Show INVENTS A PORTABLE LAMP st loni benim tinnyee tinn aee to rend on the poorly I 1 street cars the decidedly noiel s of a pas on a street car read ng by the 1 of h s vi portable lamp w as wit i essed probable for the first time in any tv on an E street car of the st lou s transit company a dyste i tl e other n IIer iran S gmadt of WO north mar ket street chrpenter cir penter is the owner of the lamp wl cl be h iselt from a few odd ends of anater al it Is a e candle poi er 1 that it g more 1 than all the inci descent globe in a street car during the L s 1 rs of the evening dt s a bus ai d hai 1 atle time to read vt home he has 1 is du ties to attend to tl e children to amuse and ct an 1 h s time dur eg the da is re cd by b his ti ne to rend s dur ap the ho rhe rout ride on the cars from his work for some weeks 1 e declares it has been an absolute in possie uty to see to read by the dim lighted street is alwag the mother of invention hence the portable pock et ad aballe limp when be got on a street car the other night be sec ired a seat next to a win dow clamped h s lamp fco the pilaster of the car window 1 gated the wick and settled down to read while his neighbors on the car looked on and ad mired bia genius |