The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-17
Automobile News
Tarifr And the Automobile Trade

Law Law Cars worth s2.Ooo or over 945 -.45 Cars worth less than $2,OOO 80 '-46 Bodies .45 145 Chassis, 50 40 Parts (antshed) 80 4S
 Many manufacturers hold that pro- jAucers of this country, owing to their &uantity production, would be more Ehan a match for foreigners under Nuy circumstances.
 Bar Harbor's Obstinacy.
 : Charles Fl Merritt of Danbury writes to the ssAmerican Motorist,'' as 6oIIows=
 while touring through Maine re- gently with my family and after g, two weeks sojourn at Deer Isle we started lon Wednesday, the 2oth of August, 6or our return via Bar Harbor, Ban Eor the White Mountains etc.
 We had never been to Ear Harbor hut understood that automobiles were allowed on the island and proceeded without hesitation to that point and kooax some of fhe drives and then kfarted supposedly by the same route No return Our chauffeur and the writer became somewhat perplexed by hhe turns and had to make some in iuuiry and it became apparent to us Ri1at we had missed the way. Inquiry directed us to proceed on certain course and we had gone but very Ehcrt distance as directed by the na- Aives when wasWere confronted by a. pol1ceunan who informed us that we Evere under arrest as we had violated hhe law xvhach proh1bdted automobiles lin that town
 In the course of our travels we had meen an old sign about autos but it. twas not at all promfnent and we sup fposed it was the relic of by-gone days Ewhen cars Weren not allowed at Bar h5arbor and we failed to perceive there Erere different fownshtps and rules Gprevai1Hng on f11ts Mt Desert Island. k-he writer was entirely innocent of. hny infraction of the rules, all of (which were stated to the special po-s Hiceman. who had been hired by thei residents to stop and prosecuts all lvioIators- The policeman said that. he was very sorry but that we would have to return to Bar Harbor and our lease would be heard the next day at Ho o'clock A14F. Allen appeared on fGhe scene and Telephone communities aion was estab4Eshed with Judge Ben @on in whose 5uz4edict1on fhev. case hross. The judge was very polite, ex- nressed his dfsapprova1 of the law and tdid not question our innocence at all buf said he waH helpless and the only hh1ng T could do was to ask the prose rutor to withdraw. the charge.
 In view of all the circunastances and Mha health of my wife and the expense 4of detention at Bar Harbor felt that khe better way was to pay whatever MnOney was necessary to accomplish tour release and proceed on our jour hey. therefore gave REr- Allen who tnwreed to appear as my attorney, my fcer4ined check for $25, and endorsed by me and the further payment in armsn-of s. making a, total payment of k1Ep1Id ha~s to go down to fhe court hrE&t day and would have to be paid nor his expenses and nominated the slsEn of s2s as the entire charge The Renerai attitude of Mir. Allen and the c0nsfabIe was one of sympathy, but Mhey appeared to be-ready to take our m1onsy just the same.
 f We have the statement of Judge Eenson over the phone that parties Hntire1y innocent of enfrlngenent of Mafe had been convicted under similar kccndfdons to our own
 It is my desire that the .NationaI or Kanizat1on or the Maine organization hhould acQuatnt tourists and see that nEuple signs or notices are erected in Esar Harbor and on the island of Mt. Deserf, that tourists may avoid the texpense and Annoyance, that has been AencounteEeA by me and. others. The Bar HaEbor territory does not have Hu our judgment adequate signs guard Hng tourists and should also have hEarnfng signs to protect innocent par MieM
 Two Convictions for Murder.
 
 fuut of automobd1e ac1dents are a pret- tfF safe indication of increasing pub Die sentiment against careless driving F1f moeoEs. Chicago has recorded its fEecond conviction of a chauffeur of murder. Fred Hrodel took his en1- tp11yers car with his consent and went hoy riding While under. the 1nfluu- Nence Of liquor Hrodek ran down and l<lIied Patrick J. Condon. and heart aeasly asked the crowd that gathered tnof to overturn his car in removing f1he body, as he was certain the man kWas dead Hrodek was committed to kHhe pentfenfiary for A years. In tEzIcar N- r., chauffeur ran down hand killed a man as the victim had kEtopped to discharge passengeFs.- In kdicted for murder in the first degree, HEhe jury found him guilty of man tHIaugater and recommended mercy, pbut he was sentenced to serve not less Ahan thEee years and eight months fand nat more than 10 years in Au- burn prison. Justice DeAnge1Is of the Supreme Court, before whom the case hwas tried in charging the jury, said:
 There may be. or may not be, a lEommon misappreh ension as to the Eights of the people in the streets of tkhis city You may not realize that khe highways of the city belong to the people; the men, the women, the old twomen and the young children, and khat every part of the highway equal Eo that of anybody who drives an Automobile, whether it is on the street tcroSsing, or whether it is in the mid tdle of the block: whether it is on the b11aoe where the horses are driven land the automobiles driven, or w1aeth- Ter it is the sidewalk. We forget it, perhaps, but we should keep remind Ing ourselves that this is the law
 After the Accident.
 The defendant appealed from a con- bVfction for operating an automobile Iwecklessly, and Knowingly going away lafter causing injury, without discIos- Eng his idendfty. The Massachusetts AEtafute, St 1909, c. 534, Sec. 22, pro- tzfdes for the punishment of any per hson who, in operating an autoInbile,