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Show I MOVING DAY , ' $jr Frederic J. Haskin .. LON'O BEFORE daylight this moraine, mora-ine, huge moving raos, ordinary two-hone teams, and .even ono boras carrier ' earta, all hearily ladca with household furniture begaa to 'throng tha streete in arery eity is America. For this is Americas moving day, and thoaaaads of families will tonight to-night woo lumber uadsr a different root tha a thar which sheltered them last night. Jut why May 1 should be 1 no popular for r"- changing domiciles . no -one aeems to . know, but it at least f '.; haa a prestige of f -'' long atanding. A real estate agrnt ' makes the elaim that " f j( ' this date ia the di- vidisg line between : cold and warm Is weather, aed there f .: . fore marhs tha be- ginning of new V f" year. I a every l tows thia day has . boea ia tha minds """ pf express aad mov. tng eompaniaa for weeks past, and special preparations have been made to meet its demands. Where apartments are rooted by the fear ia many towns the new leases date rem Msy 1. Even where it is customary cus-tomary to data tha leases from October 1. May day movings still ars frequent. There are nnmbeis of people who will break the St I (Tent kind of a Jeaae rather than remain in an apartment after the first really warm son of April arrive. Bo tha transportation companies are quickly - eommnnicatod with aad the sitting arranged for, to aa apartment which may or may sot give a greater degree of comfort tana the on vacated. In New York the majority of leaaoe on both apartments and houses begin May 1. Thia mar be due to tha old Knickerbocker Influence when the earliest earli-est residents owning homes in the country coun-try fixed this day for closing the etately town residence and taking their fatnt-line fatnt-line into the pastoral freshness of their tang Island farm. "I really would prefer to stsy ia my town home a couple cou-ple of weeks longer," said a New York 1 woman recently, "but my husband feels ' thst we must move today, even if we 1 go to a eity hotel, so the same moving ' companies that packed for hia mother " for them in the nsw abode. Progressiva Progres-siva dealers are so alive to .this fact that ia the weetern eities it is becoming customary for a furniture arm to supply moving wsg-ons wsg-ons and men experienced in headline furniture to take charge of them. One Arm recently advertised "we will move you free of charge," and they actually performed this service for customers who purchssed a certain amount of new furniture from them. In nny case, furniture atsrsa that supply moving wsgons rsn do so at lower rates thsa the regulsr transfer eompsnies, which, of course, causes no small amount of rivalry between the two businessee and the customer gets the hen ell t of it. There is great eo-oieratioa between transfer or moving companies in the different large citiea. Several large companies in America have branches in each of the large eitiea, equipped with all the modern conveniences for family movincs. A modern transfer company in one city will pack and ship a family moving and notify its associates in another town to receive the aame, nnnack it and place it in its proper destinstion. This is a great cob venience to families moving from on eity to another. Boms of these companies com-panies own great steel vans holding as mueh as ordinary freight ears. These are moved en automobile trucks to the house to be vacated. The furniture is carefully put in and the vans sealed np. Thea they are takea to the freight station whers they are placed on gondola gon-dola ears and shipped to the city de-aired. de-aired. At that station they are again loaded oa automobile trucks and taken to the ew house, where they are packed and put in order by employees of tha same company which shipped them and whieh ia absolutely respoa-sible respoa-sible for every article of their contents. The steel moving vsn haa lately heea responsible for a romance, according to a Chicago atorv.' A voung couple, after a year of wedded bliss, quarreled seriously and decided to separate. The household furniture wss to be divided, each selecting certain srtirles. Bhe wss to take a lakeside cottage and he was to have a bachelor apartment downtown. down-town. Two steel vaas were takea and the furniture packed aa ordered. Then a mistake waa made and the vaa containing con-taining the heavy library furniture aad other articles intended for the bachelor apartment went to the lakeside cottage, while the daintv uDholstsred feminine effects were taken to the man's apartment. apart-ment. The next day the young eouple who had vowed aever to meet again