Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1914 — AND THEN THEY UNDERSTOOD [ARTICLE]

AND THEN THEY UNDERSTOOD

Locomotive Engineer Made Quite Plain What Had Caused Argument Between Travelers.

Two commercial travelers while in a train got into an argument over the action of the vacuum brake. “It’s the inflation of the tube that stops the train,’* declared the first traveler. .■.

“Wrong, wrong!” shouted the second. “It’s the output of the exhaustion.” I Then when the train arrived at the station they agreed to submit the mat? ter for settlement to the engineer That gentleman, leaning condescendingly from his cab, listened with an attentive frown to the two travelers statements of their argument., Then he smiled, shook his head and said: “Well, gents, ye’re both wrong about the workin’ of the vacuum brakes. Yet it’s very simple ana easy to understand. When we want to stop the train we just turn this valve, and then we fill the pipe with vacuum!"