Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23


| "a York city to discuss the ques-
ton Of uniform nonresident
| provisions in the automobile
| laws of all the eastern states. Gov
Horace White of New York has been
invited as the guest of honor. Secre-
tary of State Koenig, Attorney General
O'Malley and Assemblyman Callan will
be present to explain the recognition In
the new. Callan automobile law of re-
ciprocal privileges granted by other
states to non-resdents. From all the
| New England states, as we'll as the At
| lantic coast states south of New York.
| the executive officers having jurisdiction
| in automobile matters, as we'll as the
| highway commissioners. will be invited
| Logan Waller Page. director of the Of
| flee of public roads of the Department of
Agriculture, has promised to attend.
This conference is being arranged by
| the Touring Club of America as the re-
suit of widespread sentiment among
eastern motorists that all the states,
whatever their individual motor reguia-
tons may be, should adopt uniform
system of interstate touring privileges.
| including uniform methods of identified
ton.
tomobile law and the discussion aroused
| over the privileges granted to motor
tourists from other states this entire
question has assumed greater promi-
hence than ever before, and many OF the
various state officials have not hesitated
to indorse the benefits Of a uniform nom
resident provision.
The New York law, in brief. under the
opinion of Attorney General O'Malley,
grants to non-residents the same privi-
leges In New York that other states
grant to New York motorists.
Frederick H. Elliott, secretary of the
Touring Club Of America. who has been
a strong advocate of uniformity as re-
CARDS interstate touring, sums UP the sit
uation follows:
Il believe that there is only one solu-
ton of the interstate regulation govern
ing the operation of motor vehicles, and
that is to have each state adopt nom
resident provision which will be uniform,
SO that the motorist, after complying
with the law of his own state. can tour
in any state he may choose without any
restrictions as to time or requiring fur
Their registration or Identification of his
car. In other words each state to give
absolute freedom to- the motorists of other
states, providing they have complied with
| their state law"
So many opinions favorable to this
view have been received at the Touring
Club of America that the conference of
state and automobile officials which will
be called about the middle of November
has been decided upon as the first step
to inaugurate an Interstate campaign for
uniform nonresident provisions.
Secretary of State n. Winslow Williams
of Maryland, after expressing his SYM
pathy In the desire for nonresident pro-
visions, said: Il wish to assure you that
l shall do everything in my power to
Introduce in the next session Of the legis-
lature the amendments necessary to con-
f<Nr,r h. n1lo o,,to tlA 10
a judge in Alexandria county, Va,
last week decided that the provision Of
| the Virginia law permitting motorists
from other states to use the highways OF
that state for two periods of seven days
each in the year. without taking out a
| Virginia license, applied to motorists Of
the District of Columbia. The decision
was the result of test case. The de-
cision, however, is not final, as the COM
| monwealth attorney noted an appeal and
has carried the matter to the attorney
general. 1t was pointed out by attorneys
for lie Roy Mark, former secretary Of
the Automobile Club Of Washington, who
is testing the law, that the word state, >
when applied to a part OF the United
States shall be construed to extend and
include the District of Columbia and the
several territories so called. and the
| words United States shall be construed
| TO include the District and territories.
| The result of the outcome will be awaited
with much interest by local motorists,
many of whom do considerable touring
| throughout the state.
In 1905 a campaign against grade
crossings was inaugurated in Philadel-
phia. and lO7 Of these death traps have
since been eliminated. The wisdom OF
| this can be seen from the number OF
| there were 45. and in 1909. only .. persons
were killed by grade crossing accidents.
| The census bureau, in a compilation OF
statistics as TO deaths in ,nis country,
! from external causes other than suicide.
during the year 1909, presents figures
which motor men are glad to read. While
the total deaths from external causes
other than suicide for that year was
Abs, it appears that the deaths from
automobile accidents and injuries were
only S.. Against these small hgures
may be set the deaths due 10 railroad
accidents and injuries, which were $3.50
| those from drowning. 4,5SS; from burns
and scalds, 1892: from injuries by horses
| ana wagons, 81 ITCiu injuries itVHi
street cars, ,To3: from injuries in mines
and auarries 1898: from inhalation OF
poisonous gases. including smoke, .S3S:
from other accidental poisoning. l,1IS:
from accidental gunshot wounds, ga. and
from heat and sunstroke, SIG. 1t there
fore is seen that one II more liable 10
die as the result OF heat and sunstroke
than from an automobile accident.
Automobiles will play a prominent part
in the forthcoming Michigan state con-
ventiOn. The first thing the republican
state central committee did ut its meeting
last week was to decide on an automo-
] bile campaign i'm and through every coun-
~ in Michigan. Past experience has
shown that a candidate can cover several
times as much ground and meet many
times the number of people he could II
dependent upon steam OF electric roads
and this is the age when the man who
mikes with the people gets the votes. Ma
chimes will be used almost entirely. ex-
cept where there are long jumps to be
made.