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one dollar a hundred pounds for each 

 hundred miles. 



While the war brought about the con- 

 ditions which made necessary the use of 

 motor-trucks over such long hauls, it 

 also has been directly responsible for 

 the success of the 



undertaking dur- 

 ing the winter of 

 1917-18. Between 

 forty and fifty 

 thousand motor- 

 trucks will be 

 delivered to the 

 government dur- 

 ing 1918. These 

 will be run over- 

 land on their own 

 wheels from the 

 points of manu- 

 facture to the 

 points of shipment 

 on the eastern sea- 

 coast. Close to 

 one thousand of 

 these trucks have 

 already been driv- 

 en overland since 

 the beginning of 



the year. The government has demanded 

 that the roads over which trucks have to 

 run must be kept cleared of snow. The 

 states of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and 

 New Jersey have risen to the emergency 

 and despite the unusual snowball they 

 have kept a clear cross-country highway 

 from Detroit to New York all winter. 

 This has made it possible to operate the 

 Akron-to-Boston trucks with but few 

 interruptions on account of snow for the 



The roads are good, but the grades are 

 sometimes rather steep. Look at this hill 



reason that from Pittsburgh east through 

 Gettysburg and Philadelphia they follow 

 the Lincoln Highway, the same route over 

 which the government trucks run. 



One of the 3 • 2-ton trucks of the Akron 

 concern made the 533-mile run between 

 Akron and New 

 York in sixty 

 hours total time 

 and forty-nine 

 hours actual run- 

 ning time, or at 

 the rate of almost 

 eleven miles an 

 hour for the entire 

 journey. It 

 crossed the Alle- 

 gheny Mountains 

 after a heavy 

 snowfall and with 

 the temperature at 

 thirteen degrees 

 below zero. A 

 truck-driver that 

 can accomplish 

 this is no novice, 

 and has to be equal 

 to any emergency. 



Map showing route followed by the fleet of motor-trucks which 

 is plying regularly between Akron, Ohio, and Boston, Mass. 



See that Your Garage Is Ventilated. 

 It Is Dangerous Otherwise 



DURING the exceptienally cold months 

 of the past winter, many deaths by 

 poisoning from the exhaust of gasoline 

 engines were reported from all parts of 

 the country. In most cases the victim^s 

 had been, for some time, in a poorly 

 ventilated or unventilated garage or other 

 room where one or more gasoline engines 

 were running. A careful 

 investigation has estab- 

 lished beyond doubt that 

 death in these cases 

 was not caused by the 

 exhaustion of the supply 

 of oxygen in the air, but 

 by the carbon monoxide, 

 an extremely poisonous 

 gas, which is generated 

 by the incomplete com- 

 bustion of organic sub- 

 stances. It is one mole- 

 cule each of carbon and 

 oxygen combined. Only 

 thorough ventilation will 

 remove the danger. 



