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WONDER BRIDGE IN AMERICA

8-MILE TRACK ACROSS

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STUPENDOUS STRUCTURE WHICH WILL COST £16,000,000 TO COMPLETE

(By Douglas. Williams)

tary tribunal in the town of Be is at work on them now. Khabarovsk, according to des- One of the panels will depict a patches reaching here, which square-rized ship in barbour. state that the convicted per The other will show a composition sons were sent last autora into of nautical instruments and giant CROSS eight and a quarter180ft wide, 60ft high and 540ft Soviet-Russian teritory in the sea-shells against a Beascape, wild

miles of. swirling water long, and contains a two-deck Far East by a foreign military the Einer herself at the horizon American engineers are now com-roadway for motor cars, lorries mission having its sest in Man Painted in hight toner of blue,pleting a stupendous bridge which and

inter-urban tramway chukuo" for the purpose of pink and cream, the panels, which will connect San Francisco with system.

measure over 10 feet in height its populous and beautiful suburbį “Eastward from Yerba Buena to will stand out against the wood- of Dakland, on the other side of the eastern base of the bridge and Sert work of the saloon like two seat Golden Gate Bay.

the foot of Oakland's 37th. Street

Hong Kong Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1936 spying and orga agitation again authorities vice.

Valedictory

Our new King well said that there was no need for any official proclamation to ensure

hostile Saviet

ST. JOHN'S CĂ HEDRAL

windows,open to the ses.

We are informed by the Rev. Beserve that the day of his father's W. Baines: Chaplain-in-charge. funeral should be observed that the meeting of the electors—AND ADVERTISING HER appropriately, for he was sure of St. John's Cathedral, arranged-

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Me Wadsworth is a leader of Steel used in its construction the construction problem was in simpler, once the concrete and the British modern school. Dur cost $4,000,000 alone, and fing the war he served in the Naval quality represented nearly per steel piers had been set in place. cent of the aggregate steel output In that section of the bridge there of the whole of the United States is only one 1,400ft cantilever for the year 1953. One million span, and five other spans of cubic yards of concrete, were used 500ft width each.

Next comes the huge concrete in setting up the immense piers that all his subjects would be for this afternoon, has been post- Congratulations thinking of the last ceremony, poned to next Monday, February the chief publicity officer of the that support that structure and mole, built on wood pilings. In in building the approaches and jorder to build this mole it was and that he could well leave it 2, at 5.30 pm. There will be tea Cunard Company in New York

In that city the French Line anchorages. Thirty million board find necessary first to construct to their own judgment to take in the Cathedral Hall st 4.45 pm

Bave installed an immense model feet of timber went into the wood-what is believed to be the largest such action as would-be suit-

Mrs. G. R. Sayer will distribute of the Normandie, holder of the work, and paint consumed so far caisson ever made, measuring 97 able to their situation. In the presence of death all men are the prizes at the annual prize Atlantic blue Fiband, in the win has exceeded 200.000 gallons.

Impressive s so obviously on equality giving ceremony of the St. Paul's cow of their offices.

Freach Convent Not far down Fifth-avenue are in conveying a that the only commemoration Institution, that is satisfying and dignified School, Causeway Bay, on Thurs the Cunard-White Star Line's cal magnitude of the

ofices. It holds ma model of the do not adequately is that which is instinctive and day, February 6, at 4.30 pa

Queen Mary. Instead, a notice engineering" personal all the more so in the --- case of one who always met his to them. One of the problems the otherwise bare window tells less and patie people on the common ground of the United States is that it passers-by- of their humanity.

was the older law that was in! Sorry, but this window is not

Once these foolproof engineer- The sentiment prompted by force at the date when they are enough to display the new

ing preparations had been com- the death of one sovereign is became independent, and in model of the super-liner Queen

pleted, the progress of the work never the same as that which many matters of procedure it is. Mary. A smaller model would not gering statistics.

here was automatic, and dredging arises from the death of still the old law that has sure do the new ship justice.

tinued until the desired depth were, "on the run, another, as will be recognised vived without amendment.

