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September 14, 1928 - Image 26

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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, 1928-09-14

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PAGr, SIX

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A Happy New Year Is Assured
You If You Buy a

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INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE AND TUBE The concrete basso or the n,aiu A FARMERETTE
piers will stand approximately
feet above the surface of the river,
TO WINDSOR TO BE COMPLETED
IN PALESTINE
on the Sandwich side, and a simi-
BY JULY OF 1929
lar distance above the earth, in
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Detroit. The piers themselves,

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473 Ouellette Ave., Windsor, Ont.
Seneca 3278

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We Wish All Our Jewish Friends and
Patrons a Happy and Prosperous
New Year

JACKSON

DYEING AND CLEANING

Burnside 3521

COO Erie St. East

WINDSOR, ONTARIO

INDIIIMitivinitiatituttananwaninio

New Year's Greetings

Both the Detroit International I nipossible to estimate when the r esting upon these bases,
Bridge to Windsor and the Detroit- ti rst section of the tube would be t ower 362 feet into the air, in II
5 tructure of solid steel. The cables,
Windsor vehicular tunnel are yell r early.
"At present all energies, of upporting wires, span base, and
anead of their scheduled construc-
he understructure of the sloping
tion, with the bridge due to be 'mass, are directed on the finish. t
completed not later than August, i ng of the tubes," he said. "As approaches on both sides of the
1925, and the tunnel by October, soon as they are completed, the river will be of steel.
Driven to Rock.
1930, officers of the two coo- t untied will be well on its way to
realization."
panics said recently.
Bed rock is approximately 110
*
"I expect to drive my cur over
feet down from the surface of the
One hundred and fifty years ago soil at Sandwich. Both pier and
the bridge by the Fourth of July
vent year," Said J. L. Fozard, vice- a tiny man-powered ferry operated anchor bases are being driven, in
president of the Detroit Interna- from the foot of the Huron Church t he form of solid concrete, down to
tional Bridge Co. "Though the Line, in what is now the town of this rock.
schedule calls for the completion Sandwich, to a point on the oppo-
Some difference in procedure
of the bridge by about Aug. I, we site shore in the heart of the pres- was required at Sandwich, with
believe it will be finished in July." ent city of Detroit.
the progress of work on pier
The aborigines who operated
Judson Bradway, first vice-presi-
bases and anchor bases, from the
dent of the Detroit-Ontario Sub- that ferry had surveyed the river fact that the former are located
with
Cie engineering skill which
ways
Corp.,
declared
that
.;: the river. In
although the tunnel contract called lay in their own powers of obser.
anchor haves
'd•nt'reoi(iti,sItZt'leiepiai
nar-
fur completion by October, 1981), nation d hod chosen
are located on the land.
The above is a photograph of a
he believed it will be possible to rowest point in the stream to set
To proceed with the work of ex- Jewish farmerette in a Keren
up the ancestor of all other ferries
beat the schedule by six months.
which have since crossed the cavation for the pier bases at Hayesod seitlement in which she
Six Months Ahead.
Sandwich, the Foundation Com- planted and developed herself.
"Unless unforseen difficulties world's busiest river.
Two years ago, engineers with pany constructed a huge coffer-
present themselves, the indications
dam to encircle the site of the
are now that the tunnel will be fin- years of training and experience
base. Instead of attempting to
ished six months ahead of time, or behind them and all the arts of
make these cofferdams watertight,
in May, 1530. However, we are civilization to aid them, confirmed
and digging down from the river
figuring on the October date to the judgment of these early Indian
exponents of transportation by bed, after pumping the water out,
be on the safe side."
the company filled them with earth
By DAVID A. CLOLL.
"The bridge will be completed a choosing the same location as the
to above the level of the water.
year ahead of the time we planned site of the international bridge.
Excavation was then started Chairman of the Board of Educa•
During
the
year
1927,
a
bitter
bat.
originally," Mr. Fozard said.
lion of the Agudath B'nai Zion
through the earth fill, and through
"Open weather has enabled us to tle was fought between Joseph A.
the river bed below,
School of Windsor.
maintain a full working force every Bower, supported by proponents
Caissons
Used.
day since the bridge was started. of the bridge, and reactionary
The
method
of
excavation
was
forces
opposed
to
its
erection.
To-
It is significant that the dreams
The anticipated difficulties in pro-
curing the 100 parcels of land for day it is rapidly becoming a thing not the same as that used in dig- of the founders of the Hebrew
the bridge approaches were avoid- of actual existence in forms of ging a cellar—nothing so simple. School of the city of Windsor
