Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1921, Page 57

' 7 Ok SNOW-BOUND ROADS COST U. §. BUSINESS $500.000,000 IN 1920 Many States Have Made Separate Bureau in Highways Department for Cleaning * Arteries of Icy Obstructions. The highways are the nation's nat- wral arteries, over which at one time cr another our entire commerce flows, for it is a fact that everything which goes into or which exists as a fin- ished product finds its way over the nation’s highways. In the case of agricultural products it is certain that the greater portion of them find their way over our high- ways before they reach the railway for transportation to points of con- sumption, while many of them depend entirely upon the hways as an in- strument of transportation between the farms and the table of the con- sumer. Therefore, if you live in a state sit- wated within the snow belt you know that it is imperative to be ever pre- pared for winter's snowstorms, So that the highwavs may be kept open that food and supplies for the manu- facture of the nation’s wares may pass over them with as little delay as possible. The control of snow removal should be vested in the state highway de- partment. division of maintenance or repair, for those roads comprising the state ‘highw: em. The county should be vested with powers that make it mandatory to remove SNOW from all important county highways Dot on the state system. The city should have an organization for snow removal and extend its areas of work | to the city line on those streets or roads that connect with the main county or state highways, and should not confine city snow removal to the congested sections only. Highways. like railroads. must be regarded from a utilitarian point of view and not as mere accessories to other agencies of transportation, to be used only infrequently. The removal of snow is just as im- portant as the building of new high- ways, for unless the highways are Kept ‘open at all times their use is| lost to the commercial interests of the | nation. in many cases, for a period of months. Humanity would suffer great losses if the railroad companies per- mitted snow to block the way and halt the free and steady flow of com- merce. Such a condition could not be permitted, for it would entail great privation and much suffering. Trans- portation over the highways in all parts of the United States has become an important link in the recently formed trinity. It not alone relieves the railways when congested. as has 80 ably been demonstrated. but it Is moving overnight on short distances up to 100 miles a gizantic tonnage of agricultural and manufactured prod- ucts. When the inland waterways freeze over an added burden is thrown upon the highways. and unless the snow is removed such necessities as milk. vegetables and coal do not move freely. Every state and county should have a method of organization for repair, maintenance and snow removal. Snow Causes Great Loases. If there were little or no demand for traffic during snowy weather. the cost of snow removal would still be justified. If smow is permitted to melt on the roadbed. it tends to soften the subgrade and loosen the base un- der the wearing surface. Evidence of these damages may be seen after heavy ‘anows in the late winter and early springtime. There is another and secondary consideration that almost as important: What happans to the roads themselves when they are left uncieared of snow for any length of time? If snow is not removed on a truck highway. the trafic will gradually break its way through when a thaw begins. The traffic will create one or two sets of ruts or tracks. This con- stant tracking in the same rut pro- | duces disastrous results on the road surface, making future repairs diffi- cult and exceedingly expensive. Keeping the road free from snow allows more uniformity in the action of the frost and other elements and tends to neutralize their effect on the subgrade and the base. A larger per- centage of road repairs is due to win- ter “traffic than to summer traffic. There s only one reason for this— the neglect of our highways during snowy times. Inadequate provision for smow re- moval in the United States in 1920 caused a business loss of $500.000,000. | The loss in New York city alone is estimated by the Merchants’ Associa- tion to havs been $60,000,000 in twelve days last February. Smow Remeval fa Wisconsin. In Milwaukes county. Wis., m.l work of snow removal on its qnem\ { @ of trunk line highways is very effi- clent, and as a result the county's main highways are traversable throughout the winter. The county takes care of about one-half of 175 miles of improved highways and the townships care for the remainder. A snow removal fund has been