The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-10-10
. AUTOMOBILE REGULATIONS.

It has been suggested that the municipal authorities in
this country who considering the matter of regulating
automobiles the public streets and highways might study
with profit the rules which have just adopted
France The sane people in that land have been clamor
Gus for legal protection from the motor unatics who fly
in destructive reckessness humping against private
dwellings Overturning sow-mOving fat people and baby
coaches knocking down telephone poles and having gen
tay gleefu and homcidal time Of it. The unatic
lists, however have had enough influence with the gov
eminent prevent any very stringent regulations is
70 the interest Of the medical institutes where there
thousands of young surgeons need of material for clinical
instruction that the automobiles should continue MAIN
pedestrians The influence of the manufacturers Of cork
legs crutches also is thrown in the utmost
liberty of the motorists.
Tb French government refused to compel the makers of
automobiles to restrict the power Of motors pre-
vent their going at high rate. simply divided the
malignant machines into classesone to include those
which capable of than nineteen miles hour
the other an the vehicles Those of the frscass
must all times carry two numbers at the front ana
the other at the OF the carriage The numbers
be in white Just what protection these numbers viii
afford the unforunates who may be in danger of being
down in the streets is not clear They may be useful
the insurance companies in Identifying the
the motost when ne shall be scattered by explosion
crushed by contact with stone wall The classification
however absurd There is not automobile lunatc in
all France who viii admit that his apparatus go
faster than miles hour though fact may
caught in the act of bribng policemen arrest them for
going faster than the law allows
In America where the interests of the common people
supreme need practical rules to limit the danger
the pedestrians There should be certain hours only when
less carriages There should be certain hours only when
these dangerous things may the streets and they
should be restricted particular thOroughfares They
should be preceded by detail of mounted policemen to
clear the way and buelers 10 the people that the
trouble VIII begin AT intervals along the way should be
stationed abuances manned by surgeons ready for work
This is about all that be done except to induce people
to increase the of their life and accident insurance
and keep their financial and spiritual affairs in such
condition they would desire of sudden death In
prescribing penalties for reckless motor dvin author.
tiles should consider that is always OF often the
mooris who fault Usually that person is scared half
to death It is the Satanic machine which is mainly
for the furious speed the sudden turns stops somersaus
and the like which endanger life and property The Graz
lest motorst would not Intentionally turn his costly ma
chine against solid wa the risk Of his own neck The
idea that anybody takes pleasure maniacsl ride in
horseless carriage is popular deluson Men take such
rides with shaking knees hut also with determination be-
cause 1t is progressive 10 dc it, Horseess carriages are
the ogcal thing the fashionable thas and men VIII
dare any thing for logic and fashion