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Popular Science Monthly 



In order to reduce his unloading time and also to run 

 coal into cellars as awkwardly placed as this, a coal- 

 merchant had a special truck body designed like 

 that shown here 



Small Motor Trucks Deliver Coal 

 Cheaply 



SAVING time by means of a dump- 

 ing body elevated by power from 

 its own motor and skids laid over the 

 sidewalk, the small two-ton truck shown 

 in the accompanying illustration deliv- 

 ered an average on thirty tons per day 

 for a period of several months and in 



doing so covered between 

 fifty and sixty miles daily. 

 At two tons per load this 

 means fifteen trips per ten- 

 hour day with an average 

 length of trip of three to four 

 miles. 



In large cities, where streets 

 are well paved, the coal de- 

 livered in large quantities 

 and the hauls more than 

 five miles, five- to ten-ton 

 trucks have proved very suc- 

 cessful. But for country and 

 suburban work, where the 

 roads are poorer, the coal de- 

 livered in five-ton loads or 

 less and tlie hauls less than five miles, 

 trucks of tv*o-tons capacity or there- 

 abouts have proved best. 



For work in residence sections where 

 the streets are soft, small-capacity trucks 

 can maneuver more quickly than larger 

 ones, run less chance of getting mired, 

 and because of their greater speed, can 

 often deliver a greater tonnage. 



A Man-Power Reel for 

 Hauling in a Long Seine 



AN ingenious device for 

 hauling in a long seine 

 has been introduced by a 

 fisherman who operates on a 

 large scale in Mississippi. 

 The seine he uSes is over a 

 mile in iength, and it would 

 require a large crew to haul 

 it in. The contrivance he 

 has invented consists of two 

 wheels about eight feet in 

 diameter, mounted on the 

 ends of an axle, thus forming 

 a huge reel. This is mounted 

 on a scow so that it can re- 

 revolve. The seine is wound 

 up on the big reel. 



When it is to be laid, the 

 rowed out to the desired spot, 



The fisherman winds up his mile-long seine on a big 

 windlass which a small crew can operate by hand in a 

 moderate-sized boat 



scow IS 



the end 

 of the seine is fastened to a stake, which 

 is driven to the bottom, and the seine 

 is paid out from the reel as the scow is 

 rowed away from the stake. A man at 

 each wheel tends the seine to keep it 

 from tangling. To haul it in, two of the 

 crew tread up the spokes of the wheels 

 so that the reel revolves and slowly rolls 



up the seine on the axle, the scow mean- 

 while being backed over the course of the 

 laid seine. Negro labor is cheap in the 

 far South, so that this device has proved 

 both economical and efiicient. 



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^HIRTY-FOUR dollars a minute is 

 the cost of maintaining New York's 

 police force of nearly eleven thousand 

 men. 



