New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-24
WEATHER MAN COULD
HELP TRUCK SELLERS
Auto Show Exhibitors Hope for
Snowfall to Arouse In
tending Buyers.
MANY SALES REGISTERED
Figures Show That Motor.
Driven Unit Helps Greatly to
Reduce Cost of Road
Building.

Exhibitors of trucks and delivery
wagons in the automobile show IN Madi-
son Square Garden and the Grand Central
Palace continued to take many orders
yesterday. II was remarked last niSh''
however. that the Automobile Board OF
Trade. under whose auspices the show is
being held, had evidently lost favor with
the weather man. as the truck makers
have not had the help of heavy snow
storms i'm making sales this year.
While fair weather. or. at least. an alb
sence OF heavy snowstorms. makes easier
the task of the passenger car salesman,
his brothers who sell trucks welcome
heavy snow and ice covered pavements.
on days when progress through snow
covered streets is very difficult for horse
drawn trucks and delivery wagons. the
.motor-driven delivery unit easily makes
its way on schedule time, and consequent
~ prospects are more easily turned into
buyers
All this week statesmen for tho business
motor cars displayed IN the Garden and
, the Palace have been praying for snow,
and lot of them grumbled yesterday
when drzzlng rain fell instead. The rain
helped some, as horses attached 10 heavy
wagons had more or less difficulty in
making progress over the greasy pave
= mcnts. while motor trucks and delivery
wagons we're able to make regular trips
on schedule time.
There was an unusually large attend
apcc Of contractors and builders at both
buildings last night. Several of these men
tl,.ir
vehicles. could make as good progress
as usual When the streets were rain
soaked as they were yesterday. They
said their heavy horse drawn trucks had
been badly handicapped because the
horses had difficulty in keeping their feet
while pulling heavy loads of stone, bricks
or other building material In some cases
these men had been using one Or two
trucks. and last night gave repeat orders
TO the statesmen from whom they made
their original purchases.
That the extension of good roads
throughout the country is largely de-
pendent upon the motor truck was
brought out in discussion yesterday at
the show. The number of miles of i'm
proved highway to be built by any COM
munity that has an appropriation for this
purpose invariably depends upon the cost
of construction. and this cost can be
lcssencd by using motor trucks. iester-
day afternoon a road expert discussed
this subject with the Street Commission
cr Of one large city. brick manufact-
urer and others.
BY comparing data they reached the
conclusion that by using a truck with d
demountable dumping body brick and
other paving material can nc hauled for
Is cents d thousand bricks a haul. TWO
miles each way Is the average hauling
distance in the city. and this cost is APP
proximately one-haf the cost "a trip of
doing the same work with horses. Ser
vices Of a horse-drawn vehicle cost be-
tween 81 81 and 81 W in the average city
for trips with a 1ooo-pound load.
Horses can cover only sixteen miles a
day on an average, whereas demount-
able dumping body truck using two bod
les can easily make forty miles, or ten
trips In an eight-hour day, the average
running time for a truck being 81 minutes
for the four-mile round trip. Twenty
fve thousand brick a day can be hauled
by this sort of truck, or nearly three
times the amount a horse-drawn vehicle
could haul