Reading Times from Reading, Pennsylvania • Page 7

"Si 3HIS IS Lindbergh Viaduct vhich vill be completed vithh a few weeks and $JR which stands as one guarantee that the Shannon Admimctratipn: 10 progressive and cares for the needs of this city. For many years this route to Philadelphia was needed. Lindbergh Viaduct will serve ALL of the people of Reading and yet it can be said that it will pay for itself from new revenues it produces. In 1924 the taxes on the hillside property were The land vas unimproved. As a result of the viaduct this land is being improved with expensive residences which this year paid tajies of $28,210.00.

Sharman's improvements have all added to the assessment roll; Conoider Theoe Curveo! NORTH 1 HTHE crooked road, shown as a shaded line on this map, was placed on the survey by the Stauffer administration. It is the famous plan of Stauffer for connecting with a road to be built on top of a gigantic dump around dangerous and treacherous curves, the city, and the Philadelphia pike. Imagine following these curves in. an automobile! Imagine a Pendora Park with a huge and unsightly embankment and traffic, to the park going through, dark tunnels which would have to have been yHE dark line is the road and viaduct Sharman is giving us. The State Highway Department approved these gentle curves and easy grades as the simplest and inost practical way of connecting Reading's motor traffic with Philadelphia and the East and of preserving the beauty of 'Pendora Park which," under $harman's program, is becoming the recreation place for workers and their families.

Compare the black line (the Sharmrn route) and the hooked and curved gray line (the Stauffer route) end decide for yourself whether gharman was rights LLUiiMF y. .1 4 I9H STRfctT LiHiTS 400 feet long, engineers say. i CZZJ US 1 I TH rY "'S T7 onci i s. 4 Political Adr..