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Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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expects every man to do hia duty,* something will be doing, young men, and the result will be that that coal bill will be out down. How are you going to do it? Tou are going to go into fuel engineering and you are going to be connected with a railroad company. First, you must have a love for your job. As said by Mr. Hetzler, you must love your Job, and if you do not love your Job, then get out and be superintendent of motive power, where you can look wise and don't have to do muoh. (Laughter). But if you are Interested and In love with your Job, you will learn just how to go at it and you can work it so cleverly that you will not get tired, and you can go to bed at night and sleep and you can eat a good breakfast In the morning and so be ready for a good start each day. Now then, you can make a very fine analysis of the coal, and having made that, you must have the condition in the fire box Just right. The grate is a very im- portant thing, the opening in the grate, the amount of air that you let in there, is a very important thing* If you let in too much air you will probably cool down the temperature of the fire box so that the carbon will not burn, and if you have too little air you will not have sufficient oxygen for proper oombustion. It generally required the oxygen of 300 cubic feet of air to Imra one pound of coal, if the coal is properly broken up, and I think we are making a mistake in putting too large lumps of ooal on our tenders. I wish Dean Goes would have these experiments 13
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