OPERATING COST OF A THREE-TON GASOLINE

TRUCK IN SERVICE OF A PRINTING HOUSE

The effect of constant starting and stop- truck and two minutes to unload without ping with heavy loads is likely to be much damage of any kind to the lumber. more injurious to the mechanism of the heavy truck than in the case of the lighter type of motor vehicle, and the operation of the engine for comparatively long periods of time when the truck is not actually in motion is a very much larger item of expense in the heavier types of trucks. It is for this reason that the majority of motor-truck users who have tried out both the electric and gasoline trucks, have restricted the use of their gasoline vehicles to long-haul work where the advantages of speed and flexibility of operation enable them to cover a much larger territory in a shorter period of time than would be possible with the electric vehicle. The electric vehicle, however, is admirably adapted to the transportation of freight in the congested parts of the city, as well as to the distribution of freight where deliveries are made within a limited area.

A LUMBER COMPANY'S EXPERIENCE

This truck makes long hauls, and while no accurate record of mileage was kept during the year, it was estimated that the truck was in operation 300 days and made an average of forty-five miles per day. 300 Working Days per Year. 45 Miles per Day (estimated). 13,500 Miles per Year. Insurance. Wages. Tires .062 cents per mile. Oil and grease .014 cents per mile. Gasoline .031 cents per mile. Maintenance General repairs

$193.75

1158.10

844.31

423.80

199.60

Total for the year.

97.86 535-53 $3452.95

Total for a day.
Approximate cost per mile.

11.51

0.253

ACTUAL COST OF OPERATING A FIVE-TON

The following figures show what has been TRUCK IN SERVICE OF A MANUFACTURER, done by a large lumber company, comparing this work with the use of horses.

Four months of actual usage of a five-ton truck, during which time an accurate record of the truck and also of the company's teams was kept, has developed some surprising facts and figures. The computation in both cases is based on the total investment, insurance, interest, up-keep, repairs, etc.

It has been thoroughly demonstrated that the truck replaced five and one-half teams and that the truck will deliver lumber at 36 cents per 1000 feet while the teams cost 75 cents per 1000 feet, or more than twice as much.

HAULING VERY HEAVY MERCHANDISE

6 per cent. Interest on $5000 per Year..
10 per cent. Amortization per Year.
Four Kinds of Insurance..

Total per Year

Total per Day..

$300.00

500.00

382.50

$1182.50 $3.95

This represents absolute fixed charges for
the first year which cannot be reduced.
In addition to that come as relatively
fixed charges:
Garage per day.
Driver per day.

Making total fixed charges per day..

The actual operating expenses per
day on a basis of 50 miles per day
include:

2 helpers per day.
Gasoline-121⁄2 gal. at 15 cents.
Oil-1⁄2 gal. at 50 cents..

This is on a basis of a guarantee of
8,000 miles for tires costing complete,
$480.00.

$15.26
42.5

$5.63

Tires-6 cents per mile.

15.00

5

5

8.5

3

5,000 ft. 5 tons 42,500 ft. 36 cents

2,500 ft.
2.5 tons
7,500 ft.
75 cents

The truck is equipped with a roller body and as an accessory, a small four-wheel loading wagon for gathering lumber about the yards and having load ready for truck. By found that it takes actual timing it he three minutes t

Repairs 4 cents per mile...

This is on a basis of a general over haul per year and minor repairs from time to time, all costing, $600.00. Depreciation estimated at 2 cents per mile. . . .

$4.00

1.87

.25

3.00

2.00

1.00 3.00

$7.95

1.00 12.12

$20.07

Total cost per day at 50 miles......
It is safe to estimate that $20 per day covers the
entire expense of Fixed and Operating Charges
per truck.

On this basis the average delivery of
5000 lbs. per day would cost.

e lumber to the

.400 cents -333 cents .266 cents

J

MARCH

99 66

OAQUIN MILLER, who died on Feb- Desert," "Shadows of Shasta," "Memories ruary 17, in his one-room cabin near and Rhymes,' 49, or the Gold Seekers of Oakland, Cal., was seventy-one years of the Sierras," "The Destruction of Gotham" age. Cincinnatus H. Miller, which was his and others, have earned him a high place real name, was born in Indiana. His name, on the literary roll of our country's formative however, has for more than half a century period. Miller's topics were not those of the been associated with the mountains and border, as might have been expected, but the mines of the Far West, a figure inseparable common qualities of humanity: honor, from California and the Golden Gate. Miller courage, love and truth. He had a sense of has been farmer, miner, lawyer, judge and editor. He attempted to sell his first manuscript to Bret Harte when the latter was editor of the Overland. His books of poems, "Songs of the Sun Land," "Ship of the

musical poetic style well developed, and all of his verse is steeped in the imagery of the Bible. His philosophy of work was that the art of poetry is found in books, but the inspiration of poetry only in nature.

LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH

THE MAGAZINES AND REVIEWS

HE serious articles in the early spring article on "The Jewish Invasion of America." issues of the popular magazines are per- Two new departments have been started by haps rather less numerous than earlier in the McClure's "Health, Public and Private," year. The Atlantic, however, is well sustain- under the supervision of Samuel Hopkins ing its reputation for sound and enlightening Adams, and a new department for women, contributions to current discussion. The edited by Inez Milholland. Mr. Albert W. Atwood gives in the Ameropening article in the April number is by Brooks Adams on "The Collapse of Capitalis- ican Magazine a vivid and startling picture tic Government." Other notable contributions of American railroad wrecks with some of the to this number are "Constantinople in War- reasons for their rapid increase. Time," by H. G. Dwight; "Both Sides of the Servant Question," by Annie Winsor Allen; and "Book-Publishing and Its Present Tendencies," by George P. Brett of the Macmillan Company.

The principal article in Everybody's is "The Balkan Thunderbolt," by Frederick Palmer. We quote elsewhere in this number of the REVIEW OF REVIEWS from Mr. Palmer's graphic description of the seat of war.

The Popular Science Monthly for March publishes three articles of unusual interest to farmers "A Chronicle of the Tribe of Corn," by Prof. E. M. East; "The Utilization of the.Nitrogen of the Air," by Arthur A. Noyes; and "How European Agriculture Is Financed," by Prof. H. C. Price.

The Century has made a special effort to bring out material of timely interest in relation to the change of administration at Washington. "The Kind of Man Woodrow Wilson I" by Mr. W. G. McAdoo, who, since the writing of this article, has been made President Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury, is an intimate revelation of a personality con- Important articles in the North American cerning whom the American public cannot Review are: "American Libraries and the at this moment be sated in its quest for infor- Investigator," by Herbert Putnam; "The mation. Prof. Bliss Perry offers an admirable Commercial Awakening of the Moro and appreciation of "Woodrow Wilson as a Man Pagan," by Major John P. Finley, U. S. A.; of Letters." Of special significance at the and "The Virginians and Constitutional threshold of the new President's official Government," by Thomas Nelson Page. Career at Washington is the brief account of Only one of the Forum's articles for March Grover Cleveland and His Cabinet at has a direct bearing on American political Work," by President Cleveland's Secretary conditions. That is a study entitled "The of the Navy, the Hon. Hilary A. Herbert. Changing Focus in Politics," by Walter The most notable pages in Scribner's for Lippmann. This a suggestive survey of the March serve as a reminder of the Titanic most recent movements in the direction of diater nearly one year ago, and are contrib- socio-political reforms in this country. The ted by Captain Rostrom, commander of aim of the writer, however, is not to emphathe Carpathia, which rescued so many of the size specific reforms in themselves, but to This unpretentious narrative direct attention to the great possibilities remarkable for its clarity and directness. that they foreshadow. "Whether or not we Harper's continues its series of suggestions adopt certain specific bills, high tariff or low for better farming with a paper on "The tariff, one banking system or another, this Conservation of the Fertility of the Soil," trust control or that, is a slight gain compared by A. D Hall, F. R. S. Edward Hungerford to a change of attitude toward all political gives a good description of the Great Lakes problems." In his view the method of reform and the steamboat traffic thereon.

matters even more than the reform itself. In McClure's an able defense of the militant "A man who couldn't think straight might suffragettes in Langland is made by Elizabeth get the right answer to one problem, but how Robines. We q on another page of this much faith would we have in his capacity Burton J. Hendrick's to solve the next one?" department fo

THE NEW "CONSTRUCTIVE QUARTERLY"

THE appearance of a new review with a

serious purpose and wide field is always a noteworthy event. The Constructive Quarterly, the first number of which appeared last month, aims to be a journal of the "faith, work, and thought of Christendom." It will be edited from New York by Silas McBee, formerly editor of The Churchman, and a man of solid attainments in many different phases of religious and philosophic thought. The Constructive Quarterly, we are informed in the introduction to the first number, attempts to build on what the Christian churches are actually believing, doing, and thinking. "The purpose is to create an atmosphere of mutual confidence, of mutual knowledge, of mutual desire for fellowship." It is to be "non-official, non-sectarian and impartial." The editor will be "responsible for the kind of writers. admitted to its pages, but the writers are alone responsible for what appears over their own names." An editorial board made up of eminent authorities all over the world assists the editor.

This number contains a list of articles which are presumed to represent the tone and scope of the magazine's purpose. Dr. William P. Du Bose, Dean Emeritus of the Theological Department of the University of the South, leads with an article on "A Constructive Treatment of Christianity." He writes boldly and tolerantly, holding for what he regards as essentials, and emphasizing what he calls "the universal drawing of humanity to Christ." Mr. Wilfrid Ward, an eminent Roman Catholic publicist and leading member of the Council of the Catholic Union of Great Britain, and, since 1886, editor of the Dublin Review, follows with a discussion of "Union Among Christians." He is not sanguine of an early realization of this ideal, but he says that it commends itself in many ways to the ancient Church of Rome. Archbishop Platon, the head of the "Christians of the Holy Orthodox Russian Church in the United States and Alaska," contributes a cordial message of hope and good cheer. Dr. Friedrich Loofs, Professor of Church History in the University of Halle, and an authority on Lutheran apologetics, gives "A German View of the Sola Fide." He maintains that justification by faith alone must be the basis of all evangelical dogmatics. A survey of the church of France to-day is contributed by Professor Georges Joyau, Fellow of the University of France, author, contributing editor to the "Catholic Encyclopedia," and as

Photograph by Hollinger, New York.

