Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1912 — TO HAVE INDIVIDUAL CUPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TO HAVE INDIVIDUAL CUPS

Boston Has Planned the First Sant tary Drinking Place for Horses in World. Boston. —In the new drinking fountain to be erected in Postoffice square to the memory of George T. Angell this city, it is believed, will have the first watering trough in the world with specially constructed individual drinking cups for horses. Of the $5,000 which its erection will cost, $647.77 was contributed by school children of the city, who gave one cent each. There will be sixteen individual drinking cups so arranged that they will cleanse themselves after each horse has finished drinking. The water will be running into each cup constantly. It is expected each horse will drink practically all the water in the cup, then before the next horse arrives the cup 'Will fill and overflow. This will oarry off all the foam and any dangerous germs the first horse may have left in the cup. There is no connection between the cups. It Is believed this latest plan in sanitary drinking fountains for horses will do much toward preventing diseases

which are spread through watering troughs. The fountain is of artistic design, the main basin being sixteen feet in diameter. At the base will be watering places for dogs.

View From Top, Showing Plan of Boston’s Sanitary Drinking Fountain for Horses.