Show NEW USE FOR CATS here Ts t it a man who extracts Ks Ext trActs to run hun a factory 1 I had a large larg c cork and bun bung factory an n grand avenue and I 1 needed power to run my ina machinery chinery writes a mil kecan cecan in harpers weekly you know lc noV of course that there is an immense amount of stored up electricity jn in a cat the problem for inventors lias been to invent a way to extract it profitably in the rear icax of my factory I 1 constructed a one story circular building I 1 some sixty feet in an diameter on tile the floor of this I 1 coiled a glass pipe aix faix inches in diameter the first coil mm around the joutsi outside de of the room the lie coils gradually growing grooving smaller till at last in the center it was no larger thana than a table it grave gave me some a mile of pipe the top and sides of this pipe were lined with rather stiff hair brushes the bristles lacing being a little more than an inch in length at that finite milwaukee was overrun with cats it was impossible to sleep nights I 1 put a notice motice in the paper that I 1 would pay ten cents centa a dozen lor or prime cats Ze delivered livered at my factory i got git si sixty i aty doa dozen en the first day and stored them in the basement laa of the powerhouse power house the motor operated thus placing g iz m the outer end of the glass lass pipe an imitation rat made ol 01 rubber and propelled by a small interior storage battery I 1 would then adjust a cat immediately behind it the rubber aru abber rat would start st artoff off at a terrific rate it was made to go through the mile of tubing in to three minutes and the calof course followed furiously riou sly thinking to catch the supposed animal throughout the entire distance gentlemen it was exciting to watch a healthy active eat whip about those spirals with the mechanical rat about a foot ahead and going like a cannon ball the cat cats back and sides rubbed against the brushes and her electricity was thus extra extracted eted with a storage battery and by bj sending sen dlug a cat through every five minutes I 1 generated enough electricity to operate opera temy any entire plant light my facto factory and sell poi power ver to run mu neighboring passenger elevators and small ismall machinery it also took the yowl out of the cats and gradually the city became quiet at the end of a week a cat could ibe be caught and used again 11 |