PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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NEW INVENTION VALUABLE IN GRADING WORK 
Mr. William Salway, superintendent, 
Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, O., 
has invented a device for connecting to 
steam or motor road rollers that adds 
greatly to their efficiency in performing 
various kinds of labor in cemeteries and 
parks. With this attachment it is pos- 
sible to use the motor for heavy haul- 
ing, plowing, etc., at a much less ex- 
pense than such labor can be performed 
ordinarily. 
On 'every roller (whether operated by 
steam or gasoline motor) there is on 
the right side of the machine a large 
piece of iron called the hub, which is 
attached to the axle of the roller for 
the purpose of throwing the machinery 
in and out of gear. This hub has been 
removed and a winding drum put on in- 
stead, on which from 350 to 300 feet 
of %-inch wire rope is wound. The 
wire rope is carried back to the rear of 
the roller and is guided by a strong 
arrangement of two sheaves and idlers, 
which permit the wire rope to be car- 
ried to its entire length in a radius of 
half circle if desired. It is used for 
plowing hard pan, breaking up old 
roads, pulling heavy weights of any 
kind by blocking the wheels of the rol- 
ler, and withdrawing the pin in the 
wheel. The roller is stationary and the 
machine winds the cable around the 
drum which draws whatever is attached 
to it. Mr. Salway reports a saving of 
GRADING ATTACHMENT 
FOR ROAD ROLLER. 
over $3,000 in one summer by its use 
in cutting down a hill which was the 
hardest kind of hardpan. The plowing 
is done by the roller, and the plow 
pulled back by a pair of horses. They 
had a plow built unusually strong for 
its used. The plows ordinarily used, 
called the Gopher plow, would not stand 
such hard strain, consequently they had 
to make the beam of large dimensions 
reinforced with angle steel. They use 
the device in pulling monuments from 
the railroad to any part of the steep 
hills. On a grade, say from 10 to 30 
per cent, they leave the load at the foot 
of the hill, run the roller to 250 feet 
up the hill, block the wheels, run out 
the cable, attach to the load and start 
the drum winding, which brings up the 
load to the roller, and repeat as neces- 
sity requires. They handled last fall 
a piece of granite weighing 56 tons with 
it, to the great satisfaction of the con- 
tractor. No horses, no noise, no whip- 
ping horses, no jerking; the load can be 
moved as slowly as desired and by 
means of pulleys to any place desired. 
They have had to remove large stumps 
of trees from the middle of a section 
where the memorials are too thickly 
located to permit the use of horses, and 
where the feet of horses pulling heavy 
loads would destroy the sod. They haul 
in a low sled, and with the use of the 
cable load the large stump and pull it 
out without injury to anything. It is 
also used for scraping earth great dis- 
tances and it is always ready for roll- 
ing. kir. Salway has purchased one of 
the Austin gasoline ten-ton rollers and 
is very well pleased with it. He has 
had the pulley device put on it, and it 
is doing good service. They are grad- 
ing about 40 acres of new grounds and 
have two sections ready for sale. This 
tract of land necessitated the moving 
of 300,000 yards of earth at an average 
cost per acre of $3,000. 
ASSOCIATION OP AMERICAN CEMETERY SUPERINTENDENTS IN NEW YORK CITY (See Report last month). 
