THE CAREER OF A TRAVELING 

 TECHNICAL CORRESPONDENT. 



"Lodian the Irrepressible." Locomotive Engineering, N. Y. July, 1896. 

 It was in November, 1897, that the use of the words above quoted 

 was first discovered by Lodian, when looking through back numbers 

 of Locomotive Engineering in the library of the Teknicheski Cocie'te' 

 (Technical Society) at Peterburg, Russia. When the words appeared 

 (July, 1896, ) he was among the wilds of the borders of Manchuria and 

 extreme eastern Cibiria ("Siberia"). 



Although never professing journalism as a meams of existence 

 and an almost unknown personality among press writers still, Lodian 

 has contributed so profusely to technical periodical literature on 

 technics foreign during the past two decades, as to perhaps warrant 

 these notes on as some may think a unique career of travel. They 

 will afford an insight into the life of a traveling technical correspon- 

 dent who, apart from his regular work as an inspection engineer, em- 

 ploys his spare time lining for engineering and mechanical journals. 



When he made his first call in Noverrber, 1888, at The Journalist 

 office 3ft its old abode on Nassau street, it was on the occasion of his 

 return from his first tour, he made us a second call in 1893, after cir- 

 cling round again, en route to the Pacific; and, rather curious to relate, 

 both Porman and Lodian were traveling in India in the same year of 

 1895, crossing each other's lines, yet never meeting or hearing till re- 

 cently of one another's presence in the far east. 



Lodian (Mex. Lodia) is riot a Russian, as is usually thought 

 although it is true that he is familiar w T ith that language but a regu- 

 down-east yank a New-Englander with San Francisco as his home. 



Brought iup or rather bringing himself up as an engineer, 

 Lodian's first trip abroad was to Latin America, early in 1885, to the 

 old Peru viceroyalty. He thought like many other deluded ones 

 have thought he was at once among "gold-mines," but soon got sad 

 der and wiser. 



The mining properties being paralyzed by the insurrection, Lodian 

 joined the disorganized command of Kaceres as a means of getting out 

 of the country, and from a teniente-comandante was "jumped''(hazards 

 of war) to the post of teniente-general (lieutenant-general), and in this 

 capacity continued with Kaceres( or Caceres) the"scarred Kaceres" 

 at the assault and taking of Lima (December 1, 1385). 



Proceeding to Chile, he crossed the Nevadas of the Andes, in 

 April 1876, to Argentina, and spent two years in the Plata state en- 

 gaged on mining and railroad work. 



