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THE PITTSBURGH GAZETTE TIMES, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3. 1922 'BOUEEVARD OF ALLIES" FORMALLY OPENED I 1837 1922 The AnrrlvBl the Klucat "Better Pnmitare Meuu Better Homes" Arm sir on gs Dauler-Close Furniture Co. FALL EXHIBIT OF Home -Worthy Furniture The Wedding Season The Thanksgiving Season The Christmas Holiday Season All demand much of an establishment like the Linoleum Jbr Every Floor in the House 11 i 6- JEWS OBSERVE ATONEMEflIT BUY na'cs in lxei Section of City C'rou-doflAVjtli Faithful. ix halls We are early with our display for your convenience cm may now have any article set aside for delivery at a later date saving you njuch time, and giving you best choice. Our.

New Fall Stocks are remarkable not only for the excellence of quality, but for abundant selection is the moderately priced, lines. ORIENTAL RUGS The Rug Beautiful for the refined Home. Boom Sizes, $195.00 to Special Sale Antique Hook Bugs, gathered in New TjTitrla.ru States, all in good condition. Hearth Sizes, $28 to $76.00. Four Lots Persian throw sixes, up to 6-0x9-0 $35.00, $46.00.

$65.00, $95.00. Chenille Carpets, 9-0 to SO ft wide. Furniture Co. 656 SMITHFIELD ST. 638 Beautiful Floors make more beautiful rooms Top This automobile Ix-ariuji officials was llic first i drive over tht' new Itoulcvatil of the Allies at the fdrmal oeniiit; yesterday.

Bottom, left 'itjf Solicitor Milliard AV. Martin spoke in behalf of Mayor William A. Magee at the meeting preceding the opening of the highway. Kintsf W. M.

Kurey. president of the Clwunber of Commerce, ajso spoke. BOULEVARD Of THE ALLIES OPENED WITH CEREMONIES toBIiuurd from l'a(. M. EMISSION SOCIETY WILL CONVENE HERE Pittsburgh Jews and adherents of Judaism throughout the world spent yesterday in fasting and prayer, in observance of Yom Kippnr, or the Day of Atonement, the most sacred and holy day on the Jewish holiday calendai.

Synagogues in every section of Pittsburgh wcro crowded with Public auditoriums were utilized 'to accommodate many hundred. of strangers. tN meet. In part. Hie demand for aeeornmi dat loin, the Congregation Itodef Shalom, the only Reformed Jewish congregation in Pittsburgh, engaged Carnecie Music Hill, where the services at the Temple Rndef Shalom.

Fifth and Morewond avenues, were duplicated. In addition to services in the Adath Jeshuran Synagogue, St. Clair Margurett.i feels, the iwrai congregation conducted services in Carnegie Library auditorium, Station street. The B'nai Israel Congregation held services in the community center. North Negley avenue, and in the Rittenhouse, North Highland avenue.

The Beth ShaKim Congregation held services in the Manor Theater, Murray avenue. Service' also were held In the Zionist Tnsti-tute and Irene Kaufmanp. Settlement, Center avenue, in addition to nearly 35 other synagogues and balls in Pittsburgh. Rabbi Samuel H. Goldensou of the Temple R-dof Shah'm was a shifted at yesterday's services by Itibbl Solomon FVeehof of the faculty of the Hebrew I'nion College of Cincinnati.

Outsta-i iing in th reform and rra-dition-i: worship yesterday, were memorial Sf rvices. 450 Delegates and Others Ex- pected to Meet at Emory Church. are quiet to the tread, warm to the touch, and can be kept look- 1 ing new by occasional waxing and polishing. Grease and dirt do not rub into linoleum. With your rugs here and there, you have a floor that never needs refinishjng and that is sure to be admired.

Any good furniture or department store will gladly grve you estimates on the cost of Armstrong's Linoleum put down in your home. Armstrong's Linoleum Rugs For people who live in apartments or who have houses on short leases and consequently do not wish to install permanent linoleum floors, Armstrong's Linoleum is also made in the form of bordered rugs. Thirty attractive patterns in four sizes from 6x9 feet to 9 12 feet. IF you arc building or remodeling your home, give though to the decorative value of linoleum floors. Write for our booklet, "Decorative Linoleum Floors." It contains twenty-four color-plates showing patterns of Armstrong's Linoleum in inlaid parquetry designs, carpet in-laids, Jaspes (two-tone), and marble tile inlaids.

You can take book to a store and show the merchant exactly what you want to see. Modern linoleum makes a real floor. When the best quality of linoleum is properly laid, it makes a permanent floor with these advantages: Linoleum floors are the easiest of all floors to keep clean. They Catholic Charity Body Plans to Aid Homeless Chill winds of the coming winter will hold fewer terrors for the homeless men of the streets if a request filed with City Council yesterday by the Rev. Lawrence A.

