. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. city like LosAngeles, Calif., it has been rather hardto keep up with school some parts of the city where it hasbuilt up rather unexpectedly the Boardhas been at a loss to know just how to proceed. In one such section eight port-able class rooms were erected on a vacantlot near the school. When the addition to the school wascompleted these portable structures werefolded up and conveyed by truck to othercrowded sections and will serve until suchtime as new buildings are erected. A SENTIMENTAL CEMETERY A number of mounds which are
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. city like LosAngeles, Calif., it has been rather hardto keep up with school some parts of the city where it hasbuilt up rather unexpectedly the Boardhas been at a loss to know just how to proceed. In one such section eight port-able class rooms were erected on a vacantlot near the school. When the addition to the school wascompleted these portable structures werefolded up and conveyed by truck to othercrowded sections and will serve until suchtime as new buildings are erected. A SENTIMENTAL CEMETERY A number of mounds which are ratherfacetiously intended to represent gravesare to be seen between the tracks of the A Sentimental Cemetery Pennsylvania Lines and the Chicago &Alton Railway near the Harrison Streetbridge in Chicago. One of the graves has planted uponit an ancient round pin, a flat pin and adiscarded coupling pin, the sort of para-phernalia used in railroading many yearsago. In pebbles is arranged the inscrip-tion: old timers days gone by parted eorever. Temporary ClassRooms Erected for LosAngeles Schools, MadeNecessary by RapidGrowth of Certain Dis-tricts. As Soon as Per-snt Buildings Can beErected, the TemporaryOnes Are KnockedDown, and Transportedby Motor to OtherLocalities. POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE 1171 On other mounds are to be seen some-what similiar sentiments. An imagina-tive and sentimental flagman who hasseen over 35 years of service as a railroadman conceived the unique idea of buildingthese memorials as a fitting tribute to apast era in American railroading. TRUCK ENTERS A CAR DOOR Economical handling of merchandiseat railway freight sheds may be verywell accomplished by means of an electric
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