Locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1894) (14757778161)

Identifier: locomotiveengine07hill (find matches)
Title: Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 1858-1916 Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919
Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair, J.A. Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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ns of employment on railroads and in ness rprivate firms as any person connected with will b costly i e policy ence lately, which brings 1; end, perform the acts incidents connected with one of Dickenss se they have no option novels. Readers of fiction will remember of efforts made by various manufacturers of railroad supplie to make the purchaser the servant of the seller. The facts re- corded were ingenuous confessions of dif- ferent men who w re perfectly sincere in thinking that pure asersoughttodoallin their power to ac commodate the seUer. Since the article v as published, which is now two weeks a ;o. we have had com- plaints from thre e parties that we had been very unkind 0 make their business methods the subje ctof an article, None of the firms when e this complaint came had been in the rr ind of the wnter when he was preparing he article. It looks as if the practices objected to were even more prevalent than we were aware of. and the indications are th t the parties pursuing
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_, ... To the manipulator of that in Nicholas Nickleby, Dickens road officers as a rule are less given to stocks, the individual employ^ is a mere sailed the outrageous condition of the pri- that they arc on the losing side.Plaining superfluous help than any other maehint-. Supply and demand is hishigh- vate schools by describing the educational — - — mployer. A private employer, est law. and be cares nothing for depriving methods of Mr. Whackford Squcers of The Lehigh Valley Railroad Coropan; f employment. Men of this stamp Dotheboys Hall. The pictures of the have made a change in thei .i.~J whose individual s little for tbem railroads t operating expenses of . ,._ ...... .„ ^ .„. .„ ._iuced. and the executive ^ do. partly through benevolent instincts officers have to obey or get out. ^nd partly because it is good business The present lamentable depresaion of policy to retain valuable men. In the business has been greatly intt J^urse of numerous tours made during the this t