created and is taken from the gemeral tax funds. The county s divided into four districts. each supervised by a fore- man. The snow-removal work is done by the district maintenance erews and is paid for from the snow- removal fund. Last winter six mo- tor trucks equipped with plows were operated almost exclusively in snow- removal work. These trucks were assigned as nearly as possible to definite districts and the trucks were used s0 as to produce the most ef- ficlent results. With snow to the depth of twelve to elghteen inches the trucks operated very successfully and one truck in a storm last winter cleared an eighteen-foot strip of Toadway in one round trip. During 1920 the county spent $4,700 on snow remor or an average of $60 per mile. A large part of this cost was caused by the almost con- tinual high winds. which kept piling the snow in heavy drifts, necessi- tating recourse to hand shoveling. During snowstorms crews were often kept at work night and day remov- ing the snow as fast as it had fallen. Because of its efficient methods of coping with the problem of snow re- Milwaukee county highway: Ford Owners If your transmission lining is worn, play safe. Reline with the famous “CI CINNATL” Interlocking weave— long fibered and chatter- less. “The quality that stands the strain.” $1.25 Set, Including Brass Rivets ASK YOUR DEALER A. EBERLY’S SONS, INC. ‘Wholesale Distributors 718 7th Street N.W. Phone Main 6557-4558 \ We are quite sure you wil are open to vehicular traffic through- out the year. Farm products, in- cluding milk, are brought to the city of Milwaukee over its highways throughout the winter. That it is {im- portant that the highways should be open to this trafic during the winter i8 Seen in the fact that 65 per cent of the milk and dairy products con- sumed by the city of Milwaukee en- ter the city by means of motor trucks. The County Loop. the coun- ty's pleasure thoroughfare, is also ept open. Towa's Failure Costly. Last yvear in many parts of Towa, even the main highways were not cleared of the heavy snows. As a result farmers had to feed high- priced corn to hogs and cattle that were ready for market. They were compelled to hold corn, oats and wheat until the price declined from 12 to 30 cents a bushel. In other cages, the farmers attempted to break a way through for a sled road. They tore down fences in the attempt, but even then only u small load could be carried because of the ditches. In the meantime the cities were paying exorbitant prices for foodstuffs. Many states are now carefully the work of snow removal as a part of highway maintenance. The state highway departments of Pennsylvania_and Connecticut have been active for the past few years in maintaining the highways in their respective states during the winter months, and many other state high- Wway departments are seeking legis- lation to empower them to carry on the work of snow removal. In 1918 Connecticut spent $40,000 for snow removal on a total of 970 miles of highways, or about $45 per mile. During the same year the state of Pennsylvania spent from $50 to $200 per mile on certain highways, de- pending upon the location and other conditions. Generally the cquipment used in snow-removal work consists pri- marily of snowplows. either of the blade, grader or V type. often sup- plemented by other forms of equip- ment. Snows, up to twelve inches in depth can often be handled with road machines to advantage. Motor truck plow attachments are used to advantage on snow up to three feet in depth. In using the truck with the plow attachment, a trip is usual- Iy made down on one side of the road and back on the other, thus clearing the roadway and using a road grader or other equipment to clear off the shoulders. In Pennsyl- vania, heavy snows are combated with ‘a_large V-shaped plow, thirty inches high at the apex, six feet high at the back, with twenty-foot legs and sixteen feet wide at the back. This plow is constructed with mova- ble braces and is drawn by a heavy tractor and has proven a very eco- nomical and effective device in work- ing on heavy and deep snow. The movable braces are provided 80 as to permit Vehicles to pass. The use of a power-driven rotary sweeper similar to that used by elec- tric railways to clean their tracks, or the use of a side elevator machine for opening-up large drifts. wauld seem to be a possibility. Therq is every reason to believe this the most economical method where the snow is exceptionally deep or on heavily drifteg roads. Causes of Smow Drifts. There are three causes for snow- drifts. These are, first, the config- uration of the land to windward of the road; second, natural, obstruc- tions to windward of the road, and third, snow: cleared from the road