O'Con-nell, director of the Conference of Catholic Charities, is granted. Father O'Connell, in a letter referred to the committee, asked that his organization be yrranted use of the now vacant market stalls along Duquesne way, near the Sixth street bridge, as lodging and breakfasting quarters for homeless men "of all creeds and no The stalls could be easily equipped for this purpose by the charities organization, the letter stated, and could be rwde the means of relieving' a situation which caused the city to establish a municipal lodging house, last winter. over the new boulevard were Public Works Director Charles A. Finiey, President of Council "Winters, F. Brown, former "public works director, and James L.

Griffin, chief clerk in that department. A squad of maunted policemen, in charge of Traffic Commissioner Benjamin R. Marshall, and the One Hundred and Seventh Field Artillery Band led the parade over the new highway. Among those who took part in the parade were members of City Councit, city department heads, county representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, Citizens Committee on City Plan. City Planning Commission, Business Men's Association of the North Side, North Side Chamber of Commerce, N.

S. Sprague, president of the American Society of Civil Engineers: M. F. Snell, president of the American Association and members of other boards of trade, civic organizations and contracting firms which built the boulevard. The new boulevard was built at a cost of approximately The physical work amounted to while the property damages, as fixed by the board of viewers, totaled $1,120,000, which is $745,000 in excess of the original estimate.

The property claims are still pending in court. More than 450 delegates, returned missionaries and bureau secretaries Trom the United States, Porto Rico. Hawaiian Islands and Alaska, and many visitors ill assemble in Emory Methodist Episcopal Church, Highland avenue, October IS to 23, for the annual convention of" the Home Missionary Society of the denomination. Mrs. Wilbur P.

Turkield, wife of the Methodist Kpiscopal bishop of AXexico, will preside. Mrs. T. A. Dye of Emory Church and Mrs.

H. J. ones are chairmen of the hospitality committee, and Mrs. W. D.

Hamilton' president of the auxiliary society of Christ Methodist Episcopal Church, is chairman of the convention committee. The board of manaerej-s, Mrs. Turkield. president, will have headquarters in the Fort Pitt Hotel. 1 The last national convention of the society held here convened in Christ Methodist Episcopal Church, Haum boulevard, 23 years agro.

with the exception of a few cases which have been settled at figure 15 per cent belew the viewer's awards. Is Two Mile Long. The new boulevard from Grant street and Second avenue to Forbes street and Craft avenue, the total length being in 276 feet, or approximately two milts. Second avenue in the downtown section had been widened as an approach to the new highway and provides two lines of traffic on each side. Rising-from the level of Grant street and Second avenue by a ramp to an elevated structure, or viaduct passing ovr-r the tracks of the Panhandle Railroad, the boulevard continues up the hillside to the Bluff where extensive retaining wall construction was required to hold the slopes and retain the roadway.

The total length of the first viaduct Is 1,121 f-et. From Stevenson street the boulevard follow the general location of old Bluff street, which wa extended through to a point near Urady street from which point the highway is tarried on a viaduct and approaches. The name of Forbes street from Brady street Craft avenue has been changed to the Boulevard of the Allies and the roadway widened and repaved. The first contracts were advertised September 6, 1921, and opened September 15. The contract for the ramp and foundations to the first viaduct was started September 21, 1921, and the contract for tin: grading and paving of the boulevard in the hillside location was started September 1 1921.

Built in Year and IS Day: One year and 15 days vr; required in building the highway. construe! ion required 110,000 cubic yards (if grading. 20.f00 cubic yards of concrete in retaining walls and piers, 300.000 pounds of steel reinforcement in retaining walls, 23.100 tons of structural steel in viaducts and square yards of street pavement. Two Held In Note Railing. nited States Secret Service epera- ttves under Konert Keose.

in charge of the i'lttsburgh district, yesferrtfiv reported the arrest on Red Cross Seeks Address. Th? American Rid Cross. Chamber of Commerce Building, is anxious to communicate with John Henderson, formerly a private in the Kight Hundreh and Thirteenth infantry, and ot :33 Napoleon avenue, Pink-burgh. Saturday of lwrten Youcum and Herman Lov.i of Shady Valley, Mt. t'nlon.

Huntingdon county, where they are accused of having passed a $3 note that had been raised to read The prisoners were taken before the Federal ut istuwn. who held them under heavy bonds for a hearing. Voucurn was taken into custody when he Is alleged to have tendered the raised note at a store in payment oj jn yards of gingham and a collar, buve was arrested later. rZ BUIJ-DEKS FEU 'fe WOO njD LINOLEUM st5kk3TT Hotv to Lay Linoleum on Wood Floors 1 I tirmmtr the moisture in the air causes wood 8oor ro expand. In winter they dry out and contract when the heat is turned on, with a tendency to open up the cracks bet wet the boards.

