The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-22
NEWS AND GOSSIP
OF AUTOMOBILES
Congress Makes New Laws
Governing Speed of Mo-
tor Cars.

One of the last things congress did
before its adjournment was TO pass a
law regulating the use of automobiles
in the District of Columbia. Presfdcn-
Roosevelt having approved the meas
ure. Under the new law automobile
are limited to twelve miles an hour be
tween inteTsecting streets eight mites
crossing streets, six miles around cor
nerS. four miles on certain Of the down
town streets. fifteen miles through public
parks, twenty miles outside the city inn
its. twelve miles when meeting or passing
any other vehicle, and cars must BE-
brought To a full stop whenever the
driver of a horse drawn vehicle signals
by raising his hand. Penalties Cor VIC
lations are as follows: First offense.
not less than s. or more than $50: SET
Ond oftense within one year. not less
than $40 or more than S1G0 or imprison-
ment for not less than five DAYS nor
more than thirty days. at the discretion
OF the court; third offense within one
year, and for all subsequent offenses
not less than $50 fine nor more than
$3.50, and imprisonment in workhouse for
not less than thirty days Eor more than
six months.
Many attempts have been made to beat
the automobile record between Chicago
and New York City, of SO hours IS min
utes, made by Bert HOlcomb and Laur-
twenty drivers have left Chicago with
the intention Of lowering Holcomb's time
but very few of them got further east
than Cleveland without being so far be
hind Holcombs time as TO make it prac-
tlcdlly useless TO continue. The most
conspicuous OF all trials for new record
figures was that recently made under
the auspices of d Chicago newspaper in
which several cars were utilized in con-
veying a message from Chicago to New
N n
drilled crews and thorough general OF
ganizatiOn the last relay reached New
York over nine hours behind Holcombs
time.
Boston has new kind of thief TO dis
turb the usually even tenOred feelings Of
its motorists This is a tire thief and
he has been operating with midding sue
cess in the Back Bay section, stealing
spare shoes and tubes that are strapped
to the cars while left standing at the
curb by persons while they are in the
clubs. hotels. stores or in their homes
The police have been notified. and an at
tempt will. of course, be made to appre-
bend the miscTeants.
One prominent automobile manufactur-
er who is interested in factories in Buff
falO and Detroit is opposed TO indiscriEl-
mate speeding over city streets. and has
caused the following notice to be posted
in both of his factories: THE newspapers
are full of accounts of automobile col
lisiOns with street cars, railroad trains
vehicles and pedestrians. All employees
are instructed impeTatiVely to slow down
with throttle upon closely approaching
any railway or street railway crossing
so that the car can be brought to
standstill within few feet in case of
danger. You are also notified that the
law does not excuse collisions with We
hicles. bicycists or pedestrians merely
because they may be on the wrong side
of the road. Women, children and many.
men are ignorant of the road rules, hence.
they must be given sufficient consider
alton TO avoid injuries TO them. Driving
through the streets Of the city at Illegal
speed is prohibited
Some automobiles wonder what be-
comes of all the cd tires. Although they
may not be aware of il they go on using
their old tires long after they have dis
carded them and had new ones put on.
They use them not only in the form or
rubber doormats at their homes, as walk
ways along hotel corridors and as mats
on their desks, but also on the floors anu
stems of their cars, for all these sorts
of goods are made from the old tire.
which are ground up, melted and nodded
into various articles in which great re
siliency is not an essential