The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-01-13

perintendent OF motive Power, the al
vision superintendent. and-holy OF
NOTES.-THE general manager.
The superintendent OF motive pow
er duly received his copy, threw it in
the waste tasket ard remarked casu-
ally, "Bill!"
He liked Ell, but not Bills too free
excoria tiCns
The division superintendent read his
copy and LAUGHING. pigconholed it for
future use IN letting down the pres
sure OF the superintendent of motive
power when next they should lock
horns over engine failures.
The general manager took up his
copy from its personal cover and read
it from start to finish. as follows:
Chapter One.
II this don't fit your case, you get
clearance card right here. The board
is out for others.
When you build an engine and want
the most results and don't care what
kind, fix yourself with a lot of dis
couraged craftsmen, and. for chief, get
q good wrangler that talks into his
whiskers and don't decide much.
Tell them fellows, at the start, that
you put them into that cheese-box Of
fee to stay, and they can't break out
onto the road to see an engine do bust.
ness. noways.
/ Don't pay any of them too much.
They are working on paper, and you
can easily fix the engine after we get
it.
/ Hire lot of master mechanics that
know all about sawmills. There amt
none around here, but you can see
them running in the woods If you take
a ride with me. Thew will be ready to
lay up your new engine when it comes
out.
Fix up boiler steel specifications
that you know are o. K, and then let
the purchasing agent bluff you into
taking something better put cheaper;
he can prove it. That will sure give
lift, once in a while, to some of us fell
lows that's little slow about circulat-
ing in the scenery, and it will make
things brisk in the boiler shop. Them
fellows need work They are too strong
to rest nights.
Use hammered engine frames. If I
was a track man I'd like to be able to
put my hand on busted weld and
say, "Them's it," after the engine
jumped the track and got pulled out of
borrow-pit. The dispatcher won't
care, If she don't block the track 1t
makes work for the blacksmiths.
Fix your spring.rigging so, when 1t
breaks. the equalizer will hit, point
down, in the track Gives the engine
better start when she jumps. She
will go farther and everything had
ought to be made TO go as far as 1t
can.
set low enough to rip up a frosty
plank crossing 1t gives the engines a
good name as goers One nuts
enough Two stay on too well.
Put your driving-b box wedge-bolts in
a safe deposit box behind the driving
wheels. Somebody might get at them
with a wrench, ON the road Wedge
bolts had ought to be smelled or
heard from when the journals screech !;
not seen.
II anybody thinks he wants to slack
a wedge-bolt. let that man shoot the
jamb-nuts off with a gun. That's what
guns is for, and they'd ought to be car
ried in the tool kit
The roundhouse gangs too good for
the job. New engines don't run hot
, soon enough to suit yours truly. Put
crew of ho3oes in there and tel
them they got to save. oil and ram the
cei-ar-pacaiIT7s down in with a pinch
bar They will do it, The babbit ant
stuff you drop over the division makes
good ballast
Wall in your cellar-bolts. so if {
fellow gets them out, digging babbit
out of the cellar. on a fast run, he
can't get them in again inside of fiji
teen minutes apiece. The dispatches
won't care-ask him-and the en-
gineer daresn't. It's all he can do t
talk his way out of lay-Off
Don't you worry .about front-ends
the engine looks good to you. but don
steam no more than teakettle witt
the bottom out, let the trainmaste
put on a helper once in while. Tire,
or five years from now somebod
else will have your job anyhow. an,
he'll set most of your front-end furnI
: ture out on the scrap pile while h
cleans house. and forget to put it bacl
again That will help some.
If you'find there's rooms to rent il
the front end after you get it done
and the heater men show up agai
: without the incubator. fill her up wit
: their stuff. It's hang for us fellows
= but it helps hold the front truck
down when you're going some
Bend your feed and air pipes a
sharp and as often as you can.
shows that nobody was looking an
u they freeze up quicker.
e Look out for your engine cab. Fl
y it so that if fellow goes to the fror
4 door he can't get back again to tn
: throttle without getting orders froi
the dispatcher. showing that The mai
u line of the cab is clear
g The boy allows We IRE working to
many nights az this. He wants
&c change We are So don't botht
about fi:eboXes ard ash pans. Whe
u the president sehds word that
couldn't see the f.Eht OF way on ii
&c last trip for smoke send him to m
q and Ill tell him he was on The wror
u cnd of The train II WIS all Gle,
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