Highways and Highway Transportation by George R. Chatburn

CHAPTER VII

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AUTOMOTIVE TRANSPORTATION 181 Defined, Radical Changes to be Expected. Business Passenger Traffic: Jitney and Taxicab, Motor Bus -- Qualifications, Fares, Competition with Street Cars, Cross-country Service, Carriers of School Children, Transfer between Depots. Pleasure Passenger Traffic: An Influence in the Purchase of Automobiles, Pleasurable Effect of Automobile Riding, Recreational and Pathological Benefits of Motoring, Cost of Motoring. Freight Traffic: Cost and Time Factors, Motor Trucks and Congested Districts, Time Devoted to Loading and Unloading, Depots, Warehouses, Devices, Removable Bodies, Sectional Containers, Store to Door Delivery, Mass Loading. Devices Connected with the Truck. Devices Separate, Special Types of Bodies. Traffic between Towns: Economic Distance, Licenses and Insurance, State Regulation without Competition, Development of State Regulation. Motor Bus Traffic: Buses, Rates, Future of Motor Bus and Other Types of Transportation. To and from the Farm: Importance of Farm Trucking, Arguments in Favor of, Cost of Trucking, Diversified Farming, Intensive Farming, Live Stock. Trucking, Benefits to the Farmer, Economy of Farm Trucking, Parcel Post Service and the Farm, Rural Express, Milk Trucks, Convenience to the Farmer, Purchasing a Truck. Terminal Facilities: Advantages. Social Aspect of Motor Transportation: Effect on Merchandising, Housing, Unification of Society, Standard of Living, Size of Farms, Salesmen, Hotels, City and Country Stores. Consolidated Rural Schools: The Public School and Patriotism, Peace, Changing Concepts of Public Schools. Rural Mail Delivery. Automobile and Health: As a Form of Exercise, Effect on Styles; Medical Science; Sanitary Effects -- Mosquitoes, Flies. The Automobile and Crime: Bootlegging, Robbery, Vandalism. Types of Automobile Transportation.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 2. CHAPTER I 3. CHAPTER II 4. CHAPTER III 5. CHAPTER IV 6. CHAPTER V 7. CHAPTER VI 8. CHAPTER VII 9. CHAPTER VIII 10. CHAPTER IX 11. CHAPTER X 12. CHAPTER XI 13. CHAPTER XII 14. CHAPTER XIII 15. 1. STORM KING HIGHWAY _Frontispiece_ 16. 2. THE APPIAN WAY 22 17. 3. MAP OF ITALY 24 18. 4. MAP OF ROMAN ROADS IN ENGLAND 26 19. 5. MAP OF THE NORTH-EASTERN PORTION OF THE UNITED STATES 36 20. 6. MAP 42 21. 1830. When the Railroads Entered the Industrial Arena, the Country 22. 7. MAP 54 23. 8. WAY BILL 66 24. 5. The DeWitt Clinton Locomotive--1831. 25. 1. Showing the Growth in the Size of Locomotives During the Past 26. 2. One of the New Gearless _Electric_ Locomotives Built by the 27. 12. TRANSPORTATION ACROSS DEATH VALLEY 126 28. 14. CHART OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE U. S. BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS 29. 18. MOTOR OR RAIL-CAR 166 30. 5. Gaillardit’s Steam Carriage--1894. 31. 21. A NEW YORK CITY “STEPLESS” BUS 184 32. 6. Winton’s Racing Machine. 33. 23. HAULING BEANS BY MOTOR TRUCK AND TRAILER 200 34. 26. GIVING A MACADAM ROAD AN APPLICATION OF TARVIA BINDER 254 35. 32. A DANGEROUS CURVE MADE SAFE BY AN ARTISTIC CONCRETE WALL 364 36. 33. PIN OAK STREET TREES 388 37. 34. A COTTONWOOD WIND BREAK 388 38. 36. TRAFFIC GUIDES 442 39. 37. NEW YORK CITY TRAFFIC GUIDES 444 40. 40. A GIPSYING TOURING CARAVAN 458 41. CHAPTER I 42. 1767. Green[7] tells us that the main roads which lasted fairly well 43. 1. Methods of keeping the cylinder or steam vessel hot by covering it 44. 2. By condensing the steam in vessels entirely distinct from the 45. 3. By drawing out of the condenser all uncondensed vapors or gases by 46. 4. The use of the expansion force of steam directly against the 47. 5. The double-acting engine and the conversion of the reciprocating 48. 6. Throttle valve with governor and gear for operating the same, 49. Chapter III. 50. Book IX, Chap. 29; XXII, 15; XXIV, 8; George Bell & Sons, London, 51. CHAPTER II 52. 1740. Glowing reports were brought back by the few traders, hunters, 53. 820. Published by order of Congress, 13 Vol. Washington, 1825-37. 54. CHAPTER III 55. CHAPTER IV 56. 5. The DeWitt Clinton Locomotive--1831. 57. 1. Showing the Growth in the Size of Locomotives During the Past Twenty 58. 1900. The Larger is a _Mountain Type_ Engine. Both are Used on the C. 59. Chapter VIII, “Transportation,” Ginn & Co., New York. 60. CHAPTER V 61. 1916. Illinois voted $60,000,000 in 1920 eventually to be paid from 62. 1822. A most liberal definition of Post Roads is also given in the 63. 1917. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 64. CHAPTER VI 65. Chapter VII, and the motor truck, and with concerted action of the 66. 1. Modernizing locomotives.--Gross reparable deficiencies are pointed 67. 2. Locomotive operation.--The magnitude of the railways’ coal bill 68. 3. Shop organization improvements.--The sad and almost incredible 69. 4. Power-plant fuel savings.--The obsolete and wasteful condition 70. 5. Water-consumption savings.--The railroads’ expenditure in 71. 6. Service of supply savings.--The expenditure of the railways for 72. 7. Shop accounting savings.--Attention has been given to the matter 73. 8. Labor turn-over savings.--The industrial losses due to unnecessary 74. 9. Loss and damage savings.--Inquiry has been made into the amount of 75. CHAPTER VII 76. 5. Gaillardit’s Steam Carriage--1894. 77. 6. Winton’s Racing Machine. 78. Chapter V. It will only be necessary to say here that the psychological 79. CHAPTER VIII 80. 4. Those which are military. 81. 10. Motor trucks or drays 20 82. CHAPTER IX 83. CHAPTER X 84. 318. The petitioning power or influence of the several properties 85. CHAPTER XI 86. CHAPTER XII 87. CHAPTER XIII

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