Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1910 — PLAN TO PREVENT COLLISIONS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PLAN TO PREVENT COLLISIONS

Thousands of strange inventions are patented at the United States patent office at Washington, each year, according to men who are in touch with the workings of the department J. W. James patented an apparatus for preventing collisions on railway trains. James puts on a long spring on eight wheels in front of the locomotive. A wooden image of a man with a hell is placed half way between the engine and the front of the spring. When the collision takes place the spring is supposed t® take up the shock. At the same time the "wooden man" beats the gong, which informs the passengers thnt all is well.