The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-30

In Detroit, OF unique moving feat re-
Gently performed by two young men
and roadster at Kingston. New York.
Without the assistance Of other means
OF transportation. these men and their
car moved the entire household effects
of New York family six miles across
country
An ingenlus framework had been
constructed to ut over the body of
the car. Securely attached to the seat
was platform, which extended across
the rear OF the body. Trunks. mat
tresses. bedsteads and other pieces Of
furniture were piled around the seat
on this frame. Some were tied to the
running boards and tenders. The space
over the hood formed n carrying space
for carpets. curtains and DDS and ends
OF brio a brac.
Altogether. the several loads which
this car carried were neither light: nor
small. Each trip was made in good
time. and carried, in addition TO this
extra load, the two young men. Each
load WAS SO arranged that the driver
could sit at the wheel when every
thing was piled on the frame. and. ac-
cordng TO the statements OF the two
young men, not an accident married
this spring moving. The driver went
80 far as to say that he could recon-
mend family automobile for moving
household goods.
| Victory for Motor TrucIs.
."rhe complete victory of the motor
truck over the horse has attracted so
much interest that attention has been
diverted from the fact that the
doughty truck is accomplishing duty
that heretofore has been the province,
not of the horse, but OF the railroads."
says Itesdent George a. Kissell, of
| the Kissel Rar.
"a great deal OF interurban traffic
is now handled by motor trucks, that
u year or so ago was the work or
steam and trolley lines. This business
Is bound to increase by leaps and
| bounds, for it's economies are obvious.
Take two cities, say fifteen to
twenty five miles apart. shipping by
rail- from one to the other, meant the
| handling three times of the goods.
namely, by truck to the freight sta
ton in the initial city, then by train
and third by truck again Motor
trucks running between points so sit
uated, take on their load at the ship
pers platform and deliver directly at
the door OF the customers, in the other
town. Not only is the method re-
markabie saving OF actual time OF
transit, but is decidedly less eXpen-
sive.
Lines os this nature are rapidly
multiplying. Particularly successful
interurban motor companies are oper-
ated between Rochester and Brock
port Newburgh and Cornwall, Port
Chaster and White Plains, in New
York State; Providence. r. l., and
North Attleboro. Mass, Chicago and
Highland Park, Ill, St Paul and Min
neapolis. Mimi, and many other points.
Those named use Kissel Kar trucks,
and have found them perfectly adapt
cd to the work.
And 1t is not alone in professional
haulage that this use of motor trucks
is in evidence. Several manufacture
inS corporations and firms have adopt
ed it to serve patrons in near by
towns, that formerly depended on the
railroads. They are finding out that
the motor truck fills the place of the
horse to about the same extent as
the typewriter replaced the long hand
writing in business correspondence"
"Roads That Go Somewhere"
Roads that go somewhere" is an
expression which Is being heard in