q
I uead eng neer, aho also Is tae bay
~ n bis ds pAfim,ut Tor one OF tie
l.osg pFomlueuG institutions Ia Grand
l.Ap Us
"Uf oours - he said, '.there are
agents aloag every day selling giue,
F. warn sli, oil, ETC., an4 each one of
theni "a, something just htlle b.t BET
trr tAan use l-An wno preceded nm
and, sltaoush / s.ll0m buy, some
uaes get interested in tie fellow
STORY, and am amused al lis p gsist-
,nce. NOW, OF all The articles man
wants u let alone when he has got
good article j. oil. and OF all tle hard
workers among the BOYS on tAv road
tne most persistent Is the FELLOW who
comes N with ms lit,le care under has
arm and viii stay wlih YOU all day or
until YOU agree 10 give his cal trial,
T.. fore he vii aass on. During the tour
wears have been here TINS concern has
never mad 10 wait hve minutes Tor nay
engine 10 turn. In ON, words Il Keeps
n moving every minute during work
ing hours, and TINS success u aue IN
great measure 10 the good oil ] use.
Zone day the proprietor came into
the engine room and | saw AT glance
Ii Was m OIL man who accompanied
him. He had the identical oI / was
using, he said. winch could be bought
much cheaper than the price had been
paying. 1t was made bv hls house after
learning Its process of manufacture
from an old empioye of the concern
from whom We had so l0ag bought
goods. HIS story was plausible; his
samples was good and the proprietor
was 50 anxious to save 4 few cents on a
gallon that 1t was ageed 10 give the new
oil trial. The oil came and put IL
into my cup and regulated the feed to
drop the same quantity as before ana
| | started up. In less than ten minutes
the valve gear on that engine Sroaned
| so that | had to increase the feed. 1t
continued TO groan and | continued 10
Increase the feed OF the oil, and tnen 10
cap the climax the pin got warm Il was
using Cylinder Oil on the pln), and I'M
allv | shut down and changed the oil.
That shut down kept 200 men idle ten
minutes, total of 1000 min utes or
| thirty-three aud one-third hours. which
the firm had to lose, and YOU can
guess when the proprietor came down
and learned the cause of the delay, be-
tween us we made that engine room
blue. al rwards learned the fellow
| who sold the oil had borrowed from one
| Of my firemen a sample bottle Of my
own oil and came around again IN the
afternoon of the same day and sold me
the goods.
ooh, yesl There is other oil which
Will lubricate the valve gear Of this big
, | engine as well as 900 W cylinder oil, if
you used enough of it. For instance, a
local mixer of oil sent a can Of his
! cylinder oil down here and gave it to
me to try. did not care to introduce
2 | il on the main engine, SO | put It on the
| pony and the pumps. The valve gear
seemed to work all right but then |
had to feed twice as much OF the
: cheaper oil to obtain anything Ike a
| good result, and, another thing, the
sample he sent was made mainly of
tallow oil, which | would not use.
What do mean by mixers of oil? Why,
concerns who buy from manufacturers
and then compound or mix the goods
put on fancy brand and sell for a
. fancy price. There are, if | am cor
rectly informed, no manufacturers OF
oil west of Cleveland. o. course. there
are firms who make lard and tallow
e oil, out of necessity, when working over
& rough tallow or lard, hut neither one
: Of these goods are tit for engine cylin-
u ders, and Il good practical engineer
II could not be hired TO use a tallOw or
: for that purpose. Another great fad
e among oil men is the sale of so-called
i West Virginia oil, when in fact the well:
4 in West Virginia dred up years ago.
i Vacuum oil, the same as | use. Il
c manufactured from pure mineral oil
5. under what IS known as the Vacuum
z process, and has, by far, the largest sale
u OF any oil sold IN Grand Rapids. Il
comes a little higher than parafine ol
}, tallow oils, but goes more than twice a,
+ far and is consequently cheaper and
being purely of a mineral product, j:
better for machinery by great odds
y After most practical and searching
: test, 1t has been adopted by this Gov
}. ernment and the Government of Grea
~ Britain, ana IS ueeO DN majority o
{ the leading railroads and steamIhiI
r lines Of both countries. There is one
thing about It; man can go about hi
= other work content with the fact tina
> everything is running smooth and cool
0 and that's good enough for me-" And
so saying. the knight of the throttle ex
Q cused himself and turned 10 address Al
. individual with little case under hi
* arm who for all the ropOrtgr know
was one of those persistent oil men.