DR. SILAS M'BEE, EDITOR OF THE NEW REVIEW, THE "CONSTRUCTIVE QUARTERLY sistant editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes. Professor Joyau points out the devotion of the priesthood in France, and rejoices in the way the "curé of the Concordat has transformed himself into a curé of the Separation.'

The Rev. John W. Wynne, S. J., one of the editors of the "Catholic Encyclopedia," a member of the faculty of Fordham University and editor of the Roman Catholic weekly known as America, sums up the "Reforms of Pius X." These reforms in educational matters and matters of the details of many of the ceremonies Dr. Wynne calls constructive in the best sense. They have, he says, preserved the integrity of the Church; brought the hierarchy and the people into closer union; expedited the routine business of the Vatican; "enhanced the beauty of the liturgy; strengthened religious knowledge; and magnified in the eyes of the faithful the three great sacraments,-Matrimony, Holy Orders and the Holy Eucharist."

"Presbyterian Reunion in Scotland" is the topic treated by Rev. W. P. Paterson, Professor of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh, and a well known theologian of the established Church of Scotland. Dr. Pater

son traces the history of Presbyterianism in gives, under the title "An American Saint," Scotland, and sets forth the present status a sympathetic character sketch of Henry of "reconciliation." Dr. Shailer Mathews, Clay Trumbull.

widely known as a popularizer of biblical The less strictly religious topics considered scholarship, and for the past five years Dean in this number of the new quarterly are by of the Divinity School of the University of Dr. William Sanday, Professor of Divinity Chicago, writes on "The Awakening of and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and American Protestantism." Far from being one of the most distinguished scholars of the decadent, American protestantism is renas- Church of England, and Mr. Arthur Hendercent, he maintains. Its real awakening, son, M. P., Secretary of the English Labor however, "is inward and best seen through its party. Professor Sanday discusses "The rapid readjustment to the new conditions Pacific and the Warlike Ideals," commenting in the midst of which it finds itself." The on the recently issued book of General von necessity of emphasizing the importance of Bernhardi, the German military writer, who conversion is insisted upon by Dr. J. F. Mc- glorifies war. He-Dr. Sanday-sums up Connell, one of the newly elected Bishops of his argument by saying that, since things the Methodist church. The knowledge of always tend to be rational and war is essenreligious processes which we have to-day, tially irrational, "we cannot doubt that in says Bishop McConnell, in conclusion, would the long run war must give way." Mr. Henwarrant us in attaching "more importance derson, who has long been prominent in the than we do to the approach of the kingdom councils of Trade Unionism and of the British of God through the experience of the humble Wesleyans, asks: "What are to be the future and contrite heart." "St. Paul's Message to relationships between the forces of religion Religion" is analyzed and interpreted by Dr. and labor?" He concludes that the labor Benjamin W. Bacon, Professor of New Tes- movement in Great Britain is tending totament Criticism and Exegesis in Yale Uni- wards rather than veering from a revived versity. Dr. Bacon, who is one of the best- religious consciousness. The churches and known Congregational leaders, character- organized labor, he says, "in conjunction izes St. Paul's message as an original contribu- with the power of an all conquering Christ, tion and a permanent addition to the religious will transform individual existence, give it a consciousness of the race, yet "anything but new life, beautify the houses of our people, a substitute for the message of Jesus Him- ennoble our cities and assist in bringing in an self." Dr. Robert E. Speer, Lay Secretary era when the beatitudes may become the of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Pres- common rule, and when the moral ideas of byterian Church, well known as a traveler the prophets are embodied in the ordinary and writer on the philosophy of missions, habits of a contented people."

ARE WE BETTER THAN WE USED TO BE?

THERE

HERE are many persons and among Revue (Paris), under the caption at the head them are men distinguished in various of this article, discusses at some length the fields of science-who hold that, however entire question of human progress. "Hapmuch our material well-being may increase, pily for us," he says, "and for our efforts, the moral progress is impossible. Sir Alfred elevation of our souls is as real as the increase Russel Wallace, for example, says, in his of our material welfare." He considers that work "The Wonderful Century," that "the "the best method of proving the possibility discoveries from the mechanical point of of human progress is to demonstrate its realview during the past century exceeded in ity." The fact is that "a misapprehension, value all else that has been accomplished as old as human culture itself, persists beduring the period that separates us from the tween material and moral progress." The time of Jesus Christ." But, subsequently, in perceptible signs of progress form but an an article on "Evolution and Character" in the Fortnightly Review, he voices his conviction that "we are today, in all probability, mentally and morally inferior to our semibarbaric ancestors."

This view is not shared by the well-known French writer M. Jean Finot, who in La

insignificant part of it. We should consider "the parallel evolution of our sentiments and sensations, of the increase of the sympathy which animates us, and of the larger and more profound altruism which fills modern humanity."

Comparing the man of to-day with his an