TAKING CARE OF A TRAIN !

THE ELABORATE SYSTEM OF SPECTION AND RENEWAL.

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Hi. WolJ iMpllal a*. I M rolllawopd, rklnc M.rhla.rr-

I lUDR lunu.

Wiw-klni crews mre usually stationcJ at two or tlirce points on a division. There Is usually one li wrecker, with a llftln

Few people who travel, an those who dally depend upon roans of the country for thi

.1 few of the'rail1 hsullng

i large stean ipaclty of 51

lay lu and out. on repairs only, play In Uie world of transportation, nor of bow many thousands of human 'Ives are annually saved by the conscientious attention of these men to “.heir work. In the Inspecting and repairing departments of the American railroads are employed not less than *T00.t)0i) men. to whose skill and quick perception the public owes a debt of gratitude. The average passenger train is thoroughly Inspected at all large cities. 100 to 150 miles apart, and Is hastily loolced over at ifiany other stops besides. Six minutes' time is allowed (or a thorough inspection. Four men. two at each end. begin the work of looking over the wheels, the trucks, the couplings and all parts of the car which are liable to get out of order. These men from both ends meet at the middle of the train, and the inspection Is completed. While they are doing this work the oiler, who Is nicknamed in, the car repairing circles ootaetimes as the "doper," looks out for hat boxes and properly lubricates all the heated parts. At the same Instant the ice-than, with hla tongs. Is lifting chunks of Ice Into the tanks in the interior of the coaches. Freight trains are Inspected with Just as much care as the passenger coaches, but. the work being done upon l&c_J*pair tracks. In an obscure location. the public practically sees nothing ot It. At some of tne principal repair tracks, even in. cities of not more than 15.000 population, as many as 1200 and 1500 oars are in-

tuns.

two hand-wreckers. The

wrecker* receive the name wages as —e car repairers who work on the repair* tracks, except that lor extra time f he men on the wreckers receive about 20 cents an hour. The average wreck-

er carries a crew of 12 men. of course, are skilled In their

lar Hue. The modern machinery with

which they work i* marveloui

■ espects. Every one Is familiar will the remarkably short time that Is re

i these

bese, •tlcu-

Inery with s In many

S tops of

ie lookout for a leaky x clr: If It be an ore

a train moves In upon a i Inspection but a halfuinute is allowed to each car. and so rapid are t^e workmen that they do It thoroughly in this time. Were the railroads not sure that these men ate perfectly capable of doing the .work in the time how allotted, they would, of course, increase th? limit, for if' there is one department more than another in which the railroads are particular about perfect work it is-in the line of proper and adequate repairs. When a train of cars arrives in the yards near the repair tracks the repairers place a blue Dag in daytime, or a ulue light at night, at each epdof the train. This warns railroaders that the Inspectors are at work on the train, though they may not be visible, otten being under the cars. The locomotive must not be attached when these blue signals show forth from the ends of the train. One of the In-

spectors passes cart. He Is on roof, if It be a t or coal car, i for the condit hold the dn

working about the trucks must look out for a broken flange, a checked wncel, bent axles, loose bolts, bad air connections, condition of the air reservoirs and many other things. As soon as r defect is found a card Is tacked on the car by the inspector. There are different cards used to designate rolling stock that Is in bad order. One card denotes danger, and that the car most be handled with care until it is unloaded and placed the repair tracks. Another card notes the condition of the air brakes. The car may be in such shape that it must go at the rear of the train, and have no connection with air. or It may oe that it can be fun between cars of air, bnt that the reservoir of thfe car must be cut out. the air simply passing through the pipes of the car. without haring any effect as to setting the brakes upon it. Box cars with leaky

roof* must be transferred to some dls^ -

tinct line of of trafflo, such as the car-

rying of coke.

No one can well donbt that the car rupalrers are skilled workmen. They must be able to discern checks on a wheel and know that eventually It - mean a crack wnlch will a broken wheel. X broken wheel, in turn, may mean a fearful wreck. When a man begins as a car repairer he must first work about the repair track with

rd 'de-

It may p into

fore he learns perfectly every part of ice trade should spend, perhaps, two or three years. It would seem that these men would receiva big pay. but they - do not get as much as in many of the other departments. Western roadg. it la said, payyrfeffi more than the eastern for thfii wont. In some parts of the eastern and central states they get but 151-2 cents an hour, while the switchmen of the same locality get In the neighborhood of 25 cents an hour. ThU the repairers believe U a bit unjust, and they.are bow in some sections of the country asking that their wages be raised. Of late there has been a tendency to change the plan of thU work to that of piecework, bat the change has not yet been in effect -ong enough for the man te feel Just sure how they like Ik By the piecework plan they are paid a certain Sfale rate Cor each Mjttj “ 1 ' r do. For 1 put I the

