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MASON'S

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Hongkong Daily Press.

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No. 22,157 號柒拾伍百登仟弍萬弍第 日捌拾月陸年巳己 HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24,1929. 参拜體 日期廿月柒年九廿百九仟登英

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

'On mað after Årar 8th,/1939, until further Notion (sil previous

STATIONS

HC, 3 NO.

A.M.A.M.

Kowloon.Dep. 8.40 8.00

Yaamati.Dep. | 6.49

Shatin ...Dep. | 7,01|

Taipo ...Dop. | 7,15

Taipo

Market. Dep. 720

Fanling Deja, 7,80

Sheung

shuiDep. 7,35

grasse

chaa...Arr. 7.41 8.45

Canton...Am.

19.05

Time Tables cancelled.)

UP TRAINS

36.30

dans, & Holis. only

}A| AM. | P.M. | P.M.) P.M. IM,YM FX, XX.

8,80 | 9,15 10,00|12,10 1,13) 2.81| 3,90| 4,30| 3,40† 2,35

9,25 10.0812.15 1.23

9.88 10,90/12,30) 1.35)

9.59 10.3919,43 1.49)

4.39 5,49 7.43

| 4,50) 5,00| 7,55

9.38 10,37|12,47 1,38) — 10.10 10.4717.57: 9,02) —

9.07 0.15 10.5 1.02 3.07 3.09

4

9.13 10.31 10,58 1,08 2,19 3.154.00

| 5.04 6.13| 8.08

5:00 6.17 £17 -5,18637) 8.11

6.23 8.32 8.28

5.20 8,388.51

3.49

7.18

"DOWN TRAINS

8.10

STATIONS 3,1 20,8 No.7

AM. A.K. LK

No. 1 No.15 AM. AM

Ma. 17 No.19 No. 31 Mo, 12 ||FX. | P.M. | P.M. | F.M.

Canton ...Bep.-

3.25

Fanling

Shumchan...Dep. 717 803 10.34 | 11,27|| 11,47 | 2,39 | 489 | 5.47| 6,49 Shrungahui.Dep. 1.15 8.11 10.41.

...Dep.

7.30 9.15 10.47 Taipa Market Dep. 1.40 8.25 1037 Tuipo.

"...Dep. 7,44 8,31 11.01

Shalin ..Dep. 7.57 5.44 -11,14 Yaamati...Dep. A11 158 11.28

Kowloon Arr. | 8.17" 9,0% 11.32 | 12.07

11.55 8,01 4.40 | 8.54 13.00 3.06 4.50 5.58

11,11 3.17 8.00 6.06

14.16 3.11 5.04 6.13

12.30 8.36 5.176.28 12.433,495.39 6.38

12.48 | 3845,85 | 8,44 | 7,22

No.24 1.X.

7,07 7.14

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TWO GREAT PROBLEMS FOR POLICE.

WHISTLES, GONGS,

LIGHTS, AND "RUSH.

UNDERGROUND, ON THE GROUND, AND OVERGROUND.

Two Whistles.

New York has two different traffic problems, both of which

At the main crossings, to make present difficulties which are some-

assurance doubly sure, there are times greater even than those of policemen with whistles. One trem London. There is first the problem bles to think what would happen how to control a mass of people to a policeman in New York if he sad cars and omnibuses and trams and to depend, like his London Howing backwards and forwards cclinterpart, on a long arm stuck in a space of 300 square miles out across the street. At the end which is the area of the five of every two minutes they blow boroughs making New York City, their whistles twice, and the red though the latest town planning and green lights are reversed. At schenies propose to make an area the Arst blow all traffic stops; at of 5,328 square miles into a com-

the end of the second all the 'held posite City State.

up trafe moves on. The shrill And, secondly, there is the pro-blast of the policeman's whistle can always be heard for hundreds of yards around, above the continual roar of the New York traffic.

blem how to divert and rearrange this mass, so that it will become smaller rather than greater-how to prevent the city from becoming! full of people who are only passing through from one side of it to the other. The first is for the police, the second for the town planners. This article will deal with the problem. for the police.

Right-Angle Streets. Traffic in New York can be re- gulated in a way that would be im possible in London. The streets of New York all intersect one another at right angles or at least all the newer and more important cnes except, strangely enough, those around Wall-street, which still remain crooked and narrow, in the busiest part of the city.

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Underground.

If it is easy to find one's way above ground in New York, it is extremely difficult to fathom the mysteries

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whistle blows.

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The elevated railway is far simpler, though not quite so quick. It has absorbed a great number of people who would otherwise have blocked up the, underground com It is interesting to see how pletely, and there are notices in traffic along the pavements. It is of the advantages of travelling -nedestrians contro! their own all the undergrounds telling people safe to, say that on the main along the elevated railway instead parements of New York every one of underground. The railways are keeps to the right, and a person in themselves, hideous and apoil the pavement, though he would he and their double row of support trying to walk on the left side-of any street over which they run, liable to no legal penalty, woulding pillars make the problem of soon give it up. as be would make crossing a street even more difficult

than it naturally is." practically, no headway.

