The sun., 1902-10-05
EASY NOW TO MOVE TOEUROPE
LONG TRt\SiTI tNJH TRIPS
NtDE ~ IiNS.
! our Household Effects Put Into Them
Here and DeiIi cred ~ Your Door In
Rome or ~. Petersburg such Long
Dist tance No,inS Not Uncommon.


Dist tance No,ins Not Uncommon.
In these days, said n storage aud van
man, 1T Is just a. easy to move from New
York 10 London a. from New York TO Ho-
boken. Ones furniture and household
effects can hc transported across the At
lantic IN vans as easily a. across the North
River.
OF course vans have long been used
here for comparatvcly long distance nov
ing by rail and Steamboat 1t is "A common
thing in summer, for instance. to see teams
OH he decks of boats running to and from
this city. They Just run the vans aboard
on their own wheels and run en- 90 at
the other end of the line, and back in the
country, or wherever they wan, TO take
them
The vans used in transatlantic moving
are lift-vans. They are really van bodies
and can be- lifted from heir wheels and
swung onto a car for transportation by
rail, or down a hatchway into the hold Of
a steamer
Al the end of it's ra II or water transporta-
ton the van can as easily he lifted on the
car or on of the steamers hold and swung
upon the trucks upon which it is to be
hauled 10 the house into which the goods
are TO be- put
For example: We moved last month
household goods from Philadelphia to
Rome We sent vans to Philadelphia.
and backed hem up in front Of the house,
precisely a. We have done for any other
moving, and packed the goods into hem.
locked the vans and sealed them and
brought them over 10 New York by rail
Here We shipped them by steamer To
Leghorn and thence they were carried
hv rail 10 Rome. And in Rome the vans
that had been loaded in Philadelphia wers
nauleU 10 the house where the goods were
10 60 and backed up TO the door and un-
locked and unsealed and the things carried
INTO the house, lust as they would be x
we should move YOU from Twenty eighth
street to Fifty-eighth in this city
We would move YOU from Schenect adv
to ii Pet ersburg in ius the same manner,
and undertake To put your goods in what
ever rooms YOU wanted them in The houss
Won were moving to IN the Russian capital.
The only offering vet made 10 tis that We
have besltatcd about taking in this shape
was one of goods to an Asiatc CITY, In
that case We were in some doubt as to
whether he streets would not be too nsr-
row for our vans. But we would move you
IN vans 10 Manchester or Munich. Paris or
NlpChilOlh. olfHhlR Dl SlpkllOlfl, NS
had recently two Independent offerings for
the Swedish city on successive days
Who are the people that thus casually
Dack up and move across The Atlantic'
Well they nav be- foreign merchants who
have been living in This country. but are
now going back They may also be Amer-
cans who ere going abroad TO live
with the modern facilities for the trans
portation Of people and goods everywhere
and the very great increasa, in travel, there
are now many people who. crossing the
Al hlan'ic for more or less extended stay,
take their household goods with them.
"Of course. there are people moving in
this way all the ime from Europe as there
are people moving thithcr from here; and
when We move ANYBODY over we want, ~
course. freight back We don't want 10
bring our vans back empty: and we move
somebody this way
Commonly used az vans rre here in
this country now they are more commonly
used still in some parts OF Europe; for in
stance in Germany. They Ise there vans
Of all sizes, including many much larger
than any we have here
And vans are much more commonly
used for intprcity moving there than here
One reason for this il found in the greater
amount of such moving arising from the
wants OF the army IN the shifting OF offlcers
and men from post to post. Another
reason for it lies in the greater need OF
he van Tor the protection OF the goods
when carried on the open freight cars there
commonly used You could scarcely 20
into a railroad freight yard in Germany
without seeing more or less vans standing
there on cars, Just come in or about To go.
In some German cities there are pub-
llshed weekly newspapers, or rather, eI-
tended bulletins. devoted 10 the interests
Of the storage van men. In those several
publications you would find lists Of the
vans TO be- had in the city where the
list was published, and other informa-
tion concerning them; including the name
of the owner Of the van. where II was from,
its cubic capacity, where il would be at
disposal, and the name Of Hs agent or the
representative of it's owner. at the point
where his list was published
Foreign ifi vans come, filled with
household effects, 10 American ports; and,
through the representative OF their own
ers here they get return shipments.
a. American vans in Europe. through their
representative, there. get shipments this
way.
so you see that really IN these days II
Is about a. easy Ia move to Europe as It
would be TO move into the next block, and
there is lots Of transa tlantic moving