including the western approach and the eastern approach for a distance of 1,400 feet, will be borne by the city, and half by the county. The county will bear the full expense of relocating the road from the end of the eastern approach to State Highway No. 10. The tunnel and its approaches make a link in the general plan to provide eventually a straight cut from the east side of the city across through West Asheville. The other important links in this proposed chain of streets and highways are a proposed viaduct and a high-level bridge linking Asheville on a level with West Asheville. The Beaucatcher Tunnel and its approaches will also form an important link in the new road talked of to parallel the present highway to Black Mountain. Its construction will throw much of the heavy traffic off Biltmore Avenue, thus facililating traffic movement greatly. The design for the tunnel and its approaches were prepared by the Howerton Engineering Company, of Asheville, which will also superintend the construction. "Dim Your Headlights" in Atlantic City Bright headlights are not needed on Absecon Boulevard, Atlantic City, nor are they wanted there. This fact is impressed upon automobilists by a sign erected by the city and signed by the Department of Public Safety, telling drivers to dim their lights. The length of road is illuminated by means of General Electric highway lighting units P City Planning and Aerial Maps HOTOGRAPHIC aerial maps, made by the well-known mosaic process of fitting together a number of vertical photographs which have been corrected to the proper scale, is finding increasing use in city planning. Although the conventional line map will show the geographical layout of the municipality, the problem of estimating the tone of a section, whether it be residential, factory site, or both, becomes much simpler by use of the air map, which gives the data obtained by the line map and in addition much cultural information not found on conventional maps.. In sections not completely mapped, this process gives more cheaply a scalable map in much less time than it is obtainable by ground surveys. Aside from the uses to which ordinary maps are put, the This is Page 73 of the Baltimore Air Map. It shows Sparrows Point, a city of about 12,000, built around the Maryland Plant of the Bethlehem Steel Company. A complete industrial community is here shown; the plant, the homes of the workmen and superintendents, the schools, stores, churches and theatres air map provides the distinct advantage that any section of it may be studied stereoscopically, by using. two adjacent and overlapping prints from which the map was made and placing them under the stereoscope, whereby the relief may be studied. This feature is inherent with the air map only. In studying zoning problems and new street layouts, in estimating sewerage and water requirements in newly developed sections, answers to questions may be obtained in hours which require day's by ground methods. The city of Baltimore has recently received delivery of five complete aerial maps, in atlas form, of the city and a 3-mile strip of Baltimore County, adjacent to the municipal limits. This survey was to a scale of 400 feet to 1 inch and covers approximately 210 square miles, the map being delivered in the form of pages 24 inches square, each page conforming to the area covered by the topographic sheets of the Baltimore topographical survey. This Baltimore survey entailed the making of fifteen complete atlases and was performed by the Chesapeake Aircraft Company of that city. The contract price was subscribed by a group composed of the city of Baltimore, Metropolitan District of Baltimore County, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, Real Estate Board, Baltimore Sun and others. New City Hall Beautiful Addition to Informal Civic Center N one side of Bayard Street in New Brunswick, N. J. are situated the Court House and other Middlesex County buildings. Directly opposite them has recently been erected a new City Hall, handsomely designed both externally and internally. It is adapted from the Dutch Colonial style of architecture. The longer axis is parallel to the street, upon which faces a center doorway reached by a low, broad flight of steps, flanked by electric lanterns on simple pedestals. The main portion of the building is of two stories with basement and attic, with a gabled roof in keeping with the architectural type, and at each end there is a two-story extension or wing, adding to the capacity of the whole without destroying its pleasing lines. An attractive Colonial cupola or belfry surmounts the roof. The building is of red tapestry brick trimmed with stone. Three New Brunswick architects-Alexander Merchant, W. H. Boylan and H. G. Bach-collaborated in the design. The first floor has a spacious central foyer, from the rear of which a broad staircase leads up to the second floor. At one end of this central hall are the Water Department offices, and at the other those of the Tax Collector and Water Collector. Cing upon the... hall are also the ofices of the City Clerk, Street Department, City Treasurer, and Comptroller and Industrial Secretary. To the left of the center is the telephone switchboard and information desk. On the second floor is the Mayor's reception room, imposing but not too elaborate, done in walnut paneling, with a touch of gold in the ceiling and drop-ceiling. At the left-hand end of this floor is the public meeting room, which is of a different but equally handsome design, the walls being of panels and