JACK CARSTAIRS OF THE POWER HOUSE
Reading edition
A TALE OF SOME VERY YOUNG MEN AND A VERY YOUNG INDUSTRY
BY
SYDNEY SANDYS
WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS BY STANLEY L. WOOD
SECOND EDITION
METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON
Colonial Library
First Published ... October 14th, 1909
Second Edition ... November 1909
DEDICATED
IN ALL DEFERENCE TO THE MEMORY OF THAT VERY GREAT ENGLISHMAN
GEORGE STEPHENSON
ENGINEER INVENTOR OF THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVE, AND OF THE TOOLS TO CONSTRUCT IT FIGHTER OF MEN AND CIRCUMSTANCES PIONEER OF THE RAILWAY
PREFACE
I have endeavoured to show you the engineer, in two phases, as I have met him: it is for you, gentlemen with the votes, to decide which you prefer; for you have to have one of them, and his numbers are increasing at a high rate of acceleration.
JACK CARSTAIRS OF THE POWER HOUSE