Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-10
TRACTION REGULATED
Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion Promu|gates Rules.
EQUIPMENT AND SPEED
Tenders, Wheelguards and Platform
Gates Provided For.
LIMIT ON RATE OF TRAVEL
Cars Must Stop on Near Side-Right
of Way observation-disclosures
for Crossings.

The interstate commerce commission has
promulgated regulations for the operation
and equipment of street railway cars in
the District of Columbia, under authority
conferred by public act No. 1874, approved
May %, 1908.
Copies were sent to the respective rail-
way companies yesterday afternoon. to-
gether with copies of the order made by
the commission appointing Brig. Gen.
John NJ. Wilson, U.SA., retired, Dis
trict Commissioner Henry l.. West and
Thomas W. Smith members of the Dis
trict electric railway commission, to serve
without salary. and with all the powers
vested in. or that may be exercised by, eX-
aminers appointed under the act to regu-
late commerce, including the power TO ad-
minister oaths.
The order states:
ut shall be the duty of such District
electric railway commission to make in
vestigation in the first instance into all
matters as to which complaint is made
to the interstate commerce commission
under the above mentioned act of May
%, 1908 and to make such recommended
tons to the last named commission as to
all necessary ORDERS rules, regulations
or requirements which said District cleo
trio railway commission may deem
proper"
Street Car Regulations.
The order promulgating the regulations,
which was passed at the general session
Of the interstate commerce commission
July Z. reads as follows:
1T is ordered that the following rules
and regulations Numbered I. >. 3, f. ). &
anu - for the operation and equipment
Of street railway cars with the District
of Columbia be, and the same are hereby
made and prescribed, and obedience there
to and compliance Herewith is hereby
required OF and enjoined upon all street
railway companies. their officers agents
and employees, operating street cars within
the District of Columbia, on and after
July TO- 1908.
Il. Every street railway car operated
in the District of Columbia shall be fully
equipped with front pickup tenders of the
Blackstone, Claude, Tobe, Preusser or Par
menter pattern, and with wheel-guard
tenders of the Brightwood automatic the
Blackstone the Eldridge Smith. the lobe
or the Parmenter improved pattern: pro-
tldeo' that any street railway company
may substitute for the above any other
fender or wheei-guard which may here
after be approved by the Interstate com
merce commission.
- Every street railway car operated
in the District of Columbia must he so
constructed altered that a clear snace
of fifteen inches in height above the rails
is provided between the wheeI-guard and
the adjacent end Of the car in order to
allow the effective action of the Wheel
guard.
IS. Platforms Of street cars shall he
guarded by gates of construction and
operation approved by the interstate COM
nlerce commission.
II. The tenders must be kent in thor
ough working order and in good renair
when in use.
Regulation Of Speed.
D. No street car shall move at y
greater rate of speed than fifteen miles
an hour in the city Of Washington nor
at a greater rate of speed than twenty
miles an hour in the suburbs of said
city. Street cars shall not exceed a rate
of speed greater than six miles an hour
at street crossings. When it is neces-
sary for street cars to stop at street
crossings they shall stop on the near
side thereof, the front end of the car
or train to rest on a line with the curb
on the near side OF the intersecting
street. except where the mechanical
appliances make it impracticable to do
SO: Provided. That i'm cases where stops
are now allowed on both sides of a
crossing. such stops may be continued
IT the railroad companies so desire:
Provided: That cars moving south
on 9TH street northwest shall be al.