102 



Popular Science Monthly 



The Soldier's Belt Is a Chandelier. It 

 Even Holds His Flashlight 



A GLANCE at the accompanying pho- 

 tograph shows how completely- 

 equipped the United States soldier is for 

 emergencies. His 

 hands are free, his 

 gun is ready and he 

 is literally "girded 

 foj the fray." The 

 belt that "girds" him 

 is an important part 

 of his uniform. Only 

 the wearer knows all 

 that it carries at- 

 tached to it. It is 

 not the ordinary car- 

 tridge belt, but is 

 the one used while 

 on special duty or 

 for comfort and con- 

 venience around the 

 camp. 



The special fea- 

 ture which this pho- 

 tograph shows is 

 the flashlight fast- 

 ened to the belt and 

 held in position to 

 throw its light di- 

 rectly ahead. The man on sentry duty will 

 see the advantage of this arrangement, as 

 well as the busy boys in camp who must 

 often clean their guns after nightfall. 



The flashlight is fastened to the belt, 

 so that it throws its light straight ahead 



Clearing out Sewer Pipes with 

 Compressed Air 



BRADFORD, England, has a 

 sewer five miles long with a 

 drop of 70 feet in distance. The 

 grade is not uniform. As the 

 sewage is loaded with heavy, 

 solid matter, the flow was not 

 what it should have been. The 

 city did not want to resort to 

 pumping because of the expense. 

 One of the city engineers hit 

 upon the idea of using com- 

 pressed air at a pressure of 

 eighty pounds and discharging 

 it at regular intervals into the 

 sewer. The plan was carried 

 out with great success. It 

 has been done for some time 

 now without a recurrence of 

 the difficulty. 



Another Automobile Kitchen to 

 Follow Our Boys at the Front 



FEEDING our soldiers is an impor- 

 tant matter, and the problems it 

 presents have interested many of our 

 inventors. The trav- 

 eling kitchen, run 

 by motor power, is a 

 very natural product 

 of the times. There 

 are several types. 

 One, which the 

 United States War 

 Department is con- 

 sidering, is shown in 

 the accompanying 

 illustration. 



The kitchen with 

 its big kettles, large 

 enough to cook food 

 for two hundred and 

 fifty men at one op- 

 eration, is mounted 

 upon an automobile 

 truck, which can also 

 carry reserve supplies 

 to feed two hundred 

 and fifty additional 

 men. 



For the chauffeur 

 a protected cab is provided in front and 

 the cook may attend to his work in the 

 kitchen even while the truck is moving 

 from place to place, by standing upon a 

 step in the rear. To prevent his being 

 jolted off on rough roads a hand rail has 

 been provided to which he can hold. 



One of these automobile kitchens can cook food 

 for two hundred and fifty men at one time 



