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BEBHAFS
r? 18 Informally announced that the pro
posed tworgactestton of the postal service,
With th abandonment of tho pnoumatio
tubes and the adoption of automobiles for
collections, will Increase) the speed of col
leattons SO per cent.
Perhaps this can ho dono. But Innovators
are too often llko political campaigners:
Thay -claim everything beforo tho showdown
and -then rnn to cover when they aro wrong;.
THE IUXLS ARE GUILTY
rjUllll OoIUord, or Culobro, Cut offered tho
JLmost serious problem In tho construction
of tho Panama Canal. Colonel Ooillard, on
whom fell tho responsibility for this par
ticular task and who died at tho moment
of Its completion as the result of illness
occasioned by his glgantlo labor, protested
vigorously against turning water Into tho
excavation until It had been entirely com
pleted by dry cutting. Ho doubted tho wis
dom of attempting to dredge. He felt so
strongly on the subject that ho required a
record of his protest to bo filed. Then ho
went ahead, as a good soldier should, and
put dredges to work.
Tho engineering problem Is not of great
Importance now, nor does It refloct In tho
slightest on Colonel Galllard's superiors that
wet cutting Boemed to them preferable to
dry cutting, yet it is due the famo of a
great engineer to have It recr lod now that
his way would probably have en tho bet
ter way. The blocking of the canal at this
time is a national disaster and doubtless
some effort will be made in Congress to
,, Institute an Inquiry. If bo, tho committee
need go no further than tho eternal hills
that rise triumphant by tho sldo of the most
stupendous engineering feat ever undertaken
by man. In them it will find Its answer.
ITAVING A "GOOD" TIME
THE French phrase "s'amuser," known In
the title of Hugo's play, "Le Roi
S'Amuse" (on which "Rlgolotto" is based),
means simply to have a good time. Tho
King, in Hugo's play, has a good tlmo, which
is a very bad time for everybody else. When
a great many people have a good tlmo tho
result Is usually a good tlmo In tho other
ense.
That is the reason why the Evenino
IiBDObr t6day devotes an entire supplement
to the city's amusements. The theatre, danc
ing and musio havo long been the standard
amusements of Americans. To them has
lately been added the most popular of all
the photoplay. All of them satisfy cer
tain longings recognizable in humanity the
world over. Action and feeling ore com
bined In two of them. Action and feeling
each inspire the third and fourth. And all
four stand together. All aro tho clean, cheer
ful amusements of a cheerful world.
Per hap j we ought to be good because we
ought and not because wo aro happy. The
fact Is that happiness and goodness most'
often go together. And If a city starts with
happiness In Its amusements as its ideal, there
will be so much less misery and misfortune
to combat.
A NICE POINT OF HONOR
PRANCE has set an example which Ger
many might well follow when the six
warrant officers of tho lntorned Kronprlnz
Wllhelm reach Berlin. Tho officers were al
lowed to come and go as they pleased on
giving their word that they would not at
tempt to leave the United States. But they
have disappeared after buying and fitting
out a sixty-foot sailing yacht with an aux
iliary engine.
"When a French aviator, who had to land
in Switzerland because of engine troubles
and was Interned, broke his parole and re
ported for duty In Paris, the War Office sent
him back to Switzerland because Franco,
through him, had givon her word that he
would not attempt to enter the military
service again
Those who have confidence In German
honor are expecting tho Kaiser to rebuke the
officers of tho Kronprln WUholm and to
send them back to Norfolk to remain until
peace Is declared. Thoso who havo no faith
Ux German hlgh-mlndedness are expecting
them to bo welcomed with open arms; and a
"Well done, good nnd faithful servant." We
ty see how Germany stands the test.
!P -. TSiU LIMITS OP PATIENCE
YUtfTICE has so often been mocked that It
Jj V HereiI very little from tho outburst of
"7 JV Ben B. LInQsey the other day. Judge
J XiaeWey engaged In a fight, called names
ia was. ejected from the courtroom Where
e k plaintiff in a cult of criminal libel.
