The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-16
ADVICE TO A YouNe MAN.
How to Take a Reef in Yourself
when in Danger Of Hot-Box.

when in Danger Of Hot-Box.
My son, you remember reading,
not many weeks ago, the statement
of a minister of the Gospel-a for
eign missionary, as he is preaching
in New York-who was obliged to
20 to Europe for long rest, because
he was run down by overwork. II
have hot-box," he said, and then
went on to explain that when a rail-
way train ran too fast and too long
the boxes or journals of the car
wheels became overheated and the
train had to come to halt and re-
main at rest until the .'hot-box"
cooled off. "That's what ails me, Z"
said the good minister. II am not
sick, and / have not broken down /;
1 have simply been working too
hard; I have been going too fast
and doing too much, and have a
hot-box; | must rest awhile; rest
is all I need"
Now, my son, I hope, and l believe
the preacher is better theologlan
than he is a railroader; he ought
to be, anyhow. He knew what allied
him; he had a hot-box. But ne
didn't know what caused it; he said
it was working too hard; doing too
much. Nonsense, my boy, sheer non
sense. utter absurdity. He wasn't
doing half as much as he should
have been doing, maybe. He might
have been the LATEST preacher in
all busy New York, and yet had
hot-box all the same. 1t isn't the
speed that makes the journal heat
up and set fire to the packing,
my son. The box is out of order !;
that's what's the matter. l have
been shot from Philadelphia to Chi
cago on the ''limited," the drivers
fairly throwing the miles away like
seconds, and never smoking axle
nor the loss OF minute on single
mile; and the next day I have
| boarded the Wesley City, Bluetown
and Copperas creek air line-runs
from quarries to Kickapoo siding,
mixed train, tree times a week,
twelve miles an hour-and helped to
carry water from the creek to pour
on a hot-box between every other
station. It isn't the speed, at all
The next time you are whirling
along on a lightning express, and
the train stops to doctor hot jour
nal, you will observe, if you please
that there is but one smoking axle
on all the train of seven Pullman {
or is the plural of that car Pull
men?-running on an aggregate O.
eighty-four wheels. One hot boz
in eighty-four. Now the eighty
three wheels that are in good con
dition were running just as fast al
the one that set fire to its packing
making just as good time, and the,
are ready and able to keep on max
ing time. The wheel that stops tn
train is out of order; there is some
thing wrong about that wheel; /
hasn't been doing bit more thar
any other wheel on the train. An(
when it says it has been doing to-
much and running too fast all tn
other wheels have right to squeal
on their axles in derision, were they
not too smoothly polished and to-
well oiled to be guilty of such harsh
| ness.
! Take care of yourself, my boy
keep yourselfin condition; run reg
ular trips on schedule time; loo
after yourself before and after tn
run, and ut the five minutes stops
and / don't care how much vol
J. may shorten up the time, you ma.
go as fast as you can make stean
and turn the drivers.
1t isn't the great railways, witt
their we'll appoited trains, thorough
ly disciplined and practically edu
= Gated crews that are troubled wit
hot-boxes. You find the hot boxe
on the poorer roads, that run thei
ir expresses on freight train time, an
Z try to save oil by using plenty G
J. water on the boxes, because waite
le is cheap and they think there
ID more economy in cooling he
n journal with water that costs moth
ID ID ing than there is in keeping it coz
c, with oil that costs money. If
ID ID railway train, shooting through tn
i, atmosphere like a streak of ligh
,s ,s ming, should suddenly burst into d.
9r er vouring flame simultaneously fror
of pilot to marker, l should be il
+ clined to think that speed and trl'
m ton had something to do with d
er struction. But when only one whe
in 100 begins to smoke | am pos
tive it is the fault of that one whee
unless it can prove that it was rul
ming faster and going farther tina
any other wheel of it's size on tt
z train.-Robert ]. Burdette.
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