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Popular Science Mouthh/ 



When the Horse Tops It Over 

 the Automobile 



made for the control of the brakes and 

 speeds in the stirrups. The novel con- 

 trivance is not intended for every-day 

 use, however, but merely to make of its 

 owner a spotlight fa\orite in a parade 

 or other dress feature. 



The Legs of the Wooden Horse 

 Are Sawed Off and the Rod of Steer- 

 ing Wheel Run up Through Its Chest 



LIVES there a man with soul so dead 

 J who never to himself hath said, 

 "What a hero I look on horseback?" 

 Yet the automobile has its fascinations 

 as well as its uses, and in the matter of 

 speed and endurance it passed the horse 

 at the first flag post. A Boston man, 

 however, has evolved an idea for mount- 

 ing a wooden horse on an automobile 

 and getting the picturesque effect and 

 the little tickling of his vanity without 

 sacrificing the speed of his getting about. 



The horse is a 

 discarded har- 

 ness model 

 which was pur- 

 chased for the 

 purpose. The 

 legs were sawed 

 otT, and the body 

 of the horse was 

 fastened securely 

 to the bod y 

 <il the automo- 

 bile. The rod of 

 the steering- 

 wheel was run 

 up through I he 

 chesl of 1 li (■ 



hor.se, and ar- t,,^. WurkuK-n Run 



rangement was and Slide Gently to 



Shooting the Chutes to Safety 

 in an Explosion 



MKTAL chutes to catch the workmen 

 and volplane them gently to the 

 ground is the latest device for giving 

 protection or facilitating escape 

 in case of explosion. At the 

 DuPontPowderCompany's 

 plant at Carney's Point, 

 Maryland, there is a one- 

 story building two hundred 

 feet long that is constructed 

 in sections, each being sep- 

 arated from those on 

 either side by thick brick 

 dividing walls. Should 

 the powder "blow" in 

 one of the sections the 

 workmen in that par- 

 ticular section beat a hasty retreat to a 

 near-by steel fence, behind which they 

 wait. 



The fire escapes are nothing more than 

 metal chutes. If something goes wrong 

 on the second floor and it is necessary for 

 the workmen to get out of the building 

 with all swiftness, they simply run for 

 the windows, leap into the chutes, and 

 are shot to the ground with such rapidity 

 that others can fall in line directly 

 liehind them and never hit them. 



lor the Wiiuiows, Leap Into tlic Chutes 

 the Ground in the Fraction of a Minute 



