Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 21, 1920, Page 3

{HORN AUTOMATICALLY TOOTS Ing thé motor on the horn. The re: volving wheel tends to prolong the con- stact, And now for the tread on the right! side: This prevents the. horn from tooting .unnecessarily when. a car ap- proaches from ‘the opposite direction where it has already passed the dan- ‘ger. The right tread llkewlse hns an arm /attached to it. But this arm is fixed Aé an angle so. that ft almost touches ithe arm of the left tread. Then, when the right tread is depressed, the right Jbevlce lns&allod on “Dead Man's| Curve” in North.Carélina: Warns of Approaching Motor. “Sound. your horn!”. “Dangerous jcurve ahead!”' ‘The roads are 'well fortified , with these bright red warn- fings. But you can't see signs by the dside at night, and you surely don’t . “iwant to toot’ your horn continually, ’wnklng sleepers in the houses you bns What then? : { The solution. lies in t.he unpreten- ous oblong piece of metel lying'in the road. As your car passes over it a rn a few feet in front of you:- auto- tically toots loud and long, letting ¢ people around the curve know that bflu are coming. :'The device is not unlike the light sig- mfl system used in the New York sub- ~ yways and that are operated automati- deally by the trains. -You . will notice two treads running llengthwise. A8 your car passes over {the one on the left it will be depressed land an arm extending downward from 4t will hit a ratchet wheel. This'wheel ithen rotates and carries with it a larg- Aq wheel attached to its shaft.’ Conucu on:the ll!ji wheel will hit As the Operating Tread is Depressed, a Contact ls Made Through a Re- volving‘Wheel and a Horn an a Post a Few Yards Away WIIl Toot. ~ arm swings into the left one and throws it clear of the .ratchet wheel. There is no rotation and no conse ‘quent tooting. 'The device was invented by Glurln tes.|'g "yyman of Asheville, N. C., and the of ordinary . metal unl!yournmoblh is going at | ‘the usual rate of 20 miles an hour the w&ld will be depressed for only about K hundredth part of ‘s second— h too short & timie for even start- ‘first one was installed on “Dead Man's ' THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER Pup Delays Tube Train; Theater Patrons Storm New York. — Theater-going passengers on an express hound uptown in the Seventh avenue subway, fumed and fretted while the train ran at quarter-speed with’ frequent jerky stops. As’ the hour for curtains to rise on matinees came perilously near, a self-constituted committee called on' the motorman for an , explanation. He was peering - anxiously out of his cab window at a bewildered brown-and-white terrier running between the rails, . “The pup can’t ‘run ‘any hst- er." the motorman * explained; “and I ain’t going to 'run. over him. That stands if we don’t et to Times square till night.” " At Times square the. terrier still was ahead of the train but golng at a greatly redu pace. “I hope he'll fall out when he sees daylight at One Hundgped and Twenty-eighth street,” sighed tl_zg motorman. . Sad Proopecf. “Do the doctors give your trlendl . any hope for their rich uncle?”’ “Not a particle. They say he may ive for years.” Ourn" in Buncombe county near the | mltu of a- casket company.—Popu- Bdence Monthly. In the Crowd. “Ye're In a pickle in this jam” shrilled the first old lady. . “Heaven preserve us,” moaned the Ih Styic. "Somehody says a baby in the house in @ wellspring-of joy.” , “Dan't you belleve it. From the amusement standpoint, a baby in the house is'a screaming farce.” ‘Wanted to Know. “Excen ent floor this,” sald . the clumsy 4. ncer. “Then why dance on my feet?” ~qke§ his unlucky partner. “It's when a man R in: troubl. that he realizes the value of », wife." ' “Bure! 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