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DAILY CROSS- WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but nur readers are warned to look out for recasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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&-To frighton
Makes by tatting 11-017
13-Above
14-A out of most
16-A Scripture proper
name
17-Exlats
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hand
20-To put something
foss severe in place of
HORIZONTAL (Cont.)| VERTICAL (Cont.) 43-A genus of tropical 15-A anara
18-A playing card
American plante
40-An excursion
48-Nominál
17-Suffix denoting
'Idflammation'..
60-The art of using the 1-A Abber
bow
|62-Article
43-Girl's name
84-A eacred language
of India
121-One who uses'
|24-The line where
earth and sky meet 27-At no time
185-An ending of nouns 20-A famous French
[16-A food-flak
67-Depended -
69-In that place
22-Pen-neme of Charles 60-Tidal wavBR
Lamb
23-The upper
1
atmosphere
25-An Egyptian goddess
Be-Morite 28-Eagles
10-A cerul
31-Ever (post)
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11-Exist
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· 18-Wharvou.
40-A filet for a girl's
hair (Scot)
42-Warbled
VERTICAL
1-A compress for a
wound
2-Within
author
33-Am not (collon)
34-Normal-
|38- Any trife
37-A noted' French
artlet
38-Agony
38-To. climb 140~The wife of
Abraham
S-Deserving the palm 41-Dreadful
or prize
4-A covered. porch
8-Floated
6-A rich purplish-red.
'7-Yes - -
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10-Locations 11-To worship
113-Lacking color
142-To begin
|44-A southern a
constellation
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TUESDAY'S SOLUTION
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NEW EDITION OF INDEX
Rome. The first book to bo published by the new printing works of the Holy Sc in Vatican City, is
the Index of Prohibited Books."
It la composed of 565 pages, and contains the names of about 5,000 broka. In alphabetical order, which Catholics, including those belonging-
lental rite, are not allowed
TRIUMPH
THE
WATER-BUSES FOR LONDON?
A TALK WITH MR. A. P. HERBERT
CHINA MAIL.
to use the river as ensually as we that it is no longer a neglected
use the Underground."
The lastone Scheme
backwater, but literally a "tide in the affairs of men."
Who will come forward and seo this thing through, he aske, and thus earn our civic gratitude? Why not, first and foremost, Mr. J. H. Thomas, as part and parcel of his unemployment schemes?
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Mr. Herbert recalled Sir Samuel Instone's scheme of five years ago for the provision of a service of fast, big motor-craft. This fell through because the LC.C. and other river authorities could not see a, safe return for the expenditure
Flying Officer Waghorn, of necessary in constructing, stating. Schneider Trophy fame, flew to his and maintaining the dozen or sold school, Wollington College,
Sir necessary additional plers.
Berkshire, for the School's Rugby century house overlooking the de- Samuel was prepared to sink match against Marlborough. Col- serted Thames between Hammer-214,000 in the provision of the loge.
THE UNUSED RIVER
At the top of a tall eighteenth-
and
amith
Chlawick I talked boats, and run the service on com- with a man who has Д
con- merelal lines in the public interest. suming passion for London's noble The L.C.C. was to provide the piers river, and wants to see its traffic at an estimated cost of £41,500, and potentialities developed to theman them, in return for which Sir fullest, writes a special correspon- Samuel offered a guaranteed pay- [dent in the "Observer." He is Mr.ment of £6,000 a year for ten years A. P. Herbert-novelist, "Punch" in respect of the first 5,000,000 contributor, librettist.
passengers, plus a half-penny for every passenger over this figure per year. But the authorities could not ace that 5,000,000 forthcoming which would enable the service to pay and give the L.C.C. its money back.
