THE FIRING OF STEAM BOILERS.
The care and management of a steam boiler comprises three things:
1. The preparation, which includes the partial filling with water and the kindling of the fire.
2. The running, embracing the feeding, firing and extinction or banking of the fire.
3. The cleaning out after it has been worked for some time.
To do this to the best advantage, alike to owner and employee, can be learned only by practice under the tuition of an experienced person. The “trick” or unwritten science of the duties of the skillful fireman must be communicated to the beginner, by already experienced engineers or firemen or from experts who have made the matter a special study. Let it be understood that the art of firing cannot be self taught.