The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 24, 1928, Page 7

SUBTERRANEAN STREETS SOLVE “TRAFFIC JAMS own With Traffic’ New York Transportation Experts Say Is Solution PROPOSE NEW HIGHWAY Streets Needed for Pedestrians as Traffic Reaches Satura- tion Point New York, Nov. 24.—Manhattan vehicular traffic must go subterran- ean or serial, or both, if there is to be any relief from the congestion that makes a maelstrom of city streets during the busy hours of the peed night. ‘ith no room to spread out, be- cause of its insular location, the world’s largest city has to grow vertically. So its sky-scrapers stretch farther into the clouds and its roots go deeper into the rock. But the streets so far have not changed. Thus, say traffic experts and cit planners, streets must grow vertical- ly too. But the lar conception of New York a half century hence, with level upon level of elevated motor highways filling the metro- politan canyons, is only a fantastic dream, they declare. Underground Streets Phillip D. Hoyt, New York traf- fic commissioner, believes the move- ment will be downward. Vehicular tunnels will interlace the island somewhat in the manner of the sub- ways which now carry so many mil- lions daily. Traffic now has reached the satur- . ation point in certain sections. There is no longer much attempt to get around in a motor car on lower di Broadway, in the Wall street sec- tion. The streets are needed for pedestrians, Commuters from Westchester and Long Island, who may have several motors, use the trains to get into New York unless they wish to start in at the crack of dawn with the milk ‘wagons, Hour on One Bridge ,. During the rush hours it is noth- ing to spend an hour trying to motor across the Queensboro Bridge, which is the direct route between Manhat- tan and Long Island. This bridge was built to accom- modate a maximum of 40,000 ve- hicles a day. But traffic officers have counted as many as 86,000 & span of 24 hours. This situation will be somewhat relieved, however, when @ new vehicular level has been added to the bridge. Mid-town New York, the section of Times Square, which includes both the Pennsylvania and the New York Central stations and the shopping center of the city, is another satur- ation point. Trying to get from the east tothe west side’of the city, cross town, is enough to make you realize that the east and west will ae meet unless you get out and walk, At night, the Broadway theatrical section is a solid jam. The streets not only are choked with motors, but with pedestrians, who swarm up from the subway stations and pour in from the hotels, Those city dwellers who plan to motor out of the city for Sunday, find that they driye in a negalae city traffic—no matter what direction they go. “Certainly the traffic condition in ‘Manhattan is bad,” admitted Com- missioner Hoyt. “But consider the city’s growth. “In 1912 there were 36,984 motors His Lepr in the city—and_ they talked of a traffic problem. Today there are over 900,000 in the metro- politan area alone. a Have 2,700 come i “Ten years ago, 1' policemen were able to take care of the traffic. Te there are 2700 men in the traffic division alone. Besides these, there are 3500 lights to control the movement of cars. “With this: congested conditi two. of the city’s main arteries traffic have been tied up’ for the past year—Park avenue on the east side being widened and Eighth ave- nue on west side, being in- capacitated because of the subway that is Belog. balls beneath. “The city has a program of some $25,000,000 worth of transportation epcorenent, coding. street wid- ings, and the new 38th street tun- ‘nels and the west side express high- way, which soon are to be begun. In the next five rs, despite the normal increase in the number of motors, conditions should improve.” The proposed highway along the waterfront of the Hudion river is ex] to be a great boon to traf- fic. It is to begin at Canal street, near the terminal of the Holland tunnel, the subterranean route from New Jersey, and continue alo: West street, to 72nd street where it will meet the lower end of Riverside drive and will provide a totally new digeay 60 feet wide, without cross ic. The 88th/street tunnels will join First avenue and 12th avenue, almost the width of the in an r- gtound Shoreaiplitace without cross frattic and will relieve some of the midtown congestion, NEW BUILDING TO HONOR POE ‘Richmond, Va., Nov. 24.