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40 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [March,
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HARTFORD, MARCH 15, 1901.
M. Allen, A.M., M.E., Editor. A. D. Risteen, Associate Editor.
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A boiler exploded, on December 28th, in Calcutta, India, killing eight men and
injuring many others.
We have received a copy of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Siichsisch-
Thuringischer Dampfkessel-Revisions-Verein, of Halle a. S., Germany, containing the
statistics of the business of the association for 1900.
On December 20th the British steamer Domingo de Larrinaga, Capt. Gibson, which
left Liverpool on November 28th for Port Eads, La., arrived at Hamilton, Bermuda, in
distress. During a gale on December 13th, her main steam pipe bursted, killing three
firemen and scalding others.
AVe are indebted to Mr. W. R. Macdonald, engineer for the Commercial Block,
Salt Lake City, Utah, for a copy of an attractive pamphlet issued by the Oregon Shore
Line railroad, and entitled In and About Salt Lake. It contains a good deal of infor-
mation about Salt Lake City and the Mormans, and is beautifully illustrated by half-
tone enscravinirs.
We desire to acknowledge a copy of the Fifteenth Annual Report of the Illinois
Society of Engineers and Surveyors, containing the proceedings of the society at its
fifteenth annual meeting, held at Moline, 111., in January, 1900. It contains a good
many things that will be of interest to civil engineers. Copies may be had, at fifty
cents each, of Prof. M. S. Ketchum, Executive Secretary, University of Illinois, Cham-
paign, 111.
Reporters with lively imaginations appear to be in evidence as much as ever.
One of the New York .Sun's young men sends in the following piece of mendacity from
Syracuse, N. Y. "That milk is not equal to water as a steam producing agent, was
demonstrated on the Erie & Central New York railroad by passenger train No. 1. The
train stopped at the water pump and milk station at Cincinnatus, N. Y., for a supply
of water. Fireman John Barney, a new employe, made a wrong connection and filled
the engine tank with sour milk. The milk curdled as soon as it struck the heat, and