Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1902 — INVENTS A MAIL-CRANE. [ARTICLE]

INVENTS A MAIL-CRANE.

Mr. Elmer Wilcox this city has invented a railway mail crane and dump which it would seem posseses great merit. The device is for fastening ou mail cars for catching mail sacks from the cranes at stations where the trains do not stop, and the dump works*- automatically, dropping the mail sacks to be left at the station as the crane takes off the sack from the stationery crane. The government is seeking some device of this character and will adopt the one that proves the most practical. Having had much experience with the cranes now in use as a railway mail clerk, Elmer certainly understands the objections to them. Mr. Wilcox has already made application for a patent, we understand, and we hope he will succeed in having his invention adopted.