The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-19
CARS STOP ON NEAR SIDE
BEGINNING ON SUNDAY
Mayor Signs Ordinance Putting Into
Effect New Traffic RcSu-
latiOn.
HOPE TO CUT DOWN ACCIDENTS
Most Large Cities Have Abandoned
Far Side Stop-ChanKe Regarded
as Big ImprOvement-Hian Other
Laws Made Effective by Ainslic.

Mayor Ainslie anlxed his signature
yesterday 10 an ordinance which puts
into effect for the first time in the
history of Richmond a traffic regula-
ton requiring street cars to stop for
the receiving and discharging of pas
scngers. OH the near side OF the atreet
instead Of on the far side, which is
tho present practice
The ordinance became effective at
$3.50 o'clock yesterday afternoon with
the Mayors signature, but Will not be
enforced until next Sunday morning.
President Whcclwright. Of the Virginia
hallway and Power Company. said yes
tcrday that several days will be re-
quired to notify all motormcn and con-
ductors of the change. Most radical
traffic changes put into effect on
| Sundays and this one viii be no cx-
ccption. The new order VIII, there
| fore. go into effect with the first car
/ TO leave the barns on Sunday morning.
street car men regard the change
as the biggest single traffic advance
! In recent years. Most oil the large
cities OF the country have years ago
abandoned the far-sidc stop, and put
! into effect the rule just authorized by
! Richmond 1t is credited with rcduc
| Ing the percentage of accident. and
effectIng saving OF time by eliminat
| ing useless double stops.
| MAKE DOUBLE STOPS
At ALL TRANSFER POINTS
The new ordinance contains one i'm
portant modification. Cars are required
TO stop at both the near and far
sides Of the street at all corners whore
divcrging lines intcrsect. Double stops
Will. therefore. be made at every trans
fer punt on the Broad and Main and
Broad and Twcnty-fifth Street lines.
The only exceptions to the douolc-stop
rule will be at Eighth and Broad and
eighth and Main Streets, where east
n
on the near side. II was held by the
street car authorities that these cor
ners were usually congested and that
the double stop requirement should not
he applied 10 them.
Under the present arrangement cars
stop the far side Of the street at
corners where there are not interscct-
ing lines. and on both the near and
FAR sides where intersccting lines exist.
The new rule eliminates a large num-
Der OF double stops requiring them
only at points with diverging lines,
except at the Eighth street corners.
Al all corners where there are no In
;ersectins lines cars will, beginning
Sunday morning, stop only on the near
side OF the street.
y companion ordinance signed BY the
Mayor regulates the passing of a car
At a standstill by a car In motion. II
requires that the motorman OF car
approaching ear at Il standst!ll sound
his gong, reduce his speed and proceed
slowly forward until the front OF his
car shall have passed the rear plat
form of the car standing still. The
ordinance is designed 10 reduce the
possibility OF accident resulting from
alighting passengers trying to cross In
front of a car approaching from the
opposite direction. This rule Will like
wise go into effect Sunday morning.
PLACES HIS SIGNATURE
UPON MANY ORDINANCES
Among other ordinances signed yes
terady by the Mayor and returned to
city Clerk August are the following:
Appropriating $4,000 for the con-
struc,ion of suitable pedestal for the
statue OF "Stonewall" jackson, which il
is proposed to erect In this city.
Appropriating $4,000 for the enter
tainmcnt OF the convention of the
American Bankers Association. which
will be held here In October.
Appropriating $1,000 for the purchase
Of an automobile tractor for Engine
Company No. s, and for equipping the
hose wagon of that company for auto
mobile service.
Directing the City Attorney TO apply
to the state Corporation Commission
for an order directing the railroads en-
tering the city TO provide separate
waiting rooms for white and colored
passengers.
Of opening the new First Regiment AR
mory
Appropriating s3e