Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1912 — Ingenious German Device. [ARTICLE]

Ingenious German Device.

Several German villages have a pen-ny-in the-slot system of nocturnal Illumination. At Jocketa, near Plauen, in Saxony, for example, where they go to i bed early, the lights are all out at eleven o’clock. But a timid lategoer by dropping a penny In the box at the foot of one pf the electric light standards can illuminate half the village. A second penny lights up the other half. At Zarkau, In Silesia, they have a similar arrangement A penny lights up the whole roadway from the station through the village for twelve minutes. The average life of a railroad! cross tie is 15 years.