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January 3, 1930 WILMETTE Commerce~ LIFE "~··························· I , . .. . ' : . . Stevens, Association of publisher, The Times, and Peter VEXING TRAFFIC PROBLEM mittee; Elmer Sidney Williams, director, Lambros, editor, Greek Star. · Safety council; Robert ·FACES FAIR COMMmEES National Kingery, general manager Regional Automotive Industry Shapes Metropolitan Chicago Must Be Prepared to Receive Vast Throngs in 1933 vVith the success of the Century of Progress Exposition of 1933 depending largely upon the way traffic is handled during the fair, President Rufus C. Dawes this week announced the appointment of a traffic committee composed of r~ilroad, taxi-cab and bus line executives, city and county officials, newspaper men, engineers and other transportation experts. "The city's and county's traffic lines will be the arteries through which the life blood of the fair must flow and one of our big problems will be to prevent congestion in the Loop which would interfere with normal business' traffic," said Attorney Sydney S. Gorham, chq_irman of the committee, in discussing some ·of the prohlems his group will have to work out. "To be conservative, hundreds of thousands of visitors can be expected to come here for the fair in automobiles and so one of the first things we ha,·e to do is to develop a means to encourage motor tourists to leave ~heir cars in camps outside of the city, and then work out a way to bring them to the fair in mass transportation. By that. I mean to get them in by means of the railroads' suburban services, the elevated, buses and street cars. Face Enormous Task Planning commission; Lester D. Seymour; general manager, National Air Transport; Capt. Edward E. Taylor, president Coodrich Tra_ nsit company; Eugene S. Taylor, manager, City Planning commission. Carrol Shaffer, general manager, Evening Post; Charles H. Dennis, editor, Daily News; Robert M. Lee, city editor, Trib_ une; Roy D. Keehn, representative in Chicago of William Randolph Hearst; S. E. Thomason, up Well for· the New Year The automotive industry will start 1930 production with plant inventories in goQ_d shape, according to Harlow H. Curtice, president of the AC -Spark Plug company. There are no unwieldy surpluses, Mr. Curtice says, and no overstock of material. With the beginning of 1930 production, orders for material will flow in, thus further stimulating activity in allied lines of the industry. DBCOBATDIG Your home haa Jt1 own atmoaplaen. With the aJd of our Interior decorators you ean expre11. lh!J fndh'lduaUty In the deeoraUo··· Artistic ... M. Portenhauser Painter and Decorator 1030 Greenleaf Phone 2764 -·----------------------- ·t..J See the new ford bodies at our showrooms From the new deep radiator to the curving tip of the rear fender, there is an unbroken sweep ·of line-a flowing grace of contour heretofore thought possible only in an expensive autolt1,~~~e, Now, ,; .···11· . {~· . "Another enormous task will be the dissemination of transportation inthroughout the United formation States; the pla~arcling of the best routes. For we expect that "all roads will lead to Chicago" in 1933. "Intensive studies \viii be made which it is hoped will serve as a model for traffic control of the future. "Picture ·crowds in Chicago day after clay that are many times larger than that of the Eucharistic Congress the \\'oriel's Series and the Army~ Na,·y footb_all game and you will get an tdea of the enormity of the task of working out a satisfactory traffic scheme for the world's fair. Many Entrance Gates ~'T.he exposition's architectural com!lltsston has taken the traffic problem mto consideration in working out their plan~ which include great unloading plattorms at the grounds, and ent~an~e ' gates which will be widely dtstrtb~ted over the entire length of the. fatr to provide as many avenues of mgress as possible . . "The job we have ahead of us is a btg one and we are not starting any ~oo soo~ if we are to have order ht·re 111 1933 mstead of chaos." .Memb.ers of Mr. Gorham's com~tttee t~clucle: Guy A. Richardson, vtc~-prestdent and general manager, Chtcago .Surface. Lines; Bernard ]. Fallon.' vtce-prestdent, Chicago Rapid ·T.ranstt .company; Garret T. Seely, vtce-prestdent, Chicago Motor Coach ·company; Britton I. Budd, president of the Chtca~o, North Shore and Milwau~ee railroad; Thomas Hogan viceprestdent, yellow Cab com pan~ . A Bernard, superintendent of subu~ba~ passenger service, Illinqis Central railroad. ~~ruit Many Leaders .Commtsstoner of Public Works Rtchar~ W. Wolfe; Bion ]. Arnold, a consultmg ~ngineer; Leslie S. Sorenson, bureau of streets; R. F. Kelker, Jr., consulting e_ngineer; Captain F. ]. Matchet~, .h~ad of police department's traffic dtvtston; City Engineer L. D. Gayt~n; Charles G. Sauers, general supermtendent, Forest Preserves. Charles N. Hayes, president Chicago Motor club; R. H. Nau, secretary of Association of Commerce traffic com- more than ever, the new Ford is a "value far above the price." SKoKIE 435 Main Street MoToR Co. Wilmette 955 Service Station, 913 Linden Ave., Hubbard Woods