Arizona republican., 1921-01-16
'SPLACE DEF F|NED AT NEW
 YORK MEL TING

Store door delivery, terminal work and short haul were the topics dis cussed at the recent federal highway council committee meeting held in New York on Dec. 10.
 Three committees from the council met with representatives of transpor- tation bodies, and the entire discussion revolved around the place of the motor truck in modern transportation
 The position of the motor truck as an aid to railroads in short haul busi- ness, as means to reduce terminal charges in handling less than carload shipments through the use of unit con- tainers. and as a farm to- market transportation agency, was discussed at great length by the gathering. Spe- cial consideration was given to store door delivery, terminal work, short haul, operation of rural express lines, transportation surveys. traffic control and snow removal.
 A. l.. Beck, traffic manager of the Merchants and Manufacturers asso-
 citation of Baltimore, according to re- | ROIlS OI llle I1lSCLlljS lilS 1 ing News Record, recalled that store
 door delivery by a railway operated trucking company was begun in Bal
 timore in 1887 by the Philadelphia,
 Baltimore &r Washington railway (now
 part of the Pennsylvania system)
 Later the Baltimore & Ohio inaugu-
 rated a similar service. This delivery
 system was later extended to Wash i ington by both companies. After 4t years of service the system was dis l continued because of actions before i the interstate commerce commission 1 looking to extensions of the free de. livery service in zones beyond wha' I the railroad companies considered req sonable. As a result of the dropping of the plan, great congestion ensueC at the terminals.
 Mir. Beck advocated store-door de livery strongly.
 B. r. Fitch, president of the Motol
 Terminals company of New York ant Il Cleveland. who developed the systen
 of cooperation for transferring less
 than-carload shipments between mail and sub- stations in the city of Cincin natl, described the methods in use il
 that city. He stated that 15 motor trucl chassis have handled about 22 per cen
 of all this business on six railroads il
 that city An example of the savinl l in loss and damage is shown by tn statement of one of the roads. whicl shows that damage claims on sue freight had been reduced about Y per cent, and the transfer compan
 lhas not sustained a single claim flo ; loss, or damage in handling 100000 ton of freight MT. Fitch pointed out tha F this system would increase the carry , ing capacity of New York's streets D 1 15O0 per cent before present congestio
 would be reached.
 Among other speakers were Co ! Charles D. Hine. special agent Of tn Erie railway and the New York, Ne' ) Haven & Hartford, who vas prev | iously vice president of the Souther l Pacific of Mexico: F. F. Williamson ( the New Yorlxs Central; F. s. Hol . brook of the American Railway EH [ press: c. w. Reid of the federal high
 way council: W. J. L. Banham. w. Thomson and II. c. Shirley.
 Resolutions calling for negotiation
 with shippers and carriers lookin = toward a system of store-door deliver. i, introduced by J. C. Lincoln. traffi , manager of the Merchants associatio s of New York, was unanimously adopte . by the gathering. "