Show r TALKS WITH TRAVELERS I II W Hose of Chicago secretary of the college work of the Y M C A was at the Kcnyon yesterday with Mrs Rose on route to California He addressed I ad-dressed the pupils of the Collegiate institute I In-stitute In tin afternoon urging them to aflilluto with the general college Y M C A movement and also paid Hammond I I Ham-mond Hall a visit In conversation yesterday I yes-terday he said This work originated I at Princeton in time fall of 1S7C but it I was not fully established until the following I fol-lowing full at Louisville Ky Since then the movement has made such rapid progress that there are now 635 I I college Y M C As embracing 40000 I p student members The largest association Is at Yale with 1600 members und where membership member-ship has so conic lo bo the thing that men with no religious principles at all 1 try to get In Just for the pull for col lego preferment There has been a big I I revival at Yalo through the efforts of I the association Now at Harvard we arenot BO strong In fact the membership member-ship there Is only 2V But then the local Interest Is Increasing and we have reuHonablc hopes of u rapid Increase In the Western colleges the movement move-ment Is very marked The membership ut Chicago university Is 110 at the University of Wisconsin 275 ota o-ta 321 Illinois 200 Michigan 300 Nebraska Ne-braska 220 California 250 Missouri 250 I Kansas 210 Two remarkable facts I have noted first the unprecedented increase in-crease during the past college year second the systematic study now given I to the Bible There bus been a 100 percent per-cent increase In this last during the present scholastic year And moreover more-over the number of students offering themselves for the foreign missionary Held this year has exceeded all previous records Why fourflfths of Uic students stu-dents at Rochester theological seminary semi-nary are studying the foreign missionary mission-ary field with a view to making that their life sphere I 9 O O I I noticed In a Denver paper yesterday j I yester-day a dispatch alleging that Los Angeles An-geles was on the point of sinking because be-cause of the oil deposits that were being be-ing exhausted from underneath It said C O Fownsley of Los Angeles at the Walker yesterday That Is a fairy story pure und simple If the empty Ing of the old strata would endanger tho stability of the suifacc above It Tltusvllle Oil City und other places in Pennsylvania would have sunk out of sight long ago and there arc COO derricks der-ricks In the East to one in southern California I have Just come from there nnd there were no Indications of any collapse when I loft l There is a very fair oil production at present In that country but whether it Is a permanent supply Is what cannot can-not bo told with certainty It Is used successfully us fuel on the local Southern South-ern Pacific and Santa Fe locomotives but not on tho through engines as a tank car on every train would be necessary ne-cessary The oil is burned as a spray under the boilers und does very well It Is made economical because of the high price of coal but when there Is direct connection from Utah and coal from this State Is I laid down at Los Angeles for a fraction of what it now costs the use of oil In locomotive lire boxes may be given UP co Cola S Co-la Lel Mechanic D O Shaver of tho Pennsylvania road was at the Knuts ford yesterday from Plttaburg with Mrs Shaver en route homo from a California trip Tn talking about locomotive motive Mr Shaver said The compound com-pound engine Is not worth a pinch of snuff What Is wanted out of an engine en-gine nowadays Is all there Is In her and although under fair average conditions con-ditions the comnound makes a good showing still when steady hard work la demanded that style of engine is not In Jt with the simpleacting engine IsTo more compounds arc being made As to increasing the sUe of locomotives locomo-tives there seems to be no limit and the weight of the rail keeps pace with It Our people arc now turning out a ninetypound mil for medium work and a hundredpound rail for heavy work Whether this will bo Increased depends on whether still heavier engines are to be built or noL We use u large tic twelve to fourtccninch face with plates under the rail so that a strong heavy track IB the result I i think It Is more economical to use engines continuously I used to Imagine Im-agine they needed rest like men but they dont There is more to be got out of an engine If used continuously In ten years than If not so used in fifteen years So the Pennsylvania now puts u fresh crew on a locomotive us soon as ono drops off and she keeps going Our company builds all Its own engines In ordinary times having a capacity of 100 a year But In busy seasons us at present orders are sent outside Wo arc making a very serviceable freight engine with 21x2Slnch cylinders and 6Jifoot wheel mogul type und In all have about twenty classes or styles of locomotives U S S 13 J Raddatz of time llonerine mine Is a guest at the Cullen from Stockton Stock-ton Ho says there Is a regular creek flowing from the mouth of the tunnel which Is draining qullo an extent of territory He will have the water analyzed ana-lyzed to sec If there Is any deleterious mutter which may unfit It for culinary purposes Ho finds that the water cuts the scaleoff from boiler Interiors which makes It useful In that way |