Popular science monthly . time than it takes to drive them with this inverted steam-hammer When the Fighting Man Dreams THE harmony of the sleep of theexhausted soldier has but onediscordant note, and that is the dreamof battle, declares Dr. George \V. Crile.(A Mechanistic View of War andPeace. The Macmillan Company.) Thedream is always the same, always of theenemy. In the hospital wards, battlenightmares were common, and severelywounded men would often spring outof their beds. An unexpected analogyto this battle nightmare was found inthe anesthetic dreams. Precisely thesame battle nightmare t
Popular science monthly . time than it takes to drive them with this inverted steam-hammer When the Fighting Man Dreams THE harmony of the sleep of theexhausted soldier has but onediscordant note, and that is the dreamof battle, declares Dr. George \V. Crile.(A Mechanistic View of War andPeace. The Macmillan Company.) Thedream is always the same, always of theenemy. In the hospital wards, battlenightmares were common, and severelywounded men would often spring outof their beds. An unexpected analogyto this battle nightmare was found inthe anesthetic dreams. Precisely thesame battle nightmare that occurred insleep occurred when s<jldiers were goingunder or coming out of anesthesia, whenthey would often struggle valiantlyagainst the enemys surprise attack. Saving Hours in Handling New YorkSubway <^ Dirt The new method of removing rock from subway excavations is accompHshed in one fifththe time it formerlyrequired. It loadsthe buckets di-rectly fromsubway levelto auto-mobiletrailer ELtCTRIC LOCOMOTIVECRANE. Doixc;in fi\c111 i n-ui OS the samework thatformerlytook twcn-t\-livc min-utes to per-form, t h cmethod ofli a 11 tl 1 i 11 i;rock fromsii!)\va\-cxca-\alions ilhis-t rated herc- oi Popular Science Monthly 55 with is one of the most effective systemsever devised. It is in use at three pointsalong the subway route in New York has made possible the employment ofhuge fifteen-ton motor-tractor and trailerunits and has speeded up the entirework of getting tiie excavated materialout of the ground. The system consists of an elevatedplatform set up on wooden bents onopposite sides of the street directlyadjacent to the shaft Icatling down intothe cut, an electric crane on top of thisplatform, and a double-decked stand onthe street beneath it withan adjustable draw-bridge pivoted atone end to a per-manent bum-per towhich
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