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TTT TH TH TTT TTT TTT THT HTT TT HiT i i i i I ET Bm rs - needs, congestion snarls and October 9, 1926 WINNETKA TALK 23 ENDEAVOR TO UNTANGLE COUNTY TRAFFIC GNARL Chicago Association of Commerce Survey Points Out Necessary Remedial Steps If the towns, villages and cities with- in a forty-mile radius of Chicago's loop district continue to grow and in- crease the use of the automobile at the present rate there will be 1,281,- 700 automobiles operating in the Chi- cago automotive region by 1950. This fact is brought out in the traffic sur- vey just completed by The Chicago Association of Commerce. The com- plete report of this survey conducted by the Street Traffic committee of the association will be transmitted to the Chicago City Council in two or three weeks at which time the recommenda- tions of the committee for scientific control of traffic in the Chicago region will be made public. In making a survey of the conges- tion and traffic problems of the Chi- cago area. Miller McClintock; director of the Albert Russel Erskine bureau for traffic research, the engineer in charge of the survey, has made a com- plete study of traffic flows, street other features of the street use which may be applied effectively to Chicago and suburban residential communities. Plans for traffic control in urban Chi- cago cannot be differentiated from a plan for the entire Chicago area, Mr. McClintock points out, because of the constant exchange of vehicular traffic between the big city and the suburbs. "All users of motor vehicles in the suburbs of Chicago will recognize that there is no distinct line between the streets of these communities and the country highways which are in many cases continuations of crowded city streets. In making our survey We found that only through cooperation between city, county and suburbs can satisfactory improvement be made in traffic relief. Some suburbs are de- luged with motor cars on Sundays be- cause arterial highways pass through their boundaries, a fact that empha- sizes the relationship between the large city and suburbs in the treat- ment of the traffic control problem." That Chicago and her suburban neighbors must get together for a modern traffic control system and re- duce motor accidents is evidenced by the Surveyor's report showing the eco- nomic cost of automobile accidents last year to be above $17,000,000. And this figure does not estimate the eco- nomic cost of delays caused by acci- dents as distinguished from delays caused by congestion. Tt is apparent that on the economic side alone, acci- dents constitute a material part of the traffic problem in the Chicago area. In substantiating the statement that a modern scientific traffic control sys- tem will reduce accidents the Street Traffic Committee of the Association of Commerce points to the result achieved in Los Angeles. After the installation of such a system the western city flow of traffic on some streets was speeded up to as much as 50 per cent while accidents were re- duced 30 per cent. Mr. and Mrs. William F. Benoist, who sold their home on Walden road, and have been spending the summer in Douglas, Mich., have returned to Win- netka and are living at 386 Fairview avenue. ---- Mrs. Leroy Woodland, Leicester road, Kenilworth, entertained at lun- cheon Thursday, October 7, in honor of Mr. Woodland's mother, Mrs. George Woodland of Miami, Fla. Makes Boys Happy With Gifts of Harmonicas Though she never was a boy herself, Isabel Richardson Molter of Wilmette must have known through intuition what it feels like to have a harmonica lin a convenient trousers pocket, ready for any amount of inspiration or any chance for an exhibition, for she re- cently gave fifty of these magical mouthpieces to as many boys at the Chicago Junior school at Elgin. On top of that Miss Molter, who has al- ready won distinction as a soprano singer, is giving a course in harmonica- playing which these neophytes indorse with all their lungs. With this nucle- us as a starter Elgin may soon vie with Philadelphia as the home of the harmonica, Miss Molter asserts. ANNIV! THE BRILLIANT CADILLAC SILVER ERSARY SALON OCTOBER 10th to 16th An Exhibition Representative of Cadillac Standard Body Types, and in addition, Custom Bodies by Fisher and by Fleetwood. L 7 7 This formal presentation of the great new line of Cadillac cars displays 50 Body Styles and Types in a choice of 500 Color and Upholstery Com binations, and inaugurates the ine dividualized motor car, one of the greatest advances in the history of the motor car. At the Salon will be presented the widest range of body styles and types and colors ever October 16th. shown by a single manufacturer. The Salon will continue until Saturday, CADILLAC DIVISION OF GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION 305 North Michigan Avenue Just South of the Drake Hotel