The unspoken question was.

meant that new differli

bedrock had been reached. had to by those who remember the

whereupon the void was filled. deaths of the two previous Could the system survive with

not be met and solved as they appear) A professor advises a 找

on with concrete.. monarchs. When Queen Vic-ja man on the throne instead of

Ikasy - WOMEN more than foured, since none of the engine toria died the first feeling was ja woman? Would there not be to almost one of incredulity. The great changes, with a danger ofs older than he is. Why not the job knew beretly

Your Daily Smile!

numerable probl Jup incessantly.

values that lie bebi

Baik "ONE

-The bridge had to

~ by 197 feet, and containing a curi- figures grelous-interior-series of huge cells of the pays for dredging wells. 55 in number. mufect, they As mud and rock were dredged represent the of the bottom and hauled away the sense in barres, the intense weight of the steel caisson caused it to settle

truisms of the moralist arejnew controversies between thea.a-couple of years, she'll be the laitions would have to be--

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outwor

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built as

Automatic Progress

On this East Bay mole, and at other points along the bridge The most exacting part of enormous bronze-bells will be often only intellectually accept Edward's interest was more in Crown and the people? King

Cont and Waistcoat

whole immense teak was the build placed, two of them weighing ed. without affecting the

"How many costs of peint do you ing of the span from the foots,000lb apiece and others: 1.50015, imagination. There were few foreign policy than in domestic

put on that fence?".

of Rincon Hill to Yerba Buena each made of cast bronze and Painter: "Two, sonny, why?” indeed who could remember any legislation, though he had

"Well, if you put on a third coat, Island Midway between those capable of throwing their ward- previous reign, and even then it peculiar interest in the hous- would be only as

some eventing question, which might have it would be an overcoat, wouldn't points the main concrete anchoring note a mile away. This the Fainter: "Yes, and a waste coat, age was put down some 11,000 busy Bay shipping will be warn- that had to be raked up from been allowed freer scope.

from the shore. The engineers fed at all times to keep away from the memories of childhood any rate his most personal too.

were fortunate to discover that afthe piers and anchorages. The history books had hardly action was all in the direction

Lesson Applied

rock from the ocean floor runs There are reputably, only two The teacher had given his class any more effect on the imagina of abolishing some

The following in an irregular line from the San ships in the world to-day with tion than the truisms. In spite etiquettes and procedures that lesson on courtesy. of dates duly recorded of had long outlived their day day, while examining the home les Francisco side to Yerba Buena, masts so tall that they will not annextions and expansions, it is serious illness at the date sons, his eyes lit up with pleasure and the span as now completed be able to pass comfortably under

Coronation had when be found an all-correct pop roughly follows that ridge. the bridge when it is completed-

"Jones," he called to the success- was under the style of "Her fixed for his

Neither. indeed, is likely ever Largest Caisson Ever Made ful Majesty" that the Empire as it prepared the public for the idea pupil, am very pleased with then was had grown to be a that he was no longer a strong you. All your answers are

Straight through the bedrock to approach, California waters. thing of large populations and man. In his short reign he had But why have you put emotion and soil of Yerba Buena, the en-One is the Cunard White Star developed civilisations. Even on the affection of his sub-rks to all of them?"

"Out of courtesy in England, the England that jects. but his death was not felt

came the reply. we knew had only taken shape to mark a period. Some people **** by laws passed in her reign. who like to arrange history in New classes had awakened to periods or cycles would classify the use of the vote which had the century from Waterloo to 25 having the begun to be more widely the Marne shared; municipalities had beauthentic marks of the "Vic- come popular engines of local torian Era."

King George V came to the government; the old sarage punishments of the criminal law throne only a few years before! had been revised; the costly and the break-up of the classical dilatory complications of Com period of the industrial age, of mon Law and Equity had been which the outstanding features wrought into a workable sys had been the rise to power of tem by the Judicature Acts: the middle class, and the Navy had passed from salfourishing days of interna- to steam, and the Army from tional trade, with England

The "bourgeois" is the purchase of Commissions to the lead. promotion by merit. Except for no longer either the typical the House of Peers, which was figure or the controller but a shadow of its former self destiny. At the coronation of privilege after privilege had the Tsar Nicholas King Edward been abolished till any that re had been his friend and men- mained were little more than tor, and Russian trade with voluntary deference The Poor England made a very large Law had been turned from total Eis visits to Germany, haphazard method of keeping Italy and Vienms were those of down wages to a system of a welcome friend Nowadays helping the aged without de- it would not be easy to imagine the able-bodied the heads of these States visit moralising

Penging each other informally as

guests. A new fierce Nation

to father, sir,gineers drove a tunnel, in itself a fizjestic, with its exceedingly tall

major enterprise. The tunnel-is! {Continued-on-Page-87-

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT” by Robert L. Ripley

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If we look at the Europe of alism has undone the effects of that day we recall that the old two centuries of progress to- Queen was known as "the wards the ideal of all educated Grandmother of Europe” Her men being "good citizens of Jubilees had been graced with Europe.”

King George did processions of practically all what he could to withstand the the heads of the European disintegration" of the old and in every country but friendships, buforthe tide

entative, and democratic way, and is still in full course. parlament was the enlightened Against these streams of aim of reformers, and the contorical development how little

itutional monarchy the most can any one man do, stable comprotaise between the great his position and however warring factions of opposite good his intentions, and how ideals. It was not the England ever devoted his atti

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