The pity of It Is that Judge Llndsey chose
t pMnl so openly a charga which has
BUaT to da with hi llfflywork. There
hA tmn dastardly and sharrieful attacks
h4 w hint as a Judge. Ho has been
W utU4 t,p defend with his own honor the con-
f. ..ion or tjKwe. vho trusted in him. He
h ! 1 "en aecud of dreadful crimes, and
j . "' toxl th" accusations
ii w .- ml the mapping of the overdrawn
EYENjyG- ETOPEB--yHffL'AD133jPHIA. 8ATUBPAY, QQTQBggJ 1014
cord that caused tho unhappy scene In Den
ver. Judga I.lndscy was accused of neglect
ing his proper work In order to mako
speeches advertising himself. The accusa
tion Is silly, but It Is not ono whero o qup.i
tlon of evidence can bo brought up. That
is precisely what Judgo Llndsoy tried to do.
In Denvor, It seems, thoso who try to per
form great services aro nagged and driven
and mado unhappy until ncrvos and fibre,
can stand tho strain no longer. That Is
Judge Llndscy's reward for tho years of
endeavor on tho Juvenlto Court bench.
PORTER FOR RAPID TRANSIT
TWTH. PORTER has signed the transit
pledge. Thcro can bo no doubt whoro
ho stands. Ho is with Director Taylor, who
mappod out tho comprchcnslvo system, and
with tho management of tho P. R. T., that
agreed on it as a good system and on tho
terms for Its operation -1 good terms; and
ho is with, finally, the great mass of citi
zens who havo determined that they shall
have adequato transportation facilities.
Mr. Porter wants the agreement mado be
tween tho Department of Transit nnd tho
P. R. T. put Into force. Ho wants to see a
universal five-cent faro. Ho wants to have
tho exchango tickets abolished. Ho wants
to do theso things, as Director Taylor wants
to do them, with perfect fairness both to tho
city and to tho operating company. Ho
favors tho protection of vested capital, hon
estly Invested and fairly used.
Thero is nothing that stands between tho
people and tho achievement of their desires
except a group of selfish politicians. Tho
transit company is on record ns favoring tho
plans. Thoro Is none to object except a few
"leaders," who do not wish this situation to
pass without their getting something out of
It It Is n slmplo thing for the people of
Philadelphia to tako matters into their own
hands nnd decldo this great issuo now and
for all time. All that they havo to do Is voto
for candidates who favor rapid transit and
against candidates who do not favor it.
They will havo no difficulty In discriminat
ing betwoen the true nnd tho false friends
of transit, for full publicity will tako caro of
that part of tho situation.
CHILDREN NEED MOTHERING
THE most Important revelation mado in
the conference to discuss what Is to bo
done with the nino and a half million dollars
of the Carson and Ellis bequests for the edu
cation of orphans was that tho persons who
havo given most thought to tho subject havo
concluded that tho institution exists for tho
benefit of tho child.
aIt Is only within recent years that men
havo begun to recognize that either tho
Stato or tho phllanthroplcal organizations
had any obligations to the child ns such.
Emphasis has been placed on tho necessity
of taking caro of tho Stato or tho city and
not on making tho most of tho dependent
young. But we havo children's courts now
adays and child labor laws and mothers'
pension statutes, all Intended to protect the
child who needs mothering In some form or
other for many years after It begins to walk
alone.
It has been discovered that whilo artificial
brooders may do for chickens, tho product
of tho great Juvonilo Institution Is dwarfed
In his affections and atrophied In his social
development. It is impossible to make good
citizens by pouring children Into tho hopper
of an Institution and waiting for them to
come out perfectly developed. A dependent
child needs a homo and a few companions
and as much mothering as can bo supplied.
COMPETITIVE BARBARITY
THE use of poisonous gases by tho Ger
mans and the continued raiding of Lon
don by Zeppelins aro provoking In England
a demand for treating the Germans with
greater barbarity than they have shown to
ward their enemies. Tho English have al
ready begun to use chlorine gas. Members
of Parliament aro saying that tho policy of
vengoanco must bo continued until a fleet of
two hundred or moro airships have suc
ceeded in dropping bombs on Cologne, Co
burg nnd other German towns, killing non
combatant women and children. They main
tain that nothing short of a greater
destruction of babies than Germany has
boon guilty of will induce the Germans to
bo humane.
They do not know tho nature of tho pas
sions that have been aroused or they would
not mako so great a blunder. British bar
barity, Instead of checking Gorman cruelty,
would stir tho Germans to the invention of
new outrages, and the competitive barbarity
would contlnuo until all tho furies were let
looso and new ones conceived to wreak a
greater vengeance for every injury suffered.
