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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1919)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE : NOVEMBER 1919. 9 B HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE- HE WORKS WITH. GIANT MACHINES Language May Be of Emer; aid Isle, Slovakia or Vermont ' . Railroad shopmen are the equiv alent to garage men in the automo bile business. They are the men who repair the cars and locomotives. After each day's run of an engine they go over it and fix any part that has jarred loose and see that every bearing is oiled. They inspect the airbrakes on the cars to see that they are working and pack the journal boxes with grease and waste. They keep the rolling stock of the roads in good running order. They talk a babel of languages. By no means all of them have been born in this country, and many speak the dialect of the little village in Lithuania, Czecho-Slovakia, Po land or Galicia from which they came. When they sit about the dingy restaurants and doorsteps at the noon hour and smoke their pipes, they may be thinking of the fertile valley of the Vistula and that broad placid river. They may be dreaming of the smooth plains of Galicia and the peaceful peasant hamlets where everything is the same as a thousand years ago when Galileo was just opening the book of physical science that was destined to transform the world and make modern industrialism a possibility. Learn Ways of New Land. Some day they will go back, they tell you. But few there are who will carry out this dream for all uncon sciously they have parted with the life of the old world and learned the ways of the new. Their children peak English and know nothing of the peasant fete days at the harvest time, and the quaint customs that make the old country dear to the hearts of their parents. Of course there is leaven in the lump. Most of the highly skilled shopmen speak with faint traces of the Emorald Isle brogue and not a few of the back hills twang of the typical Yank. They are the men who do the most delicate jobs in the business of keeping he railroad working, but they are overwhelmed in numbers by those hardy speci mens, rated as helpers and laborers, who flood out of the shops and yards twice a day and pack the 5 o'clock shop train of ancient cars which brings men across the bridge to the Union station daily. Black is 'His Color. The average shopman's uniform is black, black overalls, black shirt, black coat and black hands and face, too. once the day's work begins. His clothes are caked with grease and oil and where they are rubbed they shine like oilcloth. Everything that he wears and the air that he breathes is filled with soft coal dust. For tools he carries a steel bar, a ma chinist's hammer and a giant mon key wrench.' Or else he operates im mense power tools and mammoth i traveling cranes in the gloomy ceil-! ing jf the shops. For the. steel monsters that be . repairs often weigh 500,000 pounds or more and the parts of such an engine are so heavy that 20 men could not handle them. As he stands beside a great Mallet locomotive with its 12 driv ing wheels supporting its tremen dous boiler he looks like a pigmy. His work begins at the round house, an immense circular building, which is laid out like a wheel. The tire is the outer wall. The spokes are lines of track which lead from the open, unroofed center. ' The hub RELIEVES, TIRED ACHING MUSCLES Buy a bottle of Sloan' Linimant and keep it handy for emergency. .. IP I only had some Sloan's Lini ment 1" How often you've said that! And then when the rheu matic twinge subsided after hours of suffering yon forgot it! Don't do it again get a bottle today for possible use tonight! A sudden at tack may come on sciatica, lum bago, sore muscles, stiff joints, neu ralgia, the pains and aches resulting from exposure. You'll soon relieve it with Sloan's, the liniment that penetrates without rubbing. 38 years' leadership. Clean, economical. Three sizes 35c, 70c, $1.40. 3UE SAGE TEA KEEPS YOUR HAIR DARK ' " , . When Mixed with Sulphur It Brings Back Its Beautiful Lustre at Once. . Gray hair, however handsome, de rotes advancing age. We all know the advantages of a youthful appear ance. Your hair is your charm. It makes or mars the face. When it fades, turns gray and looks streak ed, just a few applications of Sage Tea and Sulphur enhances its ap pearance a hundred-fold. Don't stay gray I Look young 1 Either prepare the recipe at home or get from any drug store a bottle of nVyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com pound," which is merely the old time recipe improved by the addi tion of other ingredients. Thou sands of folks recommend this ready-to-use preparation, because it darkens the hair beautifully, be sides, no one can possibly tell, as it darkens so naturally and evenly. You moisten a sponge or soft brush with it, drawing this through the hair, taking one small trand at a time. By morning the gray hair disappears; after another application or two. its natural color is restored and it becomes thick, glossy and lus trous, and you appear years younger. The Railroad Shopman? ' ''CBBP : : ; ft. if C,J" if!! ill I Is a great turntable. After each tun the engines are driven in here through one of the outside entrances and turned about to a vacant stall by the