The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-12-01
Broadway Joy Riders Ovcrtaken
by Motorcycle Cops With
SummOnses.
CAPTURES ELSEWHERE TOO
Police Courts Will Be damned
Until Waldo Tames
Law Breakers.

gathered into Manhattan and The Bronx
by special order of Commissioner waldo
have served more than 5o0 summonses
Oh automobile drivers since SATURDAY
morning at . o'clork The pole. courts
will lie busy for two days disposng OF
the cases
On Saturday $50 s,m'honses were
served by Scrst Samuel Johnson and
his men in broadway between Columbus
Circle and l1oih street. one hundred
and nifty more were served In Central
Park Wes, and yesterday Policemen Moore
aud Carrigan served nifty five more on
the stretch of broadway between Forty
second and FIFTY ninth streets
Other thoroughfares. such a. Fifth
avenue. Riverside Drive and West End
avenue. where there are opportunities and
Inducements for speeding have contributed
their quota and four motorcyclists sent
10 The Bronx have been busy stopping
drivers and serving the calls to court
Such a multitude of automobile acci-
dents, many of them serious. has come to
perpl'x the police and alarm citizens lately
that Commissioner Waldo adopted this
unusual means to step speeding and care
less driving not only by taxicahs but
private vehicles as we'll.
All Ordered to Manhattan.
There are twenty-four motorcycle
police in New York city, and when the
Commissioner made UP his mind that
speeding should stop he ordered every
man 10 Manhattan.
The fatal accident the other night on
the Pelham Parkway. in The Bronx.
directed his attention to the situation in
that borough. So four OF the double dozen
were sent up there.
The motorcycle men are about the only
ones who can eaten tn. real speeders.
for the ordinary bicycles don't suffice AS
to speed. the horses Of the mounted men
haven't the endurance and tie men oil
foot can't do much unless they see a
car coming and throw themselves in front
OF II or mpound another automobile for
chase.
So full OF results has th-lr wor> been
that the Commissioner is expected 10 Keep
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midnight las. uight, put a. that time II
was learned that the, would stay where
they Were for II while and thar unusual
vigilance WAS desired OF 'hem.
t',. saf
hohdays and SUNDAYS has always been
favorite thoTouGhiare for the specders.
In the early mornings careless chaufours,
their natural re'kleasness often enhanced
BY too much drink have made the street
Neri'abie speedway
Mr. Waldo knew Of this. so the motor
cycle guards have been paying special
attention 10 that part o' town. not how
ever hes'e'''hE fi'h avenue west f."d
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taUght Going "a Game.
q, saturday whom tho Army.Sa,,.
those who were late 20 make unusual
| SD. ed so they wouldn't he later. more
than $50 summonscs We're served by the
motorcycl. men, IN charge of Sergeant
samuel Johnson. or broadway between
Columbus Circle and 10th street. Prac-
tically al OF these were ioF speeding. A
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MAY numbers properly
| ,,,rtral Park West got n lul into
| ,r,,,h,. and about l5J summonses were
s.rved there on SATURDAY. Yesterday there
WAS a llttl, lctup.
Just to show what they could do,
| polI,emen Moor. and carrigun went forth
y.st.rlav morning at . O'Clock. and by
| ga in ,h,. evening had handed out tftv-
i've s,,nmons.s ON broadway be,w.en
Forty-second and Fifty-ninth streets, "A
d;s,r;c, infested by automobiles AZ per.
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