The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-10-12
LEARN NEW TRICKS
ENGINEERS TAUGHT HOW TO
GUIDE ELECTRIC CARS.
Men on One Great System 6edy
Broken In for the Change to Come
Work Neither n. re- Nor
Unoongenial.

The metamorphoss of the railroad
engineers of the New York Central
has begun. says the New YORK Globe
It is here with the electrincadon OF
the system, and II will continue stead.
ily The school is without text books,
and lacks all of the frills and lurbe-
lows so dear to the modern educators
heart. The men were taken in patches
of six and sent right over the road
in the new double ended electric en-
gine that can draw more and draw
il faster than any steam engine that
ever was built
The process OF change from engi-
neer to motorman is not SO long as
one might casually suppose In the
first place. the engineer does not need
TO be taught anything about signals
and general rules OF the great iron
highway He has learned an that
The engineer who being farsighed
and anxious to keep abreast of the
improvements in the service, decides
that he wants to be a motorman. APP.
plies to the chief engineer through The
superintendent of his dlvision and be
Is given preference over AN ether
applicants.
The application of the engineer bo-
ing iavorably passed he is ordered TO
report to The professor of electrical
engines al Kiuesbudge II YOU were
30 ask for lim under this lille you
wouldn't find him because he has
no actual denomination. The engineer
l25 OF him. went TO Kingsbridge one
day and waited around expectantly
Every one was dressed in ordinary
garb, as the electric engine is not so
oily and grimy proposition as his
former pet the steam locomotive
The first class Of six pupils climbed
up the iron ladder in much the same
way shat a passenger boards a steam
ship from a rowboat The sensation
is about the same. except that there
is no chance to drop into the water
Inside he found himself in a compart.
ment about the size, perhaps a trife
larger. than the average fiat The
main compartment is as big as "a bed
room
There are oicloth covered seats
in two OF its four corners. Beside the
seats are the controller and the
brake Up above is the whistle cord
and bell rope The whistle IS produc
tive of a sound that is cross be-
tween the toot OF a selfrespecting au-
tomoble and the din of a fog horn
gone amuck The sound is deep, per
vading, and audible for perhaps two
miles and half if the wind is right
First of all the novitiate is taken over
the motors, the condeRsers and other
sections OF the complete mechanism.
The explanation OF these parts IS
only superficial and by The way OF
introduction
Then the professor and that's
just what the new men began to can
him within an hour after the start Of
the class. grasps the controller and
brings it back a notch The notcn
is one OF series of teeth. like things
that have TO be touched i'm turn, as
The lever is brought backward to p.
crease the speed II this is not OBJ
served 50 drop into the vernacular
The big engine. noiscless as though
its wheels were shod with felt be-
gins to slip slowly over the track.
Then more uotches are let Ont and
The speed increases until ID fairly
bounds over the rails TLis continues
Tor two hours an. return On the
return the motorman does not send
his engine Go the mntable, as be
/ did in his steam days lie merely
changes his seat to the other side of
,hc compartment for the electric en-
sino is double ended ana runs just
ass wen one way as another
After wo or three of these trips
lhe pupil is permitted TO take a turn
at the starting and stopping. rhcn
the minute explanation of the intd.
cacios BEGINS This SAME process
is zone through with ON succeediAg
DAYS until every part and its use Is
thoroughly familiar To him.