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would have to take "quite a heavy loss." Far better, he in-- timated, to raze the setup--pro= vided the municipality would en--operate--and devote the pro-- perty to a parking lot. Mr. Walters, as one of the members of the Management Committee for the Suitors Fund of the Supreme Court of On-- tario expressed this view before the Public Accounts Committee of the Legislature yesterday. This fund held a 'mortgag'er on the Arcade, said he--a mort-- gage on which inevitably it If Deputy Treasurer Chester Walters has his way, the Yonge Street Arcade--one of Toronto's landmarks--will be torn down to make way for a parking place. May Tear Down Yonge Arcade The legislation in question pro-- vides for the closing--subject to the endorsation of the municipal board --of all minor roads which intersect or run into a divided highway,. It has been designed primarily to take care of traffic conditions of the fu-- ture and to keep pace with the four-- lane development upon which the province has already embarked. Through traffic on these main ar-- teries, Mr. McQuesten implied, had to take priority over traf{ic on the county and township roads, and to serve this purpose a lot of little-- travelled roads might have to be closed from time to time as cirecum-- Former Premier George S. Henry was paid a most unusual compli-- ment in the Legislature yesterday, when Highways Minister T. B. Mc-- Questen gave the assurance that no county, township, or other roads along the front of Ontario County would be closed under new enabling législation of this session unless Mr. Henry gave his approval and con-- sent. * APRIL 26 Mc Close Minor Roads East of Toronto, But Only if George Henry Consents Start $4,250,000 Bridge At Niagara in Summer munity to travel from place to place, and would encourage speed on the divided roads. Increased speed, he warned, was something which had to be taken into consideration, be-- cause very few accidents occurred where speed didn't enter into the picture. He accepted Mr. McQues-- ten's assurance with regard to the Hamilton--Toronto highway, but ex-- pressed some misgivings as to the situation that might develop in On-- tario county. A lot of agitation over the posibility of having smaller roads closed in Pickering and Whitby townships had already arisen there, he said. stances demanded. There was no occasion, he said, to apply any such closing on the new Hamilton--To-- ronto highway at the present time. Mr. Henry, speaking out of his lengthy experience as highways minister in days of Conservative Party rule at Queen's Park, argued that this policy would make it more difficulty for people of a rural com-- "I don't think my honorable "If you don't build it any cheaper than the one at Windsor," said Leopold Macaulay (Cons., South York) "our grandchildren won't go free over this new Honeymoon bridge." BR _ 2 T. B. McQuesten. "We hope to reach a settlement with the railway company," said the Minister. He admitted that he had no estimate when the new bridge would become a free bridge, after tolls had paid the capital cost. O T\ B. MceQOue«ten ~ 1I"nternational T. B. McQuesten. Railway Come pany Falls View Bridge, which collapsed in an ice jam a year ago last January. The Ontario Government intends to start construction this summer on the new $4,250,000 Niagara River bridge in co--operation with the United States Niagara authority, Hon. T. B, McQuesten, Minister of Highways, revealed yesterday in the Legislature. The House approved a Highway I mprovement y Act -- section C _ . % which gave to E: the Niagara % Parks Com-- C s ..«m mission _ au-- w C% [ walR thority to t mc k e x propriate g k &5 & § l a n ds for The debate occurred at second reading of Mr. McQuesten's bill amending the Hignways Improve« ment Act. One section to which there was apparent heavy Opposi-- tion objection, was withdrawn by highway minister before the House could debate it, It would have amended regulatory control over the erection of signs and signboards upon or within a quarter of a mile of the King's Highways, so that such control could be applied to the operation of markets and stalls where fruits, vegetables and other goods are offered for sale. "And dropping thaiwcvl'ause is a good thing," some of the Tory benchers gibed. friend need have any apprehension," Mr. McQuesten replied, "and I want to tell him here and now that I am so impressed with his judge-- ment in such matters and his knowl-- edge of affairs and conditions that no roads will be closed in the sec-- tion to which he refers without his approval. a pproaches and connect-- ing highways to the struc-- ture which is intended -- t o replace the