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Seneca 3278 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111M 11111 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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