previously and piled to windward. The first of these cannot always be prevented, but the other two can and should be prevented. In the first place, weeds, etc., should be cleared from beside the road, and feénces close to the road should be of the wire type, 80 as to pregent little ob- structioh to the wind. Snow should never be piled to windward, as it will cause a drift in the next storm. Lastly, drifts may be prevented by the construction of either fixed or portable snow fences. These fences should be placed some distance from the road and in places where houses or the configuration of the land causes drifts to form, as the fence causes the drift to form sooner and away from the road. A snowbound road is as undesirable a3 2 mud road, or as no road at all. —_— A TEMPORARY FUSE. A burned-out fuse on one’s car in the country is very inconveniegt if there are no spares with which to replace it, but if the motorist will carry a_ little tinfoil in his box of odds and ends he can make a service- able temporary repair in a minute. As 2 matter of fact, any one who smokes cigarettes or chews gum Or eats candy on the road usually has some tinfoil on his person, and so it is not neces- sary to make a special point of in- cluding it with the tools. To rehabili- tate the burned fuse it is wrapped with one or two layers of the foil and reinserted in the fuse box. Care should be taken not to wrap the fuse too heavily, as if this is done damage is liable to result to the wiring if it is suddenly stressed with an overload. —In Motor for January. ANNOUNCING —that T. W. Barrett is department at 24th and M sts. n.w. In reference to future considering | THE SUNDAY OTORS 'and /MOTORING ‘100 EXHIBITS TO APPEAR AT AUTOMOBILE SHOW ‘Washington Automotive Trade As- sociation Display to Open at Con- vention Hall March 12. Ono hundred exhibits will be dis- played at the first annual automobile show to be held under the auspices lof the Washington Automotive Trade Association at Convention Hall March 12 to 19, inclusive. | The show will be the first held by the local automotive industry since 1913, and will be the first in this city which will include the industry in ail its branches—passenger cars, commer- cfal cars, trucks. accessories and in- surance. At a special meeting at the City Club recently plans were dis- cussed and the drawing and allotting of spaces held. The second floor will be occupied by passenger cars, accessories and insur- ance, and the office of the show and publicity committee; also a rest room and lunchroam. The L street half of the hall on the first floor will be used for the truck and commercial car ex- hibit. Entrance to the hall will be from L street through the truck ex- hibit. Members of the show committee are Rudolph Jose, chairma dergrast. J. J. Bartram, W. P. J. E. Dugan, Idward Jones, Rosasco. Publicity committe: dolph Jose, chairman; S. S. Grogan, J. Leo Sugrue, J. Yoemans, W. Wheat- ley, S. A. Luttreil and R. J. Murphy. Q. I would like to know if I am| liable to arrest if I operate an lu!o-i mobile in Maryland with both Vir- ginia and District of Columbia license | tags on the machine. I have been advised that it would be necessary for me to remove the District of| Columbia tag before going over Maryland roads. Is this correct? I am living in Washington, and have |been for the past five years, and emploved by the government. but I consider Virginia my home, as I own proporty there, which was my reason for getting Virginia tags instead of Maryland. JOHN E. SHUTTERS. A. The fact that you have lived and worked in the District for five years would indicate—to Maryland of- ficials—that you were a resident of the District and not Virginia. If you! lived in Virginia you would not neefll a District license to come to this city. So that would suggest also that you were a resident of the District. To avoid complications with Maryland of- ficials and policemen we would sug- gest that you remove your District license before entering Maryland. You might take the matter up, however, with Automobile Commissioner Baugh- man’s office in Baltimore. Q. I have a seven-passenger Buick car, a big six, made in the year 1915. Every time I go to start it it jumps. It has a cone clutch. Will you be so kind as to tell me how I can stop it? It only jumps when I start off and does not do it in second, third or re- verse. ©A. Your case is probably one of “clutch grabbing.” Wash clutch out with gasoline and then put a few drops of neatsfoot oil on the leather which will soften it. If it still con- tinues to grab after that, the leather has probably become burmed and old and you should put on a pew clutch facing. Prompt answers to motoring prob- lems will be furnished by the auto- mobile editor