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Popular Science Monthly 



A Jeweler's Ruse for Making You 

 Return His Watch 



IF the watch you borrow from the 

 jeweler while he fixes yours, stops 

 at the end of a week or so, don't take 

 it back and bawl out the jeweler as a 

 man not even able to make his own 

 watches run. He may smile 

 a slow sad smile and tell you 

 that your watch has been 

 finished for nearly a week 

 and that the bill is $1.30. 



A man who is just "ornery" 

 enough to be a jeweler has 

 patented a simple little addi- 

 tion to watches by which 

 they will stop automatically, 

 "never to run again," until 

 the man who sets the attach- 

 ment turns it off and again 

 lets the watch tick merrily. 



The jeweler in question 

 sets forth that customers have the pleasant 

 habit of borrowing watches while their 

 own are being fixed 'and then wearing 

 them for indefinite periods of time without 

 returning to pay the little bill and take 

 along the repaired watch. Apparently it 

 peeves him, because he has designed a 

 watch to act as before described — stop at 

 the end of a predetermined time which 



Stop pir 



the. jeweler feels is long enough for the 

 customer to be wearing a watch not 

 his property. 



The trick depends upon a slow 



turning wheel with a stop-pin which 



bears against a sleeve on the second 



hand when the wheel has 



completed its revolution, 



thus stopping the watch. 



The jeweler's watch with 

 stop-pins to keep it from 

 running well indefinitely 



A Thriving Fishing 

 Village That Floats 



IN the shadow of the huge 

 Manhattan Bridge which 

 connects New York proper 

 with Brooklyn, nestles a ver- 

 itable fishing village consisting 

 of nine two-story houseboats 

 moored side by side so as to 

 form a solid row and shelter- 

 ing the fishermen, and their 

 families, on whom New York 

 city is dependent for a good part of its 

 fish supply. 



But unless you are familiar with the va- 

 garies of fish and the localities in which they 

 school in certain seasons you need not go in 

 search of this village. Often it disappears 

 from a locality overnight, without any 

 farewells, reappearing as quietly a few 

 months later. 



New York's floating fishing village consists of nine two-story houseboats moored side by side. 

 Here the cargoes of the fishing boats from the surrounding waters are prepared for market 



