an hour, all handled by electricity, can be sent out. The station building proper will be 600 feet on the street level, 300 feet wide and 105 feet high. Below the street level it will be 745 feet long, 480 feet wide and 45 feet deep.

The station will possess many other novel features never before incorporated in a building of this kind. For instance, there will be a great many small rooms, to be rented for a nominal sum, in which a man can change his clothes without hiring a room in a hotel. For women the same facilities are to be offered. Passengers will never need to go to the baggage rooms. When a person buys his ticket he passes on to the next counter, from which check and tickets are sent by pneumatic tube to the baggage room and returned, after checking, by the same means. Another innovation will be the "kissing gallery," a balcony in the incoming station, specially arranged for people who come to meet friends or relatives. It will have a sufficient elevation to give a perfect view of the doors through which travelers arrive. There are to be separate waiting rooms,

ticket offices, entrances and exits for suburban and long-distance passengers so that they need never see each other or mix in coming and going. When trains come in and discharge their passengers, they will not back out, as they do now, but after being emptied will continue on around a loop and run over to the yards at one side below the street level, where they will be made ready for another trip. Thus all of the main tracks will be given over entirely to incoming and outgoing trains filled with passengers.

Instead of a single structure this new gateway to New York will be a group of magnificent buildings, for it is proposed to improve all of the space now occupied by the road's open yards. The cost of these improvements will approximate $180,000,000. All the machinery of the terminal, the signals, tracks and hundreds of trains, will never be seen from the streets. Perhaps the most wonderful thing about all this is that this work is being carried on without stopping or delaying for a moment the movement of nearly 2,000,000 passengers a month.

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ECK BILLIARDS" is a game that has been peculiar to ocean travel, but it may be made a diversion on land also.

The game can be played by two or more persons and is very simple to learn. The players take their stand at either end of a course, which can be the length of any space that is suitable for the purpose. At sea the available deck space usually settles the question of the length of the course.

The "court," at either end, is marked in squares, the squares being numbered from one to ten, with four spaces for ciphers. The game is played with flat wooden disks and the "cues" are used to push these disks along the course, the object being to place them on the highest numbers, carefully avoiding the spaces marked with the ciphers. If one player has left his disk snugly ensconced on a high number the opposing player who follows him tries so to shoot as to knock the preceding player's disk from

the space, at the same time doing it so skillfully as to leave his own disk in its place.

It will be found very easy to make the entire outfit for this game and the course can be marked out on any level place, a side path of the house, provided the path is paved, or a room that is long enough to give room for a satisfactory shot. The wooden disks, two for each player, can be made from the lumber of a soap box, or can be cut from any piece of wood that is smooth and firm enough to serve the purpose. should not be too light or it will not "carry" when shot down the course, and the disks must be of about the same size and weight to make the contest fair to all the players. If no better tools are available the disks can be fashioned by drawing a circle with a pair of com

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passes and cutting out the circle with a small saw. After it has been cut to shape, the disk should be sandpapered perfectly smooth on both sides so that it will slide easily and any rough edges left by the saw should be smoothed out by the same means, so that on sides and edge the disk is quite smooth to the touch.

When the disks are finished the "cues" must be fashioned. They are made in various ways. The han dle is a long pole which is taken in both hands, or in one, as the player prefers, and used to shoot the wooden disk along the

course.

It is easy to make a set of "cues." The handles can be fashioned from old brooms, and if the forked ends are too complicated a piece of carpentry for the novice the forks can be omitted altogether and the wooden block that engages the disk when making a shot can be fastened to the handle by boring a hole and fitting the two together, as the handle of a hammer is fastened to the head.

It will probably be found just as much trouble to do this, however, as to make a forked end to the broom handle by nailing two pieces of wood to the end and fastening the wooden block between the forked ends. It can be seen from the photographs what a very simple matter the outfit is.

