Page 24 75)3Zsc0 FW~~~@Y#GWZINE August, 1927 WELCOME LETTERS from the DAILY MAIL ERT 0. CRANE, train porter, came Frisco employee and Is well known on the undersigned arrived in Sherman into Springfleld on train 103 on Frisco Lines. He wrltee: In good shape Jane 27, and placed in the morning of June 14, and re- "Please accept my thanks for the my store on June 28," wrltes T. L. ported to the ticket agent at Spring- July issue of the Frisco Employes' Hudson, of Sherman, Texas. fleld passenger station that he had Magazine. "This is excellent senrlce, and I found two bills in the smoking car, "Having been with the Frisco SO want yon to know that I am well one a $1.00 bill and the other a $5.00. many years I still feel it belongs to pleased with the handling of this ship- --- . - . - - - -. -- un June 16 tne agent at Springneld me, or I to it. The Veterans' .Number ment, am well as all other shipments . received a letter from J. F. Hatley, is particularly appreciated." consigned to me via your lines." Frisco agent at Koshkonong, Mo.. stating that he had lost this money Less than twenty-four hour -9 after Mre. E. H. Pumphrey. of Beaumont, and asking if anyone had turned in The Winchester Hardware store at 303, any information about- it. Kansas, a passenger on train June - .. -. Brownwood,.- --- Texas, - - placed- - na order 8, left her coat on the train when she un me mornmg or June la, a mart wltb a uallas nrm for four Darrels of got off at Neodesha. She called Dis- lor $6.00 was sent to Mr. HatIey. "I blue rock clay pigeons, the pigeons patcher Jim Smith and asked him to think it Is commendable that we have had arrived. The letter reads: trace the coat for her. a porter in our service that will com- "Yesterday, June 30, we wired Cul- "I wish to show my appreciation to ply with the instructions of the man- lum & Eoren Co.. of Dallas as follows: tbe conductors and dispatcher respon- agement as was done in this case," 'Rush ~riscofou; barrels Blue sible for the return of my coat, left writes, 0. W. Bruton, superintendent Rack Clay Pigeons. on train 303, June 8 at Neodesha," she of terminals at Springfleld. "This morning, less than twenty-four writes. I missed the coat about 7:30 hours later, these goods were in our p.m. and called Dispatcher Jim Smith. E. C. Van Valkenburg, purchaslng Louse." He notlfled Conductor Wiedman, who agent for the Oklahoma-Southwestern "Perhaps you would be glad b know found the coat on the train near Jog Railway Company at Tulsa, received that shipment of one crated counter lin. It was returned to Beaumont a copy of the July issue of the Fsbco refrigerator shipped from Holcomb. June 9, on 303 by Conductor White. Magazine. Hoke Manufacturing Company, Indi- Please notlfq,the above employes of Mr. Van Valkenburg is a former anapolis, Ind.. June 22. consigned to my gratitude. I PRESS TIME BULLETINS a Young 'rakeman---There Item abPearina 'under this hradino There Was B WAS! vuu uuuurau UIIU niuury-nve mum- bera of the Frisco Girls' Club of the general offlces, St. Louis, met for their second monthly luncheon at Hotel Jefferson, St. Louls, July 26. Guests of honor were Messrs. J. R. Koontz. vice president-traffic; S. S. Butler. freight trafflc manager; L E. Martin, assistant to the president: and W. L. Hugglns, Jr., director of publicity and editor Frisco Magaziw. Mr. Koontz and Mr. Butler addressed the girls on the value of friendship and wide ac- qualntance in securing additional pass- enger and freight trafflc. Miss Loretto A. Conner, president of the club pre* sided. and entertainment was given by Misses Leona Jones and Irene New- fer, dancers, of Seventh street station, accompanied by Florence Larkin and Miss Alice Cook, vocalist, accompanied by Miss EIeanor Finn. A special train of twenty-seven car- loads of Dodge Brothers automobiies -the new sixes--consigned to Nonal- Dial at Tulsa, passed through St. Louis at 3 p. m., July 21, via Frisco Lines. The Consignment left Detroit July 19. DECKER-BRINGLESON Miss Helen Decker, of Bloomsburg, Pa., and A. C Bringleaon, traveling freight agent or Frisco Lines, at Pitts- burgh. Pa.. were married on June 18. Mrs. Fbfngleson was a teacher in the Beaver, Pa., schools for several years and Mr. Brlngleson, before tak- ing up his dutlee as traveling frelght ployed h the pffice of superintendent Springfleld, Mo., and Is well known fn agent in the eastern office, was em- of freight loss and damage claim8 at the hisco general offieee. Page 25 Ways to Reduce