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    , THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1807. f,
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Airiqng Men
Work witHSMand f6r Brain
who
USE HALF WORLD'S LUMBER?
IN MAKING PACKING BOXES
By Charles Christodoro
GENERALLY a packing? box U regarding urn mar ruin a manufao
isfvi f0rT.x tu; tt.i.th ar.P..aok:
thing, but It Is not II packing to the operator called a "ripper." The
boxes were to disappear from box may need three places to make a
thl oountrr over night the pub- top or bottom, and the ripper must
a v i- .! Zu handle hie stock aa to get the laat
llo would be In an awful plight. . Tou jttn 0lt o( lt .
could ret no soap, no atarch, no amoked Aa faat aa the aides, or tope, or bot-
meata, no codfish, no oof fee, no tea, no fores, or ends are cut boys bundle them
v, n hin.. Into convenient packages and thejr ara
egga, ete becauae all these thlnga are cured wlth twl or ,lr
transported from the dealer to the re
taller and consumer In boxes.
All kmda of wood are used In the
manufacture of boxes white pine, pop. Printing on the Boxes,
lar, spruce and Cottonwood. If the boxes are to be. printed they
The drain on the lumber forests, be- are sent to the printing', press and re-,
cause of the growth of the country, has celve the Impression from a brass die
been so great that lumber has kept ad- on a revolving cylinder. Printing Is
vanclng since 1891 with never a setback, done in one, two, or three colors. If
Mills, especially 'the -white pine ones, the user desires a tight, snug box the
get pax for every acrap of lumber now- loose pieces are tongued and grooved,
adays, and stop Short only at 'the saw- If heavy boxes are required It la neo-
dust pile. What, a difference! Twenty- to fortify the ends by battens or
five years ago a board with a loose knot
in it, but sound otherwise, was apt to
be sent to the burner and destroyed.
But the boxman can cut out the rot,
knots, and shake, and can pay a price,
and a high one, for them. For years
the lumberman has found a aure mar
ket for bis knotty, shaky, worm-eaten
and doxy lumber with the boxman.
Drain on the Lumber Supply.
It haa been estimated that the pack-
cleats. These are nailed to the enda
by means of ingenious nailing machines
that feed, drive and clinch the nails.
The precision and reliability of these
nailing machines is something wonder
ful. Manufacturers of stocks have their
special lines. Some prefer to work only
on heavy boxes and rig up their plants
accordingly, and often devise machinery
especially suited to the work. Again
others will go In for smaller boxes.
There are those who make nothing but
ing box industry of the United States and others who make boxes only for
consumes annually to per cent of the sheet tin.
entire lumber cut This means in the The meat packing houses
. ... country are tremendous box consumers
aggregate a tremendous amount of lum- an4 mlaions of feet of lumber cut
ber and the box Industry of the country into boxes.
Is, perhaps, one of the largest and most w
Important commercial enterprises. .
There are boxes and boxes, as there Butter Botes and Egg Case,
ara boxmakers and boxmakers In every The butter box Is a business by Itself,
city there are local nailing up shops, as is the egg case business. Tou can
where the lumber Is manufactured Into make two kinds of egg cases, one that
the complete nailed up box and the is to be used only for quick shipment
sanlS If dnrrarmr ttr the "'I8'""?."" "alir-tli---oT-fr--efW-4aga-Tli.
ready to have the packer fill it with . . . ...
goods. Some of these boxes are nailed former can be made of almost any kind
together and some are lock-cornered or of wood, while the latter must be made
dovetailed at the fourcorners. nf om- inc.doroua wood, like cottonwood
up in the country districts of New , . . . ... . ,
ui fu;ini. . t (..vans" .
odors, hence the necessity of avoiding
a pine box with a resinous odor. Mill
ions Of egg cases are used annually and
the bulk of them are made from ve
neered lumber. Cottonwood logs are
sawed In two or three foot lengths and
are placed In a veneer cutting lathe.
