New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 11, 1928, Page 11

BOSTON POST ROAD USED EXTENSIVELY nmcmmnmm in Summer Time Many interesting facts concerning summer traftic over Connecticut highways aré revealed in traffic checks taken on Connecticut bridges by the state highway departmnent and made public today by Highway Commissioner John A. Macdonald. Salient among the highlights re- vealed in the traffic statistica is the fact that during the summer months. the Boston Post road between New Haven and Bridgeport is used by more than 20,000 cars per day! The Post road figures show that at the beginning of the touring season in the early part of May, the num- ber of cars passing over the Wash- ington bridge connecting Milford and Stratford over the Naugatuck river is about 11,490. This total grad- ually increases until the peak of summer traffic arrives on the Sun- day preceding Labor day, ou which day the total number of vehicles passing over the bridge was 31. 415! On the ordinary midweek day in August, traffic attains its peak on the Post road between 8 and % o'clock in the evening during which hour about 1,800 cars pass, nearly 60 per cent of which are headed eastward in the direction of New Haven. Be- tween the hours of 2 and 11 p. m. on the ordinary August day, more than 1,000 cars per hour pass over the bridge. ~ The balance of traffic on the ordinary eastward, or toward New There is a vast difference on the Labor Day Sabbath, however. The peak arrives between 5 and 6 in the afternoon with an hourly tetal of 2.- 200 cars, nearly 60 per cent of which are headed west toward New York. On that day, from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. the hourly total is between 1,000 and 2,000 vehicles, while from 3 to 8 p. m. it rises between 2.000 and 3.- 000, and from 8 p. m. to 1 a. m. it §s more than 1,000 every hour. Traffic checks over the bridge day runs slightly Haven. v FREE! Tickets to the Strand A t 282 Main St. On Nest Saturday! % lill m‘ i M '! ‘n Wuwuw il l i | | } Motor Oils, Gasoline and ERE is a big difference in motor oil and gasoline and in men. But you need take no costly chances when you buy. during the wee hours plainly show that many people take advaitage of the Labor Day rest to remain out most of the night before. Ordinarily at 2 a. m. the hourly total is about 123 cars, the total dwindling to 77 cars between 3 and ¢ a. m. On the night preceding the holiduy. nearly 500 cars are passing at 2 o'clock and 400 or more. during every hour of the night. The Post road traffic over the Thames rivep bridge at New London passes at a' rate of 10,200 cars per day during the summer months. The trend both on the normal and ab- normal day ‘s westward, that is, to- ward Connecticut rather than towaid Rhode Island. Ordinarily, the sum- mer traffic reaches its peak over the Thames between 4 and b p. m. with slightly more than 500 cars per hour. On the Labor Day 8unday, the peak came much earlier, be- tween 2 and 3 o'clock. with 1, cars passing. A total of 15,143 pm- cles passed the checkers that day. At the Baybrook-Lyme bridge, the average daily summer traffic is 5,- 200 cars, showing that much of the Thames river bridge traffic stops in New London or heads north in the direction of Norwich, Hartford . or Middletown. The Saybrook-Lyme Post road is an hour earlier than New London's on the normal day, and two hours later on the abnormal day. The trend is westward toward New Haven and New York on both days. The Haddam-East Haddam bridge over the Connecticut river carries about 1,300 cars a day during the summer. While its peak hour is con- stantly between ¢ and 5 p. m., * its peak hour traffic more than dou- bles before the holiday. About 6,700 cars pass over the Middietown-Portland bridge each August day and the total rises to 8,- 200 on the holiday eve. .The peak comes between 7 and 8 at night with the flow of traffic evenly balanced On the big Sabbath, the peak occurs between 5 and 6 with a total of 360 vehicles and with the trend toward Middletown. The Westport bridge over the Naugatuck river was checked over 12 instead of 4-hour periods. This span, also on the Post road, is passed by an average of 11,100 vehi- cles between 7 a. m. and 7 p. m. on | summer days. The total on Labor Day Sunday was 16,945 and the p-‘lk between 6 and 7 was 934 cars as| compared with an ordinary 5 to 6 peak of 617. It is probaole that on a 24-hour basis, the traffic on this part of the Post road is equal to that between New Haven and Bridgeport. Despite the difference hofween the pak hours in varlous pacts of the state, the average of the ncak hoors on all bridges shows that In general traffic reaches its crux between 4:40 | Aoy 1aean L and 5:40 p. m., and that on the peak day of the year the peak hour is only 10 minutes earlier. T0 INVESTIGATE DEATH OF PRINCE Georgian Subject May Have Been Poison Alcohol Yictim New York, Oct. 11 (M—The death | described as a prince of the former Republic | was under menu:auon of Alexander V. Turin, of Georgia, by city medical authorities tod: on the possibility that it might have drinking poison been caused by liquor. Turin died in the apartment of Mrs, Sparska Rodkoff with whom he She told police he had a cecktail and several glasses had luncheon. of whiskey. 25 Are Dead Tuttle and Majoy Maurice Camp- bell, prohibition ; administrator for this district, have left for Washing- ton to confer with James H. Doran, head of the prohibition forces. They did not disclose the purpose of their visits. Cut in Coal Heat Waste Plan of Gas Industry Atlantic City, N. J., Oct. 11—(M— The way in which the gas industry hopes to cut down the waste heat from coal was desoribed to the American Gaa association convention here today by Alexander Forward, managing director of the association. “The gas industry.” he said, | per annum for gas production. We {obtain a thermal efficiency as high whereas in the average domestic use the efficiency is perhaps not more {than 10 to 15 per cent, and even in the average industrial plant it is doubtful if the efficlency exceeds un- der the best circumstances 40 per cent, and 20 per cent may be a closer figure. The conservation of raw fue! thus achieved by its effective trans The death since Saturday of 25 |'8tion into gaseous fuel will be in persons from wood alcohol poison- ing caused Dr. Charles Norris. city medical examiner, to order the body au- taken to the morgue for an topsy. Mrs. Rodkoff. who said he was Bulgarian translator, told police she met Prince Alexander at the hotel Plaza a few days ago through mu- Yesterday he called nd they had luncheon together at a restaurant in Fifty- where he had several re- turned to her apartment on River- side Drivee and had hardly sat dow: when he complained of feeling ill Terrified, He was dead could be tual friends. to see he third street, drinks. After luncheon they and fell to the floor. she called the police. before medical attention given. 700 Year Title Prince Alexander, who told Rodkoff his title dated back vears, had made his home in country for several years, lution. and Prince Alexander from the country. He married Miss Ann Hearons, pinmsv of Bolivar, N. Y., 1926, the Plaza, it was said there, was able wealth. He had told Rodkoff of plans for an factory in St. Louis. Police and federal continued their investigation the source of the poison alleged speakeasies. United Statas Attorney Charles H. 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