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Show urn Fin SMESf 51 Interesting Figures Are Compiled by Federal Truck Official. Street commissioners throughout the United States and Canada have brought out somo interesting' facts and figures relative to the great savings consummated through the replacement of horse-drawn equipment by motor street flushers, according ac-cording to reports compiled by M. L. I Pulcher, vice president and general man-I man-I ager of the Federal Motor Truck company i of Detroit, Mich. i The report of Andrew Macallum, com-1 com-1 missioner of streets of Ottawa, Canada, is typical: "Each of our flushers, mounted mount-ed on motor trucks, has replaced ten hourse-drawn outfits. Tho 1000-gallon power flushers, mounted on three and a half-ton trucks, operated all of 1918. flushing an average of eighteen miles of pavement, of all widths, per day at a cost of $1.72 per mile. The total cost was $4650 for 150 days of actual operation. The teams formerly used accomplished this work for $16,800 a direct saving of $12,150. And the streets were washed cleaner than ever before." This means that 2700 miles were flushed cleaner than ever before by two trucks, as compared with twenty horses, at an actVial saving of ?12,150. In Jackson, Mich.. W. B. Hodges, city engineer, in his report says: "Prior to the first of August, 11)18, the street cleaning clean-ing equipment consisted of two horse-drawn horse-drawn machine brooms with sprinkler attachments. at-tachments. Two teams and six men were required for brushing and loading. The Federal flusher effected a saving of $12 per day for teams, and requires only four men to brush and load. The flusher leaves a dirt line of about twenty inches in-width in-width in the gutter." These two typical incidents are only two of a large list which has been compiled com-piled all over the country, and it is interesting inter-esting to note that the savings are greater here than in perhaps any other instance where motor equipment has replaced re-placed horse-drawn equipment. Some of the principal places are: Baker. Ore,; Caldwell and Nainpa, Idaho; Cedar Rap-ide, Rap-ide, Iowa; Vicksburg. Miss.; Three Rivers, Quebec, and Hull, Canada; Newport, R. I.; Lincoln, Neb., and the United States government at several cantonments, for Instance, Guerstner field, Lake Charles, Louisian a. The cities of the United States and Canada are rapidly putting level-headed business men in charge of their public utilities, and the difference in administration adminis-tration methods is making a vast saving in cost complete satisfaction alike to official, of-ficial, voter, taxpayer and resident. Old horse-Ira wn equipment, slow, inefficient, expensive, dirt-producers themselves, are rapidly giving way to the clean, efficient and economical motor truck, and the result re-sult is clean streets at less cost. |