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International engineers, profiting by successful ex perience in the designing of Motor Trucks for dump work have developed in the Model SD a chassis which meets every requirement of the strenuous conâ€" ditions found in this kind of work. « International heavyâ€"duty trucks, Models 54, 54â€"C, 74, 74â€"C range in capacity from 2/ to 3/ tons and are purposely designed for heaviest hauling. Model 54â€"C 2% tons and Model 740C 314 tons, are chain drive; Model 54, 2% tons and Model 74, 34 tons, gear drifiv‘e trucks. "p A . # 1 "# t 49+ The International Line of Motor Trucks inâ€" cludes a size and style for every need of For prices, terms, and other information visit our Show Rooms or write Ninetyâ€"nine per cent. of the hunâ€" dreds of automobile alibis now in curâ€" rent use are hoary with the frost of age, according to Traffic Sergt. John D. Fox and Police Capt. Harry F. Drown of the Central precinet, who oversea the work of the traffie diviâ€" truck. The truck passed, one of the wheels went over it and broke it. "©Do you know what that means?‘‘ screamed the inspector at the driver. ‘©Yes,‘"‘ the~. individual, ‘‘vyour cane was rotten.‘‘ ‘‘That cane represented a pedesâ€" trian,"‘‘ howled the examiner amid the jeers of hundreds of onlookers. ‘‘"Well,‘‘ said the driver, ‘"he‘s a gonner and it serves him doggone well right.‘‘ Origina!l Reasons and Alibis Offered Traffic Officers There are alibis and alibis. _ The human lexicon contains alibis of erâ€" ant husbands, truant sons, dodging debtors, and so on down the line. But beside the alibis of motorists the others pale into insignificance. An enterprising Rhode Island reportâ€" er got in touch recently with the Providence traffic department and got an earful about motor alibis. Proâ€" bably Traffie Officer Moore could add a few to the list, but the Providence man has been in the game for years and his desk is full of them and then Some of the Excuses are Funny, But the Traffic Officers Hear Most of Them so Often They Get Very Tired, They Say. A New One is Hailed with Delight. Motorists Haven‘t Time to Think Up New Ones. â€" Special Automobile Number â€" a 4.,.vmw.,-.MM Cld sb % d hi s sc d ‘*‘There‘s an honest man!"‘‘ the two are tempted to chorus, if an offender admits that there is no exeuse for his infraction of the law. Hundreds of alibis, ranging from ‘‘physician with a dying patient,‘‘ ofâ€" fered by the speeder, to *‘*forget all about my car being parked . there,"‘ submitted by the man who exceeds the time limit at a downâ€"town curb, are contained in a huge bundle of ofâ€" The contents of these reports, which average about 600 a month, run the gcamut of human imagination, as far as ‘‘reasons"‘ for the various traffic violations are concerned. But to the cops who ride herd on motorists in Providence, Sergt. Fox mourns, they are as old as the story of creation. The majority of the excuses ‘have to do with the burning question, answerâ€" able in police court, of *‘‘Why did I overâ€"park ?‘*‘ Others explain drivers‘ reasons for ‘‘breasting the tide‘‘ on oneway streets, not turning on the lights of parked automobiles after dusk, travelling at a greater speed than is allowed by law, reckless and The two declare that it is a positive pleasure to hear a new alibi on the part of a motorist tagged for overâ€" parking, speeding, cutting corners, parking at night without lights or what not. ficers‘ reports which Sergt. Fox h: been acceumulating. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO ‘*At 1.30 o‘clock Wednesday afterâ€" noon a very much worried gentleman arrived at headquarters and announeâ€" ed that his automobile has been stolen. He said he had forgotten all about it while on a trip to Detroit. He reâ€" covered the car and was given a stiff fine for overtime parking. The police however," made no charge for storage of the car."" Another good one is the ‘*important directors‘ meeting‘‘ which is worded thus: ‘*Officer, can‘t you see that a busy man cannot under any cirecumâ€" stances leave an important directors‘ meeting to attend to a mere trifle such as an automobile?"" ‘‘I forgot all about my car‘‘ is a good one, which according to the tratâ€" fic sergeant, always succeeds ixbldraw- inz a fine and costs. h chine on Canal street, in t district, at 2.30 o (-lock 0 afternoon,"‘"‘~ the sergean *There it remained for 17 traffic division then towed quarters. One man early last year forgot all about his automobile for 47 hours, while he made a hurried business trip to Detroit. irresponsible driving, navigating wornâ€"out brakes and so forth. The desperate plight of a man who had sunk ‘his all in the ‘*classiest car l)zu'ti( cular driver left his maâ€" 1 street, in the restricted 30 o‘clock one Monday the sergeant recounts. hours. The it to headâ€" * * Sergeant Fox let it be known, howâ€" ever, that the Traffic Division investiâ€" gates thoroughly cases in which there is the slightest element of doubt as to the guilt of an offender. Almost daily he acquaints ‘himself with the details of numerous cases. And his deparment, he declares, gives the motor law violator the benefit of the doubt, provided he is not a chronic breaker of ordinances. Visitors to the city and local autoâ€" mobilists whose names have not been out ‘*‘Gee, office the dance hall a date:"" d ving In the originating of alibis, the