ed, which facilitated matters great- steel and concrete. Progress—and Caissons, or concrete moulds, of have in some small measure been
the required size, were first con- realized. Their fervent hope that
ly. The company was able to buy Mr. Bower—won.
structed on top of the earth fill in sonic day their children and grand-
Quiet Is Broken.
J8 per cent of the real estate, and
Until a period late in the sum- the cofferdams, with a "cutting children might enjoy the full bene-
condemned only one parcel on the
edge"
on the lower side. Concrete fit of a well founded Jewish edu-
mer
of
1927,
the
waterfront
at
the
American side and one on the
foot of Huron Church Line in was poured in, forming the base of tion has been answered.
Canadian."
the
pier,
but leaving a hollow
Sandwich
was
as
quiet
and
undis-
The foot bridge from which the
The board of education is in-
big cables will be woven for the turbed as it ever had been since space in the center. Through this debted to the board of the United
hollow
the
grog buckets of a gi-
the
day
when
the
last
Indian
canoe
main structure will be over the
Hebrew Schools of Detroit for al-
river by Aug. 1, according to Mr. put out from this shore for the gantic digger are sent down, drag- lowing us to share with them a su-
Fozard. The steel towers of the other side. Today and tonight and ging up the earth from under the perintendent of the caliber of Ber-
main piers on the Detroit side are tomorrow night, the roar of ma- caisson. The weight of the con- nard Isaacs. Without his assist-
already completed, and those on chinery and the clatter of huge crete drove the cutting edge down, ance this school, we dare say,
the Windsor side will be finished cranes and the blaze of lights and as the earth was clawed away would still be a struggling insti-
by the middle of the coming week. the rattle of automatic hammers from beneath it, and so the first tution.
thunders about the spot. In a few caisson gradually disappeared un-
Government Told.
To the members of the past
Customs and immigration de- more months there will tower along derground on its journey to the boards, the present board ex-
partments of the United States this line the gleaming steel and rock below. As its top neared presses deep thanks for their un-
and Canana have been notified to massive concrete of a structure ground level, the walls of the tiring efforts. It seas by their ex-
have men ready for duty on the which will link the world's great mould were carried upward and perience that we were able to
bridge not later than Aug. 1 next est empire to the world's greatest the process continued, still with profit.
year, Mr. Fozard added. The re- republic across that narrow rib- the digger clawing out earth
spective governments have already bon of water which ties together through the central shaft.
PILLOW AND STONE
employed architects to design the the world's greatest inland oceans.
CURRICULUM OF WINDSOR
buildings that will house their and carries the world's greatest
Upon
a stone in olden time
TALMUD TORAH
volume of traffic. And fittingly
forces.
A wanderer sank to rest,
Drillings for the bridge were enough the span which will throw
What
wondrous vision soothed his
Correct reading of the prayers
started in May, 1927, but the its shadow across these waters
heart,
actual work on the structures was will be the greatest in the world (led).
How
strangely was he blessed!
Hebrew, from the very begin-
not under way until July the same in length.
ning to a thorough knowledge of
Suspended Roadway
year. Six hundred men are now
The arched sky was his coverlet,
The bridge proper will consist both language and literature.
employed.
The night wind cradle-song;
The Five Books of Moses (in
The first shipment of steel of a roadway suspended from steel
A ladder mounted heavenward
plates for the shell of the under- cables swung from the tops of two the original Hebrew).
Which bore an angel throng.
The
Prophets
(in
the
original
main
piers
on
either
side
of
the
water section of the tunnel has
arrived in the plant of the Cana- river. The ends of the cables, on Hebrew).
Ah, in these sober days of ours
Jewish
history,
from
the
dawn
both
sides,
will
be
carried
over
the
dian Bridge Co. at Walkerville,
When we soft close our eyes,
Mr. Bradway said. Fabrication of tops of the piers and brought to of time to the present day.
Bar Mitzvah preparations and No lofty ladder climbs above,
the first section of the tube will earth in huge concrete "anchors."
No angel Mists arise.
' begin in several days. Dredging The main piers will be carried on participation in religious services.
of the river is ahead of schedule. concrete bases resting solidly on
The world is saved only by the An tho' our bed is richly draped,
The underwater tube sections bed rock, while the cable anchors
And royal fare's our own,
are to be approximately 32 feet in will also be carried down through breath of the school children.
Too oft we waken unrefreshed,
diameter by 250 feet in length, the earth and braced against solid
The pillow's changed to stone.
The
cask
can
only
yield
the
wine
• and there will be 10 of them alto- rock, at an angle calculated to
—ABRAM S. ISAACS
gether. Mr. Bradford said it was withstand the pull of huge cables. . it contains.

