id service link up the heart
of the town with the far outlying suburbs. And even though the streets
are broad the automobile is becoming too much for them. The habit of
parking cars on the slant and by scores on both sides of the roadway
(as well as down side roads and on vacant "lots") is already
restricting the carriage-way in certain areas.

From the cars themselves there is less danger than in the London
streets, for the rules of the road are strict, and the citizens keep
them strictly. No car is allowed to pass a standing tram on the same
side, for example, and that rule with others is obeyed by all drivers.

The multitude of cars, mainly open touring cars of the Buick and
Overland type, though there are many Fords, or "flivvers," and an
occasional Rolls-Royce, Napier or Panhard, thickened as we neared the
Exhibition gates; and about them, in the side streets outside and in
the avenues inside, they were parked by thousands.

They gave the meanest indication of the numbers of people in the
grounds. The lawns were covered with people. The halls of exhibits
were full of people. The Joy City, where one can adventure into
strange thrills from Coney Island, was full; the booths selling
buttered corn cob, toasted pea-nuts, ice cream soda, and the rest, had
hundreds of customers--and all these, we found, were the overflow.
They had been crowded out from the real show, and were waiting outside
in the hope of catching sight of the Prince as he made his round of the
Exhibition.

The show ground of the Exhibition is a huge arena. It is faced by a
mighty grandstand, seating ten thousand people. Ten thousand people
were sitting: the imagination boggles at the computation of the number
of those standing; they filled every foothold and clung to every step
and projection. There were some--men in khaki, of course--who were
risking their necks high up on the iron roof of the stand.

In front of the stand is a great open space, backed by patriotic
scenery, that acts as the stage for performances of the pageant kind.
It was packed so tightly with people that the movement of individuals
was impossible. On this ground the war veterans should have been drawn
up in ranks. In the beginning they were drawn up in ranks, but
civilians, having filled up every gangway and passage, overflowed on to
the field and filled that also. They were even clinging to the scenery
and perched in the trees. The minimum figure for that crowd w