Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1928, Page 60

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 19, 1928--PART 4. GAS N. OIL. In the Motor World BY G. ADAMS HOWARD. other vehicular trafic—in other LAND does not care for|words, for automobiles. the words “pedestrian con-{ Mr. Harland has lived many trol.” Nor does he even|years in New York, where the care to split hairs and invoke the | crosstown street car lines are words “pedestrian regulation.” | few and where up-town surface All such terms and phrases are | lines are limited, and where sub- strictly taboo in the traffic direc- | ways handle the great bulk of the tor's nomenclature of phrases|human trafic which moves down having to do with any sort of /into the man-made canyons be- supervision over where the pedes- : low Seventy-second street every | trian treads or moves under his morning and back every evening. | own power. Something more than | collaborating with the elevated two years ago the courts held railways to solve Manhattan's that regulation of the movements | tremendous traffic problem. He of pedestrians by statute is un-|is well aware that Washington, constitutional and virtually im- | where far more attention is paid possible of enforcement. {to esthetic considerations than But pedestrians are being killed | New York, presents a different n Washington nearly every week | problem. and that the unlovely because they are not regulated in | steel girders of an clevated road- any way and because of lack of | way would be extremely unwel- uiding facilities that will at'come above the thoroughfares of. east iend to keep them out of (the Capital. So, he has taken the the way of automobiles. The other tack. and suggested that well known physical fact that an | the street car tracks be depressed | automobile moves faster than a | below the street level, and placed | man on foot needs no demonstra- | in subways through which the! n nor can it be controverted major portion of the downtown hat careless or indifferent pedes- i moving human stream would trians cause more real traffic!/travel. Pennsylavnia avenue be- | trouble than the most fruitful!tween the White House and the causes of accidents between mo- Capitol would be free of street tor cars. cars: there would no longer be Working on a Plan Now. gw‘lenr(id "tr‘._nmcdlhro(i\c" of th: So the traffic director. steering Beeler plan of a decade ago at| the ship of supervisory cau(iorgl"hn“mh strect and New York | clear of the shoals of “pedes- 3venue: the latter thoroughfare | trian control” or “pedestrian reg- Would be free of street cars for tion.” plans to accomplish all | PAIt of its length, and Fourteenth | these hateful words imply in quite Street would likewise be relieved another way. Spurred to action Of street car traffic. The Harland | by a recent fatal accident on one Scheme has merit, and just at this the roadways surrounding Du- | time might well be considered. ont Circle, Mr. Harland is work- | Through the medium of our ith renewed haste on a plan valuable exchanges comes word of pedestrian control by electri- that two San Francisco men were cally operated lights which, if ap- | fun down by an automokile while proved by the District Commis- they, were singing “Sweat Ade-| sioners, will be installed at Du-|line.” It seems that out in the; pont Circle, and later at Thomas | West, where men are men, there | Circle and Towa Circle. In fair- are definite limits on the patience ness to the traffic director, it Of motorists. We wonder whether should be said that his scheme : the pedestrians gave three rous- for_controlling the movement of iNg cheers? edestrians was in process of evo- Sunday Motoring. TRAFFIC' DIRECTOR HAR-] D you DELIBERATELY SAW ME AIMING FOR THAT- OFENING YOURE JUST oNE JOSEPH, | WOULDNT LOWER MYSELF TO DISCUSS IT" WITH THEM- YOU ARE ONLY BRINGING { f YOURSELF DOWN TO THEIR LEVEL FOR THEY WOULDNT- UNDERSTAND- ({1} SPacE SNATCHERS! BUDDY, ITS > JUST THE "BREAKS YOU GET= SiMPLY THE SURVIVAL of A SLIGHT ALTERCATION CONCERNING SQUATTERS RIGHTS AT THE ONLY VACANT SPACE WITHIN THREE BLOCKS — WHAT DO You B(PECT?SOMSE' USHERS TO SHOW Jou A PLACE® WASHINGTON BOULEVARD ROUTE . OF ATLANTIC COAST HIGHWAYS Seven Great Roads Recommended by Regional Planning Federation Would Follow Project Backed by Capital Men. | The major route of the seven great “It remains for the seve Jurisdice highways recommended by the Regional l tions concerned with each of fne in- ‘| Planning Federation yesterday nlnngidivmual highways,” he said, “to com- the Atlantic_seaboard” would be th- | ofne in determining exact locations. and Washington Boulevard, now in process | to this end it is suggested that an of development by a corporation which ! early step toward realization might well {includes Dr. S. M. Johnson, former |be the creation of committees and the | managing director of the Lee Highway | holding of joint meetings engineers | Association, and several Washingion | of the cities and States involved, men, according to a preliminary report | lic officials and interested citizens in made public yesterday by George S.