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Title: Railway master mechanic (microform)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroads Railroads
Publisher: New York : (Simmons-Boardman Pub. Corp.)
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he small boilerplants of from 5 to 100 hors% power, so that their stackswould not emit smoke. It is generally understood that inlarge boiler plants, automatic stokers, larger grate surfaces,closer attention and inspection result in a reduced propor-tion of smoke as compared with the small plants whereautomatic stokers are not generally used and hand firing isnot always of a high order of excellence. Mr. Bird said not a word at this conference regardinglocomotive smoke, and, if we add an appreciable percentageas representing the smoke of large boiler plants to the 85per cent already quoted, it leaves a relatively small amountchargeable to the locomotives. The statement of Mr. Birdis further proven by observation. The general atmosphere of Chicago on early Mondaymornings in warm weather, when domestic heating is notrequired, is very different from that later on, as the manu-facturing plants get into play or work rather, and theirstacks get active. Now. during Sunday, while the plants ir
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Fig. 6. 484 RAILWAY MASTER MECHANIC December, 1909 are not active, there is little cessation in railroad activity.True there are not quite so many Sunday trains, but notenough are taken off to account for the difference in thegeneral atmosphere. Another example, take the beautifulsuburban towns around us. They have as much or morerailroad service as we have proportionate to their area, buttheir beautiful, clear atmosphere is due to absence of manu-facturing and heating plants. No one would claim that thesmoke of South Chicago is due to the railroads, and, if thesteel plants there are not smoking, there is no work for themen or benefit to the community. As a matter of fact, these smokeless cities are not citiesof industrial development. Civilization has manifold usesfor fire, or, to put it another way, fire has made civilizationin a large measure. The savage has little use for fire, andthe lower the grade the less it is used. The higher we goin the scale of civilization, culture, and i

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