Popular Science Monthly 



Freak Motorcycle Carries 

 Four Passengers 



THE oddest thing yet 

 constructed in the 

 motorcycle line is a freak 

 mount designed to transport 

 four passengers, with the 

 foremost inan sitting on a 

 spring bucket seat and the 

 other three directly behind 

 him on regular motorcycle 

 saddles. The frame of the 

 machine is a double trape- 

 zoid. It has the front and 

 rear wheels sprung scjme- 

 what on the lines of spring 

 forks, with a shock spring 

 above and a recoil spring 

 below. The wheelbase is sixty-six inches. 

 The motor, which uses kerosene as a 

 propelling fluid, has two cylinders and is 

 water-co<iled. Each cylinder has two 

 pistons. There are two 

 crankshafts coupled by 

 means of a longitudinal rod 

 having worm gears. This rod 

 drives the camshaft, magneto 

 and water pump. The final- 

 drive is by V-belt to the front 

 wheel. Four-inch tires are 

 used, and band-brakes are 

 fitted to both wheels. 



'- Program and eye- 



Combined Eye- Shade shade combined 



and Program 



ACOMBINEI) eye-shade and detach- 

 able program or printed matter 

 section can be affixed to a hat by a sim- 

 ple cur\ ed clip device having a shank at 



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This four-passenger motorcycle is under the control 

 of the man in the rear 



one end to engage a loop on the eye- 

 shade, and at its other or free end, 

 extending below the attaching shank to 

 press on and grip a hat brim firmly. 

 The eye-shade passes under 

 a hat brim and the clasp 

 holds it firmly in place with 

 all types of hats. 



Illuminating a Highway 

 With Pockets of Light 

 NTIL Wilson Fitch 

 Smith, division engi- 



u 



Novel system of highway illumination along 

 the crest of the Kensico reservoir 



neer of the Catskill aqueduct 



system of water supply of 



New York city, worked out 



an illuminating plan of his 



own by using lanterns and boxes, nearly 



two thousand feet of the State highway 



which is laid out on the dam across The 



Bronx valley, was unlighted. 



Mr. Smith did not 

 want to erect unsightly 

 poles on top of the dam 

 for illuminating the high- 

 way at night, and as 

 there was no other 

 method available, he hit 

 upon the novel idea of 

 lanterns and boxes. Sub- 

 sequently cubical pock- 

 ets were cut in the heavy 

 stone slabs and the 

 proper connections 

 made. The lantern-box 

 combination gives a re- 

 markable uniformity of 

 light, and the artistic 

 effect is pleasing. 



