The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-30
REGULATORS ON 9TH AVENUE.
MOUNTED POLICEMEN WILL CON-
troll TRAFFIC HENCEFORTH.

Carriages ~ Well ~ Trucks Must Obey
No More Go a. You Piease---N0
Slantlng Across From Curb to Curb
and Stopping Heads the Wrong Way.
Deputy Police Commissioner Piper has
evolved scheme whereby the congested
traffic in Fifth avenue, he hopes, may be
regulated. Three mounted policemen are
to be stationed along that thoroughfare,
from Fourteenth street to Fifty-ninth street.
They are to see that traffic, slow and fast,
moves without disorder. Trucks and other
heavy vehicles will be kept to the right,
close to the curb. while the lighter carriages
and automobiles will take the middle.
The idea is to have heavy traffic move
upward all at one pace, or downward all
at ono pace, while at another uniform pace
tho automobiles. victorias or cabs 60 up
or down.
The plan is the result OF observations
made by Capt. Piper in Paris and by Major
Ebstein In Berlin. Commissioner Greene
has given his approval Of the scheme, and
it goes into operation this morning at $50
o clock.
be in command Of the district bounded by
Fourteenth and Twenty-sixth streets.
From there to Forty-second street Mounted
Policeman Otto j. Walsh will see that trafiio
Is regulated and George Schaffner will see
that rigs don't get entangled from that
spot to Nfty-ninth street.
No interruption Of the steady line will be
allowed, and no slanting across to make
landing with the left side Of the truck next
the curb and the horses heads turned
against the line OF travel
Entering the avenue from the east at any
CROSS street, except Fourteenth, Twenty
sixth, Forty-second and Fifty-ninth, u
truck must 60 north along the east curb.
II 1t IL bound for an address on the west
side Of the avenue it can cross over only
| at one OF the four streets specified and
must then head down the west side Of the
| avenue and bring up with the curb on it's
right.
For instance, should truck enter from
| the east at Fourteenth street with goods
| at Eighteenth street the driver will have to
| 60 along the east curb to Twenty-si1th
street, there cross to the west side Of the
avenue and come down to Eighteenth street.
| Trucks coming in from the west must drive
| south along the west curb, and II they want
| to get to the east side can cross only at one
Of the four streets named. A carriage or
truck having once stopped with the right
| side to the curb the driver will be debarred
| from the dangerous practice, at starting
again, Of refining his horses around into the
| fairway-turnlng the carriage on its heels,
SO to speak. He must drive straight ahead
and turn at the cross street.
The three mounted policemen come from
the Central Park squed. They have ex-
celent records for cool-headedness In pa
trolling the drives and for heroic work in
stopping runaways. In regard to the lat
! ter, however, Capt. Piper says:
These three men are not put there to
stop runaways. The men on foot and the
bicycle policemen must see to that. The
three are to regulate traffic and II that work
Is done properly there need be no runa-
ways. Their commanding positions on
horseback In the middle of the avenue will
enable them to see any disorder that may
occur on their posts. No preference will
be given to anybody's carriage, and all must
keep in line. Arrests will be made for
violation Of this order
Hyams on the lower post will go on duty
at $50 in the morning and remain at work
until noon, when he will have an hour OF.
Schaffner on the upper post will have the
same hour of, and Walsh, in the middle
post, will be In charge of the whole line.
Traffic is nghtest at this hour. From to
o'clock Hyams will cover his post and
Walsh's while the latter is OF duty. All
three will be through work at 8 O'clock.
Hyams and Walsh will report at the Ten
derloin station and Schaffner at the Sheep
fold sub-station in Central Park.