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Look Both Ways.
Some months ago we suggested that alxes should be
erected at certain places warning polextrians to "Look Both Ways." Especially in the neighbourhood of achnols is such a warning needed, nts. the adeption of such a method is not by any means dilleult. neither would it be expensive. School Instruction.
Another matter which might be considered is that school children should reveive brief instruction in traffic matters. It is not un- common to hear of children being knockert injured through being down by motor vehicles, and the fact that such happenings are in- variably discovered to be pure to the child's care-
accidents, lessness or thoughtlessness, points to the urgent necessity of impurt- ing instruction on when and how to cross trufle routes. We trust that this matter will be consider- ed, and that Hongkong will be brought in lino with other parts of the world where it is considered to be of vital importance to take steps to protect juvenile life. A Wise Decision.
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Yappe, is of ven greater
ROMANCE OF VEHICULAR TUNNEL.
1931 "Harley Davidson" Can be Cabled for Now.
IN
LINE
Here is an artist's sketch of the Detroit and Canada vehicular tunnel under the Detrolt river. Inset in upper left is an interior view of the driveway showing ample room for a line of traffe each way. Fred W. Mariin is shown at lower right,
man
materialize and nothing further was heard of it until Martin bob- bed up with the announcement that he had secured from the two men the plans and the rights for constructing such a tunnel.
BILYB.
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By James F. Donahue.j Detroit. Oct. 15.-A former lumberman in a backwoods Cana- dlan saloon, then in turn a cadet. The decision of the Ministry of adjutant and captain in the Sal- Transport to enforce the use of vation Army and, finally, a
Jeers Urged Him On pneumatic tyres by all care and who wouldn't quit in the face of heavy vehicles In the future is public derision that is the man
"Again I heard 'crazy' and 'vi- great step forward. We should who is responsible for one of the like to
the same Regulation in greatest fents of modern engineer-sionary bahind my back." Martin
"But I resolved to show up then he sprang his surprise an free here in Hongkong. It la, of ing. the Detroit and Canada yo
these people who were so quick to nouncement that he had secured course, universally agreed that hicular tunnel.
censor." mure the solid tyred vehicles do diamage
Fred W. Martin to-day sees as
In 1926 Martin got a leave of ab- the services of one of the greatest roads very considerably, and yet the fruits of his efforts the com-
engineers in the country, William Barclay Parsons, A commissionor enuse of failing health, and perma- in the Colony of Hongkong many pletion of an auto tunnel under sence from the Salvation Army, be-eng such vehicles are in use, and what the Detroit.river to Windsor whitnently settled in Windsor with his builder of the first subway in New
Jon, the
Panama Canal project. is more, the Gavernment permits is valued at more than $25.006 wife and four children. The iden any of its own lorries to be 000. It is to be formally opened of the tunnel construction was now York in 1904 and chief engineer equipped. If the banning of solid at midnight on Nov.
firmly established in his mind, but and president of the Hankow- has been found advisable at
Martin was born in Moosomin all the financial backing he hud Canton railway.
Then-he-nogotiated-for-the.pur- iter Sask., about 42 years ago. He had was $500, and that he invested in chase of St. Mary's Academy on urgeney here, for one has to re-
thir Windsor Bido of $1,000,000 member that many of our roads a hard time making ends meet in real estate.
So he began going from capitalist for the site of the Windsor open- are not built on the beat of fout-his youth and, at Edmonton ne-
to capilalist and from bank to
Ing. and, on June 14, 1928, while dations for when originally built, ting as "king of the roost” of a
bank trying to secure enough half the population of Windsor they were merely intended for saloon there.
This fact alonu "The Army did a good job of money to start his project. ricksha traille.
Ehero. between times, he sold insurance believe it, the $25,000,000 project and Detroit were still unwilling to should be sufficient to warrant steps converting me then and being taken to preserve road sur-Martin says, "and I started off pa- and real estate.
In his real estate doulings, Mar-was started.
On July 1 of this year, the two faces It far as possible, and trading on street corners and boom-
tin struck upon another iden, fle would
be
ing the big drum." te matter surely encouraging economy were solidt Ilis wanderings with the Army bought up a string of under-water halves of the tunnel met under the at Windsor. lots on Lake St. Clair and planned river and it was finally through. Not only with finally terminated
10To-day Ands Martin a millionaire tyres prohibited."
but also with the across the river, and there Mar-to fill them in with mud to be taken
of the world. top
direct heavy
hi cavation of the tunnel. But in Despite his position as a are such nuisance, should solld foek. He dived right into
stockholder, Martin substantial tyres be forbidden, and it is to be campaign and, before people had the last three years the lake level or of the tunnel company and a
had rose so high as to make his planned} still hoped that the proper authority time to hear of him, he
the Salvation remembers to sub-division impossible. So he dis-
Army. He wears the will urge that this suggestion (so started a drive for $250,000
colours of carded that project and devoted the organization
ion or an em
an emblem
re- often made) be adopted. It does build a hospital.
presenting it wherever he goes. neem absurd that we should spend
An idea of the size of the Detroit thousands of dollars on building
and
nd Canada vehiclar tunnel con and maintaining roads each year, At that time he was making and then allow them to be sub-about $20 a week and people who Quietly he went along. Citizens be had in the following figures:
raise of Detroit or Windsor knew noth-i It is about one mile lineted to the most damaging wear. heard of his campaign to
long, and $250,000 thought he was crazying of what was going on until consists of a single passageway 35
On that day Mar-feat in over-all But Martin got on. Ilia drive was July 12, 1927.
