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Cripple Makes a Fortune with Tri-Car ; 

 Then Runs for City Council 



SEVERELY hampered by a disease 

 of the hip which makes him a crip- 

 ple from his waist down, a resident of 

 Los Angeles has begun life all over again 

 in middle age, succeeding in a new busi- 

 ness under a handicap which would have 

 made most men quite willing to depend 

 upon charity. The disease developed to 

 an alarming extent and made crutches 

 essential. At the same period, the 

 physicians declared that life in the open 

 air was the only thing that would save 

 their patient. 



So C. E. Ellsworth dropped his for- 

 mer name and for business purposes 

 adopted that of "Handy Andy." He had 

 always liked to tinker with things, and 



This cripple made a comfortable fortune 



as a handy man, and then ran for the 



Los Angeles city council 



the skill of his hands was unimpaired. 

 He was able to outfit a little second-hand 

 car as a traveling machine shop, equip- 

 ping it with emery wheels, vises and a 

 big grindstone. In this machine he buzzed 

 around town, doing odd jobs for house- 

 wives and sharpening knives for butchers. 

 After some years of hard work, 

 "Handy Andy" bought a neat tri-car well 

 equipped for the work in hand. Now he 

 has succeeded in earning enough to buy 

 a block of flats, and not long ago he en- 

 tered into a political campaign, winning 

 many votes for a place in the city coun- 

 cil, although he failed of election. 



Popular Science Monthly 



Gangway Life-Saver Prevents 

 Crushing of Life Boats 



THE hazardous method of lowering 

 life boats into rough water along- 

 side ships in disasters has inspired many 

 inventors to perfect life-saving apparatus 

 that would be really safe. 



Among the scores of such inventions 

 that have been submitted to the patent 

 office, is a long net gangway which pro- 

 jects from the side of the vessel upon 

 the surface of the water, being sup- 

 ported at the lower end by large air 

 tanks. The poles which support the 

 gangway are hinged to the ship's side, 

 and when not in use are carried in long 

 pockets below the rail of the first open 

 deck. 



The chief advantage of this gangway- 

 life saver is that the life boats never 

 approach near enough to the ship's side 

 to be crushed by waves. The boat is 

 held close to the gangway by means of 

 gafif hooks. 



A New Device for Recording Sounds 



AN apparatus for recording sounds 

 has been devised which, while in- 

 corporating some well known principles, 

 has several features of decided origin- 

 ality. The fact that it is possible to 

 retain sounds by other mediums than 

 the phonograph record is not generally 

 known. One device, however, which 

 departs radically from the wax record, 

 is the telegraphone which was brought 

 out several years ago. The tele- 

 graphone is a magnetic apparatus, 

 which impresses sounds in their rela- 

 tive strength magnetically on a wire. 



The new invention makes use of the 

 telegraphone principle to a certain ex- 

 tent, in that it is magnetic. But it 

 combines a new principle as well — 

 that of photography. A diaphragm 

 alters a shaft of light falling on a mov- 

 ing strip of sensitized paper. When 

 the reel of paper is used, it is copied 

 photographically on a strip of iron. 

 The iron is then etched — in much the 

 same way that half tone plates are 

 etched — and when it passes in its com- 

 pleted form between highly sensitive 

 magnets, the variations in sounds are 

 accurately reproduced in a telephone 

 receiver. 



