New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-22
NOVEL SHOW EXHIBITS
Other than Business Men viii
Find Displays Interesting,
MOVING VANS ARE STRIKING
Dump Bodies of Great Variety
Cigar Concern Has Store
on Wheels.

| The idea prevails that motor trucks
| are purely business proposition and
| therefore of interest only to business men
! whose sole object is 10 save money Oh
| their hauling and delivery service. This
! is erroneous. As matter Of fact. anv
| man who takes his wife and daughters
! TO the show is pretty sure TO find that
! they Will evince a lively interest In the
! many novel exhibits
+ There is a very human side to the
motor wagon. which touches present day
| lie in many WAYS and is destined 10 play
! important roles in the lives Of the poor
! est. as well as the wealthiest. manufact-
! urers and stUrekeeperS. For instance.
, there are motor fire engines and hospital
! ambulances built to save lives and prop
| erty. They stand almost side by side
/ with motor hearses. These hearses are
! beautifully finished IN mahogany and
/ plate glass. yet one may take with a
/ grain of salt the press agents statement
! that people are diving 20 ride in them.
When the city dweller grows weary OF
/ fat life and wants to enjoy the fresh
+ air and vcTdure of the suburbs or country
I and see his children grow up sturdy and
. clean minded. the motto" van viii haul
his household goods fifty miles or more.
( IN a day. where under the old condi-
tons the removal would require two or
three days, with all the incouvcnicnces
Of staying with the family at a hote or
! relatives house In the interval This Is
/ something that every mother with email
! children will surely be Interested In.
The White Company exhibit a furniture
, and piano movers truck. built Tor :.
I I.askau for just this sort OF long distance
! service. and the General Motors Truck
/ Company shows a huge moving van, built
( for YATES Warehouse Company. ar
ranged with a pair Of steps at the rear.
} 80 that visitors al the show may walk
in and inspect the capacious interior with
its padded sides.
This years truck show Is notable for
/ the great variety Of vehicles displayed at
the Grand Central Palace and Madison
/ Square Garden and also because Of the
action'that Is implied in them. Automatic
dump trucks for contractors work are a
prominent feature that lends lie 10 the
exhibits The fire regulations forbid the
use OF gasolene in the show buildings. so
that the engines OF the trucks cannot run
on their own power. but the exhibitors
have connected electric motors to the
mechanism of the trucks IN such wey
that the dumping bodies can be shown
in motion.
Interesting dump bodies are shown
On ,he Alco Garford. Packard. Pierce
I Arrow, Peerless. u. VI C.. Mack.
/ Universal and other makes. They range
! in size from three tons 10 ten tons load
! capacity. and are yariously operated by
, gears. screws ana chains with power sup
piled by the vehicle engine. while others
are tipped by means Of hand cranks.
Some have automatic tailboarGs, that
open a. the body tips, and close and
lock again when the body is brought back
( 70 position.
Among the very special exhibits rs a
great travelling cigar store. built for the
/ United cigar stores COMPANY. on three
: ton Packard chassis. This u 60 be used
I'm country districts 10 New Jersey New
I York State and Connccticut where the
cigar company has no stores. and Is TO
p civ, the same service there aS III city
! store. with sales direct 60 III" consumer.