The war for civilization must be a civilized
war.
Is Delcasso a French Bryan?
They curod that old man of anthrax, but
he died.
Judge LIndsey did his best to meet his
opponent with a knockdown argument.
The Germans weren't smoked out at La
Bossqo, And they aro rather familiar with
gas themselves.
Familiarity and frequent repetitions havo
caused tho German Zeppelins to go stale.
Yesterday they hit 14 soldiers In London.
The Administration will have to eat Its
words about high tariff before it completes
Its plans for raising all the revenue needed
for next year.
Tho King of Montenegro, who refusod to
build roads In his country lest Austrian can
non might be hauled over them, Is now sat
isfied with the wisdom of his policy.
While Professor Dahlgren was explaining
the organism of electric fish, why did he not
give some attention to tho operations of the
clectrio light plants found In moat large
dtles?
Those who have to pay an Income tax and
a school tax and a city tax and State tax
and an automobile tax are hoping with Mrs.
Fels for the day when there will bo but a
Ingle tax.
Secretary Daniels Is progressing. He has
discovered that munition factories are aa
Important as guns and ships. Some day he
may learn that an army cannot fight with
out food and hospital supplies and clothing
and railroads to transport the goods and
factor! la wttiak to mak th.
AN OLD-FASHIONED
BATTLE IN WEST
Tho Chnrnpngno "Nibble" May Be
come a Real Victory Tho Re
sult Depends on Ammuni
tion and Reserves
By FRANK 11. SIMONDS
APART from tho central purpose of allied
. strategy, which is to thrust tho Germans
out of France, not by direct nttack along tho
whole front, but by piercing attacks at two
points, thero are minor objectives and Inci
dental details of tho prcsont operation which
aro of real value and interest. Thus tho
local success of tho Artols operation will
regain for Franco tho city of Lens; It will
rollovo tho closely Invested front of Arras;
It may eventually lead to tho freeing of
Llllo. In the samo fashon, tho success of tho
Champagno operation, vlowcd only from Its
local sldo, will free Rhelms, rollovo Verdun
and threaten tho whole German front be
tween tho Meuso nnd tho Olso.
Tho accidental circumstances of tho Cham
pagne battlefield mako It possible to study
tho operntlons at closo rango nnd with ad
vantages thnt are lacking in tho Artols fight,
which is being carried on In a densoly In
habited region Is a battlo from houso to
house, from vlllngo to village. In Cham
pagne, on tho other hand, tho strugglo Is
being fought out In nn open country, almost
dcstltuto of population, under conditions
which recall many of tho battles of our own
Civil War.
Looks Ltkc a Battle
In tho old-fashioned sense, thcreforo, tho
Champagno operation more nearly satisfies
tho notion of a battlo than anything In tho
west since tho German checks nlong tho
Yser and about Ypres exactly a year ago.
What tho Germans attempted In Flanders
tho French are undertaking In Champagno.
So far tho fight recalls In many particulars
tho desperate cfrorts which marked tho final
German drlvo In tho west.
It Is of Interest to consider tho number of
men nctually engaged In this groat battlo,
for, measured by nil tho standards of the
past, this has been a great battlo. Unhap
pily this must bo wholly a matter of con
jecture. In March tho Germans asserted
that the French used 250,000 men on this
samo front nnd lost about 75,000. Tho French
estimated tho German forco at tho same
number, but mado no guess as to German
lossos.
Presumably tho French have had more
men In this fight and tho Germans fewer,
because the extent of French gain Indicates
a heavy superiority In numbers. The Ger
mans report that the chief loss was In a
single division; that is, about 20,000. But
tho French claim to havo taken about 20,000
unwounded prisoners, which would account
for at least a division and would point to tho
destruction by casualties of at least an army
corps of 40,000. The capture of moro than 60
field guns, which havo Binco been exhibited
in Paris, is also an evldenco of tho extent
of German disaster.
Conceivably tho now offensive .In Cham
pagno has now been permanently halted.
This does not appear to bo tho case; but,
accepting German claims to this effect, it is
still possible to seo why tho Allies aro en
couraged. Their conviction Is that precisely
as Lee's army before Richmond steadily di
minished until, to use the commander's
words, It "was stretched so thin it broke,"
the German lines in Franco and Belgium
will bo less and leas strongly held. If the
present "nibbles" fall to develop Into
"drives," if the Allies do not get through
this tlmo, they aro satisfied that a "nibble"
will some day prove to be decisive.
