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 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-

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���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.

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