Popular Science Monthly 



409 



A Military Automobile From Fittings 



OXE of the most painstaking pieces 

 of pipe-fitting work ever exhib- 

 ited in this country is a model mili- 

 tary automobile built entirely from mal- 

 leable and cast iron fittings and so 

 admirably put together that 



the wheels are ahnost per- 



fectly round. The detail, 

 even to the smallest parts, 

 is very perfect and well 

 proportioned. 



The model contains one 

 thousand one hundred and 

 twenty-nine separate piece.- 

 and weighs seven hundred 

 pounds. It is six feet long 

 and two feet and four inch- 

 es wide. It was built by 

 Julius Genor of Bridge- 

 port, Conn. 



Although the material of which it is 

 composed was cheap and easily obtain- 

 able, the model represents an immense 

 amount of fine machine work. 



For Squeamish Fowl-Killers 



AXEW and ladylike way to kill 

 fowls has been devised by which 

 the free flowing and spattering of a 

 chicken's blood after lancing is prevented 

 and the unpleasantness of viewing the 



A soft-hearted chicken- 

 killer is spared the 

 sight of blood when the 

 fowl is inserted head 

 first into this death- 

 The lever 

 is tearfully 

 causing a 

 be driven 

 through the brain of 

 the fowl. Then a blow 

 from a pendulum-like 

 hammer is regretfully 

 delivered at the back 

 of the bird's head 



chamber, 

 on top 

 operated, 

 knife to 



This model military automobile is built entirely of 

 malleable and cast iron fittings 



wliole sanguinary aft'air is removed. 



What to the squeamish is the most dis- 

 tressing feature of the poultry business 

 — killing fowls by hand — is eliminated 

 by a machine, which does the work with 

 accuracy and with a delicacy that must 

 appeal to the aesthetic. The fowl is 

 considerately suspended by the legs from 

 yoke-like leg clamps, with its body and 

 head within a tubular casing. In the 

 lower portion of tliis casing is a dainty 

 head-holder with a ring, in which the 

 bill is inserted. A V-shaped collar is 

 pushed into position and tenderly locked 

 in place over the front portion of the 

 neck of the fowl. The door to the cas- 

 ing is then decently closed, shutting the 

 fowl from the horrified view. Next a 

 lever extending out from' the casing is 

 boldly operated, causing a knife or lance 

 to be driven through the brain of the 

 fowl. To relie\e any doubts that still 

 linger a blow from the pendulum-like 

 hammer is immediately thereafter de- 

 livered at the back of the head of the 

 fowl. To relieve any doubts that still 

 blood, which is caught in a small pan 

 below the head, so that not even the 

 machine is soiled. Could respect for 

 one's feelings be carried farther? No 

 undertaker can be more considerate. But, 

 somehow, the old axe and the chopping 

 block seem simpler and just as eftVctive 

 to our brutal mind. The fowl is cer- 

 tainly rather more tortured before the 

 last quick death-blow is delivered. 