|various districts along the suggested | Webster, vice president of the federa- | routes to discuss plans with State and tion and chairman of the highway com- | Federal representatives and others to mittee which has surveyed the tristate ' decide upon definite lines of action region of Delaware, New Jersey and, A detailed description of the Pennsylvania. Through traffic would | routes follows be diverted away from the congested | Route No. 1 would avoid built-up | centers of cities in the tristate region |areas as much as possible and for th= | over seven major by-pass highways, most part follow new rights of way. {according to the committee report. Plans provide for an expr roadway | Particular attention has been given with few intersections and no direct to the Washington-New York route, grade crossings: and with Iocal road- | which would be direct, free of escessive | ways on either side. Direct connec- igrades and through comparativciy un- | tions would be made from this higaw: | developed country. in the various residential and in | The report follows extensive study trial centers and chief points of inter- by the highway committee of the fed- est along its route. It would be, In | eration under the chairman of Mr. |cffect, the backbone of the highwav | Webster, who is a former chief eugineer | system of the East Coast of the United | for the City of Philadclphia and mem- ' £tates, of vast importance to industry | ber of the board of engineers for the |trade and recreation and of great prar- | Delaware Bridge Commission. The rec- | tical and strategic value in time of war !ommcnda‘uons ;re m:ide :.r:ex; h:lo‘s)e as well as peace | co-operation and consultation with the | . ; | highway departments of Pennsylvanta, Dicet R &ite New N deiel | New Jersey and Delaware, portions of = The Washington to Mew York | which States are included in the tri- | would be direct and little destructive | state region. Indorsed by President. et Of the seven great highways recom- quisition and construction and | mended.” said Mr. Webster, “the major (5 0€ K8 rivhivary hrtoes | route would be a link in the propesed b ol el | low gradient superhighway parallelin il i {the flantic Coast from Florida 15 Ny Maine. already under contemplation and i to be known as the Washington boule- ! vard This road recently obtained | strong indorsement in principle from | President Coolidge in a speech before | | the Union League Club of Philadelphia. | | At that time the President said: “There | | should be a great trunk highway ex- | | tending from Maine to Chile. Our re- ationship with the vast territory be- veen the Rio Grande and Cape Horn in a commercial way will become more intimate. A good system of highways —By FISHER WELL, TS JJST proaching New York C. passing New York C! River near Yardley. would extend southw right of way. passing between and Langhorne and near Fort Was ton, crossing the Schuylkill Rt lution for several weeks before Again the cry of highway satu- | ::fer?‘\?gwa%c;%;stm?to %]:mfé?tif ration has been raised. Will the | cut and Massachusetis avenues L€ come when our highways are | intersect. I s‘o crz;wdetd with 1automtabxles that | e . ravel at a pleasant running Through it move automobiles in ities think it will, even Walter P.| a virtually endless stream at all | Chrysler, who has done quite a hours of the day. with the peak little bit to add to highway satu- | reached in the Tush hours just fation. ~Any pleasant Sunday| - afternoon on any of the good, T o O« 0, the, MOrMIng” ighways around Washington will in the afterncon. Around one give the motoring public of the side of the circl street cars|Capital an excellent opportunity ve. wi inct ~ to judge for itself. Try the| gxg\e.F\ox;t}zha‘?dlaa!sizg;n;;s};en'tr:cf_ | Baltimore pike on a Sunday after- | i i i i in hoon. Or the Mount Vernon road. | ¢ause Dupont Sircle s Jnique 1N or'the Frederick pike, or even the | other vehicular traffic, and be- Ellicott City route to Baltimore. | cause of its wide use at all hours more automobiles can be of the day as a play place for Crowded on these roads than jam children and a place of rest for |them any pleasant Sunday in the adults, Mr. Harland has chosen touring season, the time has come Dupont Circle as an ideal place for automobile shoehorns. for his initial pedestrian control experiment. Briefly, he plans to install sig- INCARS FOREGAST tain to Bring Bigger De- mand for Autos. BY E. E. DUFTY. By the year 2000 the population of the United States, if the present rate Commission of Fine Arts sees the |the 1920 figure. or 210,000,000 people. !day in the not far distant future By 1950, only 22 years from now, 145.