earns together to discuss the exchsnge of furniture. A reconciliation followed and the contents of the two steel vans were agaia gathered- under the aame roof. The increase in tbe household moving business haa led to the development of a trade almost unknown a few years ago that of the professional packer. A large aumber of men aad not a few women have entered upon this work. Equipped with a liberal supply of paper, pa-per, twine, burlap and other wrappings, they eater a house and proceed to pack valuables with scientific exactness. For this service they receive from 60 cents to S1.S0 per hour. Every large moving company haa a staff of theee workers ready for short notice orders. While the number of moving! and tka skill aad ears ia handling them is increasing each year, the expenses are really less thsa formerly. Twenty Ave dollars will eovsr the ordinary moving expeasea of a good-aised family moving from one house to another ia the asms town. Fifty dollars will pay the expenses ex-penses of a steel vaa to be need from one eity to another. To this, of course, must be added the freight transports tioa, which varies according to (he distance dis-tance the goods have to travel. While the coet of moving a millionaire from his eity residence to his country home msy run up into the thousands, there are many families living in small apartments apart-ments who will change their residence today at an expenditure of $10 or svea less, , , . Tomorrow OOMMIBBIOW OOVEBJT-MNT. OOVEBJT-MNT. X. Orowth ef City Problems. weeks. If it seems too eool for us to go to the country on the first of Msy wa will go to a downtown hotel aad stay, but move ws must on May 1, simply because his mother, his grandmother grand-mother and I don't know how many ether ancestors fixed that particular date as moving dsy." To the wealthy woman the terrors ef moving have become to a large degree abated by the application of modern business methods. She ao longer dreads the fuss aad inconvenience, as tha skilled mover and his trained packers have reduced family moving to a fine science. When a millionaire family desires de-sires to move, aa expert is placed in eharge of ths home. He visits tke aew house and by conference with the head servaata secures informatioa aa to the placing of each piece of furniture. Thea lie begins operations apoa the bouse- to be vacated. Aa inventory is first carefully made and then the pack-lag pack-lag ia begun, always ia tbe least used parts of the house, so that the usual routine is preserved to the last. Quite frequently skilled packers do this work at night so thst customers are act ia any why interfered with. A Chicago hostess arranging for a series of dinners did not permit the trifling incident of changing her residence resi-dence to interfere with her plans. The night before moving she gave a dinner to twenty-four guests. Tor the day! following invitations had been issued for a simllsr affair at ker aew residence, and it was completed satisfactorily. After the dinner guests had left the house te be vacated, the movers took eharge of the dining room, and its eon-tenta eon-tenta were carefully packed into large vana that night. The family took breakfast ia ths room adjoining tbe next morning and went out to various pleasures during that day. They aa-smnbled aa-smnbled ia the evening in their new home, placed ia perfect readiness for them, even to the floral deeoratioas ia tke dining room. This iacidsat presents pre-sents rather a strong contrast to tbe multitudinous esree of the housewise a generation ago who for weeks before moving worked fine lines ia her face ever the china which aa one must pack but herself, the preservation of her ent glass and the safety of her ailver, not te mention the larger articles ef even greater value. But svea c the housekeeper ia moderate mod-erate eireumstsnees moving is leas burdensome bur-densome then formerly. The great IB-cresse IB-cresse in the family moving eneh year is responsible for thia Ths old saying;: a urw suTuip ere equal to a are la ao longer-true, at leaat ao far as dsm-sge dsm-sge to furniture is eoneeraed. Apartment Apart-ment Hving in eities tends to' frequent changes, snd during th paat ten years moving his increased nearly 100 per seat With this isrreaa haa com increased in-creased akill in handling, so thst comparatively com-paratively few article are broken by modern movers. Tradespeople And that moving day is a good thing for them aad do all ia their power to eaeourag its f request recurrence. This is especially true of furniture dealera, for there are few movinga at which aome things arc aot discarded and new nrticlce suhetitnted |