—(AP)— Elizabeth Arnold Poe, mother of the magn who wrote imniortal prose and ves her name to a new building erected at the Poe use the prictless a! here ta hor thie Iatast ‘addition to. the : is of the Ii Orta “eben thea leaving tf 3 = be i itt, is PE i & F i in| ing: Millions of dollars in damages was wrought when a seven-inch rainfall raised Kansas and Missouri rivers out of their courses. The scene at the top is a street in Kansas City, Mo., where the Blue river rose to an unprecedented en and becam. boatmen and rescued scores who were stranded in their homes without food or heat. In the icture below firemen are shown inging . boat “to shore” with refugees. around the shrine bloom white hya- cinths and sweet alyssum. Near here was Poe's childhood home and the grave in historic St. John’s churchyard where his mother | sleeps. The house where he married Virginia Clemm, his child wife, is not far off, nor is the site of the Old Exchange hotel, in the parlor of which he made his last public appearance when he gave his lecture on “The Poetic Principle” and re- cited “The Raven” to an audience of barely a dozen persons. Shrine Opened in 1922 In a nearby river he swam the long summer days with his com- spon and from the old wharf a few blocks below the place of the shrine he took his final departure from Richmond, leaving by boat for Baltimore, where 10 days later he lied. Granville G. Valentine saved the Old Stone House from destruction in 1912, and the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities finally undertook its preservation. The late Archer G. Jones conceived the idea of establishing a Poe shrine. The Poe Association in Richmond, founded by Charles Graves, now of the New York Times, had become al- most defunct, and it was to this or- ganization that Mr. and Mrs. Jones went with their plans. In the spring of 1922 the shrine was formally opened under distin- uished auspices. Since that time e Poe society, which today finds material expression in new build- id rare collection of articles ted with the author, has grown rapidly. CHURCH PRAYS BY TELEPATHY Lighted Candle and Swinging Pendulum Used by New Religious Grbup Binghamton, N. Y., Nov. 24.-(AP) —A religious group that teaches the use of telepathy for broadcastin; prayer with a view to effecting heal- ng has established itself here. _ Leading exponents of the prin- ciples of the group here are W. Lath- top Meaker and his secretary, Miss Evelyn Smith. Public notice was attracted to the group by the inser- tion of this advertisement in a news- Paper: “Listen in—10 a. m.—A eleetiic experiment. Silent Prayer Circle.” he equipment used in the rites of the group is simple, eoneiating only of a lighted candle and a swinging. pendulum. Meaker thus describes their use: ‘ “My suggestion in this regard would require that such a-pendulum, made from whatever materials may be best suited to the environment, be placed between the worshiper and le candle, “It may be either a clock-like de- vice, kept swinging by mechanical means which would keep it contin- ually swinging through the flame arc, or simply a suspended weight which is given fresh impulse from time to time by an attachment, in which case the rate of swinging will, of course, remain constant, although the length of the are will gradually diminish after each fresh impulse. “In using the device in regular service the pendulum should be t swinging constantly. Care shou strained effort adept a eae 8 01 service to its rhythm.” - : It was further explained that si- lent prayer was broadcast mentally by the leaders of the cult every morning at 10 o’clock and it by tuning in at this time it was ped those in need of healing would re- ceive much benefit. A century or so ago men Wwore-ear- tings and. carried muffs streets of Boston. poe tes When You Want Tire Service BISMARCK ACCESSORY & We Change Tires THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE OE ee 0 ETNA’S FLOWNG LAVA WILL BENEFT COUNTRYSIDE IT RUINS IN SICILY Smoking Cinders of Present Will Yield Good Harvest in Years to Come Washington, Nov. 24—(AP)— Mount Etna is a benefactor as well as a destroyer. The great volcano which has been pouring death and destruction over the surrounding countryside does as it works evil, the National “ wast yng