turntable. Beneath these tracks within (the roundhouse are long pits into which the ashes and cinders from the ashpans can be dropped. The shopmen shake out most of the fire, leaving onlv enough to start up again for the next run, and carefully clean out all the clinkers. In the old days they had to clean out the flues also, for these would become choked with coal and soot. But nowadays therj is an arch of fire brick in front of these flues so that the coal that is thrown in is deflected downward and doesn't choke these small open ings. And the fierce draft which blows over the fire helps to keep the flues all open. Turns in Locomotive. Before the engineer leaves his locomotive, he feels of the axles 6f the great .driving wheels to see if they have become Overheated be cause of poor- lubrication, for usual ly by the time the shopman begins bis work, the engine has cooled off, and it is impossible to tell whether Roos and Wife to Take Trip to East Visiting Milwaukee - Victor H. Roos, the local Harley- Davidson motocycle and Strong hold automobile tire distributor, to day leaves on an extended trip through Pennsylvania and to Ak ron, O., to look after tire interests, and to the Harley-Davidson factory at Milwaukee. Mr. Roos expects to take in the annual cycle show at Chicago. He lias taken his wife with him on the trip and expects to complete the honeymoon which was cut short last winter on account of pressing busi ness matters. Fought for U. S. in War, Forced Into Greek Army Pnttsville. Pa . Nov. 1. A vigor ous protest has been filed with the State department art Washington by members of the A. E. F. club of this city,' composed ot veterans wno crvH in Franr Hurinc the. world war, against the action of the Greek government in impressing iouis Anast, a local boy, in the Greek rrpy- - : . ' Anast served witn company u, Hfttli rrimnt in France, and white in the armv took out his citizenship papers. With the end ot nosunties, and after he had been discharged, he rtrtif1 in Clrrrre tr visit his fam ily. During his visit he was induct ed into the Greek army. Tt.. nt an Trtrie search- X lie nJonvi v. ... - - light operated by a six-volt battery contends it Win inrow a ou light 800 feet. , BETTER TRUCKING Man with new 2-ton truck -." wishes permanent truck ing contract with respon sible firm. Write Box VR-90, Bee. This is Real Truck and Will Be a Credit to Your Business. there is a heated bearing. If any axle is too hot for the engineer to hold his hand on, he notes, it on his report. Then the shopman repacks the journal tbox with a grease that looks very much like naphtha soap. This comes in cakes which are quite hard under ordinary temperatures. Recipe to Make a ' Gray Hair' Remedy A. L. Paulson, M. D., who has practiced medicine in New York City for many years, gave out the following recipe for a home-made gray hair remedy: "Gray, streaked or faded hair can be quickly turned black, brown or light brown, which ever shade you desire, by the fol lowing remedy that you "can make at home: - "Merely get a boxof Orlex pow der at any drug store. It costs very little and no extras to buy. Dissolve it in 4 oz. of distilled or rain water and comb it through the hair. Full directions for use and a gold bond guarantee come in each box. "It is safe, does not rub off, is not sticky or greasy, and leaves the hair fluffy. It will make a gray haired person look twenty years younger." Adler-i-ka Helps Mr. Hoeft ! "I had stomach trouble for sev"en years and one bottle Adler-i-ka com pletely CURED me. I still use it as a family laxative with good results." (Signed) E. Hoeft. Adler-i-ka flushes BOTH upper and lower bowel so completely it relieves ANY CASE gas on the stomach or sour stomach. Removes foul matter, which poisoned stom ach for months. Often CURES con stipation. Prevents appendicitis. Adler-i-ka is a mixture of buck thorn, cascara, glycerine and nine other simple ingredients. Sherman & McConnell Drug Co. CIIMH TETTER ON SCA ED Neck, Back and Hands. Scalp Itched. Lost Rest. 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Only Thus the bearings get no lubrica tion except when the engine is run ning and the axle becomes warm enough to melt the grease. The din in the roundhouse is ter rific There is a battery of 20 or 30 engines inside at one time. Many of these are all steamed up and have a roaring draft on their fires. . A rattling atlas hammer or two may be at work inside a cooled firebox. It is very difficult to talk, for one cannot hear what one is saying as he shouts in a companion's ear. The air is full of coal gas and smoke, for although there is a chimney in the roundhouse roof over each engine stack, a great deal of the smoke and fumes stay in the room. Besides oiling and cleaning out the grates, some rather large repairs are performed in the roundhouse. It is often necessary to renew the rings on the great pistons that drive the wheels. To do this the heads of the cylinders must be removed and driving rods uncoupled. Fre quently it is necessary to put in a new set of driving wheels. But most of the big repairs are left for the shops. The Busy Shops. The shops constitute a great locomotive factory, where repairs of any nature can be carried out, or where a complete locomotive can be assembled. The principal part of the building is one great room so large that a dozen