424 



Popular Science Monthly 



Automobile fenders are hung like hams in a smoke house. 

 Floor space is saved and the polished surfaces protected 



It Costs a Million Dollars 

 a Year to Paint Our Navy 



OUR battleships literally 

 eat paint. The initial 

 color requirements for a 

 new battleship cost about 

 twenty-five thousand dol- 

 lars, which is the price of 

 about one hundred tons of 

 the kind of paint the navy 

 uses. In addition to this, 

 it is customary to repaint 

 the different parts of a ship 

 two or three times a year, 

 so the annual upkeep prob- 

 ably exceeds this sum. This 

 brings the annual outlay in 

 paint for the entire fleet to a 

 million dollars. The most 

 important coating a vessel 

 receives is the paint applied 

 to the submerged parts of 

 the hull to protect it from 

 corrosion or barnacles. 



Storing Automobile Fenders Without 

 Scratching Them 



HANGING automobile fenders from 

 step-like pipe-racks suspended from 

 the ceiling in much the same way as 

 hams are hung from the old smoke 

 house for curing, is the very 

 latest idea carried out by one 

 of the largest automobile 

 service stations in the coun- 

 try. Each fender is swung 

 from one of the racks by 

 means of two small wire 

 hooks; it also hangs free 

 by gravity. The pipe racks 

 supporting each row are so 

 arranged that the fenders 

 in that row swing clear of 

 those in the next tow above 

 or below, as shown in the 

 accompanying illustration. 



By such a method a great 

 number of fenders can be 

 stored in a small floor area— 

 and space is at a premium in 

 even the largest and the most 

 up-to-date service stations in 

 the country. At the same 

 time the fenders are held in 

 such a way that they can be 

 taken off the racks without 

 much difficulty and without 

 danger of scratching them. 



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A Clothes Closet Which You Can Take 

 Along on Your Vacation 



HAT to do with that trunk full of 



summer finery when you arrive in 



your three-by-six room at the summer 



resort boarding house has been 



solved in a simple, practicable 



manner. Commodious clothes 



closets and summer boarding 



houses never go very well 



together, despite what the 



enticing advertisements 



have to say. But with the 



portable, collapsible closet 



of khaki cloth shown in 



the illustrations, one need 



not worry about closet 



room. 



In folded form the khaki 



closet can be packed away 



spare corner of the 



trunk. When you arrive at the 



hotel you drive a nail in the 



door or wall, if one is 



not already there, 



and hang the cloth 



closet on it. A wire 



frame gives the top 



and bottom of the 



closet its box -like 



shape. When full the 



closet can be closed 



by buttoning it. 



clothes closet when 

 use and when folded 



