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682 ILLUSTRATED WORLD
A GASOLINE SNOW SHOVELER
In many a city, next winter, you will see this squatty little machine operating. After a snow fall it will lumb
the streets, cleaning an eight-foot swath of pavement at the rate of six hundred feet a minute. Brushes and scr
operated by the same engine that drives the machine forward, shoot the snow and ice on to rollers. It goes up a
then over the chute at the right to fall in one of the dump
wagons that acts as escort. This device costs $4**0 origi­
nally; it ischeapto maintain, and it will do the work of one
hundred men when occasion requires.
Lighting Up the Traffic Policeman
So many accidents have occurred in St. Louis because au­
tomobile drivers have not been able to see the signals of
traffic policemen at night, that Police Commissioner
Thompson of that city recently decided to devise some
means by which an officer could be made to stand out
clearly. After trying out various schemes, the department
hit upon the plan of installing a small search light on th
top of a high building at the crossing. By this means the
light does not shine in the eyes of the officer, yet it is
ulated to cast a circle of light ten or twelve feet in dia
ter, in the center of which the officer stands.