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The Calgary Herald 1903-01-01 - 1903-06-30
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1903-04-20
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SHE DAILY HERALD, CALGARY snap went two bolts: +e 4TBROES. OF THE + ENGINE ROOM. * PHOLISSOTSIOSSOS OHNE My cngines, after ninety days o' race and. rack and strain Phrough all the seas of all Thy. works, slam-bangin howe again, Slam-bang too much they knock a wee the cross head site ere loons; at thirty thousand mile o' sea, has gied them fair excuse. MacAndrew's. Hytan. ona. of the Feat heroes of tho sea. sald the manager a transatlantic jine, as ho nodded at the retreating) figure of his visitor. Some of our et ignieers and his-kind save. many a ahi many a time at great personal risk, and are not-even thanked for thelr: efforts by the passengers. But that s because they dan t know when or where or how the engineers preserve thelr lives, for their deeds fre unheralded outside the engineers mess.and the captain's oom. Yes ; iv s trie that ephagire ord for every. one put me ke hands with half the crew, 15 eeutod Fxcefit-the dour Scots engineer, the man they never knew. phe manager pondered a moment. Tih prove to yow that these men are the real heroes of the ocean, he said, and these are the stories that he he offered in proof: A. gertain steamship in the Pacific; trade had been sent ont from her home po:tawith the majority, of her boilers: ut Of commission- In midocean one of the few boilers capable of firing got Ienky tubos, and it bgcame neces- sary to keep the ship under headway fn m hurricane-swept ses, to repalr. the Boiler Immediately. The fire was pulled ont from: under; it, this manhole lid was unscrewed and remgved, and the firstengineer, WraD . ped from head to foot in a thick coat- the of asbestos, crawled into the hot boiler and with chisel and hammer degan tearing out the defective tubes. For two) milautes hei worked, and as dhe worked Meld His breath. for a single. gasp of the fiery air in his lungs would have killed him, Then he crawi- ed to the manhole and was pulled out by the stoke Five minutes ater hs again went into the boller and succeeded in ciit ting away. two tub s, On the third entry he removed three, and after that he spent another five minutes resting. Then came the task of reaming in new tubes, and to do this he was com- yelled to enter the boiler five times. fh each ease he stayed inside nearly tyo minutes and-as he crawled out tip last time: barely had breath and igh left to say to his chief he fainted dead away: It's dane, sir: aS a result, of his terrible experi ence, the man was laid up in the ship's hospital for over a week. And to this day his sleep s constantly disturbed by dreams in: which be roasted in red- hot furnaces. This same engineer was in the boller room:one day when suddenly a valve, in-among a great coll of pipes above the boilers, began to Jeak badly and filling the room with scalding steam, Instantly, and regardless of his own safety, he scrambled upon the pipes and breathless began to make repairs. He hind almost finished when, a5 unexp ctedly as the valve had got-out of order, a joint pipe, below the one on which he was standing, broke, and a stream of hissing steam envelop, ed his foot. He endeavored to pull. Iv away, but,be found it to be tightly wedged in the joint. * He had on. low shoes and before his eries brought ald his sboe and sock were buried off dnd his foot ang lower Jeg parbolled, He, was unable to re- sume work for three months, and: to- day he walks with a perceptible: limp. Yet he tooked upon t as part of the day work, and uttered no complaint. Fen years ago the Umbrin broke ner thrust shaft and floundered Delp- jessiy in mid ocean. The part that broke was 20ft:long weighing several tonr, : Under the direction of Chief Engine es Lawrence Tdmlinson, the. .pleces were secured and-suspended by chains from the top of the shaft tunne , aid then, although the shaft threatened to fail on him at any: moinent, he crawled othe tunnel, found-that the shaft was broken off square, so that tt-could not be riveted toxether, and spent hours in, making measurements. for a collars to be fastened over the break. Hie srent other hours in making and putting on the callar, all the time eitlery lying fiat on. his back 6 Working-in a squatting position, 0 small was the apace. All told he labor- ed iinceasingly for two full days. After that he slept for two. hours, ant the 22 hours following he worked Wwithont pause ntil at last he had polfed the jacket Into place. The job was finished late Monday night, and the ship was got under way Early Tuesday morning the head of bolt uroke off, the jacket slipped, and once more Tomlinson had to crawl rg the timnel to make repairs. gain the ship got under way. and and again, after-an hour of running, REFERENCES: New Norsiain Block, Now Clarence Block For Bengtor Lougheed, Caney Sew Rectory, For Shurahrof ite Re ectner, Calaery. Now Otice Baildtne, Yor Prms Cae Calgary. Bites Sone Forion, Calgary Now. Full Honk, Yor Ws ie Holl Voison risked lite and tab in the stait tunnel. A To make w Yong-story short, Tomlin- oil sag craselng into the tnnel:con tinualiy until the voyage ended, but while tho. paisengers did not know of his heraism until they landed and read it in the newspapere, Tomlinson had tho satisfaction, at. least, of knowing that hii work had prevented the shaft from knocking a hole i the ship's ede, and leaving the v asel helpless and in pert in a stormy sea until tow should chance along. Tt is one of Engineer Tomlinson fellow Scotchmen who prisd oben safety yalve and prevented a -serlous explosion on. Hiner that 18 salling the sear today, 5 dr some Tekan ot Otter, the donkey engine, used for holating cargo and. luggage fad, been started at sea, and a fireman put n charge of it, An hour OF bo later the second engineer, whose watch It was, distinguished un wiusaal noixe among the multitude of sounds ot the big ship eo keen Is an engine er'a sense of hearing. He located it.as coming from the donkey engineand rushed thither, As tie got near he realized that the safety yaive bad stuck and after he had elid the: tiartow,,sily, companion way e found not only the safety valve cht, but the fireman asleep at 4 the boiler all bat ready in less.time than Tt tales to tell it he grabbed a crowbur and was up among the pipes frantically trying to pry Open the. valve, How jong he Worked he does not know it seemed Years he sald. afterwards bat he finally got the valve open n the nick of me and prevented an expl ie Which would surely bave blown Dig hole in the sbip's bottom: Not infrequently the engiheers are compelled to work in water up'to thelr Wheps, The plates of many a ship, when he straddles sea move: and cut at thelr rivets and Ieak mightily. Then. the engineers must, wade around in gn engine room flooded fram port) to port.and give be d to naught but the welfare of his engines. He must not think about the mani fold dangers of sailing in a leaky old tub, or. of rheumatisin, or other ills that will come to him from working for hours in, bring and bilge. water. It a trite saying of the sea that where Jehero fa a.ahip engineer, there also fs bad case of rheumatics, It fs only when a cylinder head bursts or a large valve gives way, fill- ing the engiie rooms with scalding steam.before the. opportunity can be pelzed to repair the damage, that an ngineer is forced to leave his. post. Then it is that he has to charge for dear life up steep, narrow companion ways, made slippery by engine oll, to f place of safety, And all-the time he climbs upwards, th steam pursues) him, for the companionways are in the only opening leading out of the engine rooms. aif But it fs not. often that escaping: steam jet: ahead of an engineer, for he Js a man trained to act. lke 2) flash in emergencies. ea gets WITHOUT A DOUBT. 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