Show SALT LAKE SKETCHES ES Work Is Recreation Vl r. r C. C Brown Rail Sheet Metal Shop Foreman fore fore- I man Invents Gadgets Gadgets' for Locomotives To most men recreation is far re re- removed moved from their jobs but business is pleasure to toV W. W C. C Brown East Ninth South street foreman of the sheet metal and copper shop In the Denver Rio Grande Western railroad ran rail road yards Mr Brown is an inventor For 43 years he has tink tinkered ed with various ga gadgets gets in the railroad shops A number of improvements on Denver Rio Grande locomotives are results of his ingenuity The Brown hot air sand pipe cleaner installed on e very every locomotive on the thc system ls Is a prod prod- product product ot of what he calls my tinkering Ive always alwa's loved to work with mach machinery ner he said why I entered the shops 43 years ago as a 15 year old apprentice He is now one of the three oldest in the service Mr Brown gives much credit to railroad officials They are arc always alwa's willing to let a aman aman man make worthwhile experiments They've been a swell bunch from Major Dal Daly and John Hickey master mechanics in the early days rIght down to our present bosses he de de- The outstanding feature of present day railroading compared to the and in his opInion is its great power When I went to work they were i run running rung mixed trains standard and narrow gauge auge The engines were dinky little things toys compared to the big ones of today Reading and figuring out some new gadget are arc his hi favorite recreation Whenever he has developed a new idea to the stage where it appears practical he lays it before his superiors su su- for approval If it seems leas tit h y Y I r I n 11 C C. C Brown ible he pursues the thel shops I he had had his life Jile t to live over o he would change only one phase of it Id have studied d more to get get- geta a better bet bet- ter education A young oung man is foolish fool fool- sh ish to throw throwaway away any chances to learn The schools schools' scho Is' Is are there Its It's up to youth to use them he said |