Fuel Costs Miss Reglna SteKins, successful Rg HARRY ZlMMERMAN, Locostotive Firctrtai~,~Vorfhcrrs Divisrorr Frisco candidate for Queen of the Rose Carnival at Tulsa, arid ller mother, acted as chaperones to a UEL represeiits the second great- question-what is an element? An party or six successful winnel-s ot a est item of operating cost on a element is a substance that cannot contest in the Oklahoma territary, railroad. If thls cost Is to be be decompose6 by any known method enroute to Washington, D. C. , for a lowered to third place, or below, It Is or divided into anything more simple. week's visit. up to the men, whose hands it last Is is one of the original forms of mat- Miss Steffins is the daughter of T. passes through-the engineer and fire- ter, from two or more of which all H. Steffins, president of thc! Sand man. compounds or mlxtures are made. The Springs Railway at Sand Eiprings, If one wonders why so many fuel earth is composed of eighty known Okla. Others in the party werle: Mrs. meetings are being held over the sys elements. The smallest part of an V. E. Volk, Tulsa; Maude Mil ler, Sa- tem, he should stop and conslder how element Is called an atom, which is pulpa: Mabel Smith, Broken Arrow; little of the heat in the fuel is actual- thought of as a round particle too Constance Sieber and Mrs. R. G. Sie- ly converted into effective work at the small to see with the naked eye. ber, Oklahoma City; Miss Geneva drawbar of the Iwomotive. The heat When the atoms of different elements Holmes, Edmond. is distributed as follows: 62% In ex. combine chemically. they form a mole- The party toured the City of ' Wash- haust steam, 1% to overcame frlctlon, cule of an entirely dlfferent substance. ington for a week in an es]pecially 5% is lost in radiation, 6% to operate As the air passes through the hot fire conducted party, and returned to St, auxiliary devices, 14% in unabsorbed bed it becomes heated until when it Louis and boarded the Mete?or for heat passing from stack in gases. 4% reaches the surface two atoms of hy Tulsa on Saturday evening, Jruly 23. in unburned gases and soot, 8% in drogen combine with one atom of oxy- sparks thrown from the stack, 4% in gen and burn with a yelIow blaze and heated before it comes in conta~ct with coal falling into ashpan, and finally we then pass out as a water vapor. In this the sheets. have but 6% of the total heat or pow- case two gases combine to form wa- The fireman's greatest eneml la me er in the fuel actually utilized in pull- ter. At the same time one atom of clinker. It shuts off the air supply ing cars. oxygen is comblning wSth me atom and seduces the grate surface in pro- According to The First Law of Ther- of carbon to form carbon monoxide portion to Its sfze. Air cannot pass modynamics (Mechanical energy may and if a sufficient amount of air is through the clinker and due to in- be transformed into heat and beat admltted when the C. 0. reaches the sufficient amount of oxygen, the gases may be transformed into rnechanlcal surface of the fire it will burn with from the coal above the clinker will energy, md in every case of a trans- a blue blaee while another atom of be but partially burned. The carbon formation of this character, the ratio oxygen is combining and will pass out will form with but one oxygen and of the quantlty of heat to the quantlty as carbon dioxide. pass out as carbon monoxide instead of mechanical energy involved remains The temperature of the firebox plays of carbon dioxide, the latter repre- constant), the mechanical energy lost an important part in the process of senting perfect combustion. The with every scoopful of coal wasted can combustion. The most important cause of the clinker is the impurities be calculated. One ton of coal con- gases are roasted out of the coal at of the coal as Iron, sulphur, ash, etc. tains about 133 scoopfuls with 15 700 degrees F. but will not burn or melting and running together. The pound8 to each scoopful, Each pound combine with oxygen until the tenl- common reaeon for these impurities of coal contalns 14,000 B.T.U. ant¶ each perature of the firebox reaches 1,800 running together is the clinker hook. B.T.U. is equivalent to 758 foot degrees F. Thls is one reason heavy Just as Sure as green coal In a flre is ponnde. Then, with each scoopful of firing should be avolded as It admits stlrred, just that certain clinker will coal wasted we have 15 x 14,000 x 778- an excess of cold air through the fire- form.