The morning times., 1895-12-17
REMEDY MANY Defects
Commissioners Approve the Re-
yiSed Police Code.
VEHICLES AND STREET CARS
All Motor Cars Must Stop Before
Crossing Other Tracks-Near Side
Rule eADDrOved-Firew works Entirely
Prohibited in the Dist Bicycles
on Plane with Vehicles.

For the last two months Prosecuting At
torney for the District James l.. Pugh and
the three Commissioners have been hard
at work revising and amending the old
police regulations. and the result of this
labor was formally adopted by the Com
DisSloners yesterday.
There are a great many changes made
necessary by rulings OF the police court
Judges. and irregularities ill the regulations
themselves. The regulations will be pub
lished shortly. with a separate pocket
edition fUr officers.
The nso-i important amendments are those
relating 10 the speed of street cars. and
governing the use of bicycles. The former
Increases The speed limit OF cars TO ten
miles an hour. but requires al cars to
stop on ti.e near side OF the street.
All rapid transit lines shall station n
rlagrnau al any intersections OF their tracks
with others, when the Comniiss toner's deem
IL necessary. The amendment also provides
that all street cars, whether propelled by
horse, cable or electric power. shall come
TO Il full stop before crossing any railroad
track. and the conductor shall ascertain
that the track is clear by going ahead of
his car before 1t starts.
NO BICYCLE PRIVILEGES.
Bicycles are put on the same plane as
other vehicles, and under the amendments
a bicycle rider can be prosecuted for col
llding, lust as the driver OF horse and
wagon ";in. The speed of bicycles a { street
crossing is limited to eight miles an hour.
and they re compelled to make Wly for
pedestrians at crossings. A bell must at
allttimes be on a INA achiDe, and they are
required 10 display a lighted lamp after
dark, instead OF after sundown, as under
the old regulations.
That delight of the small boy, fire
crackers, is also iuterfered with to a very
large extent by the new amendments. HitlI
erto the only law regulating the discharge
OF fireCrackerS aud other fireworks in the
city WAS in Webb's Digest, and under it
flreCrackcrS can be set off at any time, so
1t was not done within two hundred feet
OF any dwelling house.
FIREWORKS PROHIBITED.
This would enable mischieyous urchins to
get on n vacant lot or public reservation
aud blaze away TO his hearts content.
Now, however, the discharge of fireworks
is entirely prohibited within the city linn
its.
The Commissioners have reserved the
power to compel any street car line TO cease
traffic for any length Of time wien it is SO
ordered 10y them, and have fixed penalty
FOR failure To comply with such order.
This was done in order to prevent Il rep
etttlou OF The Dunlop episode during the
Labor day parade couple Of years ago
when he refused 10 stop his cars on Seventh
street while the parade was crossing. He
was tried in the police court, but the law
was defective, as the regulations fixed no
penalty.
Other regulations governing the running
or pawuhrokers' offices, the deposit of
dump ana waste on vacant lots and a num-
per OF amendments of minor Importance
nave been made and adopted.