Actually the French are seeking to drlvo
a wedge between tho German armies north
and west of Rhelms to the Olso and thoso
east of Rhelms to the frontier. As they
advance they will cut two railroads of Im
mediate Importance, the lines serving the
Crown Prince. If they are able to contlnuo,
they will cut tho lines along tho frontier be
tween Alsace-Lorraine and Artols and Flan
ders. Once this Is accomplished, tho wholo
German position In Franco becomes untena
ble and tho Germans will have to go back
to tho Belgian frontier.
At the same time, tho Anglo-British oper
ation in Artols Is striking at railroads which
directly feed the armies In France. If this
succeeds, the Germans will havo to quit
France altogether and go back to a defense
line based on Namur, Brussels and Antwerp,
Bigger Than Gettysburg
But all theso things are In tho future.
What Is of immediate, interest Is that the
battle now going on at Champagno Is bigger
than any battle of tho last century, has
already become a strugglo three times bigger
than our own Gettysburg and In Us decisive
phase Is being fought upon a front not much
wider than that which saw Lee's last great
offensive fall. German estimates of French
losses make them larger than Meade's army,
French statements of prlsonors taken show
a figure larger than the total losses of Meado
or Lee, and tho artillery captured exceeds
the number that cither American army pos
sessed. German official statements have
fixed tho French force at 700,000.
For tho observers of tho strugglo tho
Immedlato Interest must for the present bo
the fate of tho village of Sommepy and the
railroad that serves It and supplies the
Crown Prince. After three weeks of fighting
the French are within a mllo of it. They
have won more ground than at any other
time since the end of tho German retreat
from Marno; they have won their greatest
local success since the war of trenches be
gan. If they take Sommepy they can claim
a genuine victory.
It must bo remembered that In the modern
battle it takes weeks Instead of days to get
u decision. The enemy's position Is pounded
to pieces by artillery and his first line taken.
But he has a second and a third, and the
process must be repeated Indefinitely. The
only chance of a success of the old-fashioned
sort Is that his ammunition fals and that
he is unable to replace losses. Then a breach
will be made in his front. This happened at
the Dunajec, when the Germans defeated the
Russians.
COUNTRY OF CENTENARIANS
Servla Is the country of centenarians. One
man In every 2260 has seen 100 years, and, In all,
8ervla boasts 675 men of 10Q years or over. Ire
land ranks next with one centenarian In every
SIM of the population, or C78 In all. Out of
every t,0S0 Spaniard! one Is a centenarian. Nor
way numbers Z3. or one In about M.000. England,
Scotland and Wales rank next with 1(2, or one
In about 177,000. Franca has 213 centenarians, or
one In 190,760. Sweden ran seventh, with 20 only,
or one in JM.088. Germany has 78 or one 'n
7W0, Chicago Journal.
NO EXCUSE
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In theee times. An InaMRa4l market man
was arrested for s!MnT scales which
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GRADUATES OF THE FOOTBALL FIELD
Scores of Heroes of the Gridiron Have Made Their Mark in the
World, Utilizing Qualities That Helped Them Score Touch
downs President Wilson Coached Wesleyan Eleven
By EDWARD R. BUSHNELJ,
SUCCESSFUL football stars possess many
of tho qualities required for success In
business and professional life, and It is not
surprising that numbers of tho famous grid
Iron heroes havo mado their mark In law,
modlclne, tho ministry, education, business
and politics. "Who's Who" contains tho
names of scores of men who continued to
mako good after showing their fellows what
they could do in tho way of scoring touch
downs. Tho showing they havo made fur
nishes ono more "human document" In the
case for football as a developer of character,
courage and "get-thero."
Yale men have contributed most to the de
velopment of football strategics. Tho keen
analytical mind of Walter Camp kept him In
tho forefront of football history through a
period of 35 years. Ho was a great player
himself back In 1881, when ho was Yale's
captain and ono of tho finest open-field run
ners of the tlmo. But ho has acquired Just
as great success in other fields.
