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Grooming the Horse with a Vacuum- 

 Cleaner Mitten 



THE latest application of 

 the vacuum cleaning 

 principle is to the grooming oi 

 horses. Walter B. Guild, 

 of Roxbury, Mass., has 

 invented a kind of glove 

 which takes the place of 

 the old curry comb 

 and brush and cleans 

 the hide thoroughly 

 and quickly. 



Between the fingers 

 of the glove small, 

 stiff brushes are set. 

 These stir up the dust 

 in the hide. The 

 brushes are separated 

 from the walls of the 



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channels into which they are set, so that 

 there is a free-air space around them. Into 

 this free-air space the dust is sucked up, to 

 be drawn into a main air-duct attached to 

 the back of the glove. This main air-duct 

 is connected with a suction 

 hose and pump. The brushes 

 are simply sets of bristles 

 wrapped about a flexible rub- 

 ber core so as to bend with the 

 fingers and conform with any 

 irregularities of surface. 



Such a cleaning mitten is 

 believed to be a means of pre- 

 serving the health of the 

 grooms, since the dust which 

 is invariably imbedded in the 

 hide is not allowed to escape 

 into the air of the close stall to 

 be breathed into the lungs of 

 the workmen. With such a 

 mitten it is claimed that one 

 man can do the work of three 

 without loss of time. 



Why a Sidewalk Was Built on the 

 Top of a Storm-Sewer Tunnel 



BECAUSEa Pasadena 

 storm-sewer could not be 

 built low enough to avoid con- 

 flict with the sidewalk above 

 it and still retain a down 

 grade to insure a flow, the 

 sidewalk was placed on the 

 top of the tunnel. 



The top of the 

 sewer projected above 

 the point where the 

 foundations of the 

 sidewalk would nat- 

 urally begin. Hence 

 the contractors de- 

 cided that the easiest 

 remedy for the situa- 

 tion was to build the 

 sidewalk on the top 

 of the tunnel and as 

 an integral portion 

 of it. 



Now hundreds of 

 persons daily walk 

 over the sidewalk 

 without the slightest 

 knowledge that they 

 are traversing the top 

 of a sewer. Only if 

 you chanced to be un- 

 usually observing and 

 reached the end of the 

 walk, would you be likely to discover the 

 details of the construction. At the end 

 there is a concrete abutment to prevent 

 you from absent-mindedly walking off into 

 the open portion of the big drain. 



The vacuum-cleaner mitten 

 which takes the place of the 

 curry comb for grooming 

 horses. It is a time-saver 



The brushes between the 

 fingers stir up the dust which 

 is sucked up through the 

 hose at the back of the glove 



The top of the sewer projected above the point where the 

 sidewalk began, so the sidewalk was built directly over it 



