Text Appearing Before Image: t links of railroad builtclose to the banks of their own bigditch might be joined together in acontinuous chain extending from theocean to the lakes. The Mohawk &Hudson, the Utica & Schenectady, theSyracuse & Utica and other smalllines reaching towards Buffalo werepermitted to proceed unmolested toeventually form a through line whichdried the heart of the Erie Canal and Give the Fireman a Chance. Quite frequently we see articles ofcriticism on firemen presumably fromengineers and there was one in partic-ular in your May issue. There is an old saying that a poorworkman always finds fault with thetools and we apply the same in thiscase. We have a number of engineers in the art of firing and we appreciatethe fact that Railway and LocomotiveEngineering has done its part in that ■line, but we dislike the idea of someone who perhaps never really fired anengine in his life endeavoring to tellhow to do it, or to describe how heused to do it. Ec-ing a constant reader of your val- Text Appearing After Image: HACKENSACK, BUILT BY ROGERS IN 1860. FOR N. Y. & HACKENSACKBROAD GAUGE. NOW PART OF ERIE. all over the country who are continu-ally finding fault with the fireman, al-ways telling how it ought to be doneand perhaps if they were put to thetest they could not keep an ordinarycook stove hot. The fireman of to-day is up againsta pretty hard proposition and the workis hard enough without his being harp-ed upon by some one who if he did his uable magazine I thought I wouldwrite a few lines on this subject andhope no one will take oflfense at it. M. L. Houlihan.
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1904
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