Ho has written extensively on subjects not
connocted with college sports, and for a good
many years has been president and man
ager of tho New Haven Clock Company. He
Is also a member of tho Yale University
Council. It was his far-sighted business
sonso that enabled Yale to build that im
mense "bowl," where 70,000 people can look
down on a football game, tho most remark
able athletic field In the world.
Inventor of "Guards Back"
Another Yale football genius, more versa
tile than Camp, was George Woodruff, who
played guard for four years, from 1885 to
1889. But It wasn't at Yale that Woodruff
electrified the football world. It was at
Pennsylvania, whero he was Installed as
coach shortly after his graduation. Wood
ruff had his ideas at Yale, though as an
undergraduate he had no chance to demon
strate them.. But when ho took charge at
Pennsylvania ho proceeded to startle the
college world with his Irresistible "guards
back," on which all tho later mass forma
tions wore built. He put Pennsylvania on
the football map and gavo the Quakers all
their championship teams up to 1901, when
he was deposed. Ho was the originator of
the present system of sending in the ends to
break up Interference. Ho also Invented tho
quarterback kick.
Although Woodruff gave the best part of
his life to football his Interests and activities
wero various. While coaching the Pennsyl
vania team he was a student In the law
school. Since 1903, when ho abandoned foot
ball, his legal talents have been sought out
by tho United States Government. He has
served In the Forestry Department and as
United States District Judge of Hawaii.
To tho Middle West the Yale football
school has given many notablo men. Thero
Is A. A. Stagg, who for five years was a
thorn In the flesh to Harvard men in both
football and baseball. In those days there
was no four-year limit to a man's participa
tion In college athletics, and Harvard men
feared Stagg never would graduate. Not only
was he one of Yale's greatest ends, but he
Is today acknowledged to have been the
greatest college pitcher who ever lived. He
was prominent In athletics, but ,was also a
leader In undergraduate religious work. He
has grown up out In tho West as the ath
letic director of the University of Chicago,
and his genius in coaching football, baseball
and track teams has enabled these depart
ments to keep pace with tho monoy the
Rockefellers have spent to equip the plant.
Another Yalo genius was H, L. Williams,
of the '00 team. Williams camo from Yale
to the Penn Charter School, of this city, as
athletic director, but from hero he was
called to the University of Minnesota, where
ho Invented the "Minnesota shift" In 1910.
Then there was Vance McCormlck, captain
and quarterback of the Yale eleven In 1892,
McCormlck was known as one of the brain
Jest men In Yalo football, and that year bis
team won the Intercollegiate championship,
for It beat Harvard 8-0 and Princeton 10-0.
McCormlck is now flie owner and editor of
the Harrlsburg Patriot, and last year was
tho Democratto candidate for the governor
ship of this State.
Joined Athletics and RellgUm
Lee McClung;, who was captain of the Yale
team in 1891,, had so much ability aa a finan
cier that ho was made Treasurer of the
United States In 1909, a position he later re
signed to be treasurer of his Alma Mater.
He died, last year after an attack of pneu
monia, Prlnctton, too, cai pelnt to a group f
famous Americana wfco ww stars on ths
gridlre during tfiair uadargraiuuta days.
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Robert E. Spccr, of tho class of '89, still holds
a record no other Princeton man over mado.
He was tho only Princeton man to cquul tho
marvelous scholaishlp record which Aaron
Burr mado at Princeton nearly a century
beforo him. Speer played end and tacklo
on Princeton teams, and since his gradua
tion he has becomo ono of America's fore
most religious speakers and writers, and
now Is secretary of tho Board of Foreign
Missions of tho Presbyterian Church. Among
the later players was "Big Bill" Edwards, of
tho 1899 team, who later went Into politics
and, under Mayor Gaynor, becamo New
STork's best Street Cleaning Commissioner.
And wo mustn't forget Woodrow Wilson,
who, while not a football star during his un
dergraduato days at Princeton, nevertheless
absorbed enough of tho game to coach tho
Wesleyan eleven when he became a profes
sor at Middletown In tho fall of 1889.
Harvard's famous football stars have
made good In tho business and professional
world, too. In 1880 tho captain and quarter
back of tho Harvard team that held Yale to
a 0-0 score was Robert Bacon, then al9-year-old
lad. Ho becamo a successful lawyer, a
member of tho J. P. Morgan banking firm and
during the Administration of President Taft
was Ambassador to France.
A decade later Harvard turned out W.
