The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-06-17

standards of American work, says
A. y. ritI.in-I.imitntions ~ TO Di-
mensions Ha-npcrcd the builders.
Vice President and General Manager
A. J. pitl,iu of the Schenectady Loco
motive works, one Of the first 'authori-
ties ON locomotive building In the Unit
ed States when questioned the other
day as To the statements of Sir Ernest
Pagpt and MIR. Johnson of the Alidland
railway against American engines
said.
"The statements made by these gen
tlcmon are undoubtedly true but they
are misleading as To- the comparative
merits Of the American engine and the
British locomotive. for the conditions
of railway operation IN England are
entirely different from those obtaining
in the United States I'm England train
loads are light and locomotives are not,
as rule, worked anywhere near 70
their maximum capacity.
As n real test Of the value Of Amer
icar locomotives as compared with the
British It is a well known fact that.
based on the tons OF freight moved per
mile, the American locomotive I'm Amer
lean train service will show much less
cost than the British locomotive i'm
service on the Midland railway in the
three items mentioned 10y Mr.. Johnson
viz repairs. oil and fuel. ON the con
trary. were British locomotives placed
on the leading roads In America they
would prove totally inadequate for the
service required and too costly In serv-
ice to compete with American locomo-
tiyes.
"In building locomotives for the Mid
land railway the American builders
wcrc confined to certain limitations as
20 dimensions 90 meet the requirements
Of the road. consequently the American
locomotives on the Midland railway
should not be considered as standards
Of American practice.
as an evidence Of the value of the
American locomotive abroad 1t can be
stated that the Schenectady Locomo-
tive works is now at work on the sixth
consecutive order of 10 locomotives
each, making 10 in all. for one road in
Japan. where until within the past
three or four years British and con-
tinontal built locomotives have been
used almost exclusively.
During the past three years, i'm fact,
nearly 80 per cent of all the locomo-
tivCs going to Japan have been built
| by the Schenectady Locomotive works,
which is conclusive evidence of the su-
! poriority Of the American design and
bu'id. We are receiving very favorable
reports of the operation of our engines
| in Japan. They are used on all the
prominent roads In Japan, including
| the imperial government road. When
| the emperor took n trip over the length
| of the road. of the seven locomotives
selected five were of Schenectady Lo-
comotive works build, which Is pretty
good evidence that they have conf
dence in American built locomotives"
Angus Sinclair, the editor Of Railway
and Locomotive Engineering and rec
Ognized authority on the subject, said
to New York Sun reporter recently
that. in addition to the fact that the
American builders were put at dis
advantage by restrictions as TO design
II had been almost impossible for al
| American built engine to overcome
preiudlces existing I'm the minds Of ev
erybody connected with the English
! railways, from the hremen and en-
gineers TO the various superntendents
The Midland railway got the Amer
lean engines at time when an en-
glneerlng strike was affecting the road
and. rs the company had TO set loco
motives, ii sent to this country fol
them. Thirty were built by the Bald
win company and ten by the Schenec
tady works. They were delivered with
in a very few months after the placing
Of the order, and each cost the British
company something like $i0O less THAI
their own engines. 1t is asserted on th'
authority of c. Rous- Marten, n British
locomotive expert, that the same Su
perintendent Johnson on whose repor
Sir Ernest Paget now condemns tn,
American engines said recently:
"The whole of the 40 engines pur
chased from Amerca-namely, 80 from
the Baldwin Locomotive works at Phil
adelphia and 10 from the Schenectad.
works-are now working on the line
and so far they are doing their work Il
satisfactory manner and taking tn
same loads as the engines built In thi
country. They are, however, heavie
in the consumption OF coal and oil thai
our own engines doing the same work.
"The American locomotive" said MI
Siuclalr, 'is more durable than tn
English machine, and nothing that tn
English can say will convince me tha
: am wrong. was born and brough
up in Scotland. and | ran on locomo
/ tives there enough to know all abou
them. When came over to this couI
try. went on very small railroa
out west where they only had one Ell
CINE. The receiver Of the works show
ed me the engine and asked me hoy
bong could run 1t without sending 1t
| the repair shops.
| "Tu run 1t year. ! said.
| "He told me TO go ahead. Well,
i ran tho anpine for two wears, Afte