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184 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [December,
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HARTFORD, DECEMBER 15, 1901.
M. Allen, A.M., M.E., Editor. A. D. Risteen, Associate Editor.
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Up to noon of December 1, 1901. the Pacific Surety Company did a considerable
volume of boiler insurance along the Pacific coast; but on that date its entire boiler
business was permanently transferred to the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insur-
ance Company; and in the future the Pacific Surety Company will devote itself entirely
to fidelity, surety, and plate glass insurance. The Hartford Company is represented on
the Pacific coast by Messrs. Mann & Wilson, 30G Sansome St., San Francisco, Cal.
Erratum.— In the article on the new star in Perseus, in the issue of The Locomotive
for November, we said, on page 171, that " we must admit that the star is not more
than 6,000,000,000,000 million miles away." The word "million" should be omitted,
so as to make the passage read, "not more than 6.000,000,000,000 miles away."
Technical Education in England.
Not so very many years ago, it was fashionable, in Europe, to sneer at the people of
the United States, and to say that we are a nation of shopkeepers and money-makers,
without any great amount of culture, and with only a superficial knowledge of the facts
of art and science. But there is now a marked tendency to give us a little more credit
for what we have done and are doing. Our marvelous industrial and commercial suc-
cesses have forced our European friends to study us a little more carefully, and the result
has been that a more intimate acquaintance has shown them that we are not altogether
bad. We admit, ourselves, that there is still much for us to do ; and in fact it is this con-
fident belief in the even greater future that lies before us that stimulates us to put forth
our best efforts, at the present day, to hasten our progress in every branch of industry
and knowledge. We' are sorry to say it, but we are afraid that the discovery that we
are "good fellows" was not made, in Europe, until our successes in industrial competi-
tion forced it upon a somewhat unwilling public. In England, in particular, there has
been the liveliest interest, for some years past, in all things American; and the English
press has been having heart-to-heart talks with itself, to see what is the reason that we
have come up so rapidly, and to try and devise ways and means to keep in the game.
We have printed extracts from English papers, from time to time, illustrating this fact;