The evening world., 1912-11-27
INVENTION Wins
HIM HIS LIBERTY
FROM SING SING
Young Prisoner Designs Auto
mobile DuSt-Proof Dump
Cart in Shop.

wretch for grand larceny has won his
release from Sing Sing by his skill a.
mechanic. His particular service TO
the State was the perfection of the new
automobile dust-proof dur.p cart. which
promises to revolutionlze the removal
Of ashes from the streets Of American
cities.
The boy does not yet know what we
propose TO do for him." said Warden
John s. Kennedy to an Evening World
reporter to-day. But he deserves a
parole II not full pardon. Superin-
tendent of State Prisons Joseph +. Scott
10 interested in doing something sub
stsntial for the young man. and we
agree that freedom is about the most
substantial gift the State can bestow
upon him.
warden Kennedy requested that the
young mans name be omitted from any
article written about the reward he Is
70 get for his remarkable intelligence
u. the service OF the State. Mr.. Kennedy
spent six years as proba ton ofYlcer with
Assistant District-Attorney Frank Moss,
ana his Investigations and experience
nave shown him how y prison term can
outiive the ex-convict himself.
PRISONER SHOWS REAL GENIUS
As MECHANIC.
This boys future 10 altogether too
bright TO be marred by any such con-
tfngency arising" he said. He seems
10 Do real genius In mechanics. No
OBSTACLE win be placed On his path IL
tne prison authorities can prevent H."
The young man who has won these
WORDS OF warm praise is OF German ex-
traction and about twenty-eight years
oi age. His offense was grand larceny,
T. ) stealing Of two automobile tires, for
which crime he was sentenced three
years ago from this city. Infatuation
Tor a young woman was the motive be-
hind his act of wrongdoing.
SO far as can b, ascertained none of
MS former friends know OF his present
T'sht ps pleaded guilty and 20 es-
capped the notoricty OF n trial. Before
he made his big slip he was employed a.
mechanician for several of the speediest
motorists In the world. So that no clue
TO his identity should leak Warden Ken
nedy has kept him out Of all photo
graphs taken of the automobile dump
cart during the many tests on the hills
around Ossining.
When Foreman Magular Butler Of the
cart and wagon shops perceived the tai.
ents of the convicted mechanician q yeaI
ago he brought the subject OF the auto.
mobile dump cart to the attention oil
Superintendent OF Industries Tracy
Butler himself is the inventor Of th(
closed top dust proof dump cart-which
viii rid the streets of flying particles OF
ashes-but he was unable to connect uI
his idea with the automobile feature
All OF the city's present horse drawn
steel ash carts are made in Sing Sing.
PRISONER GET TO WORK on
AUTO DUMP CART
I'VE have . man in the shops I an
sure can put the proposition across,
said Butler.
1T costs money to experiment. but
the Warden and our Superintendent
says 30 you can have the money" 70
piled Tracy.
The money was forthcoming. II COS
between 1900 and 5000 to build tn
automobile dump cart. But the none!
was we'll spent for tho toll Of tn
prtsoner-mechanic. unremitting and in
tsllgsnt, produced = vehicle that ha
ben pronounced a success. II Cal
cAgry seven tons OF rubbish with cas-
. up II per cent grade, and the I'm
loading works to automatic perfection
by the pulling of a lever from tn
chauffeur's seat.
The new vehicle has q dust proc
cover which. when the cart " nile
X with garbage. will confine tho odori
The cover 10 very easy 10 operate. an
the cart can be loaded from either sid
or from the front or back. II costs oni
si.6o per day for fuel and oil to operat
the new cart. doing the same work q
thirty horse-drawn carts at one-twen
tieth the cost for power.
When the load is to be discharge
the body of the car Is lifted by . pe
4 cullar mechanism apd held in a PEI
pend!cular position far out from tn