There is a deal of exercise in this game, the bending and shoulder movements necessary to the shooting being most beneficial, and as both sexes can play "deck billiards" it will

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well worth the trouble of making an outfit and marking out a course.

The player's disk in the game of deck billiards is placed on a line three feet from the figure squares, and inside these, as shown in the photos where the player is about to "shoot."

The game can be played by four persons or two. When four are playing two are partners, opposing the other two. The partners do not take their places side by side at opposite ends, but one at either end, facing each other, so that opposing players shoot from the same side alternately until all the disks have been shot over the course. The opposing players at the other end then count the disks for their own partners and announce the result to the other side, it not being possible to tell accurately where the disks have landed when looking at them from the side from which they were shot.

When the count has been made and announced the disks are removed from the squares and the same disks returned to the opposite side by the shooting process. The number of disks used is eight, four to each of the two players who do the shooting. The first man to shoot sends one of his four disks over the course. Then the opponent who, as explained, is playing at the same end, sends his disk along, striving to knock the other man's disk off if it has been placed on a high number. The first player then shoots again and again his competitor, by his side, tries his luck and so on until all the eight disks have been sent over the course.

The partners of the two players, at the

other end, watch the progress of the disks, and count the total score, announcing it to the others. Then they gather up the disks and repeat the shooting from the opposite direction. The side first scoring fifty points wins the game.

There is no penalty if the disks are driven out of bounds. On shipboard the penalty is sometimes the loss of the disk, for the reason that a disk will occasionally turn on its side, assume the shape of a wheel and climb over the rail into the ocean. On land such a thing would not be possible and a bad shot simply brings its own penalty of no score.

There is nothing to correspond to "putting" on the golf green. The width of the course is the width of the checkered board on which the scoring figures are placed. If the disks are not kept within this space they will of course fail to score. The disks must be shot so as to stop on one of the figures. If they are shot so as to overshoot the figures or are sent wide so as not to pass over the scoring squares at all, obviously it is a bad shot and does not score.

An interesting complication is introduced into the game by the marking of one of the squares ten plus and the other ten minus. As both these squares are in line the player who tries to get on the coveted ten plus, which adds ten to the score is more than likely to shoot short and have his disk stop on ten minus, which causes him to lose ten from the score already made; so that when the total score is almost reached the player who accidentally gets on the ten minus square may be put back so far the other side wins.

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HE vast problem of dealing with the ever growing traffic of London-the need of great transverse and circular arteries, the demand for access to existing and future "garden suburbs," the changes due to the motor vehicle and the tramway-is at last receiving the attention of the London Board of Trade authorities.

Sir Herbert Jekyll, Assistant Secretary of the Board, has prepared remarkable records and plans, which show that the demand for traveling facilities will sooner or later overtake the supply. Accordingly, it is urged, now is the time to start a great scheme of road improvement in and near London, so that townplanning schemes may be allied with it and the whole work be unified.

It is proposed to at once proceed with

the building of over 100 miles of new roads, and also to improve over twentyfive miles of existing thoroughfares. In speaking of the expense, Sir Herbert Jekyll says: "It is difficult to see how the cost can be avoided if congestion is to be relieved and proper provision made for the future. Large as the expense may be, the cost of inaction is also heavy. The time lost daily by millions of people through insufficient road accommodation is alone equivalent to a very large loss of money.

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"Every million spent at the present time would be a good investment." In fact, the report goes on to set forth in emphatic language how the cost, if the plan is put off for eight years, will be probably double what it is now. It is suggested that a central authority will have to be empowered to carry out the scheme.

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There is a covert but powerful appeal to London patriotism. The example of Liverpool, London's greatest rival, is quoted to show both what a great city has done in the way of new roads and how the taxpayers have profited by forethought and central control.

The report anticipates that the great new roads will have a double track of tramway, and that there must be room for three lines of moving traffic on either side of the tramway, with further room for standing vehicles if there are shops in the road.

Therefore, main arterial roads must be from 100 to