The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-20
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Enginemen may become traffic solicitors
| ny adopting advanced methods of hand
| ling engines, so as not to jolt passengers
in starting or stopping their trains
| avoiding reckless running. and by firing
! lightly, SO as TO prevent black smoke
| There is no trick In II, All that is nee
! cssary is TO take fun advantage Of your
! knowledge OF the district over which YOU
| are running, and Of your engine. Shut Off
steam when II is not required Regulate
| the feed water. so that the supply " iii b,
Just equal to the evaporation. Fire light
ly, scattering the coal well over the
crate bars, so that the dust and gases
from each particle OF green coal win be
arrested and consumed instead OF being
thrown out Of the stack in black smoke
when the engine Is fired heavily OF led
more than 1t can comfortably digest,
William Cooper. an engineer on the
Pennsylvania railroad. met with a pccu-
llar accident recently, near Railway. n
j, The fireman, having noticed that
something was wrong. climbed To the
other side OF the cab and found Cooper
| lying apparently dead on the floor Blood
flowed from an ugly cash in the mans
head, and close beside him lay n good
sized stone. covered with blood. II; some
manner the train picked up the stone
and IL was hurled against the head OF
the engineer as he leaned part WV ont
Of his cab window. The injured man Is
reported as being on tnc way to recovery,
Bion j. Arnold, the eminent electrical
engineer: whose opinions justly comamnd
the highest respect Is quoSed as saving
In connection with the proposed enforced
eectriilcation of steam railways in Chi
Cago; 1t is an engineering fact now
well established. that our EteaT railway
terminals, where traffic is constant.
switch engines are shuntins back and
forth. and suburban trains are run fire.
quently can be operated more ccorni-
callN by electricity than by steam"
\ four-years' course in railway admin
lstration for students aiming TO 1T them.
selves for railroad positions or TO he sta
,liI Ipy.,N.
sions and like bureaus. has been estab. |
llshcd at the University OF Michigan un-
der the direction OF faculty committee
headed by Prof. H. G. Adams statistIcian (
Tor the Interstate Commerce commission. .
a committee Is engaged in formulat- /
ing rules Tor the aerial speedway. Its .
work has not been made public but tho |
members do not deny thai tn. foIou-;rc
essential regulations will be adopTed. Ayi- /
ators 10 turn to the right when this can
be done without turning turtle; otherwise
To duck.
Russian capitalists 9re urJersr,od to
be negotiating FOR the con struclIon OF a
railway from Rybinsk government of la
roslav) to Obdorsk in Siberia. 1854 miles
1t Is to run through the north Urals ana
VIII open up new districts and shorten
the route from Siberia To the North $50.
The cost is estimated at $50. oOO,ODo
According TO consular report. Tie
Taihc receipts for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1909. of all railways n Arvcr-
tina. Increased by $G.GlS. .ii0 Cgoldl, or
s per cent
No director To Ill the place Of the late
y. H. Hartman was elected at the au-
nu9l meeting OF tho stockholders of tho
ERIE Railroad company Tuesday Tho
FORMER directors were reelected.
The st Louis, Iron Mountain & South
ern Is reported TO be contemplating build
ing "A line from Henson, near Charlcston,
TO point on the Mississippi river op-
posite Hickman. Ky
The foreclosure sale OF the Tarry.
town. White Plains & Mamaroncck
which WAS 10 have been held October s
nos been postponed until November -.
An increase OF | cent an hour i'm the
pay of the shop employees OF the Chicago
burlington Quincy and the Great North
"rn has been announced.