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Show TRUCKS SAVE j A CITY MONEY One would hardly expect that the municipalities would be the firs' to take advantage of the rmarkabl-economies rmarkabl-economies which the motor truck of fecta ir transportation." said M A Seller, "but it Is a striking fact thai municipalities throughout th' country coun-try have shown a cremer alacrity to i st in motor vehicle equipn rhan private corporations Witness for example, that in one month. Ma) 1912. (125,000.000 worth of motor truck apparatus was contracted for in about cities In the FniU'd States. The reason for this is not far to iec City governments are discovering thai motorixed public vehicle apparatus is from ion to .rj u o per cent more economical eco-nomical to maintain than horse equipment equip-ment "Our company has Just had two very striking proofs of the money earninp ability of the motor truck I from the cities of Denver and St IsQu'.j. The c;ty of St. Ixrjir. was tin flrat rif; hi tho United Stati.- t- put in serrice a motor driven, presju-e regulated sprinkler. This sprink'.er Is of Saurer make and baa been in service now about nine months It is I owned by the William R Bush 'oi. 'strur lion company, w hit h contracts i with the municipality to sprinkle a lare zone of its public Streets. "Bush, the president of tins con-tractlnu con-tractlnu company, states that since this Saurer motor sprinkler waB Installed In-stalled it has averaged t miles a day jand has effected an economy of from to 'lo a day over the nine horse drawn sprinkling carts which thin company formerly employed for car-1 rying out its contract. "Onp of the principal points brought out by Bush in his statement Is that for a large period of the year the eighteen horses which were nec essary to do the work of this one sprinkler cost $S a day to keep In Idleneae, whereas their Saurer motor i sprinkler rosls nothing outside of the nominal Interest in the investment n almost equally good record of the economy of the motor truck in i public service comes from the elty of i . n r William Geary superintendent superintend-ent of streets In Denver, states that thelt experience with the same type of HrtO-gallon Saurer pressure sprinkler sprink-ler shows a slightlv better econom than that of the city of St. Louis He I stntes that it covers an average of 47 3 10 miles of territory in an eight j hour flay and saves according to (Jeary s statements J2'1 In n printed report recently issued I by the mayors department of Pen i the following extract appears: 'The ex pense of the street sprinkling depart menf lias decreased $F.Ofi0 on account of the motor sprinkler" ' If a municipality which, as a whole does not conduct its affairs with the eye ingle to economy that the private ' corporation does does it not peem res l sonable that if a city can save $28 a I day by the use of a motor truck that a private corporation conducting Its transportation system with auto trucks should be able to greatly snr pass these wonderful proofs thai tl" motor truck is the greatest business efficiency and economy tool of the twentieth century considering tlit cost ?' |