New-York tribune., 1911-01-15
Doom Of Horse rs Sounded
Cannot Compete with the Powerful and Up-to-
date Motor Trucks.
BY CHARLES {. DURYEA.
Special Technical Correspondent for A. L. A. M.

The commercial section Of the great
double show at the Madison Square Gar
den, which opens tomorrow night, will pre-
sent the finest opportunity ever offered to
business men to inspect trucks delivery
wagons, large and small. and make the Sc
lection that will save them money by deliv-
ering their goods quicker and at less cost
than by any other system.
Wherever the horse and mechanical
power como into competition, the horse has
TO give way. The rapidly rising price
Of horses and horse feed, the increased
cost Of living and the demand for more
work In a given time and space are all
loudly calling for the power transportation
service in our cities. The little cart pulled
by a single mule managed by one man has
long disappeared in our progressive cities,
and the team OF two, three or even hVe
horses is fast following.
The horse is limited IN both speed and
power with any sort Of load he is slow.
Even if lightly loaded he cannot do more
than five or six miles per hour. If heavily
loaded this falls 10 two or three miles, with
frequent rests and requirements for atten-
ton such as feed, wate., 5lankeung and
other time taking needs, .Ot 10 mention fire.
ouent visits to the shOsv and the veteri-
nary.
But the auto business vehicle has no such
limits. For the lighter work, the Brush,
Courier and REQ runabouts with 800 and COO
pounds load capacity can speed faster than
the horse and continue it hour after hour
and day after day without suffering or
worry Slightly larger and but little less
speedy are the Buick, Hewitt Randolph,
Sampson and other light deliveries, fitted
to the needs Of most smaller stores and
! businesses and specially adapted TO the
lighter work Of even the heavier businesses.
Jumping into the ton and ton and a half
classes. we find the AutoCar the Franklin,
the GarfOrd, the Grabowsky, the Knox, the
Mack, the Overland, the White, the Rapid
and many others. Still larger and bring
ing more goods into the control Of a single
man are the two to three ton trucks of the
Alec. the Courier, the Reliance, the Kissel,
the Peerless, the Packard, the Hewitt and
many others.
Still larger and able to carry half the
common load of the little coal car Of less
than ten years ago, we find the lve-ton
trucks of the Knox, the Mack, the Hewitt,
the Morgan, the Rapid, the Reliance, the
Sampson and others, veritable locomotives
| in power and ability TO get about.
A ten-horse team attracts attention and
/ twenty mules make a traction outfit suit
! able only TO the Western deserts. where
/ de most plentiful thing IS alKali and dis
! tance. but here we find the Rapid truck,
/ N-horsepower, easily and quickly managed
| bv one man and vending its way about its
masters business as steadily and patiently
| as the best trained Arab steed or the most
patient OK, ~but a hundred times more eff
cient. No wonder il saves money. 1t is
| simply an application of the power of prog
ress to the local transportation problem
that has been applied to the long distance
problems years ago.
Other examples Of large powers are the
Mack 4S-horsepower, the Knox, the Hewitt