tee eruptions, Etna fe fields, If there were no Eti probably would be no Sicily. there were not lava flows, the slopes of Europe’s greatest volcano would become an abandoned desert. Few Sicilian peasants, however, would admit that a tongue of smoking lava cinder that spre: over his field, crushes his orchard, smashes his home and destroys his village is a gift of heaven. Dynamite to Plant When it has cooled, the jagged bed of frozen rock looks even less like fertilizer. But the great-grand- con of the peasant wiped cut by Etna’s fury probably will plant and reap a harvest on that volcanic flow when it has weathered. Farmers on Etna’s slo) blast holes in old la’ and in the pits plant almond, chestnut, lemon and olive trees which thrive vigorously on the disintegrating volcanic rock. The best wine of Sicily, it is said, comes from vine- yards on the flanks of Etna. Country Is Wealthy No better proof of the mountain’s power to spread prosperity, the Geographic society says, exists than the necklace ef towns that encircles the 10,789 foot peak — Catania, ! Acireale, Giarre, _Linguaglossa, Randazzo, Bronte, Aderno, Paterno, Misterbianco and others. The horn of plenty has pour-d products so generously into the villages that a railroad, the Circumet~ea, has been built to carry tne surplus to the seaport of Catania. Travelers find a trip on this 70- |. mile railroad the best way to see Etna. The train slides through or- h now | chards, vineyards: and grain fields; ercsses lava flows of all ages and pausés in towns colonized by the ancient Greeks, seized b nicians, taken by and rewon by Italy. Above the rail- road lies the Regione Boscosa of pines, birches and oaks, and above that the sterile Deserta capped by \the snowy crater lip. ii edi aes {” Air Station Talk | ? the Phoe- magnified by the Romans, the flaxen-haired Normans (By The Associated Press) Under the wavelength realloca- tion, WSAI, Cincinnati is not on the air after sunset each day. Another Chicego station is broad- casting NBC feetures. It is WENR, and appears in the chein hookups twice a week, “The Yeomen of the Guard,” a Gil-| bert and Sullivan ueer opera, is to be broadcast by KOA for two hours on the night of December 11. With its assignment to 950 kilo- cycles, KMBC, Kansas City, divides time with WHB, both stations using the same transmitter. The plan eliminates interruptions in the pro- grams, Physical education has been in- stituted in homes of 21 states through the health and_ happiness program of KMOX, St. Louis. For an hour each morning C. A. Neavles of the Y. M. C. A. leads corrective exercises. More than 9,000 exercise charts have been rquested by lis- teners. Features of the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago are to be made available to the radio audience through a series of broadcasts from December 3 to 7, inclusive. The hour selected is from 2 to 3 p, m., Eastern Standard time. In addition, the horse show and par- ade will be described the evening of December 3. Oil portraits disclose the fact that men once wore petticoats, ruffs and ea | When River Went on Rampage in Kansas City | | _Additional Sports Midland College Team Boasts of Two Daddies Fremont, Neb., Nov, 24.—Edwin Metz and Ned Sackett, center and halfback of the Midland colle; eleven here, are just plain “Dad” Metz and “Pop” Sackett to their teammates, There’s a reason. One might say two reasons, letz is the father of a six-month- old oe ete and Sackett is the daddy of an eight-month-old girl. Harp to Fight Kipp on Beach Card Dec. 1 Two aspiring knights of the ring will furnish the headline attraction ofa eae which is being planned by moter Jay Wilson to be staged at Beach Dec. 1. The headliners are Bill Harp, Bak- er coal miner, and Tony Kipp, now of Béach but formerly of St. Paul. Harp, while in the army, met and defeated a number of good men. He is said to be a husky slugger. Kipp is confident that the army man wi be left on’“No Man’s Land” when the skirmish is ended. Harry Meek is scheduled to meet young scrapper from Alpha in the semi-windup. Several preliminaries are being planned, according to the promoter, Flegel Named Captain of ’29 Linton Outfit Art Flegel, quarterback on this year's eleven, was elected captain of the 1929 Linton high school eleven at a recent banquet to the football team given by Mrs. Wallace Kyes. Coach William Gussner and L. D. Berg, superintendent of the city schools, were honorary guests at the banquet. The following football players at- tended: William Wolverton, Art Flegel, Sebastian Thomas, Carl Woods, Scott Brant, Lawrence Vetter, Dar- win Fogle, Clark Gillespie, Pius Volk, Lynn Steensland, Ralph Haugse, Martin Reidlinger, Banyor Blore, and M. Kraft. Wolverton is the retiring captain of the outfit. Weakest Dartmouth Team Meets Purple Evanston, Ill, Nov. 24.