Show SAYS MOTOR TRUCK TRUC IS GAINING IN POPUlARITY Alco Manager Points Out That Big Corporations Have I Placed Large Orders Orders' I From Irom general indications this will bo hc boa bea a big selling belling year for or motor trucks i says Bays herr Harry a 5 Houpt the Alco general sales j manager who lIa has just completed ll a IL trip through uSh the middle west and Canada There 1 is a general wave of or prosperity prosperity prosper prosper- it ity throughout the country continued l Mr MI Houpt This years year's crops are a record maker and the thc farmers farmer bins arc ale bulging The steel mills which have been hlen able to obtain th the raw material are working night and und da day There have never been as man many orders on their books as fiS now This company company itself has I never before had as many or orders ers entered en en- toned for locomotives as aR it now nov hus has The Tho interstate commerce commission I la is dally warning the manufacturers against a n. shortage in freight T Car cars Delivering Del these goods to tho the consumer Is ts going to be Ime a large larKo factor Tho rime motor truck will pia play an Important part pait in the thu iff haull of or these goods In glancing over o sales bales reports report for the tIns month montla it Is found that largo large manufacturers manufacturers all over th the country countr aro preparing preparing In ing themselves for Cor this rush by hy buying motor trucks Among the tho largest est conCerns which have o ordered trucks from Crom us Ul and amI thus protected t themselves s a against gal tho the SiD slowness slowness slow slow- ness of horse dell delivery dellI I are arc the Standard Oil company compan Morris Co the big packers pack pack- ers erg tho the l' l New En England Coal Coke company company com corn pany th tIme Old Colony Brewing company of Boston Kohler ohler Campbell of or New NewYork ew York Yort ono one of tho the largest eRt piano manufactures tur tuners tures rs in time iho United States the Swift Canadian compa company ny Harrison Brothers Co the well known paint house and ot others hi ers It Jt Is Interesting to note that all of ot these concerns ns save nave used motor trucks for over a year That the they are arc buying more trucks s Instead O of horses to take cart care of the business rush h Is an evidence e of th the superiority of the tho motor truck 01 0 the lit horse |