Popular Science Monthly 



551 



to Manhattan, where they would l)e 

 distribuled to the consignees by means 

 of small subways constructed uiidiT the 

 sidewalk. They wore to be unloaded 

 directly upon the basement platforms 

 of the consignees and reloaded. The 

 recent development of the motor-truck, 

 which makes possible the transportation 

 of larger loads than in the case of horse- 

 drawn trucks, has suggested anotiier 

 solution of the problem. It is proposi-d 

 that a standardized chassis be designed 

 to carry a standardized van-body, which 

 can be carried on one of these subway 

 cars from the classification yards on the 

 Meadows. This would be placed on a 

 chassis at the terminus in Manhattan 

 and run to the destination of its con- 

 tents, li can be returned filled with 

 other goods just as railroad cars are 

 shifted from one region to another. A 

 crane would be used to transfer the 

 great box from the motor chassis to 

 the car and back again. 



The ideal solution would be a series 

 of terminals similar to the Rush Ter- 

 minal circling thi' harbor in Brooklyn, 

 Staten Island and New Jersey and 

 connecting with a belt-line railroad by 

 car-floats and tracks. The belt-line 

 railroad would run around the rear of 

 Jersey City and Hoboken and be 

 operated in the interest of all the 

 intersecting railroads. At the inter- 

 sections would be transfer and classi- 

 fication depots. This would make it 

 unnecessary for the railroads to main- 

 tain independent stations in every 

 borough and reduce the cost of 

 delivery. In addition, this belt-line 

 road might maintain a truck delivery 

 system just as the railroads do in 

 London and the express companies do 

 here. Already a proposition to cstal)- 

 lish a terminal at Bayonne similar to 

 the Bush Terminal is being discussed. 

 It might become the transfer point 

 and terminus of such a bclt-line 

 railroad. 



How Do You Sit? 



A ("HAIR is like a shoe, doctors say 

 nowadays. It is comfortable only 

 when it fits the body. And they also 

 say that the ordinary chair does not 

 fit the body, no matter how much up- 

 holstering or padding it may have. 



So they have gone to work and built a 

 chair that fits the body to a "T". 



See that hump in the back in the ac- 

 companying illustration'' The purpose 

 of this is to fit into the bend of the back 

 in such a way as to alTord support to the 

 back and thus allow the muscles to relax 

 and rest. 



In the case of the ordinary chair the 

 hump is not in the chair, but in the 

 person sitting down. His shoulders 

 sloop forward, his body slumps down, 

 the abdomen is thrown forward and the 

 abdominal organs get out of place. The 

 new chair corrects this defect. 



The hump in the chair fits the bend in the back 

 in such a way as to afford perfect support 



