The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-09

a fine fr carrying the smoke out through
the roof. These hues are eutomaticall,
opened and closed that in cold weather
for instance, the warm air in the house may
not he wasted.
Men with hose begin 10 wash GU, I've
boilers. then the wipers get To work; and
finally the foreman. with the engineer
written statement Of what II needed, seis
the machinists az work.
Suppose, Mr. Passenger. that the tire of
one of tho driving wheels of an engine was
wearing locs", what would you dor Would
you Know enough 10 take on that tire by
heat, to put In another piece AID then put
tho tire ON over that lay first heating II -
that IL expands, leaving il to shrink i'self
on tiyhi "a II cOois!
And suppose you had a 1-foot driving
wheel which you wanted 10 turn or, what
would you do' In this big rouudhouse
there 1t "A pit which runs around the whole
circle OF the house The wheel i lift'd OF
10y compressed air. Ie' down into this pit,
carried around q on track which runs the
length OF Il. lifted out again by compressed
air, al the ent rance To the repair shop and
placed where il j. wanted And one man
can do the whole thing
In the repair shop, II IL the same thing
Apparently men stand Idle. Machine ny
does the work while the men boss the
machines.
There il AN engine for COMPRISING air,
tho dynamo for supplan,ins niger
power AT the turnt able, a machine which
shaves stee! car wheels as ii l. were cuttin y
cheese, an engine for pumping water. a
hot air plant with 10000 feet Of hot air
pipes. This last il for heating the round
house and The hops in cold wea; her.
Near the shop is the oil house The
man in charge has had his job for years aud
this is this fourth oil house he has had
charge Of
which he had to pump the oil. He also
required the assistance of five or Fix men
in unloading.
Now the oil car Is run alongside OF his
platform and he alone takes OF il0 barrels
month. He has five grades of oil, kero-
sene, signal, car, valve and fuel oil. Each
grade j. run into a separate tank in the
basement Of the building. whore by means
of hot air a high enough temperature il
kept for even the heavier oils to run
freely.
These tanks are connected by pipes with
faucets In the main room above. When a
faucet l. turned, compressed air forces
the oil up through the pipe, 80 that "A gallon
measure Gun be filed In less than a minute,
Al over the country new roundhouses
arr being built. The old ones are not big
enough for the new locomotives. An
engine sixty feet long and half again n
high AZ the antiquatcd specimens, which
nowadays are seen but rarely on the big
lines. cannot possibly h" stabbed In the
old rOundhou-es
To railway machinists these new houses
with their miracle, of up-to-date devices
mean great step in the elevation Of their
work from mere manual labor to nearer
approach TO brain work. They don I
have TO strain and tug and haul and lift
but they 10 have to understand the prin-
cipleS and working of the new machines.
Not workman in the Clinton round
house seemed to have any of the paral y zing
physical labor which makes a man appear
to be only Il competitor with "A horse car or
an OK. From this point of view, If from
no other. the huge huiding l. monumen,
10 progress.