pilasters in white, they and the ceiling also having a judicious amount of ornamental detail in low relief. Carrying out the Colonial idea, there are eleven high CITY HALL, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., WITH MAYOR'S OFFICE AND COMMISSION'S MEETING ROOM backed mahogany benches for the public in attendance at the meetings of the City Commission, which sits around a conference table in the front of the room. The second floor also holds the offices of the Mayor and the Commissioners of Public Safety, Revenue and Finance, and Parks and Public Buildings, the City Attorney and the Health Department. On the ground or basement floor are the offices of the City Engineer, City Chemist, Plumbing Inspector, Building Inspector, Sewer Department, and Overseer of the Poor. In conjunction with the nearby county buildings and park-like surroundings, the City Hall forms part of an informal civic center. On April 27 New Brunswick celebrated Municipal Day, and Mayor John J. Morrison invited the AD-IES and gent-le-men! mayors and governing bodies of the principal other New Jersey municipalities to a public inspection of the City Hall and various other civic improvements. A party of approximately a hundred persons resulted. After inspecting the new building they were driven in motor cars through the new Buccleuch Park, to the recently constructed Central Fire Headquarters with its modern and complete equipment, then to the site of a municipal dock to be constructed on the Raritan River; to the municipal swimming pool completed last year; to the filtration plant; and finally to the new dam which has created Farrington Lake, a reservoir of 800,000,000 gallons capacity, forming an important addition to the city's water-supply system, and a feature of much scenic beauty. The Big Show in Kenosha Step right up and hear all about the Bar.1door, Bailhay, and Ringless Circus! Kenosha, Wis., is its regular stand and its winter quarters as well. Most of the troupers are housed in classrooms of the grade schools daily between vacation seasons for this circus is annually arranged and performed entirely by the children who attend Lincoln Park playground. The first performance, in 1924, resulted from an inspiration which came to a young recreation director, Miss Marie Ludwig, when she was hardpressed one hot August day for a new "stunt" idea. vitations. Every year, days preceding the "big show" are spent hammering together Wild West coaches and cages for the animals, and in ransacking attics and basements for convertible cast-offs. Last year 2,000 youngsters took part. Nobody knows how many will take part this year, nor have the children announced what the main circus features will be, but since the first bud foretold vacation time, Kenosha boys and girls have been busy thinking and planning "circus." That first year 500 children took part. Across ** sha's streets came trundling an astonishing collection of "animuls," clowns, and others, signs dripping wet paint, cages with roaring lions and bears who ordinarily boasted two legs apiece (and who privately complained for weeks afterwards of arms sore from being pranced upon). Even the traditional calliope was not lacking. A series of graduated pipes arranged on a coaster wagon with music coming from a concealed phonograph provided for that! Following the parade, there were performances in the ring with an audience of parents in attendance. Everyone instantly became an enthusiastic rooter for the circus, not the least enthusiastic being Superintendent of Schools G. A. Loomis. GRACE R. REMICK. THE STAGECOACH READY FOR THE CIRCUS PARADE The circus has grown into a community-wide project. Substantial prizes are contributed by business men. Evening performances have to be arranged to take care of parent-audiences. Regular sales promotion methods have been adopted by the youngsters, whose circus organization now boasts committees on publicity, advertising, and in The EDITORIAL NOTE.-Why not get the youngsters of the old home-town playground-or the whole community, for that matter-busy on a homemade circus this summer? They prove as popular everywhere they are put on as in Kenosha. One Pacific Coast city some time ago actually appointed a full-time playground circus director. Playground and Recreation Association of America, 315 Fourth Avenue, New York City, publishes a wealth of instructions and suggestions; and a book on the subject, "How to Put on an Amateur Circus," by Hacher and Eames (T. S. Denison Co., Chicago), contains many amusing and inspiring photographs as well as working drawings. Holland's Children's Police The Children's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor reports that six of the principal cities of Holland have special bodies of children's police.'' In Amsterdam the department is administered by a chief and a staff of un-uniformed inspectors. They supervise children's street trading and begging, investigate unsatisfactory home conditions, guardianship, truancy and other child delinquencies, attend sessions of the juvenile courts, and in general keep in close touch with child-welfare societies and reformatory institutions. AIRPLANE VIEWS OF TWO INDUSTRIAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS AT ROSSINGTON, DONCASTER, IN YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND Doncaster is a rapidly growing community, and has undertaken several projects to relieve acute housing congestion. Ample space is provided, with a maximum of light and air. In the upper view, surrounding meadow and farm land is shown |