“What did I tell you?”
But Perew was not discouraged. He took the dummy back into the shop and smashed it to pieces. Then he began the work all over. His efforts seem to have been crowned with success at last. The new man is six feet high, very stout, wears number ten shoes and a smart cutaway suit of clothes. In the shirt front a small incandescent light glitters, having the appearance of an immense diamond. The figure draws, or appears to draw, a heavy steel carriage, in which is stationed an electric battery which furnishes light for seven incandescent lamps including the diamond In the shirt front.
A gasoline engine of three and a half horse-power is also fixed within the covered carriage. Around this engine winds a network of wires and steel rods connecting with the mechanism in the interior of the man. At the rear of the carriage is an elevated seat for the engineer. A speed of about ten miles an hour can be attained. As the mechanical man walks or trots up and down the street the spectacle attracts a crowd.
Perew Is Jubilant over his success, “This, without doubt, is my greatest invention,” he said. “The merry-go-round is not to he compared with the wooden man. I have spent over a year of hard labor and $5,000 on this machine, but I feel amply repaid when I think of what a big hit it will make.
“How am I going to get my money back? Well, there has been a stock company organized and a number of outside
