The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-13
MOTOR CAR FOLK
D0DGED THIRTEEN
Fred Jurgens Among Those Who
Wanted No Unlucky License
Number.
DOCTOR GOT HIS FOUR ACES
Special Delivery Boy Wanted 20
on MISUNDERSTANDING to
Oblige.

Considering the fact that many au-
tomobiles come to ,grlef without any
handicap of bad luck attached 10 tneir
frames, number l,la"d 81 tbe em nnmber ia.
when taking out their licenses under
the new State law. They doubtless
felt 1t unnecessary to add to the burden
which SO many ,nithnnt fa senn
red flag in the face of fate.
one woman owner refused TO take
the number 613 when 1t was handed
to her by Clerk J. NJ Hayes OF the
ONCE of the Secretary OF the Common
wealth He then dished out No. lis,
which she bore away in triumph Be-
fore many hours had passed she re-
turned tearfully and pointed out that
the three numbers added up thirteen;
After making series OF mathematical
calculations, Mr.. Hayes issued num-
Der which by no possible combination
would figure out anything like the NJ
fated number.
Fred Jurgens, we'll known auto
mobile manipulation of this city. also
refused to take the number "13,"
while there were others who stated
at the time of their application that
they desired something else.
Got His 49,"
However. there is an owner who
his plate No. 13 over the hills and
through the valleys OF Washington
county He is w z. NIingea, Jr.. OF
Abingdon. Mr.. Mingea is doubtless
the sort OF individual who would walk
right under ladder on which cross
eyed .rishrnan was painting, or might
even kill black cat who disturbed
his slumbers.
But the Abingdonian Is not alone in
this respect. While he pulled down
bravely got the same number on his
chauffeurs license. This is Burton l..
Wallace. Clarence Webb. of Roanoke,
got the same thing for his motorcycle.
"Skiddoo' is perhaps not SO bad a
term for an automobile. Nobody
kicked on it. In fact. John C. Crouch.
special delivery messenger in the
Richmond post-oftice, sought go as
the number on his motorcycle j. c.
Robinson got the "2S" for his auto
mobile, while w. e. Smith, of Rich
mond landed it as the number OF his
chauffeur's license.
License No. / went to the Ford
Motor Company, of Richmond.
Playing Policy.
A Richmond woman sent in a special
request for No. III. The obliging
symbolic I'll may now be seen on
| the streets.
Washington garage took out
| licenses for twenty machines at one
stroke AT the same time 1t bought
concern in the capital had ten ma
chimes However. the Touring Wash
| ington" Company wanted only one
| license, and sent along q check for the
| measly So, which was the old charge
| before the present law was effective
| Private machines owned in Wash
ington are not licensed here in any.
! thing like the number which existed
| under the Former statute. This Is eS-
| planned partly by the fact that many
| owners had left that city for the sum-
| mer before the law was effective, and
will doubtless register when they re-
| turn in the autumn. Then, again, the
some automobiles had been licensed for
| years. Some OF these machines are
not now in existence and some owners
have died or gone elsewhere or gone
! broke
Quite a dculand has been noted 10,
| numbers of the same denomination as
the old ones. This, OF course, is due
| require front number similar to tina,
OF the State in the back. Those who
! could not secure the old numbers mus
/ purchase new ones to go in front. sc
| far as possible these requests were
| complied with.
small umbers-two figures, II possible
or three at most. This would seem tc
! be a mistake. since the fewer the fig.
4 ures the more easily they are read BY
1 officers
DR.. Charles B. Campbell, OF Wash
| ington. Is evidently fond of holding
good hand. He asked for four aces
| I'LL may be seen as his machine float:
over the roads OF Alexandria county.
4 No State official in Virginia own.
an automobile. They can't afford 1t.