Show I n I 1 I 1 fIO kD I BUILDING MEET DEMANDS OF TRAFFIC Of I Construction of Freak Highways Highway Should Be Stopped Stopped Permanency Permanency Should Be Sought I J J. J. J Hill TIm in a speech in Minneapolis Mimic Minne- apolis January 23 1010 said If u the problem of the railroad terminals be bo neglected for the next five fie years as aa aaU asIt asit It U has for the last ten it will blight every form of activity by paralyzing the whole trade W. W C. C Brown president of the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Central lines said November 5 5 1912 If U cars are kept in motion atthe at atthe atthe the average speed of or freight trains at lt at present time they would make on the average four times the mileage they do now The trouble Is the cars as a rule are held longer to load and unload than the time Involved In the actual movement of the cars that cars that is the terminal had the railroad by the throat and was choking three quarters of its efficiency out of It The prediction predie- predie tion of Hill was was absolutely correct I A period of acute congestion in rail ran railroad road transportation had already set in F Y 1 A r Motor Truck Adapted to Carrying Farm Produce and would have gone to the bitter end end of paralyzing every form of activity had not the motor truck which had had no terminals go gone e to the rescue Now at this time May 1 1919 1010 another thing things thing's thing vas as s got the motor truck by the throat and Is Is' Is choking three-quarters three of f Its efficiency out of It This time It Is the dime museum freak construction of our so-called so good roads not by tying up the motor truck as the locomotive was tied up in the terminal b but t b by Y knock tag Ing it and Its trailers to pieces thus cutting short the life of the rolling stock as well as making it move move slower and with n not t over on one 1 ter of a load over the Imperfect surfaces surfaces surfaces sur sur- faces increasing the cost of motor motor- truck huck transportation way beyond what if ought to be for what the motor truck does as well as limiting limiting- the amount it can do way vay down below the normal writes Frederic J. J Nash In New York World World- Had these roads been properly constructed they would h have Te Ve gone to the stock exchanges and been bought and sold there like every other kind of transportation tl ties s. s As it is they have gone to pieces and left the bondholders the states counties and townships their bonds on their hands and only a n scrap heap o obad of bad roads to show for them These freak roads had had they been bee on the stock exchanges w with th only themselves them themi selves as security would not have s sold hi for one cent on the dollar They ar are built on the credit of the states counties counties counties coun coun- ties and townships through which they passed This at the rate of two hundred millions of dollars per year A speed of miles an hour on the beach at t Daytona Fla was made last last Lincoln's s 's birthday ay a a rate of speed which the locomotive has never been able to reach Anything beyond a ton three-ton truck load Is more than a freak highway can safely carry arry while the ordinary normal load of ot the freight car on Its railroad is 50 tons If It these few things could be combined in the highway highway absence absence of terminals a rate rat of speed beyond that of the ra railroad lr ad a tl a. a freight carrying tonnage equal to that of t the i railroad a cost of or the upkeep upkeep upkeep up up- keep less les than that of the railroad this would multiply our present me means ris of or transportation seven or eight times times' find end give this country a prosperity during durIng during dur dur- ing the next dozen years such as we have never even dreamed of ot We Va I want to change our form of highway construction over night and put our highway securities on n the stock exchanges exchanges ex exchanges ex- ex changes and not our highways on the dump heap Highway stocks and bonds based on the value of ot this prop constructed erly-constructed d highway y will pay a higher rate of Interest than the rail railways ways ever have for it will do much more work |