Show Old L Engines in China Helping In Construction Work of Canton Can-ton Hankow Railway With Other American Material Washington Consul Albert W Pontius of Swatow submits tho following fol-lowing from a HongKong newspaper concerning tho equipment for the Can tonHankow railway With regard to the rolling stock six American locomotives loco-motives are already In operation and 16 are In stock There are six moguls of 120 tons tho cylinders of which are 19 by 2G inches tho coal capacity nine tons and tho water 5000 gallons There aro four no Manhattan locomotives being used In construction work these engines wore formerly In service on tho elevated railways In New York city There are also six doubletender tank engines of 50 tons which are engaged In running tho freight and passenger trains to railhead rail-head Tho mogul engines havo just appeared ap-peared on the road and they will certainly cer-tainly Inspire tho Chinese of the In tenor when they go out to duty The I foreign engineer In charge and his I mon are proud of the fact that they got these big engines together In 11 days from thu unpacking of tho first case Of coaches and freight cars there are 30 Americantypo passenger coaches one directors car 72 American Ameri-can freight cars and lOG Chlnnmadu freight cars At tho works of Won gnha three firstclass compartment coaches are now being built as well ns three secondclass coaches and four tldrd class coaches The steel under frames have been sent on from America In ho future much of the superstructure super-structure of cars will bo built by tho Chinese themselves and a change is to be made with regard to bridge construction I con-struction Whereas the practice has been to Import the bridge from England Eng-land or America already for erection future bridges will bo mado from material Imported In tho rough The mechanical department at tho head station at Wongshn which Is exceedingly exceed-ingly well equipped tho latest machines ma-chines havjng been Imported from Great Britain and America Is capable of turning out all manner of work At present the Machines are In temporary tempor-ary sheds but permanent shops will shortly bo erected |