—(#)—A Dartmuoth football team, a_ shell of the powerful Green eleven of other years, comes west today to meet the tricky Northwestern team before 50,- 000 persons, In 1925 Dartmouth came to Chi- cago and ran over Chicago Univer- sity as they had ridden over all other opposition that year. The 1928 team is “just another football outfit.” The past season has been the most disastrous in Dartmouth’s long grid- iron history. It has been encourag: ing to Northwestern, where Dick Hanley of Haskell fame is complet- ing his second year as coach. The Big Green team in twenty- seven football seasons has won 179 ames, lost 40 and tied 12. Only ale of the big eastern teams has escaped defeat at the hands of Dart- mouth. In only four years has the Hanover aggregation lost more than one game. Northwestern started slowly but improved with each game, reaching the peak of its play in games against Minnesota and Purdue which the Purple won. Dartmouth alumni will meet here before the game. They have re- area 12,000 seats in Dyche sta- juni. MILKFED GRIDDERS Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 24.—(AP)— A pint of milk, mixed with a raw egg, chocolate and sugar, is given to each of the 40 members of the Uni- versity of Nebraska varsity football squad each afternoon after practice. Charles I removed one of the pearls from his earrings as he was being led to the gallows and gave it to a friend. Fepcectpeeeees Sees eeteenr é in this city, cur stock of brand aladévancoments Shave mover Smit dows payment —cacsy Alt nctuds suet edvea: pureldeartahen Stair Motor Co. Broadway at Seventh ASSOCIATE DEALERS Bismarck, N. D. Ashiey—Heshe) a,ge0 ee Me terete Mere. Co. Yhton— Witten Machive Shop. Brabett—Poet —- “& tees Pl grrr) Weets. Bea Fret jometer 2s INFANT CARE BOOK SUPPLANTS ONE More Than 100,000 Queries Re- PAGE SEVEN © Sellen assistant to the secretary of labor. The bureau receives more than 100,000 letters a year. One in a distant state telegrap! ask- .. |ing, “Shall 1 give my baby a dose of castor oil?” The question was referred to a woman physician in the maternity and infant hygiene division, who advised the anxious mother to consult her own family doctor. Kee It is one of the rules of the burea®, ‘not to give any medical treatment or advice in individuai cases, bite to help parents keep their children well by proper feeding, care and observ« jance of the necessary rules of hy- | giene. “Until the creation of the bureau, welfare workers, who were constant- jly receiving letters asking about | methods of child care, were struck |by the contrast between the ease | with which farmers obtained help in | dealing with the disease and plants of livestock and the lack of national center of information on the prob- ‘lems of childhood,” said Smelser. TOUGH ON MAE! les, Nov, 24.—(AP)—At ¢ Murray is unable to o expensive foreign cars, ‘ount, and much of her The sheriff is holding ion. Above is pictured the Eltinge theater building, the second floor of which is the new home of the state health department. The second floor to the building was built during the last summer at an approximate cost of $12,000 and was occupied by the state health department the first part of October. ‘ The building is located on Third street between Broadway and Thayer | Y8/@) © | them in NATIO’ WALK PLANNED Havana -(AP)-Felix Car- j é runner, who once outlaste: jorse in an endur- ance race, intends to walk across the United States pushing a cart con- his tent and food. He is 53 = avenues. ah OLD ON GOLF LINKS s Valley, Calif., Nov. 24.(AP) "s gold in them greens at the ‘a country club, This does not that the winning of high s depends on good putts. Metal ON HORSE AS U. S. ‘BEST SELLER’ The “best seller” of the government | * printing office now is the bulletin | ceived Annually by Depart- {°". “Infant Care,” issued by the n found. 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