Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-06-11
INCREASED MOTOR
TRANSPORTATION

An indication of the rapid in
crease in motor truck transportation
throughout the country is given by
a 24-hour traffic census taken re
Gently by the Travel and TRANSPORT
Bureau of the B. F. Goodrich
Rubber Co. on the Akron-C Cleveland
road at Stow Corners, ten miles
north Of Akron.
The census showed that during the
past two years, truck transporta-
ton increased III per cent. Passen-
ger automobile traffic showed a gain
during the same period of 27 per
cent while horse drawn vehicle
traffic decreased 52.5 per cent.
Traffic of all kind increased As per
cent.
During the "a hours, 1891 vehicles
passed the observation point, in
Guiding 2033 passenger cars, 1893
motor trucks, Is motor busses and
'15 .lIsses. This compares with
1899 passenger cars in 1918, 295
motor trucks, no busses and 81 horse
drawn vehicles.
Eighty railroad freight cars would
have been required to move the
material and supplies which were
carried by motor truck. This re-
presented an annual release of "a
600 freight cars, enough to make
up train 200 miles in length
Among the tonnage carried was bar
steel, building brick, concrete blocks
farm supplies, food stuffs, furnaces
and furniture, gasoline, hardware,
lumber, chemicals, sewer pipe milk,
rims and tires.
More than 100 of the passenger
cars which passed the observation
point were new machines being
driven overland by distributors from
the factories. Some of these were
enroute to points as distant as Ala
bama. A large number of new COM
mercial vehicles also passed over the
road.s IF these new machines had
been carried by railroad, more than
25 freight or express cars would
have been required.
One of the surprising things
shown by the census was that traffic
along the road never ceased at any
time during the day or night. At
all hours the big heavy trucks kept
runrbling along, carrying materials
and supplies to distant cities. The
heaviest traffic was between 2 and
7 p. m., an average of four cars
passing every minute during that
time. The lowest traffic ebb was
reached between and a. m. when
only five vehicles passed, one pass
enger car, three-loaded five-ton
trucks and one loaded tnree-ton
truck.
The census showed that the in
crease in the use of heavy trucks
vuas much greater than in smaller
trucks and that smaller number of
trucks were being run without loads.
In 1918 over 35 per cent of the
cars passing the point were empty
while this years figures show only
80 per cent were empty. The diff
once represents an additional carry
ing capacity Of 750 tons, equivalent
to 30 freight cars.
BASE BALL
The Wauseon Ball Team were
, defeated last Sunday at Athletic
Park by Swanton by score of 2
| to 1.
II WGS q IldIu 1uCh game IOA CiiS
honre team, attendance about 400
Score by innings.
R. H. E
swanton .1O100 0 0 OF O-2-5-e
Wauseon 0 0 0 0 0 O 0 0-1-2-t
] Batteries Palmer and Pilliod
Long and Edison. Umpires Fore
and Guthrie.
STOCKHOLDER IN
NEW COMPANY
Mr.. O. P. Shoenlaker formerly o
Wauseon and now located at Ander
son, Indiana has purchased interest
in a new firm there to be known a
the Anderson Coaster Company. TIL
Company was organized to manu-
facture coasters for children invent
ed by Mr.. O'Meare.
Production will be started in 1
few weeks in a building to be bull
on O'Meara's lot. Mr.. Shoemake
is one of the directors of the neN
company.
Give our line of Straw Hats an
:, Panamas the "once, over" $500 t.
$500.