1 diameter. The road- Graer tin, Engholm and another en-way is 22 feet wide with three successful and to-day the Hospital stands as a monument ginicer appeared in Windsor and Innes. The traffic capacity la es announced that the boring of timated at 2000 cars an hour. to his efforts.
More than 2,000,000 granite blocks People began to notice Martin tunnel would begin.
that. Then, in 1926, After
"Crazy, plumb crazy, was what were required to pave the road-
more and
than 250,000 Charles Miller, an eccentric law they called him." says one of Mar-way, yer, and F. C. Engholm, engineer, tin's close friends. "Here was a pleces of tiling were required to both of Toronto, announced their fellow who, a few years before, line the walla.
Ventilation is handled by two intentions to construct a tunnel was making only $20 a week, and under the Detroit river. Such a now promoting
fans,
each 12 feet in diameter. tunnel had been proposed as far would entail millions of dollars, towers, one at each end. Each has back
Bafore actual work could be These fans drive air into and Да 1871. Their plan was to construct four started on the tunhol, however, force bad air out of the tunnel at small bores under the river, twe Martin had to secure a franchise the rate of about 1,500,444 cubic that fest a minute and give a complete for shuttle electris trains and two from both cities. He did
But their plan didn't after a great deal of arguing. And change of air every 90 seconds. for nutos.
molur trucks which tin set out to win converta for his from tho river bottom in the ex-and sitting on
MODERN BUSES.
"The Passing of the
Tram.
GLASGOW'S LEAD.
and more Municipalities
no ano de lo question that more in the United Kingdom are finding that the modern bus will meet their requiremonta better than the tram ear and not a few have, already superseded the tram by the more modern method of transport
One of the pioneers in this re- spect is Glasgow Corporation who have been gradually adding to their already large fleet of doublo
Motors dock buses. Leyland Limited has again been entrusted with their order for seventy-five 51-seater double-deck Titan buses, which represents the seventh order from this Corporation, who will have almost three hundred of, these vohioles in service at this complotion of this order.
:
Looked On As a Fanatic
CARS OF THE FUTURE.
Engines Behind.
SIR H. AUSTIN'S PROPHECY.
his entire time to the tunnel. Announces Start of Bore.
motor-coaches may have their engines at the back.
Sir Herbert sald we had not [reached the millennium in auto
mobile design.
Sir Herbert added:
adoption of shorter stroke and larger bare,
.
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VICTORY, FOR RAILROAD, 'Bir Herbert declared that all sons the engine should be out at transport would increase in pace,the back for a taxicab operating
Harold Joselin, of Waitsfeld, In congested areas, and this would- riding and driving comfort, and give a sensible and convenient Vermont, admitted negligence and become Baler and
cheaper.ments of entry and exit and botter recently paid a railroad $289 for Every change in design must riding qualities. I lenkt for early damages caused to one of its How much our out-of-date met- follow these directions to be development in this direction. trains when Joselin's motor truck ** (hod of calculating horse-power for successful and permanent. Taxi-
Sir Herbert added that it could hit it on a grade crossing, taxation purposes has cost the Bri- cab design might be drastically in be safely assumed that for a year
CAR PRICES DROP. tish nation in lost export trade it fuenced if a really comfortable or two the type of engine, drive, Sir Horbert Austin predicted in would be impossible even to eat model were put on the market: gear-box, steering, and brakes
The average American motoristi Another" Corporation to decide his presidential address to tho Ju-mate. Tho, Amoricau manufactur-
would change only in detail. The Why we in this country put up six-cylinder engine, except for vary paid $48 loss, for his automobile a to scrap their trams altogether is siltution of Automobile Engineers Wigan Corporation, and this Cor- at the Royal Society of Arts, that or, in particular, has benefitted on with the present archate type of small sizes, would be predominant, 1929, than he did in 1928, and 45 used in the London because it gave a sweetness of run- $185 less than he did in 1927. ** poration too has selected the road vehicles of the future would ormously by our persistent folly, vehicle | Titan" as the most suitable bus have hundreds fewer parts, and and is able to produce his vehicles streets is a problem difficult to un-ning not possible with a four cording to the California Ba
for their purpose.
that taxients, omnibuses, and at considerably less cost by the derstand. For many practical rea-cylinder engine.
k.
Automobile Association.