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Precautions rou taken every pre- . . . -

Extreme I Doctor-"Have J

caution t o prevent m e spreaa or con- tagion in your family?"

Rastus-"Absolutely. doctah, we've done bought a sanitary cup an' we all drink from it."

An Old Species It happened in the Adirondacks.

"What," demanded the amateur hunter of his guide, "what is the name of the species I just shot?"

"Well, sir," returned the guide suavely, "I've just been Investigating and he says hfs name is Smith."

Flne W8rds Dldn't Work Terence: "'Tis a fine kid ye have

here. A magnificent head and noble features. Could you lend me a couple of dollars?"

Pa t : "I could not. 'Tis me wife's child by her first husband."

Quite So "I'm cutting quite a figure," said the

chorus girl, as she sa t on a broken bottle.

Safety Pmgress at Sapulpa During Year

Placing of the safety posters on the bulletin boards, which brought to the attention of the men the different dangers.

Keeping the roundhouse floor and yards clean, which helps the round- house employes a t night most.

Placing the jacks in one lace i n

YIDlSOll CICTORIE% 6W .'WAY. WEWIORK

tor in machine shop, to warn em- ployes not to s ta r t motors while being worked on.

Started the blue flagging of passen- ger engines a t station, these on the through runs.

Investigation of accidents in e n d u - cational way.

Keeping chisel bars and other hand tools with good heads.

Keeping jacks in good repair. Enforced the goggle rule. Application of flood lights in circle. Keeping drop pit covered. Board walk through engine tracks

and around circle of turntable. Spreading of garnett screenings on

engine tracks and around roundhouse tracks, which absorbed the oil and made yards lighter a t night.

Put light on ice house. Whitewashing the posts and walls

made it lighter for both day and night men.

Had rails fixed to cinder pit. They were in dangerous condition.

Stopped practice of hostlers moving engines while being inspected.

Old fire wall removed in lower part of roundhouse.

Boiler clamp and shears moved from aisle to safer position.

Bmery wheel put in new location so natural light would shine on wheel, the former location was such that the grinding was done in the shadow of the operator in day time.

New blow down line put in round- house.

Asbestm smoke lacks applied to stalls, that eliminated chance Por fire.

Night engine watchmen stopped from throwing scoop shovel up into deck of engine.

Stopped brick men from throwing brick out of gangway without man on ground to protect passersby.

Keeplng stationary fireman on the job who had a tendency to visit in the roundhouse and not attending the boilers.

Moved the lockers out of the round- house aisle.

Parking of autonloblles regulated to safe distances from the shops.

No smoking rule enforced around the roundhouse and office.

Making hostler helper circle engine before coupling into same in the roundhouse and the outside.

Turntable operated only by as- signed men and foreman.

Electric lights in the oil supply house.

Took out coal heatlng stove in oil house and put Cn steam heat.

Put in retaining wall between mas- ter mechanic's office and roundhouse t o turn hot water back Into pit. This was complained about by the switch- men working on lead a t roundhouse.

Dralned the ground near coal chute and oil supply house; this was kept muady from the syphon to the coal chute.

Pu t the open steam draln to radi- ators back of roundhouse in an old, abandoned line that leads t o the hot well; this conserved the fuel, an well a s eliminated the hazard of getting men scalded and other bad effects Prom steam.

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An automobile goes zc I I l I l ev on alr by using a n automatic device which was installed in less than 5 minutes. The automobile was only making 30 miles on a gallon of gasoline but af ter this remarkabIe lnvention was Installed, it .made better than 67. The inventor, Mr. J. A. Stransky, 4147 Eleventh Street, Pukwana, South Da- kota, wants agents and is willing to send a sample a t his own risk. Write him today. -Adv.

Made the roundhouse blower han- dles shorter so they would not strike a man's head.

Pu t proper clamps on drop pit rails. Replaced half-ton chain hoist with

three-ton hoist that was being used to hoist tho cross-compound pumps on the side of the boilers.

Kept the roundhouse wtndows clean. Enforced the rule of steaming out

oil tanks before makiiig regalrs. Shortened the cable to electric

welding machine, grounding same and covering it with rubber hose.

Made new ladders for men oiling pumps, etc.; old ones in bad shape.

Made new scaffold supports for tank work; old ones seasoned and cracked until dangerons.

Made steel trestles for handling air reservoirs.

Raised the marker lamps on the 4100 class engines to give the en- gineer a safer vision of the track ahead.

Lowered the headlights on the 1200, 600 and 200 class engines a t Sapulpa to give better lighting a t night.

As fast a s engines go over drop pit, we a r e placing the drifting valve steam pipe under Jacket to gIve the engineer better vision ahead.

Sand boxes t o oil tank vat bein!: welded to tank, a s the rivets leak oil, making the g a n p 7 a y slippery.

Putting the oiling steps On the 4100 class engines so it will be safer for enginemen to oil the valve gear.

Fire department organized and new flre hose purchased.

Wrapped the squirt pipe in the cabs so men would not get burned; a lso armored hose applied in place of plain hose.

Evll Mind B i d d i e - 1 suppose you have been

in the nary so long you a r e aCCUS- tomed to sea legs?"

Middie-"Lady, I wasn't even look- ing."

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