The log Is made to revolve against a
keen knife and as a result a ribbon of
lumber leaves the log until it Is cut
down to the core. This ribbon of wood
"$ ' '
PITY THIT DOWN
AND OUT MAN
By Burt Kennecly
r
ARISTOCRAT OF THE
VORLD Railroad Engineers
WORKING
Get Unusual
Yet Apprentice Firemen Are Hard to Find
By Jonaa Howard
Biipland are many box factories that
maks only small lock cornered boxes
from native second growth pine. Some
of these boxes are so small as to pack
a finger ring ready for the mall.
Thousands of young boys and girls
earn good wages In these factories, the
work being clean and not overarduoua.
It takes the deft fingers of a girl quick
ly to handle some of thens little boxes.
The Industry Is a large one.
A "shook or box In the "knock down"
simply Is the six parts of a box tied
In bundles and so shipped to the con
sumers; when received In the ware
houses the user nails them up as he
needs them.
How the Work Is Done. N
The box business in these days of
costly and imperfect lumber must be
run on highly practical as well as scien
tific lines. The men must be trained
and then carofuly watched over. Usu
ally lumber comes to the boxman as
inch boards. These are unloaded from
the cars and carefully Inspected and
piled ' In separate plies In accordance
with their defects.
When the lumber Is called for by the
W
HT doesn't the able bodied
young man of mechanical bent
turn more often than he does
to the fireman's deck of the
locomotive T
This Is a question which at all
times appeals to the superintendents
of motive power of the great railroads
of the country, and In a few weks,
when the movement of the grain crops
of the country begins to test the capac-
ty cars n quarter of a mile long or
more. Hill must haul his "tonnage''
train on schedule time or he must ex
plain satisfactorily why he failed.
the air brnke system, and In classroom
study and observation the ambitious
fireman may become almost independ
ent of the knowledge which once came
to the fl rem mi In long apprenticeship
from his engineer.
"Truce the uir through the air brake Learns How to Repair Engine.
system," Is one of the set requirements That minute knowledge of his looo-
of the Northwestern boord of examlri- motive required by the modern exsm-
ers which twice a year in Qhloago sum- Inatlon thus frequently proves the en-
inons i.n average of 200 Northwestern gineer. The locomotive which h. msila
T is a hard thing for a man to do
down. It ia a hard thing for a man
to be broken and lost and to feel
that the chances are against his
being able to regain his feet.
People there are who ay that it is
a man's own fault But these people
are either ignorant or without heart.
It may be that you were one who
helped to build up into suocess aome gl
gantlo enterprise. It may be that you
gave to it the best of your life and your
effort, and that you were flung aside
when the power was sapped out of you.
In these days of vast industrial enter
prises such tragedies happen every day.
Men are used and cast aside as are
cast aside broken tools.
Bo It is well for people to thlnK
twlee before they say It Is a mane own
fuult for being down.
Or you may have committed a crime.
And vou are down because of that. No
one will look at you. No one will give
you work. The police wolvea hound you
from pillar to post, even though you
have sufferea punishment for what you
have done. And there Is no one to help,
you. And so you are a man who ia
broken and lost.
But let me tell the people who would
cast stones at such a man that the
worst crimes against our social order
nevor are punished. The worst crim
inals live In the midst of ease and
splendor and honor. So think twloe be.
fore you cast stones at the man who la
called a criminal. And remember that
the pnnslbllltles of crime sre in all of
us. The man who denies that they are
in him either is a hypocrite or a fool.
Criminal Mar Be Good Man.
If you are not aorry for the man who
haa been broken because of a crime he
has committed, at least be fair. For ha
Is most likely as good a man as you are.
The main thing Is that he has been more
unfortunate. Do something for him if
you can. If you cannot do anything, be
good enough not to sneer. I repeat, he
la as good a man as you are.
Sometimes It Is thought that men who
M rm J -a g,M in . LH mmi i In 11 f
sew uv Bl rv mwn winr rw--wwwwteeey
weak. But ihls is not always so. Clr-V
cumatance Is stronger than the strong
est man. Tou may be a man of power
and force and you may be down. Tou
may be a brilliant man and you may be
down. Or a man of marked ability.
The reason for your being down may
have been because of a certain nobility
In your character. Tou were not a liar.
Tou were not one who would cringe.
And because of this you were pushed
aside.
