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Very Ingenious Method of Overcoming Railroad Inefficiency and Delivering Freight
Like Express or Parcels Post Packages
T HE wasteful inefficiency of the railroads is well-
known to everybody who ships freight or re
ceives freight. Mr. Louis D. Brandeis, who made
a special study of this, declares that at ^east $1,000,000
is wasted every day by the railroads. Methods of han
dling freight have made little or no improvement in the
last fifty years.
I But the railroads are not the only ones that suffer.
Tf the railroads themselves lose $1,000,000 a day by their
own bad methods, their customers, the freight shippers
and receivers, lose at least another $1,000,000 a day.
It is this latter aspect of the matter which has attracted
the attention of the Scientific American to attempt to
apply the modern principles of scientific efficiency to help
the situation. This very progressive and wide-awake
weekly concludes that the motor truck may be employed
in an ingenious wajf to largely solve the problem. It
points out a way to deliver railroad freight at your door
without delay like an express bundle or a parcel post
package.
In a very interesting editorial on
this Important subject the Scientific
American says:
In the small city the freight ter
minal is located near the business
centre and is of such capacity as to
'handle all the freight expeditiously
aud afford ample room for teamsters.
But as the town grows the radius is
increased, lengthening the average
haul of the trucks, while on the other
hand more freight flows into the ter
minal, producing congestion, so that
although more freight is handled
the profit in it is proportionately
less. The larger the city the more
valuable is the real estate around
the terminal, making it costly to ex
pand the terminal so it can accoin
modate the freight with the same fa
cility as it did in the beginning. To
move the freight terminal to new and
more commodious quarters would in
most cases be unprofitable to the
railroad, because of the capital in
vested in the original location, and it
would certainly be disadvantageous
to the shipper or merchant because
of the greater length of haul re
quired.
However, if motor trucks are used
instead of horse-drawn trucks the
conditions are completely changed,
for with its ability to cover the ground more rapidly an
'■xtra haul of three or four miles is far less seriousTthan
a long delay at the congested freight terminal. Delays
are advantageous to the horse because they allow him
to recuperate and store up energy for a greater effort.
But the never-tiring motor truck should he kept on the
move all the time, because only when it is in motion is
it giving any value in return for the capital invested
in it.
Hence,'It appears, that it might be advantageous to a
railroad or a group of railroads to establish one or more
annex terminals which will divert part of the freight
t hat now clogs the main terminals and which would be
readily accessible to motor trucks. The suggestion calls
for a great deal of study, and although there are many
difficulties that would have to be overcome It Is an ex
ceedingly attractive proposition. It would mean the ex
tension of the railroads to the final point of delivery.
Because delays in loading and unloading figure as a
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dead loss against a motor truck, efforts Itave been
made to reduce tills period to a minimum. Trucks are
provided with mechanical loading devices, also with
separate bodies which may be loaded or unloaded while
the truck is in transit with another body. It might
even prove practicable to transport the motor truck
bodies fully loaded on flat cars A fiat car’ Vs nine feet
wide, so that If the bodies were mounted transversely
on the car they could be made at least nine fdet long,
which would be ample for the ordinary motor truck
chassis.
The truck bodies mounted on rollers could then be
loaded by the shipper, hauled to the railroad, rolled
upon the flat car
immediately on arriving at the
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fader the Proposed Arrangement,, Freight Will Be Transported in Separate, Movable Truck Bodies. Each
of Which Just Fits and Makes a Comfortable Load for a Motor Truck Trailer. The Diagram Shows How an Electric
Crane Mill Lift These Loaded Bodies from the Railroad Car at the Central Terminal and Drop Them on the Trailers.
A Way to Make the DEAF HEAR
Motor Trucks Will Haul the Trailers Loaded with the
Freight Bodies Direct to the Stores, Homes or Factories of
the Consumers. Each Truck Will Keep Six Trailers in
Operation—While It Is Hauling Two Trailers, Two Others
Mill Be Loading, and Two Others Unloading.
th»n, at the other end of the line, be taken
off on the motor truck chassis in the same
way and hauled off to the merchant’s ware
house. The time of loading and unloading
would thus be reduced to a minimum, and
would prove advantageous not only to the
consigner and the consignee, but to the rail
road as well, for the cars would be released
almost
statiou.
Furthermore, if the goods were properly packed a
factory it might be possible under certain condition
deliver direct to the consumer instead of the a; reho
Another promising development is the motet' t
trailer, in a paper by Mr. Morgan Gilley, printed
long since in the Engineering Record, it w.;.- pn
conclusively that a motor truck shows its greatest
eiency when hauling trailers. In other words
truck can pull much more than it can carry.
