The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-16
RESr CAR ROLLER.
The Consolidated Road Has Got Such Person in Its Employ

Person in Its Employ.
 One of the most interesting sights of skill in the handling of heavy bodies can be seen every day in the shop yard of the Consolidated road below the de- pot. It is that of small-sized man roll ing with one hand and with the greatest ease hundreds of pounds of iron.
 Every person who has seen them knows that an ordinary railroad car wheel is not a very light affair. They weight hundreds of pounds, those small ones in use on the freight trains easily tipping the scales to six and seven hun dred pounds, while those on the passen- ger cars weigh from nine hundred to thirteen hundred pounds. Hundreds of them are changed from cars to platform and Ito other points about the shops every day in the Consolidated roads yards. And the expert in moving them is young man not much larger, it
 seems, than the forty-two inch diame-
 rter thirteen hundred weight wheels. Last Saturday afternoon a representa- l LlV0 Ol LilS JOullIetl dIld 1OuIleI WdS wandering about the repair shop yard He had nowhere else to go, and think | ing that he might run across something
 of interest took a prowl. He was not l disappointed. He was standing on a track when he heard yell in his rear It did not take long to jump one side, and an instant later a big car wheel passed him at rapid rate. It had
 no axle nor was 1t attched to a car, but 1t went, being propelled by one
 hand by what appeared to be a boy. About that time Yardmaster Walter
 E. Jacobs and Thomas Simpson, the right hand man of William H. Fry, the general superintendent of the car de- partment, hove in sight. They were at once subjected to a series of questions and this is what MT. Simpson told the
 Courier" man:
 I've have in our employ, in the per
 son of Henry Zek who passed you, and whom you styled boy the best
 lear wheel roller" in the country, and do not believe that he has his equal in the world. There is not wheel that he cannot handle as easily as boy does wooden hoop, and if it were not for GIltA SlAC LIllDh COulu a driving wheel of a locomotive just as easily At that time Eek passed by at which MT. Simpson said, Now watch him work" and the Courier man did so.
 Leaning up against the side of the car shop was a long line of car wheels Not one was of less than forty-two Inches in diameter and each weighed thirteen hundred pounds. Four men by hard work moved wheel from its position. Eek got behind the wheel gave it push and then started on run with it down the long platform. He patted it at times with one hand, and when he reached point about 150 yards from where he started he was confront ed by a passenger car. But that did not confuse him. Quickly he jumped be- hind the wheel, grabbed each side, gave it a twist, passed the end of the car, within three feet of it, gave the wheel another twist and sent it whirling along with one hand about fifty yards further where he lodged it with the greatest ease among a number of others which he had placed there.
 MT. Simpson said that Eek had been rolling wheels all day and that not one had fallen on it's side. During the day, | and while the reporter was watching the work, two men were pulling hand | trucks, on which was a. thirteen hundred | weight wheel They grunted, growled | and puffed as though it weighed tons. Eek did not even show any>signs of | precipitation, and when the reporter left he was spinning wheel down | the yard passing. two men with a wheel on a truck, who were moving at a snails pace.