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SCIENCE, MECHANICS, INVENTION 561
MOVES HOUSE OVER SEVEN MILES 'CROSS COUNTRY
A remarkable and unusual feat was performed recently by motor trucks at Camp Stewart on the Mexican border. When
the last of the National Guard were ordered home, truck company No. 20 was transferred to Motor Truck Park. El Paso,
seven and one-half miles from Camp Stewart. It was necessary to move one of the company houses which had been
erected by the Army and the problem was a big one, as to how to move it the seven and one-half miles without knock
ing il down and re erecting it.
Il was finally decided to load it on four motor trucks, one at each corner. To do this, of course, it was necessary that
the trucks at the rear corners should drive
backward and on reverse gear. In addition
l this difficult v, the building being twenty
lift wide by forty six feet long, it was im­
possible to travel on the roads, because of
telegraph poles, trees, and other obstruc­
tions. Therefore, it was necessary to make
the trip across the fields and through the open
country, up hill and down, through gullies
and ditches. In spite of these difficulties, it
was possible to accomplish this unique task
in a little less than an hour and three-
quarters.
For the Night Owl
A new device has been invented which will
guide your key right into the keyhole no
matter bow late at night—or early in the
morning—you may turn in. All the usual
annoyance of stabbing at a keyhole in the
dark is obviated, for the cone-shaped plate
which is attached over the keyhole unerr­
ingly guides your key to the lock. The de-
\ u e 1^ made of a single piece of metal bent
to the desired shape and fastened to the door
|.\ screws. It is only necessary that you be
able to place the key within a radius of one
inch From the keyhole to succeed in get­
ting in, and even in stormiest seas a sailor
should preserve this much accuracy—in fact.
this i~- necessan to make harbor at all.