- nal lights all around Dupont Cir- | (3 matter of a year or so) when | 000000 people will inhabit this country. cle. spaced to allow automobile Many of the roadways now trav-| where will these people live? Wil ond street car traffic to move for CIAnZ B gct‘lemmex}: mxar‘lgle 70 seconds in both directions. Will be closed to permit uninter-| 2 Gew York City. Then the lights will flash yellow Iupted carrying out of thei::‘"‘; :;'1‘ : El“m‘ iy :"’l'hcmf:f': end red, and for 15 seconds Government " building program. |Detrolt. Philadelphla. and other ‘arg pedestrians may move across the Against this day, he declares.‘“"m's build outward and upward, to roadwavs which inclose the circle, traffic authorities should plan onicontain even more thickly massed The yellow lights, under the plan Some means of routing traffic | populations? Or will the smaller com- 2s it has been worked out so far, | around this area so as to avoid | mumties and the country absorb them? will remain lit for about 5 sec- Ccongestion which in his judg- —The question arises also as to what onds, giving time to clear the, ment is bound to occur. . will become of the automobile. Small crosswalks of all pedestrians. Mr.| His solution of the problem is cities and towns, as well as large, are Harland views the circles of the Cutting off two city intersected by the avenues, throuzh the Mall. provided for in and particularly those handling the District of Columbia highway heavy trafic, such as Dupont Plan and already laid out in parts Circle, as traffic reservoirs, where |0f the Mall. The greatest center vehicular traffic is centralized to Of congestion, in his opinion, will be shunted into the avenues or be the area near the Center streets which intersect. When Market, where automobiles now| these circles are also breathing|are favored with unusually good | places for pedesirians who must Parking facilities, but where in| move through a constant stream the future by-pass roadways from of traffic to get to the oasis across Pennsylvania avenue south are the street, Mr. Harland believes, 2Dt to be closed. Seventh street | some provision should be made and Ninth street may have to b r for their safety ciosed, although this development |and “Iron Horses™ the prairies, people - : is too far in the future to be of /Who had been confined to, congested Planned as Experiment. absolute knowledge. In the mean- | Ommunities packed up the “old kit In 2 minor sense ana not in the time Mr. Moore hdprs the Lramc'b“ and lit out” for greener pastures, ajor T v - : ¢ | where freedom and possession of more va({?‘afegzema:: ‘é‘fr’é}:”&r”aa?_ alutrhontles of Washington will 'of the world's Rood‘:’mductd greater $3na hopes to get an indication of u}‘mk out some plan for by-passing 'parenthood. the way the Dupont Circle pedes- ‘t e traffic. » When steam became of widespread 2 uponi | Already. in his view, the need of | use in about 1830, the population of the trian lights will work, from the i % trafic lignts to go along Rhode S0Me SUCh scheme has made ft-|¥orid s jut half what W \s today, Tiand avenue ot lows Circle |Sclf manifest by the cxlraordlnary«‘;:f:s“ w"h"l’m;rm:dp:a":":,;“m’,‘m_ ese lights will be primarily for |LTaflic arrangements made neces- iions and medical science, the United traffie control and are not in- SafY DY excavations on Pennsyl-|states bids fair to grow substantially. tended 1o serve as aids to pedes- |vania avenue hetween Tenth and | But where this growth will lead, to or trians However they will fit Eleventh streets. . This situation, | from the city, is food for speculation. selves for that purpose, Mr Mr. Moore holds, is a small scale The recently published report of the and believes, if Dcdv:s‘;'nan'i example of what will occur when ‘Ch-lulao l‘!)»‘g:oml 5"{,'"'"‘ Commts'ulun 'with the trafic. and will |the Government building program | [eledls IRat, FLIMEIRR, communites definite indication of the 225 Well under way. As the traf- e s ed lights at | congestion. |in the city of the future, when perhaps ‘the aim of automobile manufacturers will be realized with every third person jrunning a car? Seventy million of | them are anticipated for the year 2000. Transportation Figures. Population increase is inevitable. History shows that transportation defi- nitely affects the rate of increase. Be- fore the coming of the steam engine, bringing with 1t rapid travel, population growth was slow. As soon as the great 5 ‘ | Chicago proper. This indicates a ten- c situation in this area now dency to avold the crowded large city stands, most of the vehicles mov- | with™ its skyscraping office structures ing eas are shunted north jand towering apartment bulldings. through Twelfth and Thirteenth streets to E jamming that comparatively narrow thorough- fare with 2 teeming maze where Massa- CIoSS Four- reet, presents guite a problem and one not n difficuit of solution as the circle nearly five Here street car 2 stream of c and there ildren or Suburban Growth Indorsed. Considering the definite trend toward more people and all the problems they Of 'may bring with them, it may be good business for the larger cities to stimi- for part of his scheme late suburban growth rather than on of the public to the growth inside the metropolis. Even of traffic acridents, Mr.