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TO BERNARD ISAACS

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Holiday Greetings

Company

LaCroix Art Studios

Rosh Hashonah Greetings

JOSEPH BROWN

Teacher of Portrait and Landscape
Painting

Real Estate, Insurance, Rental Agency,
Collections

LATHING and PLASTERING

Commercial Art

112 London St. West

Seneca 1134

Burnside 6724

729 Pelissier

DETROIT

We Wish You All a Very Happy and Prosperous
New Year

BELLINGERS'

Dry Goods Store

IMPORTERS OF HIGH-CLASS SILK AND WOOLEN DRESS
GOODS AND COATINGS, LINENS, STAPLES, HOSE,
LINGERIE, CORSETS, LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S
UNDERWEAR, BATHING SUITS, NOTIONS
DRAPERIES

Season's Greetings to Our Many Jewish
Friends

Windsor Truck &
Storage Co., Ltd.

29 Chatham St. West

New Year's Greetings

McLean Motor Sales

DURANT

Burnside 6824

i

Season's Greetings

WALKERVILLE FUEL
and SUPPLY CO.

COAL : WOOD : COKE
SAND : GRAVEL : CEMENT

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AUTO FINANCING

WYANDOTTE AND OUELLETTE AVES.

205 DOUGLAS BLOCK

Windsor, Ont.

A. A. LITTLE

HOUSEMOVING CO., Ltd.

42 PITT ST., WEST

Phone Seneca 1470

Residence, Burnside 6703

WINDSOR, ONTARIO

Security Building

WINDSOR, ONTARIO

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RETAIL LUMBER DEALERS

1480 Howard Avenue

Phone Burnside 3800

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BORDER CITIES

Painters' Supplies

Call Burnside 110

WIRE & IRON WORKS

WALKERVILLE

Phone Burnside 164

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Phones: Burnside 150-674

Season's Greetings

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Wall Paper — Picture Framing — Window
Shades — Sign Painting

Fours and Sixes

619 Wyandotte St. East

MEMBERS OF TORONTO STOCK
EXCHANGE

A Happy New Year to You

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Seneca 159

WINDSOR, ONTARIO

Seneca 2939

,

Seneca 345

36 Ouellette Ave., Windsor.

Phone Burnside 4981
500 Tecumseh Rd , W.
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Here you will find a selection of many beautiful studies
of Nature.
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WALKERVILLE, ONT.

Beaty washer Store

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Modern Cleaners

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ONE DAY SERVICE

Phone Burnside 5190
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