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An Enterprising Photographer 

 " Shoots " Draft Army 



IT was an event to be remembered when 

 the 10,000 men, forming the New York 



contingent for the 



selective draft army 

 marched in parade on 

 Fifth Avenue, New 

 York City, on Wash- 

 ington's Birthday, 

 during a blinding 

 snowstorm. In spite 

 of the unfavorable 

 weather, photog- 

 raphers managed to 

 get many excellent 

 pictures of the parade. 

 Particularly interest- 

 ing were the motion- 

 pictures taken by an 

 enterprising motion- 

 picture concern which 

 obtained the views 

 in a novel manner. 

 By special permission 

 a giant tripod, tower- 

 ing high over the 

 heads of the marchers and the multi- 

 tude of spectators, was set up at the inter- 

 section of Fortieth Street and Fifth 

 Avenue. From this strategic spot the 

 camera-man, who mounted the tripod with 

 his camera made an excellent and complete 



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Draft army parade photographed in 

 New York on Washington's Birthday 



Iligh-Water Street Cars Recently 

 Used in Cincinnati 



HEN the Ohio River is on a ram- 

 page, the streets in the lower sec- 

 tion of Cincinnati, in 

 the levee district, are 

 often flooded and 

 many times traffic on 

 the car lines has had 

 to be stopped. 



To remedy this con- 

 dition the engineer- 

 ing department of the 

 traction company de- 

 vised the high-water 

 cars shown in the ac- 

 companying illustra- 

 tions. The car bodies 

 are placed upon tres- 

 tles resting upon the 

 wheel trucks, so that 

 the floors of the cars 

 are about five feet 

 above the level of the 

 street. The front car 

 furnishes the power 

 with its motors up 

 high and dry and communicates it to the 

 car wheels by means of sprocket chains. 

 The trailers are similarly raised and three 

 steps give access to them. These cars are 

 capable of making their way through water 

 of a depth of five and a half feet and are 



record of the parade as it passed that point. giving great satisfaction. 



Cincinnati's high-water cars, specially designed so that car and runniiii; gear are all out of 

 the water. The cars can run in five and-a -half feet of water and operate in flood-time 