|Bo pflk\ mim‘m;nul pm:x; lake fronts - 'Or| AN other municipal outdoor recrea- and plans 0 otk Hhrough | ional facitities are fully occupied. Sun- ns' assoclations, bus and taxi | jight and fresh air allotments are al- companics, strect car companies!ready subdivided into niggardly pleces. and other transportation agencies. By spreading its population over large 0 bring home to every resident of arcas, even though this tends to de- Washington the need for care jn (entralize business, city planners hold preventing of accidents. He has that the city will profit through a hap- “ompiled & chart showing just | PICT. healthier and more productive where traffic accidents have oc- | e causes Harl cf d it nee 5 a negligible involved in the great r conztruction of 1 should her of Governmer cities, too, cast a they occurred; who was involved pfl{mluunn } probable cau; In thoge | villages and towns of today, maki viere in- | them equal in size to some of the pre: enough | M Jarge communities. ey : involved in 109 of the Auto Important Factor. 212 accidents of record--he plans | Lo bring the cases before the citi- zens’ assoclations. Bimilar action L he taken with the taxi com- n&r—\.‘ street and bus com- ponles and operators of private |0 ORDETILY cars, If he finds one driver n- | wiil o e ot -d in two or three aceldents | distributing any hin a month, he will he called tnereases i the carpet nd if nation is not satisfactory """' ""‘“*Iv '“,}"""‘:” l"“’l bEimies Priost s other people. Fortunately, in o 'l’:'.a""b"’:";’,”u,"l‘; permanent wnd substantial fac tor revocation of license for | ',;u:“' cause 1s permitted under the law. | widenin Incidentally, Mr. Harland s at a loss 1o explain the large number ety property for logical ounds and 7 e guestion of travel by up and down the broad lending from the 6 the of Con- Harland r x4 strangely . 56 U top-heaviness. The automoblle, line of traffic sted arca 1o reli crowding of vehicles pare duwni ¢ bulk of the admin ‘tions of the Govern transferred from 1 & headquarters heyond - Whive House 10 a small sec- e city roughly belween qd ¥if freey rly does ol #nd 5 future future use, Communities now engaged railway or hus (94 decideqg | #7¢ Involved, unless there (inore Jaywalkers here than in| street car | OWher citfes. He does not, exactly cinoved from Pennsylvana | #ccuse Washington of heing a | Fifveents street, New | “BICK” own, in the pedestrian| Russ avenue west of Heventh | Snse, but tempers his admonition | Motor nd Fourteenth street as| far n as Thomas Cirele and move with the flow of traffic and | sccording plared ubway from which | B0V across iU Here uagain his | United Btates Teecers would extend into Pow- | knowledg ¥ and out toward George- } New York stands him in good 10w There would be no street s'ead, for in New York, he de- | cay traftic downtown shove the (Clares a pedestrian who attempts grouna under the Harland plan, [0 move against the trafe literal leaving main thorgughteres |y takes hus life in his hands «f tue congested zone free for bis feet and fleetness rules, | comtortable for are | but themselves, ubout Lisi # W oworry wuuld have the 21,035 Autos. York rireet figures furnished Department cintion show that vehitele the O | Ruesia, compared®1n one automobile MARKED INCREASE Greater Population Held Cer- Chairman Charles Moore of the |Of increase is continued, will be double | the great cities of today become cven | aralle]l roadways already writhing in the tofls of traffic | What will be the condition | team liners began to plough the sea | curred in the last month and how | weather eye to the future. Perhaps the trend will be toward the With more people, more automobiles and more everything else, staring an expectant world in the face, it 18 man- datary that plans be made to forestall the 1enl progenitor of this twentleth cen- progressiveness, important factor in population It is not m human tralt to worry over of providing littes for the future will be bene- n strects, building beuwer high- way outlets o the country, and zoning d_nensible idents in which pedestrians | €rowih, not