Punnnallv I have known stronc and
able and clever men who have had to
is chopped to eertnin slzs, and after engineers ure In a sharply Increased de
ity of the roads and when locomotive firemen for first, second and third year the average 300 mile run a day la ready b' their bread. I have known men who
drying It Is cut to the ilepth. 'I lie dry
ing of these veneers without warping
always has praved a pmlileiri, and as a
rule the open air has been relied on.
There are veneer-drying1 machines which
are more or less succesxf til.
Many shiploads of sliooks sre sent to
England in competition with Norway
and Sweden.
Lumber Problem of the Future.
Every year the lumber supply be
comes more of a problem Michigan and
Wisconsin are cut out of their white
pine and Minnesota has but little, left.
Long ago the lumber barons, with their
inand, the question becomes serious to
many lines.
Time was under the old rules of the
railroads when the work of firing an
engine for six or seven Tears of an
apprenticeship made the lot of the fire
man hard, dirty, and exacting. Today,
under the schooling system that has
been adopted almost universally on the
big systems, firing still Is hard work,
but the term of apprenticeship is cut
from two to three years, the "hostler's"
work is eliminated for the fireman, the
shoveling of coal, while Increased in
tonnage. Is made easier by the modern
chute shape of the coal tender, and
when the fireman, after his four years'
experience, reaches an Income possl-
plne profits in their pockets, went to
fnraman ih v.rm.n in.t. anVi hnnrri the I'aclflc coast and bougnt millions bllity of S1Z5 to 1200 a month as en
or feet or nr. sucrar Dine ana snruce. "." w "v-"' .tu-
as may be asked for on trucks and same
Is hauled to the planing mill shed and
there dropped so that-the surfacing ma
chine man can reach them readily.
The surfacing machine can be made
to plane one or two sides of the board
an desired; usually two sides are planed.
The operator feeds boards Into the ma
chine, which pass under and over ro
tary knives and come out at the other
their
question
which is
end. smoothly planed, as boards seven
eighths of an Inch thick. If thin boxes
are to be made these boards are split ....
by a thin resaw, either in the full length Makea Clothing From Wool.
01 the ooara or in tne smaller sections.
.nun t hAhlnd
The paper pulp woodmen are going inescapable,
through the' forests, cutting a broad
pathway. Over 6.000,000 cords of lum
ber went into pulp wood paper last t.trer p.v Than Office Man
year. It Is said that Harmsworth, the celter ln,n Ullice man.
London newspaper publisher, has "Look at the quality of the office
JnTh.1 nortTof CCanada,Btandln man wh0 can be ot tot 160 a mlnth'"
saia inn supenmenaeni 01 one 01 mo
great systems entering Chicago. "Be
fore this company gives a man a desk Must Pass Yearly Examination
ana cnair at uu a montn in tne gen
examinations for the proving of thine
npprrnt lees. The question may remind
one of that old hlph school exaction of
"Trace the circulation of the blood."
To the fireman, however, the air brake
question is far more vital in slgnlll
canco than the academic question which
was propounded to him at school.
The Chicago and Northwestern rail
road was a pioneer in the text book
mpthod. and the written and oral ex
aminations of the fireman, who with
text book in his pocket and scoop In
his hand, was required to fit himself
for driving an engine.
Every fireman apprentice on this sys
tem must expect to master the text
book requirements of the first, second
and third year books. In appearance
these books are not at all formidable.
Any one of them may be carried in a
vest pocket and the wearer of the vest
be unconscious of Its presence there.
But the text of these little booklets
Is made up of distinctly "leading" ques
tions from preface to finish. Homo of
the best thought of the operative de-
?artment of the road has been put Into
he list of questions, with the object
not only to test the duties but also to
try out the man himself.
w
for the roundhouse and for cleaning and
repairs. In the first 10 miles of the
run something may gat out of order
whero the Intimate knowledge of the
engineer will enable him In a few min
utes to effect a repair. Without this
knowledge the line might be blocked for
hours while a new engine Is summoned
to take its place.
