Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-03-29
The LOCOMOTIVE.

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Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
held most interesting stated meeting
10 its lodge room, In Red Mems Hall,
No. 5l5 Shipley street, on the Goth
Inst, CHIEF Engineer W. j. Randolph
presiding. After the business had been
transacted, Mr.. William +. Lockwood
of Glen Loeb, Pa, who was the guest
Of the lodge, gave an entertaining and
instructive locomotive mechanics talk,
his subject being Echoes from the
Locomotive Cab, the Roundhouse and
the Rail Delaware Lodge, No. 231,
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmeu, was
present by invitation Of Diamond State
Division, 10 hear tho address.
Mr.. Lockwood treated his subject in
a general way and illustrated his talk
by using models and blackboard demon-
STATIONS. This startling proposition
was the opening feature of the address:
1.-THE constructors of tho present
standard type of locomotive do not
know the first principles of correct
mechanics when they build their
modern locomotives; Judging Of that
knowledge by its exempliflcation in
their product in a locomotive; and
say this in the spirit Of and in tho
words of Lincolns second inaugural,
with malice towards none, with
charity for all. -
This was the challenge, so called, by
Mr.. ii, ii. Vreeland, president of the
New York Railroad Club, which Mr..
Lockwood threw down to them. aud
which they so far have failed to take
up, except by Mr.. NJ. N. Forney, the
great locomotive expert. and he only
by confession and avoidance.
Mr.. Lockwood was the quest and
speaker before this club at the rooms of
the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, New York, December 2lst,
1899. Mr.. Lookwood's work of 27 years.
with 10000 miles in the locomotive
cab, is now being put in book form for
the special work Of educating loco
motive engineers and firemen, in their
chosen calling. into the higher plane
of service and examinations now TO-
, quired to rass, and also to sustain and
maintain service which has now
| limitation Of time to 10 years,or less.
This Work IS ded Heated to these brother
hoods. as well as the poem reproduced
below, which was born of the blizzard
of February. 1899, which forms the
last page of the book. 1t was read for
the first time publicly at the meeting
| of the New York Railroad Club, re-
| ferIed to above, and both il and the
dedication were read at the meeting in
this city Oh the 18th inst, the reading
of the poem closing the exercises. Fol-
lowing are the dedication and poems:
| DEDICATION.
This chronological history of the
theoretical and practical work of the
author, during the last % years, now
happily accomplished by locomotive
tests, made with real locomotives, at
Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind,
U. s. A.. 1897, is respectfully dedi-
cnted to the American Brotherhoods OF
Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, 10
grateful and kindly remembrance of
many kindnesses shown, and in
recognition Of the fact that these men
are tho heroic instruments, who, for
the time being, exercise that instan-
taneous judgment and decision, which
has carried me for many years safely
over the railways of this country, in
many cases in the locomotives cab,
through difficult and dangerous under
takings, at AN exceptionally high rate
of speed, in proving in practice the
| these men, with their hands on the
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scoop, tho poker and the pick, with
their eyes on the signals and gauges,
who have done their work so grandly,
that they are chief among those named
herein.
| Rudyard Kipling makes his "Scotch
Marine Engineer" say in McAndrew s
Hymn;
THAT started as boiler-whelp-wheps steam
| and he were low,
mind the time we used to pack bursten
main wi tow.
Ten pound was all the pressure then-Eh |!
| Eth la man wad drive;
An here, our workin' gauges give one hun
We're creepin' on wi each new rig-less
weight an larger power;
There'll be the loco.boiler next, an thirty
knots an hour!
Thirty an more. What / ha' seen since
ocean-steam began
| Leaves mo no doot for tie machine: but
what about the man ~
"His hand was on the lever laid,
| His oil-can soOthed the worrying cranks,
His whistle walked the snow-bound grade,
His fog-horn cut the reeking banks"
Earth gave her chosen men of strength
:, CIhey lived and strove and died for mel
| 10 drive my road nations length
And toss the miles aside for me-"
William Il. Lockwood.
Loeb Erie. Glen Loeb, Pa.
WHO ARE THE HEROES? an
Let others sing of Bludsoe. Bradley. Guild
Well they deserve kind memory and a
| tear
But he who holds his manhood undefiled,
Loyal TO lowly duty, is their peer.
Are there no living heroes? Must men die
10 be accounted noble, true and brave?
Are all the laurel wreaths woven to lie
On pale, unconscious brows, cold in the
grave?
Is there no need of praise to him who
stands
True at his humble post, whose eye un-
| closed
Foresees the danger, and whose faithful
Holds free from harm the sacred trust
imposed?
IT. go when duty calls from Preside warm,
To walk the track with ever watchful eve.
To bear the red-light, through the driving
storm,
Or stand to brakes when sleety crystals fly;
To hold lever and to watch gauge,
10 set switch, or give signal true,
To tap wheel. or drive spke-a cage
Might call these trities-but do your
Let one of these be slighted, only one
| These daily duties of ten thousand men,
And somewhere comes the crash, the shrek,
the groan.
Somewhere the roll of death is called
| again,
cannot think the smoke of martyrdom
From burning wrecks of human life Will
The sweetest incense that shall ever come