only will make more things the |generations Just ahead will have less vehicles registered in all of L the suggestion that walkers | Russis titaled 21,035, as of July 1, 1027, the ! of Com- of traffic movement jn | ME1C6, 18 per cent being state owned, 19 per cent co-operatively owned, and 15 | per cent privately owned. Figures com- piled by the American Motorists’ Asso- this 18 one motor 1o every £723 inhiabitants In every five persuns in the United Blates. Shows Ratio Is | BY J. A. FOX. | Striking such queer notes as the in- i ability of a Chinese to read a caution sign printed in English and the ill-luck of a farmer who lost his life “endeav- oring to urge cows over crossing,” a study of grade-crossing accidents has just been completed by experts of the Bureau of Public Roads of the Depart- ment of Agriculture, and the findings published in an effort to stir interest in what is conceded to be one of the greatest of traffic problems, and one constantly growing. Among the principal ideas behind the bureau's study was to discover { what part poor roads might play in building up the toll of hundreds of killed and maimed annually. It was developed. however, that highway con- ditions had little influence. but while the investigators were finding this out they were discovering also that there is such an endless range covered by | the causes that to direct remedial measures. at any one quarter in the | hope of bringing about radical improve- | ment is useless; that the real cure for grade-crossing accidents is obvious— | the climination of the crossings. Survey 6,000 Accident Reports. The study was made by A. B { Fletcher. consulting_highwav engineer, 'and William G. Elot. 2d. assoclate | highway economist of the bureau. For | their field they surveyed the records {of approximately 6.000 accidents at< | grade-crossings reported to the Inter- | state Commerce Commission for 1926 i by the steam railroads of the country— | accidents which cost nearly 2,500 lives ltnd injuries to about 7,000 persons. | | And this does not take in the electric toll—lines which do not report to the 1. C. C., but whose crossing deaths, for | example, in 1926 totaled 237, to nothing of injured. Principally, of course, these accidents are crashes, but such miscellany also it included as mishaps to flagmen struck | | by vehicles. injuries to those jumping | from vehicles in_anticipation of col- | lisions that do not occur. wrecking of | highway carriers in avoiding collision« | with trains and careless pedestrians. As | | the result of its study, the bureau be- | lieves that new light has been thrown {on the grade-crossing problem | | Strangely enough. that cause which | | 1s almost invarfably assoclated with crossing accidents. racing with trains at intersections, does not show up so strongly. Reports Usually Opinion. Of this the report had this to say: | “Attempts to beat the trains were | occasionally reported, but usually only | as the opinion of the reporting of- | ficer.” ; Nor did the celebrated mixture of | alcohol and gasoline seem to cut such | |an important figure. The investigators | i summed up the situation thus “One hundred and three intoxicated | | motor-vehicle operators were reported land 25 intoxicated pedestrians. It is| | not surprising to discover that of the 103 drivers 64 were listed as having run into the train, and only 39 as having | been struck by the train. The high | proportion of the former may be due to the desire of the reporting officers to explaincertain otherwise inexplicable | accidents, whereas in more ordinary | cases intoxication might be passed over without special mention.” It may have been only & coineidence that the num- | ber of intoxicated pedestrians was | the same as the number of cases in which the accldent resulted from the pedestrian walking Into a train Defective brakes were mentioned as| contributing causes in only 51 cases, | inadequate headlights in 14 and deat- ness in 78, There were 250 instances in which the drivers apparently stalled on | the crossings, and of these the report says, significantly, “the reasons can | never be known * Interestingly, it adds, | that “In no case was & motor-vehicle | operator said to have been asleep at the | wheel." In one instance of record, however, a car was sthiled In front of a tratn when [ the diiver of & disabled car i tow ap- | plied hin brakes suddenly. “A helptul { nelghbor and several members of “his family were killed,” the report adds Panle Caused Crash. A frightened woman® passenger who grabbed the emergency brake was the responsible party in another case, and In several Instances car owners gave their lives tn efforts to get their ve- hicles clear of the tracks after stalling ‘The well known “lnnocent bystander™ also contributed his share of the