The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-07-18
The WORLD DO MOVE.
The Railroads Will Be a Back Number
When The Automobile Truck Comes
Into lis Own.

WITCH Inc AulO!lODIie lIUeh SOlllsS
Into lis Own.
IF traffic on the Lincoln High
way continues to increase in vol
ume during the next decade as
it has in the past, it will be nee
essary to double track" it, at
least through Pennsylvania.
That it occupies a most import
ant place in the system of freight
transportation by means of gaso-
line trucks has been fully tested;
aud, now, that it ahall soon be
used in passenger traffic is being
tested out, very much to the sat
isfaction of those making the
experiments.
The Goodyear Rubber Com
pany is becoming pioneer in
transportation me h cd S. 1t
proved to the doubters that it is
possible and profitable to main
tain an automobile truck express
service between its factory in
Akron, Ohio, and Boston. For
over year it has run its big ex-
press trucks over the Lincoln
Highway to New York, and
thence to Boston. Some weeks
ago it used four of its immense
trucks to transport Red Cross sup
plies and it made the run in rec
ord time.
Now the same company has
put on a test to prove that the
transportation of human beings
by auto trucks is both feasible
and practical. To make the test
the company selected commercial
trucks, with specially construct
ed bodies, and for the personnel
of the test it choose Boy Scouts
Of Akron.
Last Sunday afternoon citizens
of McConnellsburg had an oppor-
tunity to witness an evidence of
the test as three large trucks
rolled through town and made a
stop of a few minutes on top of
Cove mountain.
There was one White chassis
and two Packards and they car
ried two story bodies. AS pas
sengers were sixty Boy Scouts of
Akron, including a band of 10
pieces and forty-four others
Scouts all honor members of the
Scout organization at Akron.
The Goodyear company is provid-
ing all necessaries for the jour-
ney and in addition gives each
boy Is cents a day for spending
money. A complete kitchen car
is also provided. 1t passed
through town shortly after two
O'Clock and went to Caledonia,
where it set up and had supper
prepared for the Scouts, when
they arrived. Sleeping quarters
for the auxiliary drivers and the
Scouts are in the second deck of
the car bodies. No stops are
made except for provisions and
meals.
The convoy left Akron at 2 p.
m. Saturday and were in Nc
Connellsburg at $3.50 Sunday aft
ernoon. That shows the excel
lent schedule they are maintain
ing. They expect to arrive in
Boston $500 miles from Akron,
on Tuesday, and if their eXpecta-
tions are fulfilled the trip may
lead to a new era in long distance
transportation of human beings
by auto truck.
The return trip will be made
leasurely, the cars stopping at
cities and towns along the route
the Scouts selling thrift stamps
while the band gives concerts.
Figured on a war efficiency the
25, 900 automobiles purchased in
Philadelphia and vicinity since
the first of the year could be
commandeered by the govern
ment and used Immediately to
transport 125, 600 soldiers should
the occasion ever arise. There
are approximately 950,000 autos
in the state of Pennsylvania and
averaging five soldiers to a car it
would be possible for the ma