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1901.] THE LOCOMOTIVE. 167
(249.)— On August 20th a tube failed iu one of the boilers of the fruit steamer
Adler, as she was entering New York harbor, from Kingston, Jamaica, with a load of
fruit. We have not learned of any personal injuries.
(250.)— The boiler of a drill engine exploded, on August 27th, at Jersey City, N. J.,
as the result of a collision with another similar engine. Engineer William C. Brown
was severely scalded.
(251.)— A boiler exploded, on August 28th, in M. L. Peck's sawmill, on Sideling
Hill, near Hancock, Md. Nooman Maun was instantly killed, and James Craig and
Samuel Peck were badly injured.
(252.)— On August 28th the boiler of John Patterson's threshing machine outfit ex-
ploded on Burwell Consins' farm, three miles from Blackstone, Va. Algernon Jenkins
and a man named Pryor were killed, and Daniel L. Thomas was badly injured.
(253.)— The port boiler of the steamer City of Trenton exploded, on August 28th,
on the Delaware river, opposite Hampton Court, near Philadelphia, Pa. The main and
upper decks were blown into the river, carrying many persons with them. It is difficult
to get the names of the killed and injured correctly, but so far as we know them they
are as follows: J. D. Crew, Miss Elizabeth Green, Arthur Lansing, Matthew Mable,
August Mable, James O'Connell, William Dunn, William II. Keene, William Nelson,
Jessie Stratton, and two unknown persons were killed, and Mrs. Edna Van Schoick,
Miss Fanny Keene, and Theresa Rhein were fatally injured. In addition, about fifteen
others are missing, and it is believed that most of these were killed. Some thirty others
were also injured so badly that they had to be removed to the hospital for treatment,
and the total number of injured is believed to have been about fifty.
Taking" the Bull by the Horns.
A certain general manager has developed what seems to us to be quite a novel way
of dealing with the union problem. Shortly after employing a man in his machine shop
he received several letters from another town informing him that this man was a very
bad specimen, that he was an agitator from Agitatortown, that he stimulated the workmen
to do all sorts of disagreeable things, and that he was a bad citizen generally, and
a bad man to have about a shop — a disturbing element, in short. Calling the man into
his office, the manager said to him: "I understand that you are an agitator, and that
you devote a good deal of energy to stirring up dissatisfaction and trouble." " I don't
know that I have done anything particularly wrong in that line," the man replied, " although
I have taken an active part in some labor difficulties." " Well," said the superintendent,
"if you can handle men in the way these letters say you can, and make them
do things that they otherwise would not do, I think you can handle them in this shop if
you have a mind to ; and I want you to take charge of all the lathe work, and see that
it is performed in good shape, and that a full day's work is done. In other words, I
should like you to be foreman of the lathe department." The man was astonished, of
course, but he said that he would take hold of it and do the best he could, and this he
has been doing ever since ; the superintendent being ready to testify that he is a most
excellent and satisfactory foreman in every particular. He knows what a day's work is,
and requires that it be delivered by every man every day ; and the men appear to be
perfectly satisfied to do it for him, continuously and uniformly. — American Machinist.