But they are certainly dimple to understand, as they run only up or down town and never sideways or

eireles. It is impossible to un- have begun to solve its traffic pro- derstand how New York could ever blem without the elevated railway. As it is, the new Commissioner of Traffic, Mr. Grover Whalen, has a hard task in front of him.

If

The most remarkable feature of New York trafic to an English man is the pace it goes. When a green light is showing a car will down one of the main streets, only go anything up to 50 miles an hour to pull up on its withers" with screech of brakes the moment the whistle blows, and the red lights go on. There is only one vehicle is therefore possible for all east- which roay disregard the lights. He has started by making the west traffic to be stopped at a given In New York one constantly hears

parking" laws more stringent. signal, and to be released at the the blood-curdling shriek of the It a car is left in a street a police- end of two minutes and the north-fire engine as it tears down the man walks up to it and makes a south traffic held up instead. For streets, round all the corners, at fehalk mark round its tires. If the this reason traffic control is more break-neck speed-far more terrify tire is still on the chalk mark when highly developed in New York than ing than the London fire engines. he comes back later, the owner, is it is in London.

Nearly all the traffic in New fined-a simple way of proving At every street crossing a lamp York is composed of four and six conclusively whether OT not can be seen-there is sometimes senter closed cars. A few dull motorist has left his car too long only one lamp every two or three green omnibases plying their way well be copied by the London in one place, and one that might erossings, but it can always be seen." up and down. Fifth Avenue are the A red light means "Stop" and a only answer to the forest of bright police. green one "Go." At the principal red omnibuses that line Oxford- ! But Mr. Whalen is very far from crossings bronze towers have been street. There are trams down some reducing New York's trafic pro- erected in the middle of the road of the other avenues, and for those blem to a simple code which will to hold the lamps, but New Yorkers who cannot afford to take a taxicab work successfully. At present he are now bitterly complaining that (which, in comparison with other is the standing joke of the musical the 2180,000 spent on them has been things, are remarkably cheap incomedy stage. Whether or not he simply thrown away, as they are New York) there is always the sub-will succeed time alone can show, quite useless, and Are soon to be way (underground) or the elevated but if he does he will be a great pulled down.

railway.

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Diary of Coming Events

To-day.

(July 24.)"

Hong Kong Amusements, Ltd. annual general meeting, Queen's Theatre, noon.

farewell to Mr. P. Sands, 8.30 pm,

Queen's Theatre: True Heaven.' World Theatre: "The Belle of; Broadway."

•

Star Theatre: Bride"

"The

Boxer

Ten Dance: H.K. Hotel, 4.30 p.m..

Saturday.

* (July 27.)

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Dinner Dances: Repulse Bay Lawn Bowls:-Div. I: Polica v. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 3.30 Taikoo, Kowloon CC. v. Craigen- 4.30 p.m

gower, Kowloon Duck v. Kowloon

H.K.

St. Andrew's Church SocialTides:-High: 19.32 a.m. and Bowling Green, Civil Service e

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European Mails Inward: Kowloon Bowling Green, . Kow.. Europe

vid Negapatam (Antenor).noa C.C., Craigengower 2.

Friday,

Electric. (July 28).

Lawn Tennis:"B" Div.: South Christian Fellowship Meeting, China . H.K.C.C., M.B.K.

Chinese R.C. "C" Div.: Craigen- Helena May Institute, 10.30 am.

Star Theatre: "The Auction Block"

Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, 8,30 pm.

Tides:High: 12.05 a.m. and 10.10 a.m.; Low: 854 a.m. and 5.50

European Mails: - Outward: Europe vid San Francisco (Siberia Mara), 8 p.m.

Police

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Billiards League:-Police Res, gower v. South China.

C. & P.O's Club, Buffalo Club

Queen's Theatre "Casanova, Homersets, K.O.S.B., Royal Prince of Adventurers."

Gar- Engineers, St. Patricks v.

World Theatre: "Square Crooks.” rikop Mess,

Royal

Star Theatre: "The Boxer Artillery

Queen's Theatre; Casanova, Bride" Prince of Adventurers."

Kowloon C.C. Concert, 0.15 p.m. World Theatre: "Square Crooks." Craigengover C.C. Radio Night, Star

The Theatre!

Boxer 0.15 p.m. Bride."

Tea-Dance: HK Hotel, 4.30 p.m. Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, YM.C.A. Bocial evening, fare-1 8.30 da

Thursday.

(July 2)

St. James.

Legislative Council, 30 p.m. Reception en board s.a, Tjibadak, 3 to & p.m.

Tea Dance: HK Hotel, 4.30p.m. Dinner Dances: Repulse Bay Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30

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