Show chicago crows over poor OR old gotham H 1 caa 0 1 T the ID windy city Is C dav blowing I 1 0 1 I pg out its chest all s days 4 and n d ulli talking ing pityingly about poor old gothann Goth aln heres why truffle traffic across michigan boulevard tin link k bridge la Is nearly lia halt if agnan as heavy as that along fifth avenue new york according to the result of a tu tub bleek made by leo J win commissioner of public ser service vicer in connection with tho the new signal towers on michigan avenue it was found that hat vehicles er ossed crossed the boulevard bridge between 7 M n m W and ja 42 midnight an average of bf on an hour with a al maximum 0 of f dur during I 1 ng the rus rua h hour flour alfip pru to p ro tub total width of the roadway y on the bridge biadgo Is 54 jeet feet 8 In inches chevi as compared with fifth avenues 55 feet A check made on fifth avenue at forty second street by the now new york police showed that 19 vehicles p passed assed that point between tile the hours of 8 a m aud and 7 p m assuming au an lucrease of 25 percent per cent ford for tile the pur bur poses 3 comparison bf of the average number of vehicles per it hour our would be about 2800 2300 or 70 per cent ofte of the auto mobile traffic trade in michigan borlev boulevard aril the check made ut at the bridge was part of a comprehensive tabulation ei extending from kilo tho to twenty second street ono one hundred find and sixty sixth men were engaged in the not only were vehicles enumerated but their speeds were che chechot check chod nd their noted and the difference in flow between north and an d sauth tind and east a and nd west adlle noted tl t l special attention was pard to the fhe fugures for the bh bridge ge forthe for fop the two iwo rush hours IOU ra af the day 6 8 to 0 9 in tit the e and 1515 to in the evening in the lie rooming morning it was found d that thai success alve tabulations every 15 minutes ini the following figures north bourd 7 08 1257 south bound giving lt a total I 1 for both ways way of in the evening similar enumerations revealed north bound 78 south bound giving a total total of |