Loaded as the modern engine Is to Its
load and Bpeed capacity, there Is little
chance for the engineer to make up
much lost time. If it be delay owing
to a broken something about the engine,
he Is doing well If he can get his train
in without further loss from the sched
ule. As to the speed of the modem loco
motive In fast passenger service, the
engineer of the old school hss been
quite equal to lta demands. Some of
the oldest engineers in point of service
have those fast runs. In the words of
one of these men. In answer to a ques
tion whether these high speeds shook
his nerve, the answer that "the
thing sometimes won't go fast enough''
Is expressive of his attitude.
No Longer Have Pet Locomotives.
were wllllnir to work and who could get
no work. This talk of there being work
for every man who la willing to work Is
untrue, and what ia more the people
who Indulge In it know that It Is untrue.
The truth o the matter ,1s that the
army of unemployed Is growing day
by day, because machinery is being used
to do the work that once was done by
men.
Cunning Often Leads to Success.
I am sick of reading the amug, self
satisfied stories that rich men tell of
the way they got on. If you read be
tween the lines you will read a story
of rapacity and cunning, a story of
which a decent Norse pirate of old
would have been ashamed. And I am
glad to see that President Roosevelt
has stigmatized the predatory rich as
the most dangerous criminals that prey
upon society. Here is a fine ruler who
at least Is worth his salary. The day
he used the words he did will turn out
to be a significant day for these crim
inals. .
When you are broken and down the
world is to you an awful world of
Tou are up here in tne ngnt
Waste Ruins Boxmaker.
The board now goes to the crosscut
terr the man who cuts the box to length.
He must know his business so well
that when he has cut up the board he
has cut out only the absolutely worth
less parts, and managed so that the
last piece cut will leave little waste.
Waste Is the great bugbear In a box
factory, so much so that carelessness
And now a man from Paxony Invents
a process that permits of wood pulp
being spun Into the equivalent of cot
ton cloth and linens, most comfortable
and satisfactory clothing being made
from It. That man is coming to this
country to establish an Industry.
With all these drains on the forests,
what will be the future box and out of
what will It be made? Commerce de
mands boxes, and the country will sup
ply boxes, no matter If the forests are
gone; a substitute for wood will be
found to go into packing boxes.
WHOXL BE BOSS TOMOR
ROW? Perhaps ttc Man Tkat Works
Beside You; Pays to Be Friendly
' By Edward M. Wooley
T 18 good policy for workers to treat finds It more and more difficult to get
their fellow workmen In the light of
future bosses. Shifts of fortune
A often put men In unexpected places.
and It pays a "man to be on friendly
terms with as many persons aa pos
sible. John Smith was a conceited sort of
fellow, who believed In speaking his
mind freely. "A spade's a spade," he
used to say, "and there Isn't any use
trying to make it anything else." He
was arrogant and quarrelsome, and
there scarcely was a man in : the shop
who liked him. He was free In ex
pressing his Own dislikes, and many a
man came In for a tongue lashing.
Rrnlth. Jt goes without saying, was a
big man physically, or he could not
have talked as he did.
One day something went wrong and a
dozen men at the factory were laid off,
Smith among them. In a group they
went to another factory to apply for
wore as it nappenea, tne roreman at
eral offices, he's got to show them.
There are several hundred cabs to sev
eral hundred locomotives In which a
1160 engineer may have a seat with the
least questioning when his average fit
ness has been demonstrated."
Anywhere in any general office of a
great railroad one may see men physic
ally and mentally equipped for loco
motive engineers of the best grade who,
with powerful backs and shoulders,
are stooping over desks year after yea,
at salaries of $76 to 85 a month, pre
sumably satisfied to grow old at rou
tine work. The railrn" managements
see In these fellows the makeup of
picked men In the locomotive cab had
the- only turned to the operative de
partment of the road.
In the huge dimensions of the mod
ern locomotive the average man who
A first year fireman gets his "first
year" book. At the end of this first
year's apprenticeship he will be called
in to Chicago headquarters to" nass an
examination before an examining board
of eight experienced men. The exam
ination requires answers to questions in
writing, after which the fireman may
have to submit to oral questionings. An
average of (0 Is required to pass the
first year man to his second year's work
and second year's book. But If the man
has been at all ambitious he haa a fair
system under which to work. On one
of the easy questions he may score only
6 points, but on some difficult ques
tion he may have 60 points to his credit.