-bowed that a three-ton motor truck could maintain a
sustained draft of more than 3,000 pounds, and that two
:railers each loaded with five ton? would require a
draft of from 750 to 3,000 pounds.
His tables show that the cost per truck mile with a
motor and six trailers varied from 0.258 cent tier half-mile
haul to 0.103 cent per ten-mile haul, while the cost for a
motor truck alone varied from 0.480 cent to 0.176 cent.
By this it is not meant, that the motor truck hauls a
train of six trailers at a time, but only two, while there
are two loading and two unloading.
Trailein are now being made for this
purpose, the wheels of which will
track with those of the motortruck,
so that there is no difficulty in turn
ing corners or threading a way be
tween obstructions. Tf such a method of handling
freight should prove practical, motor trucks would
probably be materially changed in design, because they
would not have to support any load except their own
weight.
Thus we would have railroad freight trains quickly
converted into trailer trains hauied bv motor trucks or
motor tractors in place of locomotives.
A
IS’ invention which is said to do wonders
in the way of restoring the power of
hearing to deaf ears is is mow being
brought to perfection in England.
It consists first of an ingeuious apparatus
for measuring either the extent of your deaf
ness or your ability to hear well. This appa
ratus is so delicately adjusted that it divides
hearing into 3,500 different grades, and a per
son with normal hearing using it can distinct-
lv hear the faint sound produced by the fall
oV a tiny paper wafer. The gentle stroking of
a piece of paper produces, when heard through
this apparatus, a peculiar hissing sound.
After this apparatus has tested the degree
of. hearing a person possesses or lacks, it is
claimed that a receiver can be made which
will enable even the stone deaf to hear. This
receiver is so small in size that it can be
bidden under one’s tie. the sound being trans
ferred to the ear along a practicaliy Invisible j
But before a receiver is fitted to a deaf per
son’s ears he is given a course of training witli
a device called the sound educator. This acts
directly upon the basilar membrane, tin* part
of the ear where the accommodation <>f sound
takes place. By gradually increasing the vi
brational range this membrane is slowly but
surely educated to do the work it was intended
to do.
It hits been found that very few cases of
deafness fail to receive benefit from this sys
tem of sound education. Usually nwirVod im
provement is shown after only one or two
treatments. In the case of a young girl who
was born deaf she was able, after a month's
“education" of her ear by this new method, to
hear ordinary conversation, and now. with
the aid of one of the 1 ittle receivers, she finds
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How MAN GREW from the APE’S HUNGER for MEAT
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F the apes in far distant ages had nut grown tired of
living in the trees and subsisting on a diet that
contained only nuts, leaves and fruit, there would
probably never have been- any human race. It was be
cause the ape grew weary of his light vegetarian diet
and began to crave tin* more substantial flesh and blood
that he left Ids home, in the trees and took to living on
the ground, where tie could liunt the food that satisfied
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in tile ape's mode of living which finally led to man's
and specialization of the
hortening of the arms and development of the
evolution.
in this evolution, according to Professor Read, the
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1. Life on the ground and beyond the limits of the forest.
2. The erect gait as the normal mode off progression,
with all the changes of bone, joint and muscle that
made this possible.
3. The lengthening of the leg
feet.
4. The
hands.
5. The use of wrought weapons and snares.
6. Association and co-operation for the purpose
hunting, especially the hunting of big game.
7. The beginnings of articulate speech as a means
such co-operation.
8. Great increase of knowledge and intelligence as
quired by the change of life.
9. Discovery of the way to produce fire during Un
making of weapons of flint or wood.
Professor Harry Campbell, of Loudon University, also
takes the view that man owes his origin to an ape's long
ing for animal food. "Man's evolution from the ape." he
says, “has been essentially a mental evolution. Only a
being possessed of prehensile hands, capable of giving
effect to tlie dictates of mind, could evolve into man.
“An oyster endowed with the mind of a Newton would
in no way be advantageous in the struggle for existence,
it was the abandonment of an arboreal for a terrestrial
life, in tlie search after animal food, whjch determined
mail’s evolution from the ape. While the carnivorous
mammal was a perfect butchering machine, endowed witli
the necessary instinct for scenting and stalking its prey,
aud the necessary equipment of muscle, tooth and claw
for seizing and
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destroying it, the
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and no small de
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obliged to relyt
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li u n 11 n g his
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