repair shopn

ing capacity o live* will here

qulred to clear a track In thla day. That which would require but a fen hours now would have taken severe' days a quarter-century ago. The average American railroad sys tetu employs several thousand men in Its repair departments alone. In the big shops of the companies the largest numbers are employed, but even In small cltlea as high as 125 men u ill be kept steadily at work. Tnese nun are capable of building a car. from the trucks up. with the various parts that are so extensive some times after a wreck that the car may

oe said to be rebuilt.

At Collinwood. Ohio, there has just been completed the biggest locomotive ops in the world, by the l.ake

Southern railway.

].ater, it is said that very extensive car repairing interests will here be added. The dimensions of the new shops are GOO by 200 feet. The walls are of brick and the framework of steel. Here some 2000 men will be employed, and their sole work will be repairs. The machinery will be mar vetous. Including cranes with a lift

of 100 tons. No locomo •re be built, but manjf will

practically rebuilt.—Philadelphia

Record.

THE ROMANCE OF A SQUALL. A TntbMI Captain Wbn Kaaenad a C.lrl

Bncoma* Bar Huaband.

The rescue of a young woman from a capsized sailboat last summer in tbe bay by tbe captain‘and mate of a Providence tugboat has resulted In a romantic wedding. Capt Warren H. .Brown, no*- of the towboat Gaspee. married Saturday ulgbt by the Rev. Charles DcndoM to Miss Clare U Pickering of Edgewood. who owes her

life to the captain's act.

It was on the 2d of lart July, it was ither stormy, late in the day. with tunder. lightning and tqualls, and among the craft that Were on the bay was a sliKtping yacht, in which a party,

Mr

ilitoping yt

ing of J. Walter Pickering, h

tughtera 1 Tucke

listing

Pickering, their two daughters and Agda Johnson and Ethel Tucker, was i a pleasure trip. When they were off Potter's Cove at Prudence island, the boat waa struck by a squall, and was capsized. There waa a small ronboat with the aallbbat, but no oara, and when the accident came the occupants bad to take to tbe bottom ot tbe

“ ‘ ‘ ild hold

bnt three.

The women were in the cnbln when the squall struck them, and it was necessary to break the windows in orAs the boat would not hold all. and there was a

ing shore. Mr. Pickering, with the two

~ girls. Mias Tucker and hit i daughter. Miss Esale. started

for the shore, paddling the boat with a broom. Tney disappeared in the darkness, leaving Mre Pickering and one daughter and Miss Johnson lying upon tbe bpat's side, which was about 18 inches above-lfc^surface of the water for about six feet of her length. For

they lay boat as beat they

that had been badly cut by the

of the cabin windows.

ay clinging to the could, with hands y cut by the Jagged.

10 o'clock the tug Oertrudi

town, which ha ■ly in the evenini r. and Capt. T. C heard a faint cry

ude,

with two barges in town, which had left Providence early in the evening.

town ly in

reached the vicinity, and Capt. T.

thought he t

Ip.' He steered toward the sound rund the women clinging to tbe They were nearly exhausted and probably could not have hold on more than 15 minute* longer. Capt. Brown called, to his mate. and. bringing his boat alongside. Jumped from

to tbe deck.

mpe

„ -thrown'to tbe women, but they were unable to (hasp It. and so William Lawson, a deckhand on the Gertrude. Jumped overboard, apd brought one. of the women to the tug, while the outers were reached from the They were taken Into the hot!hi of thi* tag and given restorative* and exchanged their wet garments

overcoats and blankets.

When Capt. .Brown found 1 homes were in Providence he cut loose

from the. barge*, leaving them an-'i ^

chored. ami steamed back to this Cty,

reaching here about midnight. The , h

women were taken to Mr. Plek-ring'f home at 353 Smith street in Edgewood, and left in charge of their friends Capt. T. C. Brown of the Gertrude U the father of the bridegroom of Saturday evening. Tbe latter was at that

tions which arise, however, reiata to •hetherme is to be paid for the extra work b* /must do in tearing away Umi»rs and belt* in a disabled au

ship-wrecked party and took an active part in the TIM acquaintance formed at UmC time was continued through the cordial invitation tbe captain and mate received to call at the Pickering residence whenever they chanced to be in town, and tbe ^engagement and wsddl rally resulted.—ProviJi

BABY KILLED BV PET CAT A STRANGE CASE VOUCHED FOR BY DENVER PHYSICIANS. Imal Cauaad Daalh far labetlng raath af II* Uttla victim — Bow actor Expiates Itp-Moat Manilas r from a rclaatlBc Slaadpolat. e Is no longer, apparently, any to dispute with those who hold the belief. that a cat can take tbe bieath of a sleeping child and cause tne child's death. The only question now open is bow tbe animal does its

‘ tadly work.

