SKYSCRAPER GARAGES..
A company has been formed to erect and operate a chain of skyscraper garages in the larger American cities. The first of the garages, which are to be twenty-eight storeys high, are to be erected in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. Within a few years, the promoters predict, similar buildings will be as familiar as the five and ten cent. and grocery chain stores—the term is the American synonym for the British " multiple shop "—found now in most urban centres. The garages are to have standardized equipment, prices and management, and the motorist is promised substantial savings, in addition to improved facilities for storage and repair services, as a result. One effect of the scheme, it is claimed; will be to relieve the present parking problem in busy urban centres, but if, as is believed, the garages induce more people to motor to their businesses, the promised alleviation of the parking problem may be offset by aggravation of our more acute traffic difficulties.
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