Popular Science Monthly 



185 



A Sleeping Nest With an Electric 

 Elevator 



A CALIFORNIA electrical engi- 

 neer has constructed a sleeping 

 porch thirty-eight feet above the ground. 

 He thinks that the night air close to the 

 ground interferes with his repose, and 

 that the temperature forty feet from 

 the ground is at least ten degrees cooler. 

 His sleeping porch is a veritable nest in 

 a steel tree. 



He took pains to build his cage 

 to withstand the high winds that 

 occasionally prevail in that section of 

 California. The steel poles which sup- 

 port the elevated bedroom are stoutly 

 braced, and he has estimated it will be 

 comfortably safe in winds blowing as 

 briskly as two hundred miles an hour, 

 thus allowing him an ample margin of 

 protection. 



A miniature elevator lifted by a di- 

 minutive electric motor of one-sixth 

 horsepower is employed in making the 

 flight between the ground and the lofty 

 bed chamber. 



Publishing a Paper Aboard a Train 



PERHAPS one of the oddest publica- 

 tions of recent years was that 

 issued aboard a special train traveling 



While the editors wrote copy in the parlcr 



cars, the newspaper was printed every day in 



the baggage coach 



The owner of this sleeping nest cannot fly 



to his bed, like a bird, and so he installed an 



electric elevator 



between St. Paul, Minn., and Spokane. 

 Wash. An entire printing ecjuipment, 

 including a linotype machine, a large 

 cabinet of hand type and a printing 

 ])ress, was installed in the baggage car. 

 The editors were selected from managers 

 of the touring party and did their work 

 in the parlor cars, and the paper was 

 printed every day in the baggage coacli. 

 The press used was the first working 

 model of a new type of machine. 



