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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
ing the winter there are a number of days 
when it is not economy to operate the mo- 
tor, or horses may be used to better ad- 
vantage, due to lack of work, or good 
sleighing weather (when horses have the 
advantage in the cemetery), and the neces- 
sity also of keeping the horses in working 
condition when there is no field work for 
them. 
It is shown that an average of 8,462 
miles has been traveled by the truck during 
this average of 221 days, or an average of 
39 miles per day. It is shown also that 
the net time during which the truck is run- 
ning averages four hours per day. This 
was arrived at originally by means of a 
meter with a clock attachment that regis- 
tered the actual time when the wheels of 
the truck were moving. It is also com- 
puted on the speed and distance basis, and 
this show's, too, that an average speed of 
9.8 miles per hour is maintained. Under- 
stand, that in moving about with empty 
trailers or without load the speed may be 
15 miles per hour. As our working day is 
9^2 hours, it is seen that the truck operates 
on an average of 38 per cent of the time. 
It is interesting at this point to make 
comparison with horse service, which with 
us, in a single cart, is shown to be moving 
one-third of the working day at a speed of 
three miles per hour, or approximately nine 
miles per day. 
In ordinary delivery work, where some 
trotting is done, one authority gives an 
average distance of 15 miles per day with 
a pair of horses and one relay horse. On 
travel basis alone, then, without reference 
to loads or other cost features, the motor 
displaces from four to six horses. Now as 
to cost features, our records show an av- 
erage of 5.4 miles traveled on one gallon 
of gasoline and 25.6 miles on one quart 
of oil. On a machine investment of $2,300, 
which we amortize in five years, adding 
interest on investment of 5 per cent, with 
insurance, general repairs, tires, gasoline, 
oil and grease, we have an average cost 
for the average 221 working days of $4.50 
per day, exclusive of labor. Our motor 
requires a crew of two men, and al- 
lowing for this item $5 per day, we have 
an average cost of $9.50 per day, or ap- 
proximately 25 cents per mile. Our single 
horse equipment, in addition to driver, rep- 
resents a cost of $1.25 per day, covering 
investment, interest, depreciation, feed, 
stable, insurance, shoeing, veterinary, and 
repair of vehicles and harness for 300 work- 
ing days per year. Charging up one-third 
of the teamster's time during which the 
horse is moving, we have a cost of $2 per 
day for nine miles, or 22 cents per mile, 
and allowing a minimum of four such 
equipments displaced by the motor, the ad- 
vantage to the latter is easily seen. Again, 
in ordinary delivery work the cost of a pair 
of horses with one relay horse is stated! 
at 48 cents per mile. For carrying pur- 
poses a three-ton truck, at a cost of 31 
cents per mile, would be required to dis- 
place two such horse equipments, but by 
the trailer method, our experience appears 
to indicate that a one-ton motor truck at 
a cost of 25 cents per mile would do the 
same work. 
The profitable application of motor 
trucks to your hauling problem demands 
careful thought and patient effort. Rule- 
of-thumb methods will not do. The in- 
vestment is considerable ; the maintenance 
charges and depreciation multiply rapidly. 
The solution is found in effective returns. 
To insure this, painstaking records must 
be kept and study given to the equipment. 
Not a little of the satisfaction resulting to 
the writer from hours spent in this way 
would be the knowledge that a small de- 
gree of assistance had been rendered to 
interested fellow-workers in our association. 
S 
CREMATION ASSOCIATION IN CONVENTION 1 
The Cremation Association of America 
held a very successful fourth annual meet- 
ing at the Hotel Gibson, Cincinnati, O., 
August 24 and 25, 1916. 
After the usual invocation, address of 
welcome and roll-call, a new and rather 
dramatic custom was inaugurated by Dr. 
Hugo Erichsen, the president, in his open- 
ing address, in which he proposed, as a 
token of respect and an expression of 
sympathy with bereaved members, their 
kinfolk and friends, the adoption of the 
custom of rising, and the memory of F. R. 
Crawford, of Oakland, Cal., associate 
member and an ardent advocate of crema- 
tion, was thus honored. Richard Harding 
Hr. 
S ..X HIc H 
Davis, a firm believer in cremation, though > || 
not affiliated with the association, was simi- f 
larly honored. jj 
“Roses and Ashes, the Valedictory of an j 
American Crematist,” which took the place ' I 
of the customary presidential address, was ( f 
read by title only. The discourse dealt i 
with the universality of the common des- ; ) 
tiny of mankind. It was suggested by the 
will of the pioneer of modern cremation 
in America, Dr. Francis Julius LeMoyne, 
whose will directed that his ashes be 
buried in his favorite rosebed, so that the 
queen of flowers might seek sustenance in 
his cinerary remains and scent the air with “ 
her message of beauty and fragrance. The 
author resented the charge that crematists ' 
are “inhuman, unfeeling, pagan and retro- 
gressive.” “We belong,” he said, “to the } 
common folk of whom God made so many 1 
and have the same feelings and failings 
they possess. We reverence the memory of 
our dead quite as much, if not more, than 
those that practice interment, and ve- 
hemently resent any imputation to the con- 
trary. We deny the right of those who 
disbelieve in cremation to dictate to those 
who do. Each one should be free to 
choose that method for himself which he 
considers the best, and his relatives should i 
honor his preference.” 
The report of the treasurer showed that 
the income of the association had been ! Ij 
adequate to cover its needs, and the re- ! ^ 
port of the statistician, showed conclusively ' I 
MEMBERS OF THE CREMATION ASSOCIATION IN ’CONVENTION AT CIN- 
CINNATI. 
