2, 1908. - John-Tom Engine Plans

4 January 2, Model Engineer and Electrician. 7he should find a pleasure in acquiring mathemat-ical and scientific knowledge. He should have asufficient liking for working with tools to enable himeither to make machinery or apparatus himself, orto judge the workmanship of others who may becarrying his designs into practice. The training forsuch a lad should be a judicious combination ofpractical experience with workshop tools and pro-cesses and theoretical study. The latter ought toinclude practice in making engineering drawings andacquaintance with cost of materials and three broad kinds of engineering careersare open to a lad, and each is divided into a varietyof branches. Commencement is easiest when thelad leaves school, say at about the age of sixteenyears, without having entered any other becomes more difficult as age increases, thoughwith means a person may take up this occupationwhen he has reached years of manhood.

The fire engine--in its own way-is as fascinating to the general public as the railway locomotive. In actual fire fighting the now popular motor engine has come to stay, and it is thought that the design and construction of models of this type, although

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