of The Star to all Wash- ington motorists who wish to avail themselves of this service. All que- ries must be written on one side of paper only and should be in the office before Thursday. Questions received up to this day will be answered, if possible, by the following Sunday. Ad- dress letters to Automobile Editor, Query Department, Star Office. WOMEN MOST CAREFUL. The Los Angeles Times apparently has little faith in the findings of Rachester researchites. It says that while research in - Rochester shows conclusively that woman drivers are more careful than men, it would be difficult to convince a Los Angeles citizen of the fact. But at Rochester the police have been keeping a record and gathering statistics for a long time, and the returns demonstrate \m in proportion of their numbers the ‘women are safer drivers than their hus- bands or sweethearts. They have their full share of the minor tragedies of the road—warped fenders and shattered lamps—but they are not in many serious accidents and do not run down pedes- trians or take Numan life easily. They do not take the hazards or indulge the speed of the male driver. Day by day the utter uselessness of man is further indicated. Now that it is shown th; the lady can drive the machino better than he can he has no peg on which to hang his battered halo.—Motor Life. REPAIRING ‘ GUARANTEED ot ¥ E il ovackers, WHO ENOW. fundreds of saf customers. Establishe 1908—Try Us. " Amer. Motor School th & OB N.W, Phene N. 1819 now operating the garage storage, 'beginning March 1, Mr. Barrett will be glad to advise you accordingly. 1 receive the usual courtesy that we have endeavored to bestow upon our cus- tomers. Our Service Station, Sales Room and Office Will continue at the 24th and M Sts. Building Motor Company of Washington 24th and M Sis. N.W. Phone West 710 Show Room Conn. Ave, R. 1. -~ Ave. and L Street STAR, WASHINGTON, D. § C, FEBRUARY 27, 1921—PART 3. 5 e LEARN HOW ACCIDENTS HAPPEN ‘THOUSANDS OF AUTO PARTIES : B i Y ~ TO COME HERE FOR MARCH 4 Bureau of Tours ofv_lr\utomobile Club of America Outlines Best Routes From Various Points. | taken place for many vears Although rather early in the season.| Fordham road Motorists going from . ill make the | Waterbury and po beyond in the s of motori: will make the 3 thonsagds 2 Naugatuck valicy should follow the trip to Washington this week to hard surfaced road through Sevmour. |tend the inauguration of Wa \ G. Derby and Shelton to Stratford : v connections a p Harding. twenty-minth President of |y ois COUneCt) re made with th, the United States. The best way o go through New | Not only will there be a new Presi- YOTK from the Boston Post road is to el S urn o f the grand concourse ldfl.l and a complete change in from Fordham road and continue | heads of the various exe o depart- |SIraight on into Moft avenue, which ments, but also a nev lis foliowed to the «nd. Turn right res tives and many |inte, 138h street. crons ridee_over alto er a greater chang S Syt and turn left into adi e o leon aver Mount Morris Park | { lally all the newcomers w hax R ‘\]fl;‘_r and '{-x:: itheir friends on hand to welcome |syrn' s ) it g e them into office. into par el et Routes for Easy Riding. le ‘or cont » i avenue, which bureau of tours of the Auto-| = 0 ORe-tay < pails "‘lA e ‘:‘-»(Il’ Club of ‘America outlines the |Z358 SSRIR 19 Colunibus Circle: then utomobile routes. from various {2 rignt turn e made to the Torre { points, using all hard surfaced roads: |crossing to Weehawhen > From New York city the most con-| Motorists coming down from the venient ferry, from 130th street down, can be used to reach the Hudson County Boulevard. This should be followed to the Plank road and thence proceed west to Newark. The run out of Newark is made via Clinton and Eligabeth avenues, continuing to Elizabeth, where right turn is made | lat the post office into Westfleld ave- {nue. Two blocks beyond, turn left {into Cherry street, which becomes St. !Georges avenue, and follow this ! through Rahway tothe overhead ra lroad crossing. Turn sharp right along the raiiroad on a new concrete road and run through Metuchen to New Brunswick: continue straight along Albany street, following the Berkshire district hard-surfaced road, from Millerton Both sides of the Hudson river be- veen New York and Albany are hard surfaced in good condition More Western Points. To reach Washington from western and central New York it is preferable to follow the hard surfaced road over the Liberty highwavy through Bing- hamton, Liberty. Middletown and Tuxedo, rather than to attempt the short cut south tnrough Pennsylva- nia. over very indifferent surface. Motorists coming from Indianapolis and western points will go through “pringfield