Jack Carstairs of the power house

by Sydney Sandys

HE PASSED HIS FOREARM ACROSS THE GIPSY'S THROAT [PAGE 21]

JACK CARSTAIRS
OF THE POWER HOUSE

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