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October 20, 1928 WINNETKA TALK 47 4 NORTH SHORE ANN 101777, 2X] a mars TENN MOTOR NEWS 13 GERMAN AUTOISTS HERE TO MAKE AN INSPECTION Foreign Club of 150 Members Views Boulevard System-- C. M. Hayes Banquets 'em Chicago's grade separations and boulevard system were viewed this week by 150 members of the Allge- meiner Deutscher Automobile Club, who are touring the United States in busses for the purpose of learning American traffic methods that may be later employed in Germany. Charles M. Hayes of Winnetka, President of the Chicago Motor Club, tendered a banquet on Tuesday night at the Stevens Hotel to fifteen offi- cials of the delegation. The German Club's headquarters are at Munich and the name of the organization, translated, is General German Auto- mobile Club. Among those who attended the ban- quet were: Dr. H. F. Simon, German consulate general; Dr. H. A. Kroll, German consul; E. G. Kruetgen, for- mer 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 depart- ment, American Automobile Associa- tion; Joseph Braun, counsel; H. M. Brown, general manager; Joseph Cav- anagh, secretary, and Bert Vander- warf, manager of the touring bureau, the last four being with the Chicago Motor Club. The visitors are the guests of the American Automobile Association, which maintains close and cordial re- lations with the German club. The visitors have declared that they were greatly impressed with the forty-foot concrete roads to be found in some of the more congested parts of the United States, as well as the grade separations they have seen in the east. Chicago's methods of separating cross-traffic, as exemplified on Lief Ericson Drive and Beach Drive, as the Outer Drive in Lincoln park is more properly known, has been discussed in Germany for some time, say the Ger- man Automobile club officials. Autoists Await Opening of Wide La Salle Street Traffic-choked downtown Chicago is to have a new outlet. A gigantic paving mixer is adding the finishing touch to the newly widened throughfare which will carry thousands of vehicles north- ward over a pavement varying in width from 67 to 86 feet. LaSalle street is as old as Chicago, yet that Wall street of the Middle West has never served the full purpose expected of a modern traffic artery. But now with building fronts set back as much as twenty feet, and the street's first bridge across the Chicago river nearing completion, Chicago's Loop will have, in effect, a brand new en- tranceway. TO HAVE AUTO MINISTRY Automobiles are increasing so rapid- ly in Persia that the government is about to create a ministry of auto- mobiles that will have charge over the ever-growing number. Chehreman haicar, son of the minister of agri- culture of Persia, who is now studying automobiles and traffic conditions in the United States, will be appointed to this office upon his return to that country, : A Few Pointers for the Tourists Road conditions in Illinois for the week as reported by the touring bur- eau of the Chicago Motor Club are as follows: Cicero avenue is under construction from 63rd street to Archer avenue. Baldwin road is now open to traffic from Rand road to Hicks road. Elmhurst-Wheeling road is open to traffic from Rand road to Dundee road. The Rand-Ballard road bridge is re- ported open to traffic. Railroad avenue from to Wilmette avenue in under construction. Cumberland avenue between Irving Park boulevard and Lawrence avenue is in bad condition because of the con- struction of ditches adjoining the road. Traffic is advised to take Harms ave- nue rather than Cumberland avenue until the road is again in good con- dition, --31st street is now open to traffic from 17th avenue to Mannheim road. I11-1--The Dixie highway between 26th street, Chicago Heights, and Steg- er road, is under construction and in poor condition. Traffic is advised to take Western avenue between Steger road and the Lincoln highway. I11-2--The Shippingsport bridge is open across the Illinois river at La- Salle. The weight limit at LaSalle and Peru is five tons; heavier loads are forced to cross at Ottawa or Utica. The bridge crossing the Rock Island tracks at LaSalle has been repaired and is open to traffic. I11-199--Detour in Des Plaines; follow marked route over city streets. This route is also closed just south of Foundry road in Cook county. The de- tour is over subdivision streets and is about five blocks long. I11-23--This route is partly dirt and is under construction from Ottawa to Somonauk and north. I11-30--All paved between Peoria and the junction with 111-29 except for a short cinder gap at Princeville. I11-31--Paved and open from Canton to Quincy. I11-39--This route is open from Champaign to Bloomington. Short de- tours at Mansfield. Motorists are ad- Ford Production Now Is 5,500 Daily; Increasing Fast Production of the new Ford cars and trucks is at the rate of 5,500 daily ac- cording to D. G. Leonard of Skokie Motors, Wilmette, Ford dealer. Every Ford assembly plant in the world was operating by October 1 and the company reports that the previous Ford record of 8500 units of the model T line, established in 1926, will prob- ably be exceeded by the production rate of the models A and AA within a few months. Since the first of the year approximately half a million units have been built and distributed with more than 100,000 made and sold in September. Pay rolls are higher than ever be- fore and 125000 men are at work in the plants in the Detroit district. The formal announcement adds that pro- duction costs have been materially re- duced because of improved manufac- turing processes and that costs will continue to decrease as production in- creases within the next few months. Lake street Wilmette, is vised to drive carefully on fills at Downs as there are no guard rails. I11-42--Detour in Lake Forest; follow marked detour route over city streets. I11-42-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 ave- nue north to the county line. I11-47--Open from Dwight to Morris. I11-70--Open from Rochelle to Rock- ford. I11-107--This route has just been graveled from the Champ Clark bridge to the junction with I11-36. I11-113--This route is all paved be- tween Wilmington and Kankakee ex- cept for one mile earth gap. Wilmette Family Tours 1,804 Miles, Requiring a Week Mr. and Mrs. A. E. 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