May I go where he is, wherever that may be.] Andrew Kloman had a small steel-hammer in Allegheny City.

As a superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad I had found that he made the best axles.

He was a great mechanic--one who had discovered, what was then unknown in Pittsburgh, that whatever was worth doing with machinery was worth doing well.

His German mind made him thorough.
What he constructed cost enormously, but when once started it did the work it was intended to do from year's end to year's end.

In those early days it was a question with axles generally whether they would run any specified time or break.