Pofular Science Monthly 



697 



which last is equipped with an elec- 

 tric stove, a dish washer, an ice plant 

 and other necessary auxiliaries. 



The engine-room, located aft, contains 

 four eighty-horsepower en- 

 gines which drive four screws 

 fifty-one inches in diameter, 

 so that the barge can travel at 

 a speed of ten miles per hour 

 in slack water, seven miles 

 upstream and twelve miles 

 when running with the cur- 

 rent or downstream. 



To facilitate the handling 

 of these large cargo-carriers 

 further, many recently in- 

 vented marine appliances are 

 installed, such as telephone 

 service, wireless outfit, 

 searchlights, and a system of 

 indicators located in the pilot- 

 house, by means of which the 

 captain can almost instantly 

 tell the condition prevailing 

 in any part of his ship. 



These barges can deliver 

 freight at New Orleans five 

 days after leaving St. Louis, a very much 

 faster schedule than anything heretofore 

 attained by the old type of stern-wheeler. 



This Barn Bears a Lesson to Pacifists 



THE well-known contrariness of the 

 middle - western farmer was illus- 

 trated in an amusing way recently when 



An equestrian milkman of Buenos Aires. 

 If he gallops he may deliver butter 



Alfred R. WagstaJF. 



The owner of this bam refused to remove it when the 



landlord's contractor wanted to make a concrete path 



where it stood. Hence the result shown 



an Illinois contractor requested a farmer 

 to move his barn out of the right of way 

 over which a concrete sidewalk was 

 planned to be run. The farmer ignored 

 the contractor's request. Then one 

 bright morning the contractor smashed 

 holes through each end of the barn and, 

 despite the farmer's angry protests, the 

 sidewalk was laid through it and on the 

 way to its eventual flestination. 



"Quiere Leche Hoy?" 



DOWN in Buenos Aires the apart- 

 ment houses do not have dumb- 

 waiters and the milkman does not come 

 rattling and clanking across the cobble- 

 stones in front of your home at ap- 

 proximately four A.M. By that hour he 

 is just about preparing to leave his 

 hacienda with a full milk can strapped 

 to either side of his horse. Arriving in 

 the city he will make his rounds, stopping 

 at his various customers to inquire 

 Quiere leche hoy?— "Any milk today?" 

 Some milk peddlers announce their 

 presence as they canter along by loud 

 shouts. But this practice is generally 

 discouraged, as Buenos Aires is a quiet 

 city, resenting vulgar hallooing in its 

 orderly streets. 