Cameron Forbes, not a star player, but good
enough later to be mado head coach. Presi
dent Taft appointed him Governor of tho
Philippines. Another Harvard player who
acquired distinction after leaving his Alma
Mater and under difficult circumstances was
W. H. Lewis', '93, ono of the best centro
tushes tho country ever saw. Lewis was a
colored man and considerable prejudlco ex
isted against his uso by Harvard. Aftei his
graduation he continued to help Harvard's
coaches, and 1b generally credited with hav
ing devised the only system that' pver breaks
up Pennsylvania's guards' back play. His
legal attainments attracted mttni.n o
President Roosevelt appointed him United
States mnrrlnf lltrn..., i .. . .
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tion becauso of his color.
Penn's Great Players
Some of the University of Pennsylvania's
most famous players prior to 1900 are now
among tho leading citizens of this city and
State. In the late '70s there wero E W
Clark, '77. and II. H. Lee, '79. both of whom
went from tho gridiron and college into
banking Then there was Georgo c. Thayor.
81. a gridiron star and captain, now one of
the leading financiers of tho city and a trus
tee of the University.
When Georgo Woodruff was in his glory
as a football coach ho developed a trio of
centre men whoso names aro almost synony
mous with "guards back." They were T T
Hare and J. C. McCracken, guards, and V.
D. Overfleld, centre. This trio towered over
their opponents to such an extent that they
wore almost unanimously chosen to places
on the "All-American" teams of those days
McCracken, now a physician, has been a
oader in Intercollegiate Christian Assochb.
tlon work and established the University
nh.nCal TfCh01. and Hospltal Canton,
. . llT. ,a a 8UCce88'"l lawyer and
author In this city, and Overfleld was made n
United States Judge in Alaska a ftvTyears
ago,
Somo other famous gridiron stars who
could be mentioned aro Paul Thompson, '85.
now advice president of the U. G, I.; Qeorgo
Wharton Popper, ono of tho city's leading
lawyers and a trustee of tho University
John C. Bell, a noted lawyer and former
Attorney General of tho Stato, and DrJ
Duncan Spaeth, -88, professor of English at
Princeton University. "Knsn at
THEN IT'S DIFFERENT
Students at a New Jersey law roWi
g ven this problem: "When bwbjftato fh2
air between the pitcher and the That., "
owns ItT" Nobody cares much about .S!'. ,lho
If It was the pitcher that wa. in th- $2?
Question become, of Inte&ffaVV
CROSS-ROADS SIGNS
T1,!. U tha tho tttomoblIe people don't
Insist that crossroad, sign, shall be put un
411 through the country in wly times it w.2
the custom and It wae a great satisfaction!
trave ers. It would b greater .atlsfaction li
When there In a time, more travel," 'n tW.
used to be. A sign post alons th ?.
prising th. pilgrim of "where "he. ?$:
roost pleasant feature of travel, It h.. ?
friendly look, Away out ther Tt e.talllihe. a
relation between a man and his home
There ought to bo some way of sett'lns- theaa
liu up. The commlsloners, the tru.tae.th!
people themselve.. .hould e to U tC t" tkta
happy convenience provM, Whata kind
opinion a pll rim would have of a nairhhiLkl"!!
irtU,J)3...
Hon nnrf rnnvunlonrn. ITa wnij i. . .'.1
mako up his mind that there was a fine ijt2
7"'"' "" n:.w Mm iuiiK mier ne had m
tnn rrosroniln whprn thorn umn n .in. ..
.. , .v,. nun , 3ikii, reaamar
Six Allien to Smlthvllle." with n hand polntta
toward the village, ho would remember the net
SoniotliTiPfl now. wlmn w M tu.A..-i
.. ,. .v iiiiuusB IN
country nnd se some venerable crossroad! tlm
wiiicii ii. b mvhv uuiy uiiuugn many rami few
winters, wn almost foM mirftnlf i -
presence nnd to ImnElne a gentle hand l&W
ujjwti us, nun a muici ucueuituon; UOd blM
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uu, uiy duii. viuu omit; JUUrnai.
A CENTRAL TRAFFIC CIRGUIM
As Considered in the Weekly Bulletin Ml
the Bureau nf Mnnioinnl T)nsol, il
In many of our great cities the exceealv m?
ctntratlon of trade and traffic has caused con-
gcstlon which must find relief In the very un
future. As the streams of vehicles and nti:
trlans rapidly swell, trafflc regulation U be
coming increasingly ainicuit.
