Popular Hcicnce Monthly 



409 



Between Stokes, He Knits for the 

 Red Cross Unashamed 



A BIG, burly, railway fireman has 

 adopted knitting as his avocation. 

 Between runs or even between shovels, 

 Jack Ryder can be seen sitting in his cab 

 placidly knitting away at a sock or a 

 sweater for one of 

 the boys "over 

 there." 



We see that he 

 wears gloves while 

 about his duties. 

 Thus the article 

 knitted is kept 

 fresh and unsoiled. 



This brave pio- 

 neer's example is 

 being followed by 

 other employees of 

 the Burlington 

 Road. So if your 

 train is delayed, be 

 sympathetic. 

 Perhaps the fire- 

 man has dropped 

 a s t i t c h — back 

 along the right-of- 

 way somewhere. 



Burlington fireman knits between times. 

 Never a stitch does Jack Ryder drop 



Wherein a Head and a Little 

 Ingenuity Save Much Work 



AN ice manufacturer of Hutchinson, 

 . Kansas, saves time and money in 

 loading ice into refrigerator cars. He has 



built a kind of viaduct over two switch 

 tracks, a street and across the roof of the 

 Rock Island freight wharves. 



The viaduct is higher at one end, so 

 that the two-hundred-pound cakes of ice, 

 which are raised by means of an electric 

 elevator, will slide by their own weight 

 down to the car to be iced. At the lower 

 end of the chute is 

 a staging so that 

 cakes coming 

 down can be 

 shunted to either 

 side and dropped 

 into different cars 

 simultaneously. 

 Formerly the ice 

 was hauled on 

 wagons and 

 thrown in by hand. 



Castor Oil Is 

 Going Up 



THE price of 

 castor oil is 

 advancing rapidly. 

 No more children 

 than usual have 

 eaten forbidden 

 goodies, but air- 

 planes have developed insatiable appetites 

 for this remedy. 



The Government has recently been 

 buying enormous quantities of this de- 

 lectable article. So now the airplanes 

 will get it for lubricating their engines. 



,ice storaqe 



At right : By utiUz- 

 ing a chain elevator 

 and chute as shown, 

 the ice maker 

 saves much work 



Chute 



chute 



Below: The chute 

 passes over two 

 switch tracks, a 

 street and the roof 

 of a building 



Freight dock 