ca ualties, flying wreckage hurting some, and, In one Instance, & car pulled up to awalt passage of & train was shoved nto its path when struck by a car in charge of an intoxicated operator. Going to study of physical con- ‘Federal Study of Crossing Accidents Increasing Rapidly I mainly resposible | erfticized by the surv | crossing acetdents v injured res for ‘Where on are reported comparative fi the two areas are about 50-50. There is another angle thrown on the situation with regard to accidents in rural communities, where the ques- tion of child drivers is taken up. Proportion Appears High. Explaining that the report cannot b~ used as the basis for any conclusions rs to the relative safety of men, wome and children as drivers because there i no comparable data as to the ratios of cach operating vehicles, the investiga- tors say this: “It may be suggested, however, that the 50 motor vehicle accidents occu to child operators out of a total of 4.96: seems disproportionately high. The larger proportion of child operators in the rural accidents (35 to 50). too, is noticeable. and is probably to be attrib- uted to the absence of. more liberal regulations ¢ * or laxity of en- forcement.” so far as licensing of opera- tors s concerned. 5 Accidents reach their peak in the late Fall, and in this connection it is noted that this seasonal variation has become | more marked in recent years, as the voiume of traffic has increased weather conditions for driving grow poorer. Saturday is disclosed as the day on which most accidents occur. and Sunday. unbelievably, as the day on which there are fewest, taking the year as a whole. However, the accidents on Sunday are by far the most deadly, as usually an entire family and perhaps a triend or two figure in the casualty list And when only that part of the year from May to Ociober, inclusive, fis studied. Sunday is found to run second in number of accidents, and Saturday is & close second in fatalities. The daily accident toll reaches its peak in late afternoon and carly eve- ning, after showing a steady. climb from the morning hours when crowds are bound for shop and office Taking up the question of protection the investigators remark that “a casual study of grade-crossing accidents makes it evident that no sort of crossing pro- tection can guarantee safety to cer- tain sorts of people.” but the humor of this is tempered with the addenda, “nor even under particular combina tions of circumstances, to careful us of the highways" Of course, unpro- and | tected crossings are the source of the! most accidents Gate stem Favored. The most positive form of protec- fon is declared to be gates., operated a watchman on the crossing or In a nearby tower. Next comes em- ployment of & watchman who sten |on the crossing: after that, in me: sure of efficacy, signals, then signs Intermittent finally protection, however, is AS gIVIng a false sense of security to those accustomed 1o using the crossing where such form is provided. In the question of safegquards. it was decided also that a clear view of a crossing should be had from a distance of 100 fect, this being considered _the minimum mazk for safe vistbility under modern highway speeds. Summing up, the report says ““There 1s a real need for a series of Intensive studies of individual grade- | as well as for more complete and accurate reporting of grade-crossing accident data- in general. | “The hazard at grade crossings in rural areas is far more important than has heretofore been reported or under- stood. At least 16 per cent of all! fatalitics due to accidents on the rural highways of the country are attrib- utable to the crossings of the ratlroads and highways at grade. “A serious effort should be made to hasten the change of thousands of crossings from the ‘unprotected’ to the ! ‘protected’ class by the Installation of sultable warning devices and continued duce st satisfaction. All Ford “enll“(‘ willgladly install TRIPLEWEAR Try TRIPLEWE ditions surrounding accidents, the in- vestigators found that they were divided about equally between urban and rural communities, but that the latter were by far the more serfous, the mortality rate belng about 2 Jo 1. 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All tnquiries and orders are given spesial ateniion by ihe DURWYLLAN C " PATERSON, Manufacturers of Triplewear and Wirehests tween Norristown and ach would turn wes T ley to Harrisburg and be: main 1 pass Conn- and e de Gra N timore to Wash pass around Bal the So H South. would follow way for the greater length. It would take of New Jers Route No. 25 a short dist: Bordentown. cross the Delaw veen Bordentowm and Tr up the highways radiatmz ton and intersect t west of Nesham: would follow s far north side of th From Rydal 1t should join the principal points in North and South America. While their own governments must necessarily build these. we can assist in their financing.’ “The primarv purpose of all these i great highways.” Mr. Webster added “will be to provide S to get past the ' 1 cities in the Philadelphia tri- | st region without going through | their congested centers. Increasing con- gestion makes the need for more ——— | serious vear by yenr. . seven groat routes we are now Seats, Pedals and Steering nding. we belseve, are An ime - ' 5 N d E pot aé {apprcaéhL :ov;n;i nln adequate « 1 Temedy for existing difficul The: Which Fie Buyer’s Need Ex more. ditect. more con us movement pected to Boom Sales. ;, throien the distri One feature of a number of e 1928 model 2utomobiles that will oe- come more significant when the b ing season springs into full bloo: the adjustability of driving co s, according to Rudolph Jose, prominent local dealer. The trend toward pro- viding controls that can be adjusted in such a way that the same car may be handled with equal facility by the tallest man or the smallk began a couple of year has 1t reacheg so as this year, its out. In literally*thousands of instances he said, “cars that were ideal in re- spect to appearance, perfarmance, price and everything else were lacking in the vital respect of ‘fitting’ the prospective buyer.” This was true at one time of ually every car. Desimners at- tempted to fit the average car to the average person, imposing a defin itation upon a host of motor buyers “In today’'s automobiles we find that adjustability begins in most cases with the front seat, which may be moved forward for the short person or back- ward for the tall one. In addition. many manufacturers provide for an ad- justment of the seat as to the angle of the back. Then we find that where this does not fill the need completely there are adjustable brake and clutch pedals. “Even beyond this is post. which may be r: as “the individual ow requires.” Like the creation of new lines and the offering of new body models of lines already established. this trend is a manifestation of the motor maker’s effort to reach the sible market. Mr. Jose declares VAst increase in the number drivers has forced a considera change in the ease with which modern motor car may be handl well as in its appearance deta says. “There is a lot of discussion of ‘woman’s influence’ in motor car sign.” he says. “There is & to minimize it in some qua spite of all that is sata and wr the subject. “I do not believe it c in the face of the tv uable changes it has ing in the last few Just as appreciative made in this women.” but merely to Such traffic adds income of the it passes serves to clog up the local by s of the citles as it its way in and out again.” Highways Recommended. Boulevard. runnin olning up with vocated by Route No 2—Relief from the Lincol Highway and routes to the South by passing Trenton. Philadelphia. Chester gon. Route No. 3—A highway parall rhd' Delaware Ri on the New side Route No. 4—A scenic and ir highway for tristate region. Route No. 5—An inner trafic loop. using City Line avenue. Philadelphia. E g tying in the highways to the Wi 6—A highway along t Delaware River primarily for industrial around TSe) County. the steering s>d or lowered desires and P! 1l seven of the rouies here sug- " said Mr. Webster. “are of gnitude to be classed as 1wavs. Certain of them 8! e No. follow a di eral States. ‘Full Co-operation Urged. e only way any of them ca t h full co-ope: ne and method he use and main: Mo kvt cdaaabor B You will Rave no troude in placing accident and haniite insurance— If You Drive a Marmon 1727 Conn. Ave. Tighten the Bolts. Loud squeaks and from sources that see 2e such a heavy volum For instance, there are the s boits. When loose, they up a that sounds something lixe one would | expact if all the bearings became worn at one time. Tightening these bolts at regular perfods will keep an amazing | T amount of noise out of the car 1 [ \ motor—poor £ Motor ¢ hot that the whole tr to 1 It’s attention given to the improvement of existing protection “Despite all external safe s, 1t will be necessary by persistent and forceful publicity to Keep in the minds of all highway users a realtzation of the hazards to which they are exposed as long as any considerable proportion of the 235000 steam raiload grade crossings i the United States continue 10 exist.” . you <3 are s valves, (¢ SN Car Jordan Nash (Light [ Nash (Special 6. .6.... Nash (Advance §) .6 Packard 8 an.. Packard s, Pierce-Arrow 80 ... (Series $0)....8.... S s 1 Pierce-Arrow ries 33 & 3608 Price. 1850 .00 1050 180 15.00 18.00 Cyl's. Buick (Mas . .8 Buick (Standard).6.... Cadillac Chrysler Chrysler Chrysler Chrysler Chevrolet (... 6. 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