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THE WORLD'S ADVANCE 



An Electrically Operated Rolling Chair Which is 

 Operated at a Californian Seaside Resort. 



ing view has just made its appearance at 

 Venice, California. It is being operated 

 between Venice and Ocean Park, a dis- 



tance of about a mile. Be- 

 tween these points is a wide ce- 

 ment walk running along the 

 ocean front, and it is along this 

 walk that this "jitney" runs. 



The novel car is twelve feet 

 in length and is run by a two- 

 horsepower electric motor. It 

 attains a speed ranging from 

 four to ten miles an hour. There 

 is a seat running entirely around 

 the central back-rest of the car, 

 both the seat and the back-rest 

 being upholstered. The car ac- 

 commodates eighteen passengers 

 in addition to the motorman, who 

 also acts as the conductor. The 

 fares are collected when the car is mid- 

 way between the two cities and while the 

 car is stopped. 



Being 



BUILD YOUR HOUSE IN A TREE TO 

 ESCAPE FLOOD 



Floods and fires and the moths that 

 corrupt one's earthly possessions have 

 little terror for the householder who 

 builds his home in the tree tops. The 

 novel home shown in the accompanying 

 view was erected near the banks of the 

 river in one of the fashionable summer 

 home suburbs of Des Moines, Iowa. 

 After the home in the tree tops had been 

 completed a short time the floods came, 

 but they only served to demon- 

 strate the wisdom of the builder 

 rather than causing him any 

 great inconvenience. The homes 

 of some of the less fortunate' 

 neighbors can be seen at the 

 water's edge, while others were 

 partly submerged by the over- 

 flowing water. 



The sleeping tent and the other 

 accommodations of the home are 

 built on a large platform which 

 has as its support the trunks of 

 four large trees. The ladder 

 built alongside one of the pil- 

 lars forms an easy means of 

 reaching the tree top home. In 

 addition to its safety features, 

 this "nest in the trees" has the A Shelter 



advantage of being cooler and free from 

 ground dampness, as well as being less 

 accessible to the crawly things that bring 

 fear to the heart of the housekeeper. 



FELLING TREES WITH AN AUGER 



Business men in India have urged 

 United States Consul Baker to introduce 

 a new type of portable timber felling ma- 

 chine. Many of the steep slopes of the 

 Himalaya and other mountains are 



Erected on a Platform Among the Tree Tops 

 Possesses Many Advantages. 