Ever since the repent death of the ght-months-old baby of Gustave Brown, in Denver, Colo., this question

iminant topic in Denver

ie feeling that a

i barm her offspring is more

i a doi

the aleepli

Ing baby,

is, accordin

ortty. iby Bi

medical author!! doubt that Baby a large pet mail

The physician who trii

shadow of

rowu waa killed by

ried to resuscitate tbe child says death resulted from the stoppage of the supply of ir to the lungs. The coroner’s certificate says death was due to suffocation. The baby and its mother were both in absolutely perfect health, and tbereis not one chance- in a million that the child died of apoplexy or heart

isease.

The circumstances of

death are told by the mother as

lows: of the

About the middle < ut the baby in its ■ ruing nap. and. as

done, left him in the back yard with toe parasol lowered to keep the light out of his eyes ami to prevent the admission of too mVh cold air. I had a man engaged to clean the house and waa so occupied-that I did not run out to look at the baby as often as I generally did to see that he was well cov-

ered and sleeping quietly.

“At noon when we were at luncheon l left the table to look toward .the . baby's carriage, and at that"moment I saw the pgrasol moving. I thought

the baby had awakened.

"He was so sweet and happy when ae first awakened that I thought for fun I would run out and steal some of his smiles and play peek-a-boo at him to see the dear Utile thing’s delight. I went to the kitchen door, and as I opened it and started down the steps I saw the Maltese puss, the family pet, Jmap out on the other side carriage from under the parser the baby's face. I thought nothing of k, especially as the cat had often Jumped Into the foot of the carnage and lay there asleep while tbe

baby was taking his nap.

When I reached the carriage, pushthe parasol away and leaned down

look at the baby there he lay

his little mouth allghtly open, a mark of disfigurement was o

white face.”

This part of Mre Brown's story fs corroborated by Mrs. F. 8. Knox, a neighbor, who also saw the cat Jump down from the baby's carriage, and who ran over to the Brown yard when the mother's scream announced that something terrible had hap pent

hi

child's as fol- » forent ige for

moon

Not

n bis

Dr. F. 1

w'axham was

iedly i bora

helped i

ione<L and two other nelghl d tb?ir friend in the effort to

restore life to the child by rubbing and by all tne other methods they knew. Dr. Waxham’s efforts proved equally fruitless. The child had prbbtbly been dead, be aald. for some

time.

This startling corroboration of the

old theory that a cat can cause a child's death by sucking its ijreath

lied forth many theories and e

hu called pianattoni

A majority of people believe that the .ot-^nt"Us mouth into that o( the child, who breathed back the animal's

breath till suffocation resulted.

Dr. W'axham, who was called in the “It is my positive belief that death -.•me to the baby in Jnat this way. and to my own satisfaction the old saying is proved. I have heard of teath having been caused in this way before, but I have never believed it until now. This is tbe first Instance that ever came under my observation or that I have ever heard of directly." The assigned cause for this strange tendency In tbe cat is .that the smell of milk in the child's mouth first Indaces the cat to put It* own mouth within that of the child. As It feta lire taste of the milk it sucks the

jhild's breath, and . final!?

ilalnable fas-

iverpowered by an unexpl

k

B who have heretofore a

aid saying 1

Coroner Horan

able. This is that gie cat lay down ipon the child's face, and the little >ne, unable to draw its breath, soon

1 the ar-

in town. Idlng fi-

Judge (to elderly w»tn«*sJ—In what ear were you born, madam? Lady—In 76, your honor. Judge-—Uml In 1876 or 177«T—Chi-

