The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-28
noise1ess cuspidof which he expects to install in the new chamber.

noise1ess cuspidof which he expects to install in the new chamber.
 In a dusty loft at the gear. of the there is a monument built of 1,50O boxes to the memory of American are the offering of as many inventors for the alluring bait of the O.. K. of the Department on their inventions which would have brought them a boxes for the rural delivery service. All these contraptions have been sent in since 1901. Up to that time the Department allowed the farmers to use whatever they chose as mail box but when it found that in many instances their choice ran to a piece of tiling, stove piping, old powder and oil cans, and everything else from the refuse heap back of the old homestead, the Department baked and decided to set standard. This immediately created a market for an enormous supply of boxes and all the would-be Westinghouse of the country set to need.
 The results of their efforts form a most interesting index to what the hu- ed like a dirigible torepdo, some open on a hinge, like a clam shell. One is rlgged out with more accoutrenents ter holders. interlocking signals and electric annunciators to tell the pas sing postnan whether the patron de- sires stamps, money orders, postcards or to register a letter. One Qrobably invented by a letter carrier) has an arrangement whereby it could be swung into the carriers wagon, eno' tied and returned without the carrier getting out of his seat.
 Some didn't stop at inventing box; they devised whole system to be run from village post office by gasoline motor. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General De Graw, who has charge of the rural delivery, says that even now he gets a letter every week from some one who has an idea for collecting mail along rural routes. One device is a battery of boxes to and automatically, distributed along the route, at the same time picking up other boxes filled with mail for dispatch.
 Does a telegraph operator at rail- road station in a, town of 2,Oo0 have much to do? We'll, Congressman Mur- phy, of Missouri, held such posi- he told the House that this is how he put in his time. T was working fror twelve to thirteen hours at night. I was required to go to the postoffice at night, get the mail, and take it to the depot. was the only employee there at night; Tn the morning was required to take the mail to the post office, block and a half distant. It would average, besides the two peuches of first class mail, from to il sacks full of papers. magazines, and so forth. handled from 20 to 30 and some times 40 train orders night, and that hour of the morning was one
 tI was required to sell tickets, both local and coupon, and was required to book from 2 to and 4 carloads of freight in a night in a book which was practically a copy of the waybills. giving item by item, the weight, the grade, and the amount of freight had these waybi1ls, which was to make out what might be called a statement to each of those who received the freight, and that was a copy of each freight, and then tota1ed. They used kerosene for lighting, and I was re- and about the station; they used switch lights and I was required to clean and fill the switch lights with oil and put them out at night and take them in in the morning. When wanted any repairs for the switch lamps I would have to go to the sec tfon foreman for them. In addition, I had to sweep out the depot every morning. If the local trains reached there after night, and it was frequent ly so, I had to take the freight which was unloaded upon the depot platform and put it in the freight house.
 ttIn addition to that, I was required to check the baggage and load it, and I handled from two to three truck loads of baggage at night, in addition to putting the mail on the trains and taking it off and putting 1t in the house. In addition the railroad com pany required that the night operator must handle the express as well, and he must take that out the trucks and put it on the two trains they had at that time, and there are four now, and put it in the house as well. Thes are some of the duties which are inn posed upon this class of men, at that time receiving $40 a month, who to- day receive $50 a month.
 One of the most ingenious labor saw ing machines has just been perfected by the Treasury Department to assist in the making of Uncle San's money One machine is now in operation in ing and is working successfully that a contract has just been let for the installation of 15 more. The new device performs five operations sim ultaneousIy with the aid of only two employees, whereas the same work now requires two separate machines with five employees to each.
 None of the notes issued by the Uni ted States is good paper money until it bears a serial number and the big seal of the Treasury of the United States, Twenty-eight printing presses in the basement of the Treasury De- partment are now employed to imprint these final signs upon the bills which come in sheets of four from the Bu- reau of Engraving and Printing. There are now two men or girls to slow beca use every sheet must be fed with the utmost exactness so that the seal and numera1 will appear in the right place.