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LONDON'S CROSS RIVER TRAFFIC.

ROYAL COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS,

SCHEME TO COST £27,500,000,

TWO NEW BRIDGES,

"The recommendations of the Royal Commission on Cross-River Traffic in London, brief reference to which was made in telegraphic news may be summarised as follows:

The retention and widening of Waterloo Bridge, with a 35ft. roadway.

A combined rond and footway from Southwark-street to Hol born Vinduct,

A new double-deck bridge at Charing Cross, with the erection of a new Charing Cross Station, and a continuation of the bridge over the Strand to the Nurse Cavell statue in Charing Cross-road.

Abandonment of the St. Paul's bridge proposals. Removal of the hay market, Whitechapel High-street. Rebuilding of Wandsworth Bridge.

Widening of Putner and Hammersmith Bridges.

Two new bridges aea: Doract Wharf and Chiswick Perry respectively for western exits. The Dorset Wharf bridge to be connected with Cromwell-road by a new road and bridge over the railway,

Adoption of the Dartford-Parßeet Tunnel scheme.

An improvement to existing unnels.

A central authority for dealing with bridges and cross-river traffe.

The whole programme would involve an expenditure approxi- mating £27,500,000.

HIGH-LEVEL ROADWAYS.

WIDENING WATERLOO

BRIDGE.

The report states: The proposals include the saving of Waterloo Bridge by rebuilding the unsound parts and strengthen- ing the shore-ends and widening the whole from its prèsent width of grit. Gin, to 35ft., this permitting it to take four lines of traffic in stead of three-or. for all intents and - purposes two-as hitherto.. The cost of this scheme will be $560,000.

I would join the ordinary road on Eolborn Viaduct near the Old Bailey.

Ludgate Hill Station would be apolished and St. Paul's Station would be used, not as a terminus as at present, but merely as through station. Holbarn Viaduct Station would be improved.

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QUEEN'S

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PERAMBULATOR WAR

AT BASLE..

HUNDREDS OF MOTHERS AND NURSES ARRESTED.

While all the rest of the world is struggling with the problem of motor-car traffic, Basle has the uni- que distinction of being probably the only city where the most serious traffic question is that of baby carriages.

The stream of baby carriages or the streets has become so great as to interfere seriously with the ordi- nary, foot traffes

is suggested, should be built, would The other two bridges which, it be to increase cross-river facilities on the western side of London. One would cross the Thames near Dorset Wharf and join with a new road

The polics have resurrected an Barnes, to Chiswick Ferry, where carriages from being pushed on the Across the Castelnau district, ancient law which prohibits baby i the second now bridge would be con- pavements,

This was put into structed to lead to the new Chert-effect, and on the first day over sey-road and the Great Weat-road. 400 mothers and nursemaids were £2,000,000, was first suggested by traffic with perambulatory.

This scheme, which would cost arrested for blocking pavement the Western Exits-of-London So- siety, and provides for a bridge

over the railway at Cromwell-road, hound-road to the river.

Many of the accused" refuseti

to pay the fues imposed and appeal. ed to a higher tribunal. Here the

As regards facilitating trafic across the Thames at Charing Cross, it is recommended that, at a cest of £7,500,000, the existing bridge should be demolished and replaced by a double-decked steel one to carry trains (on the lower deck), and pedestrian and road traffic.

It is intended that the lower deck.W., leading by way of Grey-judge resurrected a still older law should carry six railway tracks and

To provide facilities for traffic that the upper should have a 60it.

between Kent and' Essex it is recom- roadway and two pavements each mended that a great tunnel with Included in this particular scheme.19ft. carriageway and capable of is the building of a new Charing should be constructed between Dart

taking double-decked omnibuses Cross railway station, to be bound-ford and Purfleet. The estimated ed by Buckingham-street instead of, ust would be 22,950,000. as now, by Villiers-street. ".

of 15ft.

As soon as the bridge and station became ready for use, the railway tracks would be switched over to them. The old bridge and station would be swept away, leaving the

site of the latter free for the erec-

tion of a new hotel or any other development that might be desired."

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Upper-Deck Roadway.'

The upper-deck" roadway,would, on the Charing Cross side, be con- tinued right over the Strand as a high-level road with a "head room" of about 18ft. and pass be- hind St. Martin's Church, reaching ground level near the Nurse Cavell statue.

On the Surrey side the roadway would pass by Waterloo Station at platform level and opposite the main entrance. There, it would branch by two inclined ways, each raft wide, down the centres of Oakley-street and Webber-street re spectively (both of which would be widened to 150ft.) and connect at two points with the proposed cir- cular road designed to by-pass St. George's-circus and the Elephant and Castle.

The Commission disapproves of the suggested new St. Paul's Bridge, and in its stead recommends a Ludgate Bridge scheme of cost £3,000,000.

The report declares that "nowhere in the whole of the London traffic arca ja. the traffic so congested" na in the neighbourhood of the decks.

