Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-29
POPULAR HORROR
 OF NOS. ''l3" AND "23''
Why the Early Demand fol Automobile Tags Was
 Active

The salo of automobile tags began on Monday. the total number of sales being eight, Tho ordinance re- quiring automobiles to carry tags and requiring tho owners 10 take out q license. does not become effective un- til December and those who pur- chased tags yesterday at dollar each did so 10 avoid buying tag No. 13
 The tags are being sold in numeN teal order and the thirteenth appli- cant will get No. l3. whether he Is superstitious or rot To sell the thirteenth applicant tag No. Ii, would be discriminating against otb- CT automobile owners and no deyla- ton from the numerical order rule will be made by the city marshal
 Will any of the tags be num- hered iS and 23?' the marshal was asked.
 Certainly he replied" If We were to omit these numbers We would be giving official sanction and support to superstition and Of course. what ever may be our belief as to the hoodoo numbers. We must not only number tags 13 and % but we must sell them in numerical order. The city cannot afford 70 take coguizanee of a mere suDerstition for that world tower the dignity of the municipal ity."
 The career of automobiles No. r and 9 will be interesting to watch from the standpoint of the believer in necromancy and the mythical sis nificance of certain numbers.
 In some hotels no rooms are nun. bered l3 and 23. as they ind 1t al vest impossible to rent such rooms, . that rooms so numbered are prac- tically a losr investment.
 B'shee automobiles following the examples of some of the larger east eru cites. will be compelled 10 carry two tags. one on the back oe the -uachine and one in front Motor cycles win he reeured to cary one ;ae with the number on each side ci the leather tag.
 The passing of the automobile or dinance. which will enable officers 10 get the number" Of vialators oi the speed ordinance. for which pur rose the ordinance was ostensiblJ passed hes revived talk concernine the speed hrif ordinance. whici makes speed above eight miles al hour a violation of the ordinance A~toTob'lists assert that it Is prac ttcally impossible 10 run an automo bile eight miles per hour on Bisbee streets
 4 test of this was made in ths preseree of 9 reporter. who was abl. to keen within talking distance Of fhe driver Of the auto by waIkinc fast. But accordine 10 strict inter ~retation or the ordinance a driver who rms his machine at the speed rate of 8 i-2 or nine miles an houl Is as guilty of violating the law a' the driver who drives his machine at the rate of 70 miles an hour
 The automobile ordinance makes nr dispensations or reservation in favol Of physicians, as is the case in mos physicians to break the spesi liIni law as any curhiIg of speed miGh result Tn fatal consequences to sici 1 persons. In El Paso, for instance. tn, automobiles of physicians are distin guished from other machines py '-hlra crnsS on green background This not only saves the physician oi hurry call from being intercepted hy a policeman but it also warns oth CTS on jhe hiehwav that the phvsi clan is on a fife and death mission As every physician in Bisbee owns machine. this feature of licensing an, tagging automobiles becomes perth enr 10 the local situation