$100,000 for new mail catcher.

Mr. Michael Maloney of Toronto, who invented the new mail catcher and lock drop box for flag stations, has received letters and a deal is about to be closed with a millionaire firm in Newark, N.J., for the sole right to manufacture and sell this new device in Europe. Mr. Maloney, who is mail clerk on the Toronto and Penetang train, is well known to every railroad man here, and many have witnessed this clever device in operation as Mr. Maloney has been trying it on the Penetang train for the past year with excellent results. If is far superior to anything any railroad has yet put on their cars, being constructed to catch a mail bag loaded with glass pitchers, when running at the rate of 80 miles an hour, without breaking the glassware. This experiment was tried on the Penetang Branch at Le Faive's crossing, near Penetang. It also delivers a bag from the train at the same time as it catches one, the one it delivers falling into a box beside the track which locks automatically. Mr. Maloney was quite pleased when interviewed on Monday and says his invention is now perfect.

Railways: G.T.Ry.

Stations: Penetang

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