It is suggested that £1,000,000 ahonid be spent on widening the East India Dock-road; and other improvements in dockland include a new high-level road from Victoria. Docks to North Woolwich-road.

Rebuilding of Bridges, Other recommendations and their

costs are:

COST.

Wandsworth Bridge to be rebuilt to take four lines of traffe £1,000,000 Lamberth Bridge to be

rebuilt with widening of streets to Victoria Station...... Chelsea Bridge to be re-

built

widened

to Le

Putney Bridge Hammersmith Bridge to

be reconstructed of Albert Bridge, Chelsea, strengthened to take all kinds of traffic

Hampton Court Bridge to

be reconstructed New Chertsey-road to be built and Chiswick Rich- (Mortlake) and

mond Bridges to be re constructed....

1,340,000

dating from the time that Basie was

a walled city. "By it baby carriages pavements within the walled en- were permitted to be rolled on the closure.

part of the city were acquitted, Mothers and nurses in the older while those in the newer parts had to pay small änes.

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HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

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Do London...2116 nom, Chartered Bank...........l now. Marcantile Bauk, à.&B...£32 nom.

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It is estimated that all these. Loans

St. Poul's Cathedral would not in any way be affected by this scheme, which would comprise a combined foot and roadway, about 75ft. wide, schemes could be completed within from Southwark-street, S. E., across 13 years, and that they would go the Thames beside the present high a long way towards solving Lon level railway to Holborn Viaduct.don's unemployment problem.

FAMOUS LONDON HOUSES Elizabeth, Sir Walter Baleigh, Sir

SOLD.

Philip Sidney and Pepys were all

HOTEL CECIL'S · ADELPHI PURCHASE.

ROMANTIC SITE.

associated with it.

Palace Model ·

Tronoh Miner

Ural Caspians HK. & W. Decks H.K. & K. Wharfs.....

Rural Lands Ewe Cottons... Orientals

Th. nom. The & nom.. nom.

..21/- buy. 8. ADM

$115 nom.

nom.

Tis. 170 nom. New Engineerings.

The B'boy. Shanghai Doaks..... Th:113 buy.

sel. HK. 8. Hotels.....

....$54 Bel. Hong Kong Lands

Kong Besity....8.15 bay. Territorials $3 sel Humphreys Eriates......3149 sel. In 1708 the property then falling Prince's Building.........$99 nom. into ruins, was acquired by the bro

11 nom thers Adam,who conceived the

8.10 bay. grandiose idea of raising a high- Shanghai Cottons (old)... 11. 54 buy, 21 buy. level terrace on it by means of a

Do. substructure of brick piers and

(new)...... Th. 27 bay. Chi Basel

21. Bi buj. niches.

B.K. Tramways

$21 buy. | Peak Trams (old) ........ ***$15, buy,

Do Singapore Tractions....15): sal

.To sel.. Amusemania....

$16 bay Canton Ice 2010. Cements (combined).

.....$10 Bel Do. (old) vi... nom. Do (new)...... nom. Chins Lights (comb)...16 sel

Da (old) ......$13 ael. Do, (new)......49) mal. Chins Providenta Constructions Dairy Farrin.. Der & Wing Hong Kong Electrics.. H.K. Bops old) Lane Crawfords..

It is understood, according to a London contemporary to hand, that The terrace was built in imita- the Hotel Cecil Company have action of the Palace of, Diocletian, in quired the famous Georgian houses, the Bay of Spolako, and the money Nos. 1. to 9, Adam Street, and for erecting it. was raised by a to 9, Lower Adam Street, in the lottery, Adelphi.

The name Adelphia is the Greek for brothers, and commemorates the architects.

once

...

The directors of the company have not yet decided to what use to put their new acquisition, but

Adam Street was a favourite re- it is stated to be probable that, as sort of David "Garrick, the actor, Adam Street abuts on the west and Lower. Adam Street, which wing of the hotel, the street will forms part of the Adelphi Arches, a favourite resort of be incorporated in the hotel build- was ing

thieves and cut-purses

In these dark recesses. Quintin The houses affected by this trans- action form one of the most hitarie Hogg began the work which after wards led to, the formation of the parts of eighteenth century London. Polytechnic. Thousands of pounds They are the work of the brothers worth of wine are stored in the Adam, the Scotsmen whose idens introduced a revolutionary influence cellars that lead off from the ander.

ground streets. into Georgian architecture and building..

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15 noin,

110 sel. Do (new) 35 sel.

88 nom. Mackintoshi..

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Bel Urited Asbestos ....20 nom. Waboens (old).$13 nóm.

In 192 it was stated that the whole Adelphi site, in houses in The magnificent palace of the which Mr. George Bernard Shaw Pishops of Durham formerly stood and Sir James Barric now live, was Wm. Powells on the site now known as the to be sold for £1,000,000, to be Telephones......

Adelphi, and the town residence of transformed into a modern hotel, | kay-bayan; mal-soliera g / na the Archbishops "of' York, Queen. but the project was abandoned.

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