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E, q Il' Range Strikingly Handsome How proud you would be of your Kitchen if you owned a "Happy, Thought." Picture having this wonderful Range, available every day of the week to help produce dainty dishes for the family, and, by a fev deft touches with your duster to make your Kitchen so bright and attractive-a fit place todo -your daily work in. Three hundred thousand users take daily pride in their "Happy Thought." They can seeit retain- ing its beauty and charm year by year. Let us. tell you how it does this. Demonstrations daily-no obligation to buy. W. H. Dustan Hiardiware. Phone 74. Pluming. Tinsmithning. Bowmianville, Some of the Concreve Work on the" T'oronto-Hamilton Highway. The Toriito-Ha.niilton Highway1 portion being only ten or twelve feet1 linliing Toronto with a population of in width. Maximum grades of eleven about 600,000 and Hlamilton with, per cent have been reduced to four about 110,000,. skirts the shores of per cent. Lake Ontario for hait of its luný,-th, A traffic census takeni just before and passes through a section of On- construction -was begun showed a tario ricli in historic association as total of 526 vehicles per day ou the well as scenic beauty. most beavily travelled portion, In- It was begun in 1914 to relieve a cludng three motor trucks. On the very serious condition of une-mploy- busiesi days now the trafflc e'xceeds ment in the urban centres whict fel- 8,000' vehicles, the average being lowed the entering of Canada into about 3,000 and the average motor the Great War. The work was truck traffic about 400 per day. The placed in the hands of a special road, la kept open throughout the Commission consisting- of Mr. Geo. year in spîte of rather severe snow H. Gooderham, Chairman, Mr. G. storms. t was flot closed for a Frank Beer. Mr. W. S. Davis, Mr. R. single day clurlug last wiuter. Il. Lnsh. Mr. M. C. Smith, Mr. T. W. Farmers 'living ftfteen miles from Jutten and Mr. H. I3ertram. On ac- the, Toronto market who formerly count of the relief feature thie Comf- made three trips by team per weelk mission decided to carry the work by being up early and late now leave on by day labor. Original plans home at elght lu the morulng are called for a cernent concrete roadway home for dinner and supper and sixteen feet in width but the mini- make 12' trips per week by motor rnum width was increased to 18 feet trucks lu comfort. Many of the before laying oï concrete was begun farmers seil ail of their marketpro- and later increased to 24 feet on the duce at their own gates te the motor- Ë-i, emiles nearest Toronto. The ist and some of them six miles off minimum width of sub-grade is 26 the highway, haul it ta the wayside feis et nd earth shoulders have been and community markets which have provided except in special instances been encouraged by the Commission. w-hers broken stone bas been a.dded. A conservative estimate based ou Morethan fitty bridges sud culverts a partial Investigation shows an in-~ have been replaced by modern relu- crease iu land values of 6 million forred concrete structures deÈied dllars aluce the ýhljhway was first fo carry a 20-fou road rouler audprojected. Excellent homes are having a minimium clo.ar wldth of beiug bult ail along thie road as roadway of 26 f eet. F0ou, ofthedIstrirts 30 miles out are nearer lu larger reinforced concrete strctuespoint of time than those 5 miles out are of the se called truss type. The were before the Improvement. largest clear span is 120 feet, prob- The u"S of a comparatlvely hYlgh ably the maximum span for bridges priced surfacing, cernent conci' -tte, of this type on this Continent, bas been justlfled by very 10ow i-in- The route foll'owed was net pre- tenance figures, Readls f the viously the one most travelled be- great Increase in trafEc and lu1 the tween Toronto and Hamilton,. Part of coat af materlals a.ud labor, tLhe cost it was sandy and for that reason used per mile of maintenance on the can- In bad weather but much of it was crete roadway ýwas- less in 19U Lthaj Ittle mnore thau a trait. the travelledi in any previous year since con. struction was completed. An interesting case of the use of concrete lu bridge building- occu -,ý reci in the doable tracking of the North Torento Sub-divisîon of the Ca1ut ian lPaifie Railw ay between Leaside and NýQrtb Toronto, xvhicli în;volvcd the rep1aiýc-'r.,nt of bridges known as 0,9 and iL Thle i ri -?cs were con-,truct cl of re- inforced concrete. and are a triumph of railway construction w ork, No. 0.9 belng 386 feet long , sd 90 feet high, carrying two tracks and No. 1.8 of similar dimensions but a threes traclc structure. The length of the, mdi- vidual spans and the details of their construction are unprecedented in the eugi( ýering wrorld. Previaus to this no reinforced concrete beam with a length of more than about 25 feet hiad been attempted; the spans of the-Se twO C. P. R. structures are e-ch from 35 ta 37 feet long. The method emPloyed lu the erec- tion of the relnforced concrets spans te -a specially interesting feature of the structures. Each slab as a unit weighed 55 tons, which was the limit laad that could be handled by the C. P. R. 100 ton standard wrecking cranes. The crane engaged handled n less than 110 slabs, each 55 tons iu welght, or lu ail somethlng Ilke 6,000 tous, and all this was doue wlthout a single mlshapto either men vr material. Another remark- able feature la that both structurcs were built without interruption from Jurio, 1917, te July, 1918, wbich was a shorter period, than would have b)fEsut recluired te manufacture and ereet csimilar structurés' lu steel. Papsenger and ,freighit traffle on, the C. P. R. main ulnesl were coutinued wlthout interrupton duing the pro- ors f these lutrereeting works. Furniture of, Rare Beauty and Comfort FOR THOSE LONG WINTER EVENINGS. We have' those roomy, comfortable arm chairs, convenient, invit-ing Library Tables and useful Rockers, and beautiful Dining- room Suites, for thatsociable Family Dmn- ner. Furniture for every room and pur- pose. Made from select stock, artistically designed and made. by the world's best craftsman. In Our store you will find a full variety of designs and every wanted finish., F.F M orrisCo. Funeral Directors Ffurniiture"ýQealers Bowmanville and Orono