Yourlinoleum floor, therefore, should be cemented (not racked) over a lining of builder's deadening felt which has been preriously glued to the bare floor boards. The felt takes up expansion and contraction and gires you a permanent, waterproof, good-looking floor. The added service and wear this method gives are well worth the extra cost. THIS WEEK WILL BE YOUR To Buy Your Supplies of SVsiCIHIiGAN CONCORD ACTRESS TELLS SECRET Tells How to Darken Gray Hair With a Hoiii-Maio Mixture. Armstrong Cork.

Compantt, Linoleum Divxsiojj Lntsttr, Ptnnsjlvmnim The roadway has a uniform width of 40 feet with the exception of a sec-i tion of old Bluff street, where the Joicey Williams, the well-known American actress, recently made the following statement about gray hair and how to darken it. with a homemade mixture: "Anyone can prepare a simple mixture at home that will gradually darken gray, streaked or faded hair, and make it soft and glossy. To a half -pint of water add 1 ounce of bay rum, a small box of Barbo Compound, and ounce of glycerine. These ingredients can be bought at any drug store at very little cost. Apply to the hair twice a week until the desired shade is obtained.

This will make a gray-haired person look 20 years younger. It does not color tin- scalp, is not sticky or greasy, and does not rub off." AT REASONABLE PRICES LODWESTr That they have been in the past five or six years. on roadway is 36 feet wide. The boulevard is on a grade of 5 per cent from Grant street to a distance of about 500 feet, and from ihis point to the top of the hill at Pride street is" 3.7 per cent. The grades of the balance the route are light.

Featuns of the new improvement are the Tilling of the old llalkett street dump and the removal of ar, obsolete and worn-out bridge at this point which carried Wilmot street over the ravine. The old lwn Street Bridge was removed and the ravine tilled. An improved style street illumination, similar to that on Bigelow boulevard, was installed on the new thoroughfare. To Be Dedicated Nov. 11.

Gen. Tasker H. Bliss and rr. Bed-rich Stepanek, minister from Czechoslovakia, will attend the dedication of the Boulevard of the Allies as a memorial to World "War heroes on Armistice Day, November 1, it was announced yesterday after Council adopted a resolution, offered by Robert Garland, accepting an offer made by William J. Askin.

chairman of the Armistice Iay Committee of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the American Revolution. Mr. Askin, in a letter to Mr. Garland, offered to invite Gen. Bliss and Stepanek, who will speak at a ban'juei of the A.

U. in Pittsburgh the liight of November 11. to participate in the dedication cert monies. The offer was accepted. Gen.

Bliss, born in 153. is a native Pennsylvanian and a West Point honor man of 1S7S. He served as bead of the artillery school at West fought in the Spanish-American War and on the holder, was elmf- an.liiu, n'llliwg hi i.iiiii i iiyupwuill won i'x ft'-i I if! of tine louUville NathvUle R. R. ii ii -mi -i i (ip lnnTrPi positively be higher next UlilLlvwl 1 weekunti) the end of the season XlnVVA Is the time to obtain your supplies for iXjvUr vV Jellies, Preserves, Juices, etc.

GET THEM WHILE THEY ARE CHEAP WE SELL FROM A BASKET TO A CARLOAD Wteffeort THE PAN-AMERICAN NortfibounfJ Southbound Leaves Leaves LCCTSVI LLE Leaves "KKSO.NAIi A 8.40 pm 5. lOpm am oftheSertice 1 is the "8.13 11.55 am 9.55 pra 5.03 prn 10.U7 pm 12.53 am 12.05 pni Arrives MEMPHIS- Leaves Leaves NASHVILLE Leaves Leaves- BIRMINGHAM Leaves Leates MONTGOMERY Leaves Arrives PENSACOLA Leaves Dining Car 412 am JO. 4 5 pm 11.12" ppi 7.00 pm 60am "6.00 am 10.15 am Leaves MOBILE Leaves; Arrives NEW RLEANS. Leaves Observation Car Drawing Room-Two-Compartment is lie ninrv than vrr th koy-iintP of ti -I't-ss. Kow-lfMnrrd nnd hntn ii-Knfffl mt'fi h.1,-1 youn and A1.

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a iii nu fr M. TRII rTV. SPWHIhT 40 ilrmmn Bide, Sleeper SERVICE A LA CARTE and the prices are moderate, comparing very favorably with those of hotels and restaurants offering an equal grade of senicf. Dining Cars Modern Steel Coaches (no extra fartj Parlor Car to Memphis of-staff and commanding general of the I'nited Slates Army in 11 7 and Orleans, Memphis, leave Clndnnatl p. m.

sn4 and 1:20 a. m. Tor information apply tm Two other through trains to It 10:11 p- ud LooiaTiU 10:10 p. m. Fruit Exchange Bldg.

Pa. mm served on the Allied Supreme War CotinHl with Gen. John .1. Pershing and Marshal FerdlnaaU Focb during J. R.

JkiMAND, T. P. 402 N. 230 Fifth Pittsburgh, Fa, Court 2602. KJ the World War..

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