The Archive · 1928

Broadcasting

In the Central Park, the building that will house the elaborate amplifying apparatus that has already arrived and been publicly tested is: being rushed to completion.

After its dedication, hundreds will resort to the Central Park on Sunday and Throughout the city, at important street crossings, semaphores are being put up for the regulation of traffic. Crossarms will in the daytime carry the signals "stop" and "go," and at night red and green Lights will convey these instructions, Admittedly, however, it is going to be an up-hill job getting the people who have not been educated to this sort of thing to obey the signals of the trafic office One hundred and sixty of the newest and best type of electric lights and electric light standards will be purchased before long. It. is the plan to place them along the Bund, and along the Sha Kee Road back of Shameen so that at nighttime these thoroughfares will be a continuous, uninterrupted stream of Tight,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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