Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1910 — GERMAN NOVELTY THAT INTERESTS AMERICANS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GERMAN NOVELTY THAT INTERESTS AMERICANS

BERLIN. —Among the numerous American visitors in Germany this summer are many who are especially interested in the development of inland water traffic, and these gentlemen have been paying much attention to a novel scow that may be seen on German streams clearing them by cutting away the weeds and grass. It is rowed or poled along the water course, and at the stern a man turns a wheel which brings together four large knives beneath the boat. It Is believed by the Americans that the device would prove of creat benefit on the rivers of Florida and other southern states which become clogged up with rank vegetation.