Show Aerial l Mall Mail Box Boa I In Delaware Ohio an ingenious ciU ten len by the name of Taggart lives on a high hill bill some little distance off oct thee the I main road The hill hID Is of ot loose gravel graveland graveland graveland and at Its foot Is a small creek innocent Innocent Innocent Inno Inno- cent looking and easily forded in ordinary weather but swelling rapidly with heavy rains The rural carrier whose route extended to Mr Taggarts Taggart's residence found the frequent high water water wa wa- wa ter tel and the rough hilly hUly road such a source of ot delay and Inconvenience that the Department ordered th the route changed and Mr Taggart was directed to place his box on the main road Mr Taggart protested declaring that ho he would not walk that distance Then Thea his Inventive brain conceived the trolley trot trot- ley or aerial mail box At a convenient corner of ot his porch he placed a windlass windlass wind wind- lass with a small steel cable c ble extending down to the post box box poston on the main road around a grooved deeply wheel on the post and back to the porch As shown th the box Is connected in this cable forming the link for tor the broken ends The box is fitted with top wheels which run on a a. fixed cable stretched tight from the porch to the post I When the mall maU carrier reaches the post box which is visible from the I porch he puts In th the mail mall and raises a signal sigDa Some one on oneat on at the house takes takesI I the handle of ot the windlass and turns It rapidly and the box with Its burden of mall mail comes sailing up the wire I The mail la is then removed remove and the box bor I t a s' s v r r Ya THE INGENIOUS MAIL M. BOX DOX coasts back to its Us post The distance of ot one one ne hundred yards Is covered In about ten tea seconds which Is as fast tast asa as asa asa a good sprinter can cover rover the distance Multiplying gears in the windlass Increase Increase In In- Increase crease the speed So far as Is known Mr Sir Taggart Is la the first to apply this Idea to a rural mail mall |