Show SLIDING SHOES SAVE ROADS OAD Wooden W oden Device Tightly Fast Fastened ned t to Rear Wheel Does Much to Pre f vent Ruts Forming I r rAfter After a road which has steep gr grades des desIs Is care carefully ully repaired it Is disconcerting disconcert disconcert- ing lag to see heavy wagons going down the th hills with one or both rear wheels tightly clamped by the brake grinding A Wide Shoe Placed Under One Rear Rea Wheel of Each Heavy Wagon Which Descended the Steep Hills on a Road Did Much to Prevent Ruts Being BeIng Be Be- ing Formed along the roadway and cutting ruts On a stretch of road which had Buffered suffered suf greatly from this cause canse heavy wagons were provided with a sliding shoe which was laced under one r rear a wheel when descending a hill hIlI to furnish furnish furnish fur fur- nish braking action The other ther wh wheel cl revolved and prevented side sideslip slip The shoe hoe was vas hard haril wood wood surf surfaced ced cedon on the bottom with and provided provided pro pro- vided with a n staple ring and chain b by which It was was attached to the wagon W W. Shaw Corinth N. N Y in Popular r Magazine I. I f L |