Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-07-06
LONG DISTANCE MOVING.

Commsx Thiag Nowadays TO Move House
hold Goods 100. or 1000 Miles or More
Every year there is in the United
States more and more long distance
moving OF household effects, from one
city or one part of The country TO an
other. Such moving has increased
tenfold in the past half dozen years.
There isn't a day in the year when
the larger storage and van companies
here in New York would not have one
or two shipments of this sort of house
hold goods coming in from, or going
II, places fifty or a hundred or thou
sand miles distant. OF course there
has always been more or less of such
moving. Some of the increase in 1t
is due to the increase in population:
but much the greater part of it is due
to modern multiplied means of easy
communication, and to the systematic
Ing of modern moving methods So
far as the actual moving is concerned
that need not be any annoyance to the
mover in these modern times. IL he
does not want to bother about Ii him
self he has only to put the key OF his
house into the hands of a concern that
does this sort of business and II will,
literally, do the rest, down to and In
Guiding the taking up of the carpets,
attending to absolutely everything,
and packing and shipping these goods
and delivering them in Kamschatka
or anywhere else in the world, putting
them into his house there IL he so de-
sires. without calling for any exer-
ton whatever on the part of the own
er except to pay the bill.
Various reasons lead people to this
sort of moving, business reasons being
the most common. A man may have
business interests that will take him
from here to Chicago for a year or ten
years or permanently. There are
dozen or twenty or more passenger
trains daily between here and Chicago
and as far as distance is concerned the
thousand miles is to the traveller prac-
tically nothing; it is a days journey.
The same idea holds with regard to
the movement of goods.
Between, for example, these two
points there are freight trains without
number running practically all the
time; there is quick free and constant
communication; distance doesn't seem
formidable as II once did; and, with
the better facilities for moving now at
command the man moves his house
hold goods, too. AS a matter OF fact,
while the packing and transportation
makes the moving cost more, 1t is
nowadays just as easy to move from
New York to Chicago as ii would be
to move from Fourteenth street to
125th street in this city: and there
are people who would think no more
about it, OF course. people come here
from Chicago or other places with
just the same facility.
Another cause that contributes to
this sort of moving is the movement
of a family In search OF health Such
a change may be for a year or for
longer period. In such circumstances,
more people than would formerly,
nowadays take with them all their
household furniture and belongings.
or so much of them as would be re-
CURED to furnish the house taken
wherever they were going. The same
would be true of people who had NOV
ed from one point to another for a
longer period simply for pleasure
Still another cause is found in the
movement of skilled workmen and of
people in various occupations from
one city to another, who would not
now, as they might once have done,
dispose OF their household goods at
the old home and start with new In
the other. but who would simply ship
their goods and bring them into their
regular use again in their new home.
There is also more or less long dis
lance moving across the Atlantic, as
in fact there has been for many years.
The transatlantic long distance NOV
ing of household effects here is OF the
goods of resident partners or agents
of European business houses, and OF
various other persons coming to re-
side here for a longer or shorter per-
iod, or perhaps permanently. In the
other direction 1t would take the
household effects In whole or in part
of Americans going to reside for a
longer or shorter period in Europe.
This long distance moving is of course
nothing like in volume or extent that
going on in this country but it has
doubled in recent years.