Ills first year's book Is the primer of
firing: the third year's book Is the high
school text on which graduation, with
honors. Is expected.
Ana ne must graduate! In this obllg.
darkness.
Taking the old engineer from his pet among your fellows, and still you are
Tou wander along the streets hungry.
Life for you Is one long pain, and
misery. If you had the courage you
would end It all. But you have no
courage. Tou are dispirited and weak
and broken.
It may be that If you have come
from the prison you will wish yourself
back again. There at least you had
food and shelter of a kind. Tou are
free now, but freedom Is a mocRery.
engine which he regarded almost as his
personal property has spoiled some f
the sentiment of the locomotive driver.
Nowadays, when he goes to the round
house for his engine, he knows only
that an engine of a certain class and
power will lie ready for him. He nev
er msy have been In Its cab before. It
may be poorer or better than any other
which he has driven. He knows only
that the master mechanic has passed it
as competent to do the work with which
he Is charged and he takes it out as a
mere machine which will accomplish
that work. The sentiment Is lacking
J
Misery of the Lonely Man.
It may be that you had a family In
the old days when you were on your
wholly. This is Illustrated In the speech feet. As vou go sadly along you wonder
of one of these old time engineers h t ha(( b,come of them. What haa
"Sometimes I'm hitting It up along " T. , , .
the line when something smashes some- become of your sonT What happened
where. I know what it Is by the fel to your daughter? What happened to
of it. If I can. Instead of using the lh-m vf.ar. aire, when disgrace and
another place.
In nil branches or labor the sa
thing holds Kod. The men who are
inferior nosltions tonav aro the men
will hold the executive lobs tomorrow.
and it is well not to losejisight of that
fact. The man who looks down on an
Inferior and makes fun of him would
better beware, for the day may come
when lightning will strike where It Is
least expected. It Is by no means un
common for workmen to pose as in
structors one day and to be taking
orders from their pupils the next.
Green Boy Becomes Manager.
i nave in mina tne case or a young
might be in a mood to consider firing atory requirement the originators of the
discovers a presumably appalling task Northwestern school found themselves
at the scoop which feeds the yawning forced to the ultimatum. Thev dlscov-
flrebox. He overlooks the point, how- (,rftli that not infrequently a second year
ever, that in the formation of the rnan as fireman found himself In a po-
modern locomotive tender, the shovel- sltlon whero. aa firemnn i. w. .!-
emergency brake, I throw the thing
wide open end let her go. In this wsy
I'm not losing any time. When I gat
In I report the thing broken. 'Well,
where la It?' somebody asks. 'It's down
the line somewhere,' I say. 'I didn't
have time to go back and pick It up.' "
with an engine mat mignt De his
(no- fT n (a tlmnlar o ri ,1 aos a V m ..... 4 . 1 L. & I akA
me ever It was before," ton 'for Ion; Yhat "twoThrryesaftTehad r' njimim, ?ur0"av
in in me operation ui iraina me leusi con- acquired an engineer's certificate Thi engineer would nave tne DrOKen part ,,,Ah fur von
Hlrleif.H eennnmv in (hut which .m,M i . i . I" r "crrl' HCaie. I nlS . . ,K. ,i.i,j . ii,,ir.i miirll lor JOU
,i - . . , , . , " 1 J . ' n"vn ivunu miun?i on . . . ' . ' 1 in
give a fireman more than he can do
that where the firing of a locomotive by
one man would threaten the train
schedule because of Insufficient steam,
two firemen for the work is the simplest
proposition In economy.
Fireman's Job Once Was Hard.
Talk with the engineer who has had
his train for 15 or 0 years, graduating.
some good passenger run, where tho
mileage was large, where the terminals
suited him, and this, with the money
he was earning would be "good enough."
Graduate or Get Fired.
at a quick repair of the break.
Shock of Killing a Man.
"Killing a man" is one of the severest
shocks that come to the average engi
neer. "Why does an engineer run a man
down?" repeated an old timer. "Simply
The road discovered, however, that It
couldn't afford to train a fireman mere
ly to a "good enough" Job as f I soman.