His interest in the river is no dilettante one. He is not content that he should use it just for his personal pleasure by stepping from his garden steps into his motor launch or houseboat and cruising down-stream for a magic night off Wapping or Greenwich, which he does on occasion. He will never be satisfied until he sees a regular passenger service of "water buses" skimming from pier to pier, taking City people to and from their work, and thus relieving the congestion
Well, Mr. Herbert has been con- sulting the L.G.O.C. authorities, and he finds that the average pas- sengers carried by one bus in one day is 1,250; the average carried by all buses in one day, 5,050,000; the total carried by all 'buses in the year, 1,912,000,000. And while
of the central London streets which the street bus carries an average makes a journey from, say, Ham-load of fifty, the fast, oil-consuming mersmith or Chelsea to the Bank an exasperating, time-wasting or deal.
"Consider how we Ignore our natural facilities," he said. "The river joins the eastern and western suburbs with the social and com mercial centres of the town, a natural highway requiring no main- tenance or repair, and lying alont the main line of the town's develop ment. Five great rallway termin are aktuated on or near its banks.
water-bus, comprising comfortable saloons and every convenience, would presumably carry at least 300. Is not there plenty of room here, ho asks, for the diversion of that necessary 5,000,000 to the water? Actually, there is no reason why it should not pan out at any figure from 11 to 21 millions.
L.C.C. and Finance
Nerves Lack Nourishment When
The Bload Is Thin How The World's Croateat Tonic Cures Nervous Troubles
Through The Blood.
"It is difficult," remarked Mr. Herbert, "to understand the at- dizziness, result from a strain on Nervous debility, headaches and
titude of the body-which governs the nerves with which the re- the Imperial capital. It will receive building work of the blood is un- no tolls from the users of the pro- able to keep pace. The best tonic posed Charing Cross Bridge, which for such A condition la Dr. is to cost £12,000,000, nor from Williams Pink Pills. These Pills Waterloo Bridge, which is being re-build up the blood and strengthen conditioned at a cost of nearly the nerves. With this treatment, £1,000,000. But it sniffs at a mere unless the overwork, worry,
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The View We Don't See "The City, the Savoy, Greenwich, Chelsea, Billingsgate, the Temple, Chiswick Eyot, where the heron Ash, Hammersmith and ladies' eights, the Port of London and the liners, Westminster, St. Paul's-is there an urban thoroughfare in the 10,000 for piers which may reason- whatever has caused the nervous world bordered with so much ably be expected to bring in a probreakdown, is persisted in, the variety, distinction, wealth, history,fitable revenue. Would you not headachea, dizziness, nervousness and beauty? It flows at one point think that a reasonable L.C.C. look- and irritability rapidly disappear. between the Houses of Parliamenting at our great river without pre- and County Hall, the home of the L.C.C.. which is responsible for London's welfare and the free movement of its citizens.
"Does no man ever look out of those buildings and ask himself why the river is carrying not A single citizen to his work or to his
home? No man has seen London
until he has seen it from the river,
as our fathers saw it. But rara is the Londoner who has seen it so. How
London boys havs many travelled over that lovely stretch between Westminster and Green wich, the finest possible lesson in London's past history and present greatness? Perhaps one in a hundred thousand. To most that unique stretch of water is as un- known as the sewers.
"Why? 'Provincial' Liverpool has
judice, would say to itself: 'Here, on the one hand, is shortage of transport and grave street con gestion. Here, on the other, is the modern internal combustion engine, consuming heavy oil cheaper than petrol and an obvious waterbus
route. Let there be water-buses!
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bitter
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gained strength rapidly. The tiri (Why, for instance, should not the ed feeling left me and I had more Underground Combine, with its energy and ambition. The pills ability and enterprise, formulate a also gave me a better appetite scheme?) But he docs belleve the and helped my
Dr. Londoner would now welcome such Williams' Pink Pills are a reliable
boon and service, and does not
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want to see mere lack of vision,
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her river as a useless obstacle. We He would like to see the Press, will spend millions in building which was practically unanimous per bottle, $8 8 betles. bridges over it, but run traffic on for the previous proposal, keeping It-never, except for pleasure in the the matter before the public, the summer months, and then the slow-support of the loent Mayors and maving steamers do not stop be-members of Parliament being en- tween Westminster and Kew, or the listed, overything being done which motor-craft between Westminster humanly can be done; in fact, to and Greenwich. We should be able open up our glorious waterway so
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