Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-11-13 | Page 10 | Gasoline Burner Dries Ball Grounds

GASOLINE BURNER DRIES BALL GROUNDS A machine machino fitted with gasoline blowtorches blow blow- torches has is been put in ll use e at n a Tacoma Tacoma Ta- Ta coma Wash baseball park for tho pur per poso peso of artificially drying go tho the grounds following rainstorms The Tho apparatus is similar iu in m principle to lees dos used in ID asphalt pavement repairs It is built with an au iron frame in iu tho shape shapo of an nn equilateral triangle mounted horizontally horizontally horizon horizon- tally on swivel s wheels wheals carrying live five coil coi burners with downward projecting jots Over O these th burners is a da deflector lector hood hoo with adjustable wings made of gal galvan- galvan van non iron and aud asbestos At tho the front of or the tho carriage carnage e is is a n gasoline tank and pump 1 which supply the fuel then tho machine is I drawn slowly over overa a 3 moderately moderate wet field it is asserted 1 tho KT ground ni 13 is within a short hort timo dried dried sufficiently for use A P picture of the tho device devico appears in the November o of Popular Pop Pop- ular Mechanics Magazine rn