Philadelphia Is no exception to the rula. aJ
for a number of years the Bureau of Surrey!
has had In mind a central trafflc circuit or, in'
other words, a quadrangle of wide thorough
fares on tho border of the principal bulnti
district.
Finally, ns the result of a careful studr k
a sub-committee of the Permanent Committee
on Comprehensive Plans, a resolution irti
passed by Councils and approved by the Mayor
on December 24, 1914, authorizing the Bureau of
surveys to mnne runner investigations, pliia
ond estimates of cost of such a traffic circuit,"
which would be created by the widening of;
Race, 8th, Locust and ICth streets, each to t!w
width of 134 feet. According to the report of
the committee, tho resulting benefits would bf
far-reaching. J
First. New ayenues for carrying herr
throueh traffic, chleflv from emit to u-t i.1
lieving concestlon on Market and other itrMti
devoted to retail trade, would bo created.
aecona. increasea street urea would greaur
relieve existing conditions upon many treW
where now traffic moves In only one direction
Through traffic, which now clogs the (hopping I
district, would bo diverted, much to the U' l
vantage of business generally. j j
iiuru. a systematic memoa or street w.
provement would be Instituted.
Fourth. Tho circuit would form a base froeij
which future extensions to the river frofttsf
and to wide avenues now existing In other partij
oi me city wouiu De maae.
Fifth. Tho opening of the circuit would pre;
vldo a splendid location for the subway deliver
loop. 4 M
sixtn. Novr locations would be made avallaM
for general business purposes. 2
Seventh. Large sections now occupied bf
small buildings of slum character would
eliminated. S
ElBhth. The general value of the propew
within and for a considerable distance beyoei
the outidranirle formed hv thn circuit would U
enhanced. I
Ninth. The cost of opening would proUUr
do less tnnn in any other location ones
equal bcnotlts. jf
Tenth. A connected circuit of fine avemW
would be created.
Among other things such a public fcipron-JI
... . .., -mm- . - ' -
mem nuum nerve as an enecuve nre wi"
und provide additional parking space for ant-,
mobiles. It Is suggested that the project-
financed by assessing part of the cost agahwt;
nearby property indirectly benefited, as well M
ngalnst property abutting on tho streets t,
footed. This will require new legislation, &J
ever, in order to make It nosslble.
The building of the now subway Is going J
mriner intcnsiry the whole problem of ira.
nlng of tho trafflc circuit seems highly
siracio.
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NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW
Massachusetts MhnuiH i. thn Nw York 1
got system, and it should secure the opportuM
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u. luiiBiuuiiuutii umen.nmeni u nuv uj ""
stltutlonal convention. Springfield Republ
Afl Hfl Hninti In n ncAfa,nilAnUr It Ifl
SUmable that nn tnrtrf rnvUInn will COmmaMI
his support which doe. not recognize proteo!
u nip iruo American policy. wasnin.vwu
The United States can be quite M eertfl
cf its possession of a truly national spirit i
tan most ot tne otner nations tnat ni
of their distinctive nationality. Kansa. CW
utait
Europe can be trusted to hold out stresSI
bid. than ever for American travelers. It JI
not with a light heart that the Europeans sawii
the Immense tourist Industry wiped out. Wfl
want It back; Just at present there Is tattuM
miuuicr A-aris exposition In 1830. iioston i
snpi.
i i f
WPTT. TIOT
Soma one seems to've stole the compass o !
amp tnavs out at sea,
And It seems to sail In circles 'round the
Or perhaps some submarine has sent It
ww mo onne,
Never knowin' when they dlc it that th
n.ojr puun. naa mine.
It was In my youth I sent It to th Ulan i
niaj(
To bring" gems from the Indies, and bring I
And it has not come home ever from tlu :
i" uijr snips.
And I think I'll never see It, but there' '.
' uu ray ips.
For the ship I sent out them days had no I
uown in ner hold
Only for material riche., for her bales e '
.. and goldf
uaa no room except for Jewels and h
And no doubt ber bone, are bleaching on
kr, tu. Q I0'sn strand;
Ana & 8 her white sails. ee th I
ui while she was foknf riche. I have
And this love U so much better than a
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