Popular Science Monthly 



727 



Saving a Man from a Burning 

 Building with His Own 



VARIOUS devices have been 

 vented and placed on the 

 market to Hghten the fire- 

 man's burden; but Nicho- 

 las Carson has demon- 

 strated to the fire depart- 

 ment of Cincinnati that it 

 is possible to carry a person 

 down a ladder or a fire- 

 escape without any kind of 

 special apparatus. 



Carson's method of rescue 

 presupposes that the person 

 to be rescued is wearing his or 

 dinary clothing. The coat i 

 pulled halfway down over th 

 shoulders and its end i; 

 brought up and wrapped 

 around the collar, the wrt 

 ping being done from the insid 

 outward and the arms being 

 left in the sleeves. This 

 makes an improvised rope of 

 the coat and holds the arms se- 

 curely at the elbows. 



To carry the victim, the 



rescuer slips his own head ^n improvised rope is quickly 

 under the coat-rope so that made of the person's coat. This 

 he and the victim are back; to is sHpped over the rescuer's head 

 back, with the victim suspended 

 by his arms from the fireman's shoulders 



A Wire-Mesh Top for the Automobile. 

 It Saves Hats and Veifs 



TAKING account of stock at the end 

 of an exhilarating automobile trip has 

 doubtless revealed that a comparatively 

 new hat or two, and perhaps some perfectly 



good and more or less 

 expensive veils have 

 passed on to other 

 owners. 



To prevent such 

 losses without curtail- 

 ing any of the pleasures 

 of automobiling, B. F. 

 Cone,of Ashland, Neb., 

 has invented a safety 

 guard of wire mesh 

 which will fit over the 

 body of any make of 

 automobile. It will 

 also serve as a protec- 

 tion from brushing 

 tree-branches and from 

 other menaces to per- 

 sonal safety and com- 

 fort when traveling 

 through less fre- 

 quented places. If a 

 bad spill should occur, 

 it will prevent the oc- 

 cupants from being 

 thrown out of the car. 

 The uprights of the 

 frame are secured to 

 the bottom of the sides 

 of the car, passing up 

 through the sides to 

 the top and meeting 

 there a reinforcing bar which extends from 

 front to rear. These uprights are of steel 

 and are heavily padded on the inside of the 

 car so that if the occupants should be thrown 

 against them no harm would be done. 



The passengers of the automobile are not being taken 

 to jail. The netting protects their hats from the wind 



Another Outcome of the War — The 

 American Evaporated Vegetable 



THE hunger of Europe has 

 started a new industry in 

 America. A year ago the Allies 

 ^^^ could not supply enough vege- 

 ^W tables for their men in the 

 ^ trenches. Awake to this fact, 

 American growers experiment- 

 ed on drying treatments which 

 would insure their vegetables 

 reaching the trenches in edible 

 condition. They succeeded, 

 and the result is the evaporated 

 vegetable industry. Western 

 New York is supplying most of 

 the evaporated food, and al- 

 ready thousands of tons have 

 been shipped to the armies in 

 the war zone. 



