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NORTH. SHORE GERMAN ·AUTOISTS HERE TO lAKE AN INSPECTION I MOTOR t F oreip Club of 150 Members ·Road conditions in Illinois for the 1 vised to drive carefully on fills at Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Miller and sons Adelbert and Howard. of 1202 Lake Views BouleYard System- week as report~d by the touring bur- Downs as there are no guard rails. eau of the Chtcago Motor Club are 111-42-Detour in Lake Forest· follow street returned Sunctav from an 1~ C. M. Hay· Banquets 'em Chicago's grade separations and boulevard s.ystem were viewed this we~k by 150 members of the Altge~ memer Deutscher Automobile Cluh, who are toudng the United States in busses for the purpose of learning American traffic methods that mav be later employed in Germ'any. · Charles M. Hayes of Winnetka, President of the Chicago Motor Clu'>, tendered a banquet on Tuesday night at the Stevens Hotel to fifteen otn cials of the delegation. The German Club's headquarters ,are at Munich and the name of the organization, translated, is General German Automobile Club. Among those who attended the banquet were: Dr. H. F. Simon, German consulate general: Dr. H. A. Kroll, German consul: E. G. Kruetgen, former ·member of the Chicago Board of Education: George H. Wiedeling, former sheriff; Ludwig Plate, manager of the Chicago office of the North German Lloyd steamship lines: J. D. Ryan, manager of the foreign department, American Automobile Association; Joseph Braun. counsel: H. M. Brown, general manager: Joseph Cavanagh, secretary, and Bert Vander.. war f. manager of the touring bureau, the last four being with the Chicago Motor Club. The visitors arc the guests of the American Automobile Association. which maintains close and cordial rclations with the German club. The visitor-: ha\'l' declared that theY were greatly impressed with the forty-foot concrete roads to he found in some of the more congested parts of thr Cnited States, as well as the grade separations thev have seen in the cast. Chicago's n1ethods of separating cross-traffic, as exemplified on Lid Ericson Drive and Beach Drive. as the Outer Drive in Lincoln park is more properly known. has been discussed i·1 Germany for some time, say tlie German Automobile club officials. as follows: f Cicero. avenue is under construction rom 63 rd street to Archer avenue. . Baldwin road is now open to traffic lrom Rand road to Hicks road. Elmhurst- vVheeling road is open to traffic from Rand road to Dundee road. The Rand-Ballard road bridge is reported open to traffic. Railroad avenue from Lake street to \Vilmette avenue in \Vihnette, is under construction. Cumberland avenue between Irving Park boulevard and Lawrence a\·enue \-is in had conditioJI because of the con_,truction of ditches adjoining the road. Traffic is advised to take Harms avenuc rather than Cumberland avrnne until the road 1s again in good coildition. -31st street is now open to traffic irom 17th avenue to ~fannheim road. lJJ-1-The Dixie highway between 26th street, Chicago Heights. and Stegcr road, is under construction and in poor condition. Traftic is advised 1.0 take Western avenue between Stcgt·r road and the Lincoln highwav. Ill-2-The Shippingsport bridge !s open across the Jtlinois river at LaSalle. The weight limit at LaSaJle and Peru is five tons : heavier loads arc iorcecl to cross at Ottawa or Ctica. The bridge crossing the Rock Island tracks at LaSalle has been repaired and is open to traffic. 111-19- Detour in Dl' s Plaines: follow marked route over citY streets. This route is alSO dosed -just SOUth :Jf Foundry road in Cook county. The de tour is over subdivision streets and i~ about fi ,.e blocks long. Ill-23- This route is partly dirt an0 i~ under construction irom Ottawa t 'J Somonauk and north. 111-30- All paved het\\'een Peoria anrl the junction with 111-29 e.xcept for a ~hort cinder gap at Princeville. IIJ-31-Paved and open from Canton to Quincy. Ilt-39-This route i~ open . from Champaign to ntnOtllingtOII, Short detours at Mansfield. ~lotori~ts are admarked detour route over city 'streets. 111-42-A-Waukegan road is now open to traffic from Glenview road to the Dundee road. This completes the widening to the full width, forty feet, of Waukegan road from Touhy av·~nue north to the county line. 111-47-0pen from Dwight to Morris. 111-70-0pen from Rochelle to Rockford. 111-107-This route has just been graveled from the Champ Clark bridge to the junction with 111-36. 111-113-This route is all pav:ed hetween Wilmington and Kankakee t'Xcept for one mile earth gap. ·-------------------.J- A Few Pointers for the Tourists wil ·J .f!'o:r: J}D;'/tues, Requiring a Week tt F mile . automobile trip ·to Washington and Baltimore in their Page Sedan. The trip took only a week. They stopped at Zanesville, 0.. the first night and were in Washington. D. C. the second night. traveling the · National highway. The return trip was made on the William Penn highway through Marrisburg and Franklin. This practically new route is paved all the way and is the best of the two highways to the east, according to Mr. Miller. Although a hundred miles longer, the hills are · not as steep and the highway is in a little better condition. We Are Saving Lives RiFt Wan ,aar .,._ accurate hldraulic aau_aea-the JUMBO !nbT..... renalache uueCX"'diriua ollhelnb · 011 MCh wlal;t"ll;mjn.U cbaDce for h&alllenw --au-work. A.una .. ··lindoa .... 011 Autoists Await Opening. of Wide La Salle Street Traffic-choked downtown Chicago i:-to have a new outlet. A gigantic pav;ng mixer is adding the finishing touch to th.e newty widened th~oug~fare whi~h wtll carry thousands ot vehtcles nort:lward over a pavement varying in width from 67 to 86 feet. · LaSalle street is as old as Chica~o. yet that Wall street of the Middle West has never served the full purpose expected of a modern traffic artery. But n0\1\' with building fronts set bar.k as much as twenty fc_ et, and the street's first hridge across the Chicago riv~r nearing completion, Chicago's Loop will have, in effect, ·a brand new entranceway. · · Ford Productton 1\.T I s 5,~500 D at·Jy,· l l ow I ncreasing Fast Production of the new Ford cars and ,trucks i·.; at the rate of 5,500 daily according to D. G. Leonard of Skokie \f otors, Wilmette. Ford dealer. Every Ford assembly plant in the \\·orld was operating by October 1 and the company reports that the previ"ous Ford record of 8,.500 units of the model T line, established in 1926, wiU probahly be exceeded by the production rate of the models A and AA within a f<.·w month3. Since the first of the year approximately half a million unit" have been built and distributed with more than 100,000 made and sol<.l 111 Septeillber. Pay rolls are higher than ever before and · 125,000 men are at work ir: the plants in the Detroit district. The formal announcement adds that production costs have been materiaUy reduced because of improved manufacturing proces·ses and that costs wilt continue to decrease as production increases within the next few months. . ·aimsam brakiaa 6ieac,- "iuaraacet4 aafet,!· =,aj!,·ofbNu JUMBO BRAKE TESTER Testing, Adjusting and Relining AU Types of Brakes. Exclusive Authorized Service for North Shore OD BENDIX-MECHANICAL and Lockheed Hydraulic Brakes. I'ERD.PLA'fE 2212 W. RailroadAve.atNoyesSt. Ph.Gr.2122 TO HAVE AUTO MINISTRY Automobiles are increasing so rapidly in Persia that the government is about to create a ministry of automobiles that wiU have charge .o ver the ever-growing number. Chehreman Chaicar, son of the minister of agriculture of Persia, who is now studying automobiles and traffic conditions in the United States, will be appointed to thh office upon his return to that country. 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