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ROADS AID EMPLOYMENT.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

ASK LARGE ROAD FUND.

Expenditures for highways, and An allowance of $52,000,000 for atreet construction and main-state roads Is what the New York tenance lu 1930 wil execed two late highway department plans to and a half billion dollars and oak the legislature for this year, furnish employment to more than This amount will be used solely 420,000, according to the American for the construction and upkeep of Automobile Association.

ronds.

PREPARE 1931 ROÅDS,

THE TAX BURDEN,

than

"To spoed up employment and road It is aatimated in Detroit auto- building programmes, the 1931 motive circles that the 1929 gaso- road appropriation of the U. S. go-line tax will total more vernment has been distributed 45 48 $150,000,000. This. Is states and Hawaii; This $73,125,- sent. increase 000 will be set at work at once on collections of road improvements.

$4,700,000.

100 per over the aggregate 1921, which were

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

MILLION DOLLAR YACHT.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1930.

PLAN NO SPEED LIMIT.

HUGE GAS TAX

has chosen the colour schemos of all rooms the furniture and other [ fitting in ́augh"a" way" "that" each room da an entity apart from the

State Motor Vehicle Commis others. All are elaborately equip ped.

{«loner of Pennsylvanin, Benjamin states and the District of Columbia Some features of the yacht's G. Eynon, urres the lifth of the during the first six months of 1929 furnishings are:

A

living room

The totals tax collected in 47′′

finished in panels of crotched speed limit In Pennsylvahia. He amounted to more than $178,140,- mahogany and a beamed calling claims that with a speed limit in 000, according to the bureau of with Ivory pancja; cratched effect traffic officers are occupied public ronds, U. 5. Department of mahogany stairenas and wrought with speedsters rather than devot Agriculture. A

total of 5,093,- iron railings; a baby grand piano ing their time to recklessness and 572,000 gallons wad, taxed during in the living room provided with accident hazards, -

this "riod. rustproof strings and joined by a 1997 special weatherproof glue; silk embroidered scarfs over the pianoj and table brought "from Paris; u library finished in India teak- wood; draperies "of gold brocade and of various colours for each) room; bathrooms of soft coloured) tile, with even the linens and soap New Jersey to manufacture syn- on bridges connected with its motor in colours to match. WE ST thetic gasoline from crude oil by highways. There are 65 toll roads Ono of the cabins has been de- the German hydrogenation pro- in England and Wales, and Captain signed in black and white cess. The I. G. Farbenindustrie Peter MacDonald has introduced. modernistic style 'for the specialį

SYNTHETIC GAS.

TO REMOVE TOLLS.

company has been formed in England is acting to remove tolls

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Charles F. Kettering's million-dollar yacht shown here, with photos of Kettering and, Mrs. Kettering in insets. The library, above is an example of the way the boat is finished

within.

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Detroit-An auto engineeryacht; an electric clock that keeps whose inventions have revolu-time with the movement of the tionized the industry, and who has ship across the meridians of Interested himself in other forms longitude; an elaborate refrigera- of mechanical and electrical pro- tion plant and various other de- xress, has added a new interest to tails will demand his interest hia list. It is yachting, but yacht- when he takes the boat out to sea. ing of a sort that will require his own participation in the operation of the machinery below decks as much as hle playing host above.

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The Olive K., named for Mrs. Kettering and built at Bay City, Mich., is down in Florida watern awaiting Kettering and five of his friends who will take a cruise to the Galapagos Islands in the South. Pacifle, soon after the new year. It will be an all-stag party and stances.

may entail some exploration His own apparatus for s-around the Islands. chronizing the operation of two What the cruise is all about, large Diesel motora. so as to cut down vibration almost entirely: an automalle radio and phono- graph that can be turned on or off from any of the rooms in the

Kettering won't tell, but he does admit that a large part of the time he will be found in the engine room, or in the pilot house, or in the radio room, playing with the instruments" that he has had in- stalled on the yacht. In fact, ho anya he has been tempted to ask the captain to hire an "owner" for the yacht, one who would be im- maculately dressed and prepared. to meet guests who might board the ship whenever it docked.

"It wouldn't look well for me to come out of the engine room in my overalls and with grimy hands to greet visitors," he saya. "And there's no telling when I shall find myself that way,"

Millionaire's Toy.

Thun the Olive K., elaborately Anished to the tastes of Mrs. Ket- tering, will be Kettering's million- dollar toy. He will do with this what he has been doing with nu-. tomotive engines, electrical light- ing aystems, radios and other in- ventions. It was to his order and design that a unique synchroniz- ing device has been installed to keep the two huge, six-cylinder Diesel oil-elèctric motors turning practically in unison. One of his joys on this trip to the South Seas will be playing with this novelty below decks.

At the same time his guests will have occasion to toy with another one of Kettering's ideas-the au- tomatie radio and phonograph system. By this system, a guest in his stateroom, or any of the other rooms of the yacht, may dial on his ship's telephone" to the radio receiver or phonograph in the library and get any station or photograph record he desires, among those listed. In his direc tory.

Besides the synchronizer, Ket tering has had installed a gyro- stabilizer to keep the ship on even keel during a storm, and in the pilot house above he has arranged equipment to direct the yacht along a set course without the direction of a human hand. This equipment includes a metal mike" or automatic steering apparatus, Besides there are a holm Indicator compass, 'radio direction finder, fathometer and two searchlights.

Salt and Fresh Water, For the convenience and com- fort of the guests, Keltering has had the baths piped for both salt and fresh water. There is an elaborate refrigeration plant and a heating plant for hot water ra distion. Forced draft ventilation keeps fresh air in all cabins.

The sixp is 170 feet long and has a displacement of 550 tons. The two Diesel engine aggregate over 1,000 horsepower, driving the ship at a speed of 15 knots. an. hour. The ship has a cruising radius of 7,500, miles at top speed. The interior decoration of the yacht is all Mrs. Kettering's, Bha

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