The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-27
AN AUTOM0BILlST'S KICK
He Says Police Are Trying to De-
stroy Real Sport.

| To The Salt Lake Herald:
I have read with considerable disgust
that the police are preparing TO enforce
certain regulations designed to limit the
speed of automobiles TO rate 50 slow
I aS TO kill the game IN Salt Lake City,
and desire now to register my emphatic
protest against ? policy that will drive
seek other places of residence
it Is not necessary to point out to YOU
that first-class automobile costs a large
sum Of money. is delicate piece or
mechanism. and - brought to a sudden
stop only at the risk Of great damage TO
the machine Further the class OF auto
mobiles used by myself and friends Is not
built to run slow Limiting a machine
TO four miles an hour is absurd I admit
that certain sO-Cailed automobiiists have
machines that can be brought down TO
these low speeds. but they are not real
automObilists, nor are they true sports
men, A machine running az "a speed OF
four miles an hour is no improvement on
walking.
Now. the automobiiists are entitled 10
some consideration. because most of us
| have money and should not bc hampered
IN our pleasures by the silly objections
. Of old fogies who kick because We run
! down few kids or 4 wagon now and
then Personally. ! get little sport out az
running over a Kid. The little c,lsses. -
A rule. cannot even let out A good yell
when YOU hit them. and their bodies are
50 yielding that the machine is scarcely
Jotleu- Kunnlng down a wagon. espe-
cialiy a stout rig. Is different There YOU
have horses 20 throw over the fences,
one and sometimes more persons to Kill.
and lot Of tough wood To plough
through Hitting 4 carriage or wagon is
real sport would be willing to have
the children kept oct Of the way at all
times. except. perhaps. at Liberty park.
where they are frequently 50 massed that
a dash through them would be exciting
I suggest that "A modification Of the.
present laws Is due the owners Of real
automobiles. let children be kept off the
PRINCIPAL streets especially in the paved
districts and compelled 10 keen 10 the
side streets Permit carriages 10 travel
on Main. State. Brigham. First South.
Second South. Third South and other
business streets at their own risk Nov
ing vans and the heavier trucks should
be barred. u cost me S3h0 to repair my
machine once after striking 2 moving
van and this class of conveyance con-
sututeS a real menace to automobiles.
All speed reguiat tons should be aban-
doned. and persons who appeared on the
streets ! have named should be given to
understand that they are fair game
Since beginning this the thought has
suggested itself to me that automobiles
should be allowed to rim over he ersss
at Liberty park. J am sure a number OF
my friends would like 20 ioin me in try
ing the experiment Of a dash through a
sunday school picnic there
/ think I have pointed olt q sufficient
NUMBER or reasons to show that the auto
mobile owners OF Salt Lake CITY are most
unJustly Disseminated against II these
fool regulations, framed in the interest
OF a lot az common people who never had
cent they could caii their aH-n are
allowed 70 stand. the game will simply