Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1910 — Railroad Firemen’s School. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Firemen’s School.

The Lehigh Valley railroad has introduced an educational System for its firemen by which the men will be required to take a three years’ course in the methods of doing a fireman’s duty and special instruction in the economical use of fuel. They will be required to know their work thoroughly, and, that the company may know how they are progressing, •will have to undergo examinations at the end of each year. For the first two years a percentage of 75 will be required and for the third year 80 ! per cent. Those who pass successfully will be in line for appointments as locomotive engineers. At the beginning of each term the students will get lists questions, answers to which will/be demanded! of them in their examinations.