Popular Science MoNflili/ 



The Metal Hose Man and How He 

 Was Manufactured 



AT the recent aiito- 

 l\ mobile show in 

 New York, an exhibit 

 of a Newark manu- 

 facturing company at- 

 tracted much atten- 

 tion. Its exhibit was 

 a man-shaped figure 

 composed entirely of 

 specimens of its vari- 

 ous kinds of hose. 



The height of the 

 figure was three feet. 

 In its right arm it held 

 a section of big tubing, 

 five inches inside di- 

 ameter, interlocked. 

 The hat was built 

 from smaller tubing 

 used for wire covering. 

 The body was made of 

 carbureter hose packed 

 with asbestos or a 

 heat-proof fiber, and 

 employed by automobile manufacturers. 

 The feet and hands were made from exhaust 

 stoves or hoods. Ears and mouth were 

 oil conveyers which shoot greasy com- 

 pounds, kerosene and cutting oils upon 

 machine work for rapid and accurate pro- 

 duction. The legs were of pressure hose. 

 Small electric lights formed the eyes. 



This quaint figure 

 from flexible metal 



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What a Woodpile! It's Three 

 Hundred Feet High 



PR O B A B L Y the 

 biggest woodpilfe 

 on record, shown in 

 the accompanying 

 picture, is to be found 

 at Berlin, New Hamp- 

 shire, the center of an 

 important paper- 

 manufacturing dis- 

 trict. The pile, which 

 forms a respectable 

 hill, plainly visible 

 from a great distance, 

 is composed of more 

 than seventy-five 

 thousand cords of 

 wood which are to be 

 made into paper. 



An idea of the size 

 of this pile may be 

 gained from the fact 

 that its highest point 

 is nearly three hundred 

 feet above the ground, 

 while its extreme length is more than one 

 thousand feet, or nearly a quarter of a 

 mile. Some statistician has figured out 

 that, if these logs were split up into cord 

 wood and laid in a straight line, they 

 would reach nearly twice around the earth. 

 The potential number of miles of news- 

 paper it contains must be fabulous. 



is made entirely 

 hose and fittings 



This is not a slag-heap, but a great pile of logs of spruce and other pulp-wood, which 

 is destined eventually to arrive at your breakfast-table in the form of newspaper 



