Popular Science Monthly ■ 271 



Put Your Flowers Outdoors on This per cent of their passenger cars and two- 

 Adjustable Window Shelf ten A th 5 Pf cent of th . eir fu r 11 equipment. 



A field army consists of three infantry 



ITH a new adjustable window-shelf divisions, one cavalry division and a 



invented by Earle H. Bartlett, of brigade technically known as a brigade 



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Kansas City, Missouri, flower 

 pots can be placed outside the 

 windows with perfect safety, 

 provided city ordinances al- 

 low it. • 



The shelf permits the window 

 sash to be raised or lowered. 

 Besides, it can be attached to 

 ledges or stools of various 

 sizes, a bracket support 

 compensating for different 

 widths and maintaining 

 the shelf in the proper 

 horizontal position. The 

 shelf is fastened to the 

 window ledge by screws 

 and a metal strip so 

 that the window-sash 

 can be raised without 

 striking it. 

 To support 

 the front por- 

 tion of the 

 shelf there is 

 a brace or 

 bracket with 

 a wing-bolt 



FIXED 

 BRACKET 

 SLIDING BRACKET 

 BRACKET SUPPORT 



and slot connection, as the illustration 

 shows. This arrangement allows the shelf 

 to be adjusted up or down to fit the different 

 widths of ledges, a plate on the bottom of 

 the shelf being rigidly secured when the 

 wing-bolt is turned. 



of field army troops 

 — troops auxiliary to the 

 infantry and cavalry di- 

 visions. 



Railroad equipment re- 

 quired to move various 

 organizations of the army 

 at war strength is as fol- 

 lows: Infantry regiment 

 — 55 officers, 1,896 men, 

 177 animals, 22 vehicles — 

 total of 85 cars. Cavalry 

 regiment — 54 officers, 

 1,284 men, 1,436 animals, 

 26 vehicles; 150 cars. Ar- 

 tillery regiment — light — 

 45 officers, 1,170 men, 

 1. 1 57 animals, 32 vehicles, 

 24 guns; 170 cars. Artil- 

 lery regiment, horse — 45 

 officers, 1,173 men, 1,571 

 animals, 35 vehicles, 24 

 guns; 194 cars. Artillery 

 regiment, mountain — 45 

 officers,- 1,150 men, 1,229 

 animals, 24 guns ; 124 

 cars. Engineers, pioneer 

 battalion — 16 officers, 502 men, 165 ani- 

 mals, 12 vehicles; 38 cars. Signal corps, 

 field battalion — 9 officers, 171 men, 206 

 animals, 15 vehicles; 28 cars. 



An adjustable window 

 shelf which can fit any 

 ledge and be kept in the 

 proper horizontal position 



Figures That Give an Idea 

 of the Task of Trans- 

 porting Our Armies 



SOME idea of the enormity 

 of the task of moving the 

 great bodies of United States 

 troops to be raised may be' 

 gained from the following fig- 

 ures: 6,229 cars are necessary 

 to transport an army of 80,000 

 men. These cars would be made 

 up into 366 trains with as many 

 locomotives. There would have 

 to be 2,115 passenger coaches, 

 385 baggage, 1,055 box, 1,899 

 stock and 775 flat cars. 



This quantity of equipment 

 represents seven - tenths per 

 cent of the locomotives owned 

 by American railroads, 4.2 



Can you tell at a 

 glance what is wrong 

 with this soldier ? 



A Sculptor's Error in a Famous 

 Military Group 



WHENEVER there is a 

 military parade in Wash- 

 ington, D. C, and the soldiers 

 or others who have had mili- 

 tary experience are in the 

 vicinity of the magnificent 

 statue of General Sherman, 

 which stands just south of the 

 Treasury, there is sure to be 

 comment on the blunder which 

 the sculptor made in connec- 

 tion with the equipment of the 

 figures at the base of the statue. 

 The blanket roll, which is prop- 

 erly carried over the left shoul- 

 der by soldiers, is here shown 

 over the right shoulder, where, 

 as even the small boys know 

 nowadays, it would interfere 

 with the gun. 