Agalnst this must be tuntent that a strong

»ld boy In n struggle for breath would easily displace an animal the sise of

i cat

The most startling the6ry from a •dentific standpoint la that the jf all animals of the cat family acts u a chloroform to all other ITUs theory is explained In an article lubllahed some years ago In a scientific magazine and preserved in scrapbook by Assistant Distrlct-Attor-rey T. E. McIntyre, of Denver, article says: "A recent published story criticises A* nntlen that a cat sacks away a rhild'a breath. ThU U praeelon. erroneous In Its form, of a

physiological fact. AH the felidai posses* poisonous breaths. Intended by nature to act as an anaesthetic oi

their prey. If a

perimr cat's b

person cares to ex

intent by Inhaling, for Instant

he can ei Is statei

ilaying with a.mouse. you

will discover that the mouse docs not

mce, a Ize th*

breath, be can easily

truth of this statement. Careful)? watch a cat playing with a.mouse.

will discover i

suffer, but U sort of stupefied, as if by chloroform. In the "Life of Living

stone," written by himself, of explc lions in Africa, he states that when he was seized by a Hon

arm broken, the crunching of th« broker, arm gave him no pain, so be numbed were his senses by the anl

mal's breath.

"A cat seeks the child.^ts soft bed and the warmth of us body, and lie*

chest of the Infant. Its

L oace, md bit

breath anaestti

i the chest of the It Impedes respire

stlzes the -

follows. This circumstance hit actually occurred, and medical records conclusively prove U."—New

York World.

QUAINT AND CURIOUS Rotterdam is building the biggest excavated dock In the world. IU ares

with a

U 150 acres with a depth

14 feet, which will be dredged out iat er to 28 feet. The earth dug up has

■undlng

ilgh-

28 feet.

been used to build the surroi quay* and to raise tbe level of nel

boring streets.

In the Arctic regions early explorers were astounded to find large areas of red snow: but tbe phenomenon U now famutar to men of science, who know that red snow, like a green garden fence, is due to tbe presence of unicellular algae, the only difference be-

ing in the coloring topi asm. It is said

that acres of snow

y these tiny plants.

: frequently covered In a single

[bt by

cupal the <

ry year 1,000.000 then considered

Before the English

is one fi

all pious Hindoo* who could do so were carried to the banks and placed In its waters to die. The decaying carcasags^along its banks were probably raaiwialhU In MyAmali degree for the ndstilences JsJnch formerly desolated

^me pcblnkuS?

An eninent violinist, Herr Baker, ha* recadtly tested the sensitiveness to music of each of tbe animals In the soologiial gardens of German). The Influence of the violin was the greatest on tH puma, whose moods changed rapidly as the nature of the music chansbd, becoming very much excited and oervous. when quicksteps were played. Wolves* showed an appreciative Interest, Hons and hyenas were

leopards were unconcerned

curious.

aged New Yorker 'Ife'B tomb In the . Devotion to her tbe once powerful all his physical strength and

•ped

terrified, loop* and^nonkeys c

In a of h

Wtallty, sapped by yt Mure, is ebbing away,

s had a melancholy pleasure

i the tomb by the side

iff, and has found his only haps there, for he does not believe be aeet her in another world, i he lives in the tomb the old i not sleep there. He leaves tery every night and goes to oom in a house in Williams-

.t of his

“Good morning. Mary." he als to his wife when he enters i. Just as if her deaf care r his voice through the thick kill of her metal coffin. * pfedoc lake, in Transylvania, acrdlng to a Hungarian chemist, has a y remarkable peculiarity. The sur- » temperature in summer is 70 des. but at a depth of about four feet re is 132 degrees, which degrees at tbe bottom. • surface water is fresh, bnt the tater beneath is intensely salt explains the difference in tempere by saying that, as the specific t of salt water is less than that of h water, the salt water is more eas>y the sun; and. having rtsther temperature than that 4 the overlying fresh water. It retains *h water preInU its escape by radiation. With

every ictlcal

i. It is suggested that such a reserr ef heat, migiitj* 01 scr ' !. particularly as there are other s of the same kind In that region. A Kladly Act. A leaky spigot, a big dog and a -amp taught- the passing throng on F ireet the other morning a little les in humanity. Tne big dog haJ cd no collar. He. -like the tramp.

I nil '

.o,

ie had come to the spigot for a drink, ust enough water leaked from It Into he catch basin beneath to whet his ppetite without gratifying It. His ye would follow a'drop with lighting sapidity down through the grated bksin. He would ihen look up at the siigot most wistfully. Of the pass Hrtd*?lm until a “knight of the road." with a tightly rolled blanket flung or4 lls rboulder, slouched past the corkef of 11th* and F streets. Before 4 had crossed the street he saw the ( d»g and I Mien appeal.

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