The San Francisco call., 1906-11-05

TIE PARK IN A POPE-TOLEDO CAR
missioners. has been so fragrant of late
that the board has been forced to take
the steps proposed at the last meeting.
The whole trouble has been brought
about by some of the rent rigs, which
take out parties to the roadhouses
along the great highway. These par
ties are generally composed of men and
women in their cups who insist on
the chauffeur speeding to the limit of
his automobile. while they make night
hideous with their shouting. They
have Travelled on the roads that have
been closed to the automoblists and
in every way have broken the laws.
Before the Commissioners took ac-
tion they had a conference with r. p.
Schwerin, the president of the Auto
mobile Club of California. 1t was de-
cided by the Commissioners and the
president of the club that the only
way, at the present time. to correct
the evil would be to close the park to
the automobilists, except the south
drive. and then to limit the speed to
ten miles an hour. This has been done
and the regulation will more than
likely so into effect at the next meet
ing.
HARD BLOW TO AUTOISTS.
This is undoubtedly one of the hard
est blows that could be given to the
sport, but there is a great deal of JUS
tice in the commissioners act, for to
through the park at M high rate of
speed taken by many in the night time
is dangerous.
President Schwerin said yesterday:
sioners are going TO close the roads in
the park to the automobilists. | am
sorry, but | do not see what other
course they can take Before the fire
we kept paid attorney to prosecute
all auto law violators. but since April
IS we have done without him. When
he was in our employ those who broke
the law were brought to Justice. but
now there seems to be a disposit ton
on the part of the Police Judges to let
the. offenders off. Under those circum-
stances there is no way to stop the
riotous midnight rides through the
park. 1t will be a hardship on the
owners of automobiles, but IL will also
cut into the profits of those who have
been running through the park for
hire and who have not had any respect
for the law
ACTION Is REGRETTED.
All up and down automobile row
there was expressed much regret that
such an action was necessary, but the
justice of the order was realized. Ho-
mer Boushey of the Hovey- Boushey
Company said: TT is strange that the
police cannot handle this matter New
York and Chicago are able TO handle
the automobiles and / do not see why
it is not possible for the local police
TO do the same. 1t is not justice to
the owners of automobiles to curtail
their pleasures just because there are
some who continually break the laws
1t is an exceedingly poor showing that
the authorities are making when they
acknowledge that they are unable to
cope with an evil"
A prominent member of a firm that
has number of cars in the rent SER
vice stated yesterday: They are
blaming the rent service cars. There
may be some justice in the claims
but 1t is up to the authorities to arrest
the offenders. They have no right, II
they are unable to cope with the stu
alton. to curtaii the pleasures of those
who pay taxes and who have a perfect
right to enjoy the pleasures of the park
roads If the Commissioners try to
enforce the new law number of us
Will make test of the rights of the
Commissioners to close the roads. We
started to make a test case of it some
two years ago, and when they found
that we were in earnest they requested
US to stop proceedings and gave us the
privileges that we asked for
we will certainly take up the ques-
ton again and this time will fight II
out 1t is pretty state of affairs when
the hundreds of automobile owners
have to suffer for a few"
Chester N. Weaver, manager of the
Studebaker Brothers, has returned from
the attempt to break the record TO Los
Angeles The sudden termination of
the trip was a shock to the crew that
made. it. AT the time the end
came they were doing nicely, and
were easily within twenty hours They
made San Luis Obispo in nine hours
with ease. They went through to
Santa Maria in good order, and were
about seven miles beyond the town
when one of the springs of the car
broke. At the same time screw in
1t was seen that TO make the necessary
repairs would take too much time the
race was given up.
A. Van, Yalin, in discussing the trip
yesterday, said: Where we made our
mistake was in using our high gear.
If we had put on one of the lower gears
we would have done better. If we go
after the record again we will only take
four passengers instead of five. The
extra weight counts.
we lost considerable time by miss
ing the road We had guide who told
us that he knew the way but when
we got well along we found that he did
not have his bearings, and the mis-
takes he made cost US over an hour s
time.
over the roads Will have a hard Jour