Show CROSS COUNTRY MAIL OPERATION PROVES SUCCESS I Postal Official Wants rants All Trucks and Men l Wrecked led of Pershing b Washington Oct CO 26 G Cross country operation of at mall carrying c motor trucks tried out by department depart depart- but nevertheless experiment ment on an less loss big bl scale during tho the last year ear has been boon a great success James I I. I fourth assistant tant postmaster truck general has found that ono one Philadelphia and Washington Washington Wash Wash- between through territory terri terri- territory chiefly ington cult cutting InS InS' and direct rail connection tory tor without month to operate has hasIn ha haIn hasIn cos costing SOO a a. In eight months developed do a revenue monthly Another route rO I of or Into Washington where twenty eight parcels a dl day were moved during th the first month now shows ono one ton of or each twenty four traffic each elch wa way hours Seventy lines no nom operate over or tho the country all nIl but ono east cost of or the Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mis Mis- and there are aro visions of ot a n. s s- s tom tem which will furnish annually an nn- road construe construe- construction construction In revenue for Cor tion ion or nr other purposes All 11 hums nul Wanted s I Why h General Pershing has I trucks tr s dama damaged e or ruined over o on theother the tho I other side said Mr Blakeslee telling I of or tho the growth of ot the system I dont don't In ln Wo Yo caro care what condition they aro are I want avant them all and can fix up and put What's hals I every one ono of ot them thom to work oven moro Important hes he's got ot some I boys bos over o there shy a hand or an arm armor armor armor or a a. leg and wo we cah use them all nil too I In good work at nt good pay that they can enn do Congress us to II work with and If It wo we had tho the earnings could expand ex- ex ex expand of ot tho the lines themselves we I almost Indefinitely As It IB is I will bo be requested by tho the di division division di- di vision for tor next year and I think I dl-I It will be be appropriated People realize what wo we Are doing Operating at It night Is tho the most profitable profitable prof prot- I and wo we have o but two machines doln doing that out of ot New York The typical typical I cal route Is about ISO miles long 00 90 O miles out and antI 90 miles back I Almost always the tho constant operation operation operation opera opera- tion of or the lines produces a n. return J I load the universal character of ot the mall service allowing almost anything to be bo taken Tho The mall trucks go como come I rain storm or any anything thins thins- and so eo tho the traffic develops nates Rates are also pretty pretty pret pret- pret-I pret t ty high the lowest being about 20 a n ton That Is what makes the surplus revenues Concrete Road X Needed d d dOt Of Ot course courso well we'll have to have concrete con- con creto crete roads but the business can produce produce pro pro- duce duco the money to build them There i are aro some somo economics economies In distribution of ot I produce that that are are simply amazing It hits has added an entirely now factor to transcontinental transportation and wo we shall shaU just begin finding It out O when moro more extensive operation goes g Into effect et- et ef effect during the next two years Just wh why Mr bit Blakeslee sees it that way can cnn bo be understood from Just one commodity price list Milk retails now In Washington at 17 cents a quart Milk mk Is coming In on mall trucks di direct direct dl- dl to consumers consumer for fOl 10 cents a n quart Natural Naturally the trucks arc aro being weighed down with gallon five cans cane as consumers con con- sumers learn of oC tho the possibility con I Tho The trucks tap producing milk-producing territory j that outside tho the usual hauling lines I and off ot the rail arteries the roads come from to run trucks ho he ask asks Well Yell there are rural mall mail and star routes I being operated In the United States now no Sometimes I think everyone crone of ot I Ithem Ithem them would make m a a. truck line Food I Is being handled ten times on Its way woy to a a. consumer Wo Yo can n cut cat that to five the I Watching these figures since December December December De De- cember when wo we started has given me mea a new now sort of ot Inspiration We Ye shall he ho moving the malls and malls will include In- In dud clude a 1 whole unexpected variety of ot things In new modes before the generation gen Sen generation oration finishes Airplanes for tor the thc mile 1000 distances trains for the mile and trucks for tor tho the 50 That's about the schedule |