Evening journal., 1909-06-22
ACCIDENT SPURS WAR
ON THE AUTO SPEEDERS

avenue. He declared the dust vas
30 great that the police officers wore
unable TO see the license numbers on
autos and therefore were unable to
arrest Joy rides.
He said the police had been censured
by the police commissioners and Judge
Cochran for not making more arrests.
The chief himself had seen, however.
how impossible IL was to see the
license numbers even in .he daytime.
The chief declared that there was
janger of accidents on the avenue
when those attending the horse show
races started for home, on account o.
auto speeding on the avenue. He sad
he had taken up the matter with the
turnpike company several times but
with no result. He stated that hav-
ing heard the company would have
a meeting in a few days and had writ
ten them a letter asking to be allow
ed to attend the meeting.
Chief Black stated that when he
was in Buffalo he saw no dust in a
long auto drive IN which nifty autos
participated The roads had beel
treated with oil twice year and
thought oil could be put on Pennsyl-
vania avenue. The Darby pike is COW
cred with oil 20 hold down dust
The commissioners told the chief to
go ahead and attend the meeting and
do what he could and they would back
him up.
City Judge Cochran in court today
said that he intended to do his part
to break up automobile speeding AMI
started OFF by hning one man $50 and
costs for breaking the law In this r..
spect.
Tho Levy Court also took up tho
question at its meeting today and VIII
decide on some plan TO improve the
speed laws and see that they are en-
forced or The country roads.
The feeling I'm the rural districts
of the county is more pronounced than
/ In Wilmington and some farmers
threaten cutting down telegraph poles
and stretching them across the turn
pixies and roads to stop speeding Such
a procedure Is not countenanced by tie
wiser heads however.
That the accident ON Saturday does
not appear to have effected owners OF
automobiles, was evidenced last
night on the very pike where
the trouble occurred. A person
who saw some automobiles returning
from Kennett Square told a reporter
for THE EVENING JOURNAL to-day
that II could readily be seen that the
accident Of Saturday had already been
forgotten. The machines fairly skim
med along leaving clouds of dust be-
hind them, and II was impossible 10
, see an object for any great distance,
this man said.
Just because Of the dusty condition
|, of the pike, the autoists with tn,
speed craze are protected from ths
l. police The machines so by so quick.
Z ythat they are enevloped in dust and
the motorcycle policeman In the rear
I could lose his sight trying to search
for the place on the speeding car
! where the number tag should be.
! AS the result Of an Informal meet
I ing Of the executive committee of the
I Delaware Automobile Association held
, Yesterday afternoon the following
7 statement was issued to-day
, "The lamentable and serious acci-
dent on Saturday last. the 18th instant.
on the Kennett turnpike, and the ex-
cessive speeding Of some Of the en-
/ trants in the Reliability Run of the
] Delaware Automobile Association to
, Dover, on the same date. have brought
4 the matter Of speeding Of automobiles
! to the forcible attention of the Della
Automobile Association.
can Informal meeting Of the execu-
. two committee was held yesterday.
p but. owing to the absence Of the chair
man of the committee from the state.
# no definite action could be taken. but
the members present were of tho
unanimous opinion that action should
be taken to eliminate reckless driving
= | of automobiles on the roads, and are
preparing 10 cooperate with the turn
pike. county and State authorities TO
obtain this end"