PARK ANHD CEMETERY. 
and its small, starry blossoms appear in pi\.fusicn 
during midsummer; while the plumose seeds are 
scarcely less attraciiv'e, and may be retained in- 
definitely for winter bouquets. 
The bitter-sweet, with its glowing orange and 
scarlet seed capsules, forms one of the most pleas- 
ing features of the autumn landscape, and there is 
no reason why it should not run rampant, or seem- 
ingly so, in plots arranged by man after nature’s 
pattern. Bt’ssie L. Putnam. 
Something fascinating there is about a swamp 
— its rare flora, its gloom in daylight, its fre^hnessin 
drought, its ever-present mystery. You can not 
grasp it as you can the dry woodland. The very 
birds are evasive, and its flora leads one deeper 
and deeper into the tangle where the woodcock 
springs from the thickets of Jewel-weed and the 
owl skim5 naiselessly from, his twilight haunt. The 
plaintiff cry oi the veery from the tree-tops above 
only serves to emphasize its silence, while the 
scream of its warder, the blue jay, seems its voice 
speaking to the solitude. I usually find what 
might be termed a footpath threading a swamp, 
not always readily discernible, but sufficiently 
marked to make it appear a foot path, the high- 
way of the hares and wild animals. These resort 
to it not only for food and water, but for warmth 
and security. The hibernating birds turn to it in- 
stinctively and seek it for their winter quarters. — 
George //. Ellzvangcr in "The Garden s Story." 
TYPES OF ELECTRICAL OMNIBUSES. 
Among the numerous types of automobiles ex- 
hibited at the International Motor Carriage Expo- 
sition held at Berlin was the one shown in the 
accompanying illustration. Vehicles of this char- 
acter are now being used in'Berlin to supplement 
the street railway service, and are made by the 
Union E'ectrical Co , of Marienfelde. The fir.st of 
these was put into service on the first of Septem- 
ber, 1899, in the city and has been from the start 
so popular that its seating capacity of 28 persons is 
constantly filled. The new omnibuses run swiftly 
and silently over the asphalted streets and seem to 
fulfill every expectation. 
Another type of electric omnibus to be found 
in Berlin is shown in the illustration, taken from 
the Elcctrotcchnische Zeit-Schrift , and is made by 
Messrs. Siemens & Halske. The designers have 
adopted a system by means of which the accumu- 
lators at certain periods of the run will receive a 
charge from the overhead wares of the tramway 
company. Eor this purpose a collecting bow is 
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placed at the top of the car for making connections 
with the trolley ware, while on front of the bus two 
EI.KCTRIC.\L OMNIBUS, BERI.IX. 
wheels are provided to make connection with the 
tramway rails. 
An omnibus of this type is designed to seat 15 
passengers inside and to cany 6 more on the rear 
platform. The front platform is reserved for the 
driver only. The weight of the buses complete 
with batteries and passengers is tons. The 
accumulators weigh only tons. Two motors 
are used on each axle, making four in all. These 
are so arranged that the wheels are driven inde- 
pendently. The motors drive by means of single 
reduction gearing wfith a ratio of i to 7 5 on the 
front wheels and i to 8 on the back. The regula- 
tion is effected by means of series-parallel control- 
OMNIBUS TROI.UEY C.\R. 
lers in the usual way. The whole object of the 
design is to keep down the wc'ght of the accumu- 
lators and at the same time to have a bus which 
will run over routes w’hich are not equipped with 
