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Show HARVEST ICE WITH PASSENGER AUTO New Job for Motor Car Is Invented by WeUesley, Mass., Iceman. Motor trucks haul ice through city streets in summer, but it has remained for Wel!eslv, Mass. that center of oniture ami fenv-nine learning to discover dis-cover how to harvest ice with a motor. And once more necessity is the parent of the i !oa. Reuben i uirier outs ice trom Morse's poiul in Wellesley. He was rartiouiarly anxious to eet at the job early this winter, for the first ice was thick and clear an.1 fine. Ordinarily, his work requires re-quires twenty-five horses and eighty-five eighty-five men. 'But both horses and men were scarce this winter, so Currier 's incenuitv devised spiked rims for the! rear wheels of a Dodge Premiers tour- j ing ear. After that the iee harvest proceeded merrily and proniuhiy the Dodge Brothers oar doing the work ot ! four horses. j First the oar was tried with the iee marker and then with the grooving plow, and it was found that a much larger exi a use was covered than with horses. Then the oar was turned to hauling the ice from the far side of the pond to the ice house channel; and it easilv towed eaks Km feet long while men laboriously poled cakes only I five fVt long. The ciiuipnvnt reofsary to fit out the car r' . r work or. the ice was simple. sim-ple. Tires and rims were removed from the rear w li- els and in their plae-. on i each whe'.'i. was applied a. dcnioutitabir j rim fitted with sharpened studs or I spikes. These gave excellent t:'aciiot ' on The smooth ice. Ordinary ski.l ; chains were nspd on thf front wheels ' to inure proper sreeriiig. 1 |