and Columbus to Wheeling will find all good [ | iLincoln highway signs throughi,ng ‘thence over the old Natiomal | Princeton and Lawrenceville to Tren- | highway through LUniontown, Cum- ton. Turn right into State street and |herland, Hagerstown and Frederick a short vond the state to Washington. The Shenandoah val- capitol, turn left into CHlhoun street: |ley is in good condition from Staun- ! erbss bridge over Delaware river andton through Winchester and Hagers- | go straight on through Langhornetown to Frederick and from Winches- | and Bustleton. entering the boulevard in the outskirts of Philadelphia. Fol- {low to Broad street, where a left turn ‘is made and the route continued to | the City Hall in Philadelphia. ter through Harpers Ferry to Fred- jerick. Motorists from the south will find a fairly good road from Rich- mond through Fredericksburg and Alexandria. Distances to Washington ar. UTO | 'Ss Chestnut street iS a ONE-Way york 244 miles: Boston 4 street going east, it is necessary o £0 | pittsfield, 400 miles: Albany out of Philadelphia via Market street [ yorl 335 miles: Indianapol or Walnut street to 57th street, where [miles: Richmond. Va, 138 Just beyond, a a left turn is made. L 2 |Staunton via Sherandoah valley, 2 right turn should be made into Balti- | mijes. more @venue, which is followed | Al of these itineraries are found in straight on through Lansdowne, | “The Associated Tours Guide," pub- Swarihmore, Media, Wawa, Concord- | lished by the Automobile Club. of Ville, Chaddsford, Hamorton, Kennett | America. 247 West 3ith sireet. New Square, West Grove, Jennersville, Ox- | York city. ford, Barnsley. to the end of the con- crete road, where a sharp right-turn is made, going through Rising Sun, crossing the Susquehanna river at Conowingo, and continuing straight on through Hickory. Belair and Kingsville to Baltimore. Go stranzht’ through Baltimore on North avenue. turn left into Fulton street, right into | | Wilkins avenue, and a short distance beyond turn left into South Monroe street; thence through Elk Ridge. TLaurel, Ammendale and Bladensburg to Washington, 244 miles from New York. HE WALKED AROUND THE REAR OF THE CAR WITHO UT TROUBLING TO LOOK FOR APPROACHING TRAFFIC. Service Stations L. A. O'Neill, Inc. Motorists cnminz‘ frtnr;! Pr‘f‘mkli: 601 H St. N.W. ill find it convenient to take 4l “ath street ferry to Staten Isiand, || Bradburs Bat'y & EI Service then following the main road to Tot- 6i6 Pa. Ave. S.E. tenville, crossing by the ferry to}] Western” Auto Supply Co. Perth Amboy. - In g'r‘!‘: Almbol)' ot v 3270 M St Now. straight on Smith street, :v'il;uegruns-flck avenue, making the || Modern Auto Supply Co. connection with the trunk line at 917 H St. NE. Metuchen. New England Tourists. From Boston and lower New Eng- land points, either the Boston Post road or the inside route can be used to New Haven. The Post road route goes through _Dedham, Walpole, Wrentham and Pawtucket to Provi- dence; thence through Apponaug, Wickford, Narragansett Pier, West- ,er]y, Groton, New London. Saybrook, Clinton, Guilford and Branford to New Haven. The inside route lies through Wes- ton, South Sudbury and Mariboro to Worcester; then through Spencer, Warren and Palmer to Springfield, running down the west side of the Connecticut river through Warehouse Point and East Windsor Hill to East Hartford: crossing the Connecticut ¢ river to Hartford; then through Meri- den to New Haven. The Middletown route offers an -alternate from Hart- ford through Middletown and Durham to New Haven. From New Haven the old Post road is used, running through Traylor-Ettinger Bat'y Service 1417 Irving St. N.W. The John A. Wineberger Co., Inc. 3700 Ga. Ave. Now. Smith’s Bat'y & EL Service 2119 15tk St Smithdeal Bat'y & EL Service 133 Pa. Ave. N.W. Takoma Asto Supply Station 16 Cedar St. Takoma Park, D. C. “The Still Better Willard” No More 125/ Main Statien Lasts Longer Milford, Stratford, Bridgeport. Nor- walk, o Stamford, Rye and New Rochelle. : AND STEPPED DIRECTLY IN THE PATH OF A WESTBOUND CAR. THE ACCIDENT WAS FATAL. From New Rochelle it is prefer- 1621-23 L St. N.W. able to follow the shore road,to the Pelham parkway, which béecomes STARTING LIGHTING IGNITION We beg to announce to the motoring public that our rewinding departments are now able to rewind your auto generator and starter armatures and field coils, at a price that figures a saving and far below the cost of a new installation. Quotations upon request. PASSENGER CARS , COMMERCIAL CARS TRUCKS ACCESSORIES INSURANCE 5th & L Sts. N.W. 4 W - 1st & 2d Floors Official Service Station for Westinghouse, North East Electric, Bijou, Luce-Neville, Gray-Davis, Bosch, Berling, . 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