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��The Metal Hose Man and How He Was Manufactured

AT the recent aiito- l\ mobile show in New York, an exhibit of a Newark manu- facturing company at- tracted much atten- tion. Its exhibit was a man-shaped figure composed entirely of specimens of its vari- ous kinds of hose.

The height of the figure was three feet. In its right arm it held a section of big tubing, five inches inside di- ameter, interlocked. The hat was built from smaller tubing used for wire covering. The body was made of carbureter hose packed with asbestos or a heat-proof fiber, and employed by automobile manufacturers. The feet and hands were made from exhaust stoves or hoods. Ears and mouth were oil conveyers which shoot greasy com- pounds, kerosene and cutting oils upon machine work for rapid and accurate pro- duction. The legs were of pressure hose. Small electric lights formed the eyes.

���This quaint figure from flexible metal

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What a Woodpile! It's Three Hundred Feet High

PR O B A B L Y the biggest woodpilfe on record, shown in the accompanying picture, is to be found at Berlin, New Hamp- shire, the center of an important paper- manufacturing dis- trict. The pile, which forms a respectable hill, plainly visible from a great distance, is composed of more than seventy-five thousand cords of wood which are to be made into paper.

An idea of the size of this pile may be gained from the fact that its highest point is nearly three hundred feet above the ground, while its extreme length is more than one thousand feet, or nearly a quarter of a mile. Some statistician has figured out that, if these logs were split up into cord wood and laid in a straight line, they would reach nearly twice around the earth. The potential number of miles of news- paper it contains must be fabulous.

��is made entirely hose and fittings

���This is not a slag-heap, but a great pile of logs of spruce and other pulp-wood, which is destined eventually to arrive at your breakfast-table in the form of newspaper

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