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PITTSBURG TO WAIT
5 YEARS FOR BETTER
TERMINAL FACILITIES
PITTSBURG. April 3.—A $14,000,
000 project that will mean the
straightening of a street, widening of
several others, an addition to a rail
road passenger terminal, the wreck
ing of a freight house, enlargement
of a tunnel and other miscellaneous
items, is expected to s*ari in Pitts
burg April 5.
These tasks are included, in the
Pennsylvania railroad’s plan’ for the
improvement of its passenger termi
^ nal facilities, and it is estimated that
fen years will have elapsed before the
whole project has been completed.
The major portion of the work, how
ever, or that which will have the
greatest effect on train service, prob
ably will bo finished within five
years.
Just what the improvement will
mean to the railroad was explained
recently by Robert Trimble, company
engineer, who said it would speed up
passenger traffic in and around Pitts
burg and would do away with delays
that through trains sometimes ex
perience on their halts in the smoky
city. To the extent that passenger
traffic will be speeded up, freight
traffic also will benefit, Mr. Trimble
said, although the new tracks and
improvements will have no direct
bearing on this part of the system’s
■
operations.
The first thing that will be under
taken will be the straightening ol
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| Grant Street. This thorofare starts
on a straight line from the main
business section of Pittsburg toward
the Pennsylvania terminal. When
it reaches Seventh Avenue, however,
it seems to terminate, for standing
in front of it is a freight house. Des
pite appearance, however, Grant
Street goes on, but it is necessary
to go down Seventh Avenue a short
distance before the elusive thorotare
is picked up again.
Under the railroad’s plan the ob
structive freight house will be re
moved and Grant Street will con
tinue unhindered on its course 'o
the terminal. On the last stretch
| from Seventh Avenue to the station
the street will be widened from CO
to 80 feet.
On the east side of this new Ihor
ofare, indications point to the pcsi
bilily of a new postoffice for Pitts
burg. The government has held the
site on Liberty Avenue for this pur
pose but the railroad needed this
space for new tracks in connection
with the improvements. A deal was
effected whereby the spaces were
traded.
On either side of the station proper
at tile present time, are several
tracks. One side is used for trains
on the Panhandle and the other for
I trains on the Fort Wayne division.
Passengers coming from or going to
these trains must cross the tracks
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Winter Still Elusive
In Northern Europe
STOCKHOLM, April 3.—The excep
tionally mild winter continues thru
out Sweden, and up to the latter
part of February no snow had fallen
in this usually snowclad country.
Winter shipping traffic in the Bota
nic Culf, usually closed in Novem
ber, is still operating, and through
out the country cattle are grazing in
pasture instead ol being housed in
barns.
The mild winter has been a great
boon to the poor, who have not been
compelled to buy fuel, an item in the
budget which usually assumes great
importance.
Ask Birkenhead About Tides
LIVERPOOL, April 3.—An instru
ment called the “prophet of the tides”
has been presented by Liverpool
steamship owners to the Bidston Ob
servatory at Birkenhead. The mach
ine will tell the time of ocean tides
in any part of the world fifty years
in advance, and it will also give the
time of all tides during the last 500
years.
E. W. Griffin, of Kodiak, arrived on
the Admiral Watson and will leave
on Monday’s train for Anchorage for
an X-ray examination of an injured
foot.
and it is planned to build tunnels un
derneath to eliminate this necessity.
A tunnel about 1,500 feet long run
ning between the terminal and the
Fourth Avenue station will be widen
ed to permit the passage of two
trains within its walls. At the point
where Liberty Avenue and. Grant
j street intersect it is probable that a
i new and modern office building will
| be erected to take the place of sev
eral old structures that now occupy
j the triangle.
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Banks Reduce Dividends
To Build New Branches
LONDON April 3.—The square mile
of Ihe “city” of London is gradually
being changed almost out of recog
nition by new buildings, mostly er
ected by the big banks which are
slowly crowding out other institu
tions of the commercial fraternity. It
is said that, so anxious are these fi
nancial institutions to build vast new
premises for their customers’ needs,
they will soon crowd these same cus
tomers out of the city altogether.
Many commercial institutions have
already had to seek premises fur
ther westward, in Aldwych and Kings
Way, and by the time the new Bank
of England is completed and the huge
central office of the “Big Five” banks
is built, several more commercial
houses will have found it necessary
to move further afield.
So keen are these big banks for
customers that they open branches
at every suburb of London, and on
the most favorable site, the principle
being to bring the bank to the cus
tomer’s door.
Shareholders, at the various annual
meetings of the banks, frequently
complain they are paid only 12 to 15
per cent, when from the business
done larger dividends would be pos
sible, but they are told it is neces
sary to build new offices and new
branches, and that there must be
large sums available for such pur
poses.
Under a new Turkish law all offi
cials and .other persons employed by
the government must wear clothing
made in Turkey. This is a very
practical as well as drastic applica
tion of the trade at home idea.
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Many Distant Stars
Surpass Sun in Heat
Scientist Declares
W AH INC TON, I). C., April 3.—
Estimating the diameters or ton of
the brighter stars by separating their
heat into a long spectrum and meas
uring the heat of the different colors
and then calculating the probable
temperatures ot each of these heav
enly bodies, was the work of Doctor
C. G. Abbot* director of the Astro
physical Observatory of the Smith
sonian Institute, during a recent ser
ies of field experiments, whose re
sults have just been made public.
A star, having nearly three times
the heat of the sun, was among those
observed by Dr. Abbot. This was
Beta Rigel, having an estimated ab
solute temperature of 16,000 degrees
centigrade, compared with the sun’s
6,000 degrees centigrade. Other
stars observed with a greater tem
perature than that of the sun were:
Vega, absolute temperature, 14,00<*
degrees centigrade; Sirius the bright
est star in the heavens, 11,000; Pro
cyon, 8,000. The others were Cap
ella, 5,800; Adlebaran, 3,000; Beta
Pegasi, 2,850; Betelguese, 2,600; and
Alpha Herculis, 2,500. The last two
have an estimated diameter 500 time
greater than that of the sun.
Dr. Abbot used in this work a ra
diometer, constructed under the di
rection of Dr. E. F. Nichols, pioneer
in measuring the heat ot the stars.
Utilizing the giant telescope at tin
Mount Wilson Observatory in Cali
fornia, with its 100-inch reflecting
lens, Dr. Abbot was enabled to ob
tain fairly accurate measurements
ot the heat of the different colors,
even far into the infra-red. Curve
were drawn, indicating the spec-rtal
distribution in the radiation of blue,
white, yellow and red stars, and es
timates of their probable tempera
tures were made.
Certain Germans declare that the
unknown soldier of France, whose r*
I mains rest at the Arch of Triumph,
i in Paris, was really August Schultz.
i a German, whose body was picked up
| on Combres Hill, where French and
I German dead were piled n a mass.
The French indignantly deny this
i and another heated argument is be
ing waged by the press of the two
; countries in which mutual hatred is
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