speeder has a rich and fertile field. Witness a number of the excuses for haste submitted of late by Providence drivers: ling overtime parking infraction, heads Ti list of Sergt. Fox‘s favorites. particular individual was highly indignant when tagged for ex ceeding the time limit, The ‘*‘class of his car should have been suffticien evidence to the arresting officer that he was attending a highly importan ‘directors‘ meeting‘ at the Biltmore Hotel. But he came to police court nevertheless. ‘"It being his first offence he was let off with costs. Costs amounted to about $1.40. He searched hurriedly through his pockets but could not proâ€" duce this sum. Questioning revealed that he had no checking account in anv Providence bank. He then beâ€" any Providence ean desperately car was ta latter chat figured he ment.‘‘ Overtime parking alibis a and varied. Some of the bet as revealed by Sergt. Fox, following : chai i (Lh records show hours.) in Providence,"‘ overtime parking list of Sergt. Fo: for help. After calling four of t he raised the necessary $1.40. ‘Upon arriving at the police : tion, he parked lmus car across street. He was occupied with affairs at the station so long that couldn‘t get out to move it, so car was tagced However, ‘‘Was in show.‘ ‘*Working on Community Drive.‘" ‘‘Detained at lunch."‘ (Lunch, acâ€" cording to the arresting officer, lasted 1 hour and 35 minutes.) "In Federal building, taking out 1 hour and 35 minutes.) ‘"In Federal building, 1 second papers."" * Longâ€"distance telephon ‘"‘Wife was to take car b was up.‘‘ â€" forâ€" medicine Couldn My ear won‘t travel that fast.‘"‘ If my car can hit that gait withâ€" falling to pieces, you can have it"‘ I would take an oath I was travelâ€" no faster than 10 miles an hour‘‘ I‘ve driven faster than this in alo, N.Y., without being arrested‘‘ I‘m a doctor and my patient is Held up on business Held up on a job and Hamilton‘s Livery HAMILTON® $ ought it m (This w zed again. » was drop; id had enou ‘‘Why Walk when you can Ride for Nothing‘‘ Dollar Taxi South Porcupineâ€"$2.00 job and couldn out of the barber ‘phoning n illing four sary $1.40 just hadda get to 11 o‘clock to keep Horse Livery in Connection medicirne at drug a long wait, police it two Timmins or Schumacher ‘* Free Rigs Toâ€"morrow *‘ To any part of as lt WAS mbarrassâ€" hurriedly ! Railways ask the Right to Transport ire many call.‘" fore ‘r ones, re the end th« his the entered on polhce records offenders are given every tion in the event they u step on the toes of traffice o According to Nergeant Fox warned *‘not to do it again Hear peared of spec of speeding a ~hurry. t brakes were afraid he m Bc tRansPartavion war ‘ LOOMINE 1N L0 LAND to the cost of maintaining roads, the railway companies claim that they are entitled to the same free and unfetâ€" tered use of the public roads as is enjoyed by others. The railways have between them an authorized capital of nearly £1,300,â€" 000,000 and 52,000 miles of track. (On the other side there are some 400,000 â€"lorries, motorâ€"coaches, and hackney vehicles, valued at $160,000,â€" 000, giving employment to 1,000,000 More than 200 automohiles and moâ€" tor trucks are abandoned on New York streets every year. These are wornâ€"out cars, the valuable parts reâ€" hundreds the wars statement velopment vehicles h panies ve Not onl which pay declined, ralways, I crease the and heavy An idea increasedby the percent: 1.89, the pt was: 1:67.. men crease the charges on theâ€"lower rated and heavy traffies. An idea of what the traffic war has meant to the railways financially is conveyed by figures comparing the traffic receipts for last Octoberâ€"the last month for which Ministry of Transport figures are availableâ€"with the figures for October, 1925. The number of passengers decreasâ€" ed by 6,099,406, or a pereentage deâ€" crease of 5.80, and the receipts deâ€" creased by £47,000. _ Freight traffic fell by 527,600 tons, but the receipts lIl(‘l(‘clb@(“)} £144,000, so that while the percentage decrease in tonnage was 1.89, the pereentage merease in rates turn ha the bill o UA LOout 0O Ww etT ul way ointin irli 31 uaranted{ Passengers and Goods by Highway. HE GOT OFF, MAYVBE! \Z "o’cl’â€"I‘;”” \Z 1 of 5.80, and d ‘by £47,000 y 527,600 tons sedby £144,0 reentage decre roups ion and holiday ceatly decreased. pays the highest i d, and this, ace ys, has made it nc the charges on th avy traffies. peets Cvery year. Lnese _ _cars, the valuable parts ind left for city disposal on police records ig out that they contribute ist of maintaining roads, the ‘ompanies claim that they arve to the same free and unfetâ€" e of the public roads as is a prepard n thecerc fo1 ompan 1t ©0VUU TOns, I £144,000 ge decreasd reentage u tory of the man who apâ€" e the judge on a charge He claimed he was in home, because his ‘t working, and ‘he was cht have an accident. olice records as traffic given every consideraâ€" event they unwittingely rIn C round that i ) the public ned, will not s nhnave loOst many ds of pounds since hey have issued a mits that the deâ€" il combustion road l the railwavy comâ€" trathe ordimances. int Fox, they are * Le Aq spooo _::. $.10 sramod 10p Sutmyst urptodoggapy aif} {q pojuoasoad | uotssos quasao.ad s ‘s and goods D o which resped petition PQO inâ€"the U t mpanies: in LC _ against contains that the be abusâ€" in most at railâ€" insport historv nIng