The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-30

No visitor TO Chicago can remain In
tn city any length of time without being
+ pressed with the sense of an ordinance
preventig munlers being turned loose on
the principal streets OF a city. 70 do SO
| creates a considerable nuisance in that
noise and the obnoxious smoke from gas
oline engines Is created. In Chicago hun
dreds and hundreds Of automobiles parade
up and down Michigan avenue at all
hours Of the day and night. They run di-
rectly pass tie principal hotels of Chi
cage, including the Blackstone, the An
mex, the Auditorium and the Stratford.
The Chicago club is Situated also on that
boulevard. while innumerable other sky
serapers and business houses are there.
Yet with all the cars It IS seldom that
smoke from gasoline is seen or there is q
particle Of nuise eminating from the au-
tomobiles. The ceaseless traffic renders
no greater noise ON that famous street
than the cars passing the circle and Five
| Points. The city council has an ordinance
which prohibits the muffliug of cars or
the discharge of any noise or smoke that
would tend to create any disturbance on
| ltldI anu fOiiltl SiiC'tHs TIC law - -
spected However the citizens of Chicago.
| by almost unanimous consent maintain
the noiseless streets even without the
srecter Of the law staring them in the
face
| Birmingham has an ordinance that pro-
hibits munling cars or permitting smoke
to eminate from gasonne engines. Yet
that law is as ineffective and is enforced
no more than the law against innumer-
able other offenses. The city of Birmng-
ham Is notably indifferent 10 the peace
and quietude of the streets SO far as au-
| tomobiles are concerned. And the only
remedy in view of the Ineffective police
enforcement is for the automobile own
ers 10 resolve to stop the annoying noise
| and filthy smoke on the streets of Biz
| mingham. 1t only requires the owner OF
car about two minutes to impress upon
his driver that his job is gone IL lie per-
mits any smoke to got away from his
car or any muffling is permitted.
Although traffic policemen stop auto
mobiles constantly to permit cross traffic
and pedestrians and gears are changed al
most constantly, there are few If any vio-
lations of the ordinance New York VIII
have a law into effect soon against the
evil practice and Rhneland Waldo, police
1
TO the Letter, as he has said he would do.
In Birmingham something should be made
to allow the visitors TO at least be i'm
pressed with the absence of any of these
offences They are comparatively trivial.
yet highly important from every view
point.
Staver Plant Inspected
While In Chicago recently Walter Mel
vile Drennen and N. l.. Steele inspected
the automobile factory OF the Staver Au-
tomobile company. This Staver car, while
not known in this city. is creating very
| fine impression In the middle west and
the east. The management of the Staver
factory attaches a great deal of i'm
portance to the rural trade. The local
men were informed that of all the cars
made by the Staver company very
| great majority of them were sold TO farm
! ers for pleasure cars. The company has
| long been in the buggy business and has
been supplying farming interests with
buggies and wagons for many years. 1t
is stated that the farmers Of all sections
are coming to realize the value of auto
mobiles and are buying them with great
rapdity. Mr. Staver who is well known
in Birmingham. Is figuring on invading
the southern territory with his pachlnes
and will perhaps be here on scouting
| trip next fall.