engines can be placed side by side down the cen ter of it and still leave a broad space around each one and on the sides. About this main room are grouped the machine shop, the blacksmith shop and the room where the tanks and tenders are repaired. Ninety thousand miles is the average distance an engine is; sup posed to run before being laid up in the shops for general repairing. At the end of that mileage it is overhauled, whether there is any thing apparently wrong with it or not Very, often, however, an en gine has to be sent to tha shops much sooner An average of the mileage of engines shows that most of them have, run less than 50,000 miles since they were last gone over. But even this mileage is greater than that made by the average auto mobile in its entire life. A locomo tive will often last for 20 years or more. Usually it becomes obsolete before it is worn out, for styles in the railroad world change quite as fast as they do in the realm of fashions. An engine built 20 years ago looks like a caricature of an up-to-date model. As much so as hooped skirts and bodices beside the present costumer's creations. .New Engines for Old. ' Often a locomotive is repaired so much that it is a puzzle to say whether, it is a new one or an old one, just as it is in the case of the philosopher's jack-knife which from time to time he found it necessary to repair with new blades, new handle, new spring and new bolsters. And not infrequently a new switch engine is made out of an old .obsolete passenger engine, or the parts of two or more wrecked en gines are combined into a brand new one. This is the work of the shopmen from the highly-skilled American machinists down to the greasy laborer born in Lithuania. The shopman's most wonderful piece of machinery is the mam moth 120-ton traveling crane which runs the length of the shop on an overhead track, one rail of which is on either side of the room. This is operated by a man who sits in a little cabin beneath the long steel beam of the crane spanning room. Back and forth it "travels lifting a huge casting or even a whole locomotive as easily as one would pick up a lump of sugar for one's tea, carrying it soaring over the heads of the shopmen at work below, and finally setting its burden down with uncanny precision on the crowded floor. The controls are so wonderfully adjusted that it can lift at any speed and travel up and down the great building all in one opera tion. . Retiring 200-Ton "Battleship." One of the commonest repairs the shopman has to make is to put new tires on the huge driving wheels of the locomotives just as one would on an automobile. But retiring a 200-ton engine is quite a proposition as compared with retiring a one or two-ton ' automobile. To remove the steel tires they must be heated sufficiently to slide off. The new set of tires then has to be reamed out on a giant lathe, big enough to turn a ?2-inch inner diameter. When these have been enlarged very near ly to size they in turn are heated and pressed onto the wheels As they cool they shrink so tight that they become immovable. Sometimes it is not necessary to replace the tires, but only to even up the worn treads. The lathe that does this work represents a $22,000 investment. The work is extreme ly difficult because whenever an en gine slides on the track, as in sud denly applying the brakes, it formes hard spots in the tire that even the best lathe tools will scarcely cut. On wheels that do not have these hard spots the shopman's work is comparatively easy, though on such large parts necessarily very slow. Taking Out the "Knocks." Like automobiles, locomotives are very likely to acquire "knocks" and to "pound." This is usually due to loose bearings on the driving rods. The worn crank pins on the wheels and the old brass bushings on the rods are removed by powerful hy draulic presses that exert tons of pressure. Replacing a brass bush ing is a very ticklish job, for if it is too tight when it is pressed in the sides are shaved down so that it rattles, and if it is a hair's breadth too loose it also rattles. Often the great driving rods have to be reforged in the blacksmith shop. There they are heated in the furnaces and carried by cranes to the steam hammers that shape them out with resounding blows that shake the whole building. From the forging room they are taken to the machine shop, where they are milled to shape. On such large parts that each weigh thousands of pounds this work is extremely slow. To shape and bore out one rod is the work of many hours, and requires the greatest skill on the part of the shopmen operating the machine. When an engine comes into the shop for any extensive repairs the flues in the boiler are taken out so as to clean off the scale that col lects on their surface. As these are welded into the ends of the boHer, they have to be cut out with a hy drogen torch. They are then put into a huge chain sling and lowered into a vat of water, where they are rotated so as to rub off all the de posits. When they are clean, the ends are cut off even and new sec tions are welded onto them so that they will be long enough to reach when they are put back. Finally they are rewelded into the boilers. In the old. days these long pipes or flues were simply wedged into place. 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