Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-30

ing sound. They pass under the win
dow of the city and county attorneys
Office, repeatedly violating the sec
ton.
To Change Speed Limits
Il have written to the police de-
partment calling their attention to
this section and have noticed that
there is less of such sounds.
Some of the supervisors have sug-
gested that the speed limit be kept
as before: At Kapiolani street. on
lne east; that it be moved Mauka to
School street, and on the west that
the line be run from the Asylum road
through PaIama bridge to the sea. :
Il am of the opinion that the line
is too far to the east and should stop
at Alakea street. ! | think that there
should be added to the speed limit
on the Pail road, a limit on the Koo-
lau side, where the road is so dan
gerous. Fifteen miles should be the
limit there; that with the require
ment and restriction in present act,
relating to vehicles passing one an
other. - X. z--z
- sThe matter Of passing vehicles
brings to mind interesting provisions
in Wisconsin which prevent a reck-
less driver passing another .automo-
bIe at a speed which would brighten
the occupants of the other car. i am
told that this is one kind Of sport on
the Waikiki road. 1t seems to me
that it Is something like the old In
dian sport of binding the victim to a
tree then throwing tomahawks to see
how near they could come to him
without hurting the victim. If the
victim is hit, the joke is on the sport.
but the public should not be made
to see it in that way.s =
The proposed section will forbid
a passing vehicle going faster than 10
miles an hour, if closer than three
feet of the vehicle passed. When We
hicles are passing proceeding In oppo-
site directions, some statutes require
that both vehicles slow down when
within $50 feet of each other. The
Wisconsin statute provides that such
vehicles shall not go at a speed ex-
ceeding 10 miles an hour. That
seems to me almost too severe; slow
ing down to Is miles might not meet
with objection from auto drivers. It
1t certainly would diminish danger
on the country roads where automo-
biles dash by one another on 20
foot highway at a rate of from Is to
80 miles an hour.
Statutes Unsatisfactory
THE present statute is unsatisfac-
tory in it's rule of the road or right
of way. Section IA is based upon
the theory that applies only to streets
running in a general northerly and
southerly direction and cross streets
running in a general easterly or
westerly direction. We should have
a statute which gives a definite rule
Of the road on every place on this
island. One can understand section
IA applied to King street-but in the
belt road one would have to have a
compass and a lawyer to understand
who has the right of way. l propose
simple device adopted elsewhere.
The following is the section Mr.
Weaver has drafted:
AT the intersection of any public
highway with any other public high
way, the operator or driver of any We
hicle shall have the right of way over
the operator or driver of any other
vehicle approaching him on any such
intersection from the left, except only
in cases in which police officer shall
be in actual charge at such intersec-
ton of the highway"
Mr. Weaver is also Of the opinion