the important manufacturing and business section.

In addition to protecting itself against fire, Baltimore is also determined to conserve its health.

Jones' Falls, an odoriferous, sluggish, foul, ugly canal of water winding its corrupt course through the very heart of Baltimore, as the Seine flows through Paris, will soon be a thing of the past. The oldest inhabitant of Baltimore denies that it ever deserved the name of Jones, and certainly there has never been a trace of any water fall along its muddy bed.

Draining, as it does, a populous area of nearly sixty square miles, it is easily realized that the flow occasionally rises in volume to as much as thirtyfive hundred cubic yards per second. Zigzagging its polluted waters between the architectural canyon of granite walls, brick buildings, and plastered boundaries, Jones' Falls has remained a constant source of unpleasant odors, dangerous

floods, and other possible disaster to Baltimore.

But no more! Baltimore, the home of the Johns Hopkins University, is at last alive to the necessity of converting its surface drainage and open sewage-way into the covered sewers with the greatest of modern disposal plants.

Twenty-one million dollars has been borrowed by the citizens of Baltimore to make old Jones' Falls a beautiful covered parkway, and to establish the greatest system of modern sewers ever dreamed of by engineers.

The two essential factors that make the building of the Jones' Falls Boulevard of more than ordinary interest are, that the construction is being done right in the bed of the falls with no reduction in the stream's flow, amidst heavy rains which make possible the water's rising above the concrete conduits and covering the cofferdams; and the constricted space in which the work is being done and the material manipulated.

BIRD WITH A BIG HEAD

UNDENIABLY

"there were giants in those days." It may be that the "phororhacos" did not weigh quite as much as the now extinct Moa of New Zealand (whose avoirdupois was largely in its huge and clumsy legs); and it was no taller than the

giant ostrich of Madagascar, which measured ten feet in height. But it had by all odds the biggest head that any bird ever possessed.

One may judge of this from the accompanying photograph of a skull of the remarkable fowl in question, which flourished in Patagonia some hundreds of thousands of years ago. In all likelihood it would have tipped the scales at not less than half a ton.

ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE TO SHOW WHAT IT CAN DO

road at the crossing of Soldier's Summit, in the Wasatch Mountains, about one hundred and twenty miles southeast of Salt Lake City. The grade is over four per cent and, as the photo shows, the ordinary passenger trains are hauled by five of heaviest type of Mallet engines.

At the commencement of the

year, plans were formulated to side-step this grade, and by a tremendous amount of cutting and excavating to construct a track around the summit instead of across it. But the electric locomotive has come into the project and changed those plans. Within easy distance are several mountain torrents; and the new purpose of the company is to build power plants on one or more of those streams and use the electric current for electric locomotives on the old track.

The general traffic manager of the road, in a recent interview said:

"If we find that the electrification of our line is feasible on the most difficult

any locomotive in the United States is on the Denver and Rio Grande Rail

able that we shall install similar service on the other mountain passes. This

would be particularly economical, as it would obviate the necessity of a large amount of double tracking, for the tests to which electric locomotives have been put in the last few years indicate that they can handle traffic faster, better and cheaper than by the use of steam engines.

"It is merely a matter of comparison of the cost and efficiency, and if we find that we can do better with electricity we shall use it. The manufacturers of electric locomotives assure us that they can build them of high enough power for any mountain work, and it remains for them to prove their assertions."

BARE-LEGGED
SOLDIERS

UNCLE SAM has in his

army some thousands of little brown men of the midPacific who approximate all grades of civilization and a lack of it and who are well

typified by the accompanying illustration which shows the Philippine soldier in

the course of being transformed. A year before this picture was taken these men were wild in the woods with nothing but a breechclout to hide their nakedness. They have advanced to a stage where they take great pride in their caps and coats but still refuse to adopt the trousers and shoes. A year later, however, they will be found as fully accoutremented as is their captain shown in the foreground.

The Philippine constabulary of which these men are a part, is now a little more than 5,000 strong, including officers and men. To be exact there were 5,130 men and 296 officers at last report. This constabulary had its origin in the Filipino Scouts that were organized during the war of occupation.

The Filipino boys are taken when they know nothing of civilized life. There is a scramble to get into the service.

New York City, and in the picture on the opposite page we see a dog of the metropolitan police in the act of escorting a "cop" on his round of duty.

K

MOTOR CAR FOR FUNERAL PARTY

IN Chicago most of the cemeteries are

from nine to eighteen miles from the business center, and often as far from the homes of the people who have to

about twenty feet long and seven feet wide. The casket compartment in front. is 71⁄2 feet by three feet, two inches. square. The car will carry twenty-eight passengers. The casket compartment is to be lined with sheet copper and the flower compartment enclosed with glass. so that it will be separate from the other There are four portion of the coach. doors on the left side of the car and three on the right side. The coach is to be driven by electricity.

DEVELOPING THE FUTURE ENGINEER

THE

HE boy with a real mechanical turn of mind is seldom satisfied with store toys. He would a hundred times rather take hammer and nails with what odds and ends he can find in the woodshed and work out some idea of his own than to possess a whole houseful of ready-made locomotives and fire engines which to his critical eye lack many important details.

Until recently none of the toy manufacturers have seemed to realize this desire on the part of the young mechanic to build something himself, but one man who perhaps remembers some of his boyish impulses has developed an idea possessing all the marks of a winner with the embryo engineer. He has undertaken to furnish outfits of mechanical parts from which may be built anything from a toy wagon to a miniature Ferris

ous boy in a very short length of time.

Beside the structural material described there are also grooved pulleys and gears of great variety so that almost any modern work of engineering can be reproduced in miniature.

Wheel. These outfits consist of strips of light metal varying in length and having holes punched at equal distances from end to end. By means of small screws and nuts the various parts are put together in almost numberless ways and structures surprisingly real in appearance can be produced

the outfit

which the boy would require

even to a

quantity of good stout string, for even this is not always obtainable in the home. Complete instructions