A DANBURY INVENTION.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 105, 12 April 1876, Page 3

A DANBURY INVENTION.

(danbuky news) A Danbury man is confident that in time passenger trains will be run at tbe rate of a mile a minute. He is evolving a plan for taking on passengers without stopping the train, and thus save this running. He thinks a rack formed of a scoop made of netting, with a back to it and a horizontal bar ten inches below, will do it. This to be attached to the car and worked on a powerful hinge. He was in Merrill’s grocery with a rough Inodel of his machine last evening, explaining its working to an interesting auditory. His idea is to have the passengers stand in a line on the station platform, with their backs to the approaching train, and near enough to where it will pass to bring them within range of the scoop. On the approach of the rack the horizontal bar strikes the expectant passenger in the hollow back of the knees, which causes him to lop backwards, when he is caught in the scoop and whirled into the car; and the next rack back takes the next forward passenger; and so on until all are taken up.

“ How arc yon going to land them people what are to stop at stations?” asked a disagreeable person who was sitting on a soap box, “ Land ’em !” cried the inventor, in a tone of unqualified disgust. “ Who’s said anythingabout landing’em ? That’s their own look out, I guess. A railroad takes them to the place where they are gl&ng, an’ that’s all it agrees to do. I s’pose you’d expect a railway company to hunt you up an hotel, an’ carry your trunk up to the room, an’ cook your supper, an’ tuck you up in bed, an’ wind up your watch, wouldn't ye ?” and the speaker glared at the interrupter with such intensity ns to cause him to shrink up fully one-half. “ A hog’s a hog wherever .you’re a mind to puttim,” explained the inventor as he picked up his model, and straightway left the store.