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JANUARY, 1913

MAINTENANCE OF WAY STANDARDS.
By F. A. Smith.

Containing in one handy volume the present rules and practice in the Road De-

partments of the principal American railways. Over 300 illustrations. Size 5x7%

inches.

Price, $1.50 net, postpaid.

PRACTICAL SWITCH WORK.

By D. H. Lovell.

An instructor and guide for Roadmasters, Section Foremen and Construction

Foremen. The contents include chapters on General Turn-Outs, Stub and Spilt

Switches, Analysis of Curves, and a large number of tables for the quick and cor-

rect construction of any switch. Cloth, 174 pages, 4x6 inches.

Price, $1.00 net, postpaid.

RAILWAY CURVES.

By F. A. Smith, M. E. C. E.

This book is written especially for practical trackmen who desire a guide so that

they may become better acquainted with the elementary principles of railway curves

and to enable them to adjust their curves satisfactorily independent of the civil

engineer. All complicated formula or calculations have been omitted in order to

produce this practical work. Cloth, 4x6 inches; 50 pages, including tables and

diagrams.

Price, $1.00 net, postpaid.

THE TRACKMEN'S HELPER.

Revised 20th Century Edition.

A practical guide for American Trackmen. Thirtieth Thousand. 350 pages; fully

fliustrated; 5x71⁄2 inches.

Price, $1.50 net, postpaid

STANDARD TURN-OUTS ON AMERICAN RAILROADS.

By F. A. Smith, C. E. M. E.

A practical handbook for Roadmasters and Track Foremen. A new, handy ref-

erence volume-giving drawings of Standard Split and Stub Switches, and full de-

scriptive details arranged for convenience and ready reference when putting in

Switches.

THE ONLY BOOK OF THE KIND PUBLISHED.

Leather, 4% x7 inches, 41 pages.

Price, $1.00 net, postpaid.

ROBERTS' RULES OF ORDER.

ROBERTS' RULES OF ORDER having been readopted by our Boston Convention

to govern the Parliamentary Practices of our Brotherhood, will be furnished to our

members upon receipt of the price of 75 CENTS FOR EACH COPY.

Hackbone

BACKBONE.

A Bouncer for the Blues.

Hints for the prevention of Jelly-spine curvature and mental squint.

A straight-up antidote for the blues and a straight-ahead sure cure for

the grouch. Twenty Thousand Copies Sold and Not One Returned.

The Optimism and Healthy Good Cheer of Backbone gives the in-

spiration to look on the "sunny side of things." Everyone needs a little

encouragement at times and all will benefit by its reading. Backbone

contains over 80 pages of gloom-dispelling philosophy, the best of the

"Keep-a-Pushing" poetry and hundreds of remarkably good sayings,

mottoes and aphorisms of our ablest men. A few of the Backbone

Bracers are the chapters on Character, Cheerfulness, Purpose, Success,

Opportunity. Progress, Worry, Persistence, Self-Improvement, Training, Little Things,

Courage, Self-Confidence, Mistakes, Thoroughness, Enemies, Love, Criticism, Duty,

Work, and a dozen other subjects.

These chapters are introduced with splendid original articles by Dr. W. C. Ab-

bott, Dr. George F. Butler, J. D. Albright, A. S. Burdick, W. F. Waugh, and others.

Eighty pages printed attractively in two colors and tied with silk ribbon. Price

In art binding, 50 cents each. De Lux, limp brown leather copies, $1.00 each. Terms,

cash with order. Money back if not satisfied. Special prices on quantities.

The above books are the very best of their kind in the market and can be highly

recommended by the Editor. A supply has been obtained and are for sale at the

prices named for each. Send in your orders, remitting by express or postoffice

money order, cash or postage stamps. Address all orders to

Samuel J. Pegg

3900 Olive Street

St. Louis, Mo.

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