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THE HONGKONG DAILY

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Warehousing of Goods of all Description.

For Terms and Particulars

Apply at the Head-Office-

"St. George's" Building.

Telephone: C. 781. Telegraphic Address:"RELYAT"

HONGKONG TUG & LIGHTER CO., LTD.

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Single packages and small consignments received

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and Bathing Parties.

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Stevedorage and Lighterage Work undertaken. Tugs and Lighters available at all hours.

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HEAD OFFICE-ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING.

Head Offca-Central 781.

TELEPNOSES:

Chinese Branch Office-Central 4885.

Night. Sunday or Holiday Bing up Kowloon 622;

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HONGKONG & TERRITORIAL ESTATES, LTD.

(Property Owners, Estate Agents, Land Valuers, etc.)

WILL UNDERTAKE THE

Development and Improvement of Landed Property and attend to all Branches of Real Estate Business.

For terms and particulars

"Apply at the Head-Office,

TELEPHONE

C. 781.

"St. George's" Building.

Telegraphic Address: "ESTÁTES "

"ITALIT"

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Apply IMPORT DEPT., ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING.

Tel. € 781

f108

PRESS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 1ST,

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TOO MANY MOTOR-CARS. NEW YORK'S PARKING PROBLEM. It is purious fact that New York, which to a far greater extent "than Lon- don is aflicted with what a British visitor aptly described as "congested impotency, has only recently attempted to grapple with the problem of scientifically parking its myriads of motor-cars, writes the Daily Mail's New York correspondent Until last year motorists were permitted to leave their cars standing beside the kerbs for an indefinite period practically anywhere except in Fifth-avenue. They could leave them outside a theatre, or hotel, or within ten feet of a fire hydrant.

All sorts of schemes were devised to control the Ninguras of brate which gorged its streets; int it was not until the Fire Commissioner raised . ery of alarm that drastic regulations limited the It happen- parking rights of motorists. ed one day that a fire was discovered in one of the leading theatres. The arcet in which the burning building was situat est was lined on both sides throughout its entire length with empty motor-cars, which the Aremen could not inove becausE their gears had been locked as a precau- Sen arainst theft.

LOSS OF LIFE FEARED.

At this the Fire Commissioner, issued an urgent warning. He informed the authorities that parking in parrow and congested thoroughfares mustccase unless they were prepared to suffer, in case of conflagration, incalculable loss of life.

As it was also discovered that mer chants were suffering immense losses every day by delays, caused by parked motor-cars, in the loading and unloading of merchandise, far-reaching restrictions henips: motorists were inunediately en- forced. They were forbidden to park in any of the narrow downtown streets or to park anywhere for a period of longer than anywhere for a period of longer than tweary-minutes.

Simultaneously traffic was subjected to regulations which increased its mobility 20 per cent. The lower half of Manhattan Island was divided into oneway street- and the system of signal towers controll ing dushlights-red for "stop" and green for gewas extended; with the result that over vast areas of the most crowded streets in the world traffic, now moves and haits with the automatic precision of a

Joom.

815,000 MOTOR-CARS!

How gigantic and complex the parking problem of New York has become may be seen from a few figures. A year ago the residents of the metropolis owned 350.000 motor-cars and lorries. To-day they operate 406,000, and the number is increasing weekly hy leaps and bounds.. Furthermore, people from outside enter and leave New York daily in 209,000 motor vehicles. Forty thousand motor.cars" pass daily along Fifth-avenue. Forty thousand mere may be counted any day in Park- avenue and yet another 40,000 may be seen going from Broadway and Eighth- avene into Columbus Cirèle.

Fer a few thousand of these vast legiona of cars, the city provides free parking spaces, guarded by policemen, ijn, West- street on the water-front, in the triangles near City Halland in Union-square. But the vast bulk of them have to spend their waiting hours beside the kerbs, on vaenál building sites, or in private garages. Mammoth garages now exist in all parts of New York. They are many stories high: and the cars are either carried in gigantic lifts or driven up steep ramps to their allotted floors.

IMPATIENT MILLIONAIRES. Another striking spectacle is that afford ed at night in the theatre district. In Thirty-ninth-street, for instance, there are no fewer than four theatres. The parked ears line the pavements for a distance of half a mile. When the performances close aignals are flashed all along the street and the ears move into line four abreast; one line being allotted to each theatre. Under this system it is possible to empty the Metropolitan Opera House in ten minutes, whereas formerly the operation tock from 20 to 30 minutes and cost many of the more impatient millionaires £20 a season in tips to secure priority for their

cars.

Despite the alleviations recently, intra- duced the problem of finding parking space for New York's half a million cars presents new difficulties every month. One suggestion which finds widespread favour is to excavate a garantuan garage beneath Central Park. In many of the schurbs what used to be the sidewalk has been commandeered for parking purposes and a new sidewalk has been erected above the parked cars. It is regarded as a foregone conclusion that before long pedestrains and vehicles will be obliged to bove on different street levels.

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*** VESSELS EXPECTED, Antilochus (Blue Funnel), due on

about July 6th. Ateuta Maru (N.Y.K.), due July. 14th. Empress of Ruskin (C.P.R.), duc July

18th Eurypytur (Blue Funnel), due to-day.

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Keeping the port travelling round the table is an old custom still maintained by a few English clubs-like Kensitas Cigarettes, sir, always passing round good company,

The soft, mellow-smoking qualities of Kensitas Cigarettes make you want to keep on enjoying them, and the last smoke is as good. as the first, because all Kensitas are "as good as really good cigarettes can be.

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At 95 cents

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