I . . yv ...y. -...u a,iu It inm.ien upon nis completing his having seven to ten miles of city cross-
he will tell you how uninviting was the course. One of the hard tests of the in mou- i- i with
shame fell upon you? When you
passed through the prison gate they
were not there to see you. Tou could
bear their not being there did you feel
that they were getting on all right. Tou
could bear their being too nTUctl
ashamed to come and see you when yoa
But the tnougnt tnat
be lost and broken ia too
to bear.
srv tnat every man nas a cnanca
Is to say what is not true. There are
good, strong, capable men who never
have had a chance. Tou may have tal
ent, and ability, and energy, but If you
?ro born in the wrong aet these facul
les well may become your undoing.
A smart, clever lad of the slums may
be In danger of becoming a criminal.
Tliis same lad if sent to a publio
school and to the university would turn
out in an altogether different way. If
for the reason that he expects the man his parents were well off hia faculties
wouia De given every cnance to oe-
to get off the track. If an engineer
fellow who entered the employment of work when h9 undertook It. He had to fireman's knowledge comes In the third his train even slowed down for every
a mercantile house as an office boy. He
was tall and lanky, and as green as
any country boy could be, and he was
made the general butt of Jokes and care
less Jests. For the first few weeks
this place turned out to be a man who he want home every night vowing he
had worked under Smith a year or two
previous. He had been the subject of
frequent ridicule at Smith's hands, and
jiOw Smith was placed In the humiliat
ing position of applying for work to
his former inferior and enemy. He did
not get the place.
Haa Enemies in Every Shop.
Jn making his rounds In search of
employment Smith discovered that a
dozen men whom he bad known as
would stand the abuse no longer, but in
the morning he went back with grim
determination to Stick it out. This de
termination was due largely to the en
couragement of a single employe of the
establishment, who, of all the clerks
and workers there, was Inclined to be
friendly and considerate.
Today this tan lanky youth Is the
begin as a hostler in the roundhouse
cleaning engines. They had to be
cleaned In those days, too, for in those
days every engineer had his own en
gine and In the eyes of some engineers
these pet machines could not be clean
enous' Through switchyard firing.
year's book in the section dealing with
tho complete mechanism, sensibilities
and use of the modern airbrake system.
But the man who has the ambition to
learn afid the Intelligence which must
be required of the locomotive engineer
is capable of passing always: If he
velop. tie would be pushed and helped
In every way possible. Hi woilld bd
noticed because of his talent, and he
would get on.
. All Bow to Circumstances.
person he sees on the track he couldn't
make his schedules to save his neck
They don't want whistles blown in Chi
cago when a man turns loose with It And so It goes. Ona lad is put right
In a dire emergency somebody is likely on the way to destruction, the Other lad
to kick about it. I run over crossings gets every imaginable chance. The
every day that have gates on both sides proverb that saya every man has
young man who befriended him la aa
slstant manager. It was something more
than chance that got the assistant Man
ager his Job. If it hntf not been for
journeymen mechanics were folding EpVmtVwJ& the '"cotr?"
good Jobs In various shops, either as somebody else might have his fine po
supeiintendents, foremen, or assistant sltlon today.
foremen, -and In every Instance he had
incurred" their enmity by hi sharp
tongue and lack of rorestght. There
wasn't one of them who would give him
work.
In the course of time Smith secured
tolling in the roundhouse to have the
manager drowlng $6,000 a year, and the enSLne ,n,'lt nlltlon the next day.
x licoo viu ciisiiiavrs will leu uu uitti
they had to scoop far less coal than Is
scooped now for a division run: they
are a little disposed to criticise the
modern fireman who takes a text book
inrougn tne (any, greasy roundhouse doesn't pass ha la dropped as constitu- and a flagman stationed between, yet Chance Is the biggest He that ever has
work and finally to some engine on an tionally incompetent. W'ah? raneliotu1"1' d,y" masqueraded as a wise saying. Tou
thZahenalxrUnor sevTlea".0 ', J thOUntry th ' ToVyTnmodTn 'rallying the en- might a. well say that a ehlld who I.
tnrougn six or seven years of ap- the fireman today ranges from ISO to gineer and his fireman get the locomo- brought up half starved In a tenement
QMSVrWTfS .S f5 a montn accord ng to his mileage nve the rounnnouse. .running "into
. - -.",""J". i m , pruvnu irusiwonniness as ho l"e irain niivua iui i mo f-
long after the engineer had gone home hR, onnortunltv to show it The n of senaer train waiting. When the train Is
the engineer Is from 1100 to $200 a delivered at the train sheds on the re
month and sometimes even more than turn, the engineer and firemen run It
this maximum. back to the roundhouse where the "host
The engineer of 29 years ago or more lers' clean it and mechanics look It
had his ,rklcks" In some respects. Time over, fitting it up for the next run.
was when the engineer was the arbiter Virtually every engineer lortg m serv
in the making up of hla train in the Ice is a fatalist. He believes in luck,
freight service. He considers himself merely lucky If
course along with the knowledge that
comes or hard knocks and experience;
Run and Unron.
theV rV iZ.ST.UX ,h ""ow mn?r car Vou going to he escapes aecldent. If he can keep an by the blaT.
thSyn"ma TStoy mr Wrimu oi Uke out- H1"7" W8 one of t5e JloeS- unbroken schedule unusually long, or DFBe sorry for the
ina ureman louay over tne n reman or . i ,, rAui.i ..-,. ... '? t . n.inniuillv oorl run. An "nHnt.iv. i -m ...
aa good a chance of growing up to
be a healthy man as a ehlld who Uvea In
a fine house in the country and who
gets all he wants to eat. So when yoa
see the men who are broken down,
think a little before you blame them.
Do not forget that the same fate might
have been your own: In fact, that it
may be your own. Circumstance le a
Dig wora inaeca.- c isia even wapoieon
"When I first went to housekeeping I
tried to run everything. I ended with
running nothing."
"Absolutely nothing?" m
"Walk nerhaps the gamut of the imo.
a place at a factory In the uburbs-of- I1QO" now ana.Bn.1 ....... ,- -
Chicago, where he wasn't known, but It TTM ... .
will not be long before M will . make JulMS:
fresh enemies to add to his already long fons," a boy part created by Sarah
Use JEaaU lUa be xets out cX .work he Earnhardt. " " u
yesterday. let the examination tests
of the fireman in connection with text
book exactions is becoming more and
more fixed with the operati e depart
ment of the great railroads.
questions the freight oomluGtor
nt f It A AtlfiinAAr In thai is at
Bill said 20 cars or 10 cars. Bill's de- las styled the type,
clslon went. '
Nowadays, with the huge 150 ton lo-
men who are down.
asked gets an-unusually good run. An aristo- And if you are so case hardened- tha
nd if crat of the laboring, world some one you are net. Sorry for then at least try
to be fair.
Governor Patterson of Tennessee has
Hlg PoeUcal Works.
the road determines the load for Bill's tile manufacturers and labor represent. Of. Poemg styled Worth Heading
en nine. The load Is on a tonnara . t n ami them atataa tA ha hoM In )1 I Tnava wrlttan One or more,
t-a t. t o BHt haa hla engine M-rtiolii aecoroa . Washvllta.-.tn ORtoherAgu-fconeWer the Or poems not worth reading
tne Air fl rake Svstem. rih imt an mni 1,1. i.. r.rr..i.. .i ,tM uiu'j i.v.l-r'tAmi m.( & tcort.
m - J - ,, . " - . mmw v.va . . UUPBlU'll V( ""i. ...fcrv, .Vl.lHID IT1UUI uw,,,w . . . , .
'.. - . ritvlalnn. Hi la a-lvan ai manv nnm - -knn. a nA -t met rtriaa with a. vtaav 1 vwiama nnt ortn Ir! ruins
in , i'nuaaeipnia the Reading road has hau, . ,chedale time, whether hl adopting -.uniform laws that will be Would fill column upon cournnj
established an equipped school for dem- train be of-JO cars of 100.000 nounda srreeable and Just to the resDective nar So thaU cut them all tog-enier.
castrating the modem locouoUxa and saoh, ex ybethex 1 h pi emih tlu la interest. y,,,, ... : l have .writtoa ftuite a ywuaie,
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