98 ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE ENGINEERING 



engine with his head and should be paid accordingly. He 

 never makes a false move, loses no time, breaks nothing, 

 makes no unnecessary noise, docs not get the water all 

 stirred up in the boiler, hooks up and moves out in the 

 same quiet manner, and the onlookers think he could 

 pull two such loads, and say he has a great engine, while 

 the engineer of muscle would back up and jerk his en- 

 gine around a half dozen times before he could make the 

 coupling, then with a jerk and a snort he yanks the sep- 

 arator out of the holes, and the onlookers think he has 

 about all he can pull. 



Now these are facts, and they cannot be put too strong, 

 and if you are going to depend on your muscle to run 

 your engine, don't ask any more money than you would 

 get at any other day labor. 



You are not expected to become an expert all at once. 

 Three things are essential to be able to handle a traction 

 engine as it should be handled. 



First, a thorough knowledge of the throttle. I don't 

 mean that you should simply know how to pull it open 

 and shut it. Any boy can do that. But I mean that you 

 should be a good judge of the amount of power it will 

 require to do what you may wish to do, and then give it 

 the amount of steam that it will require and no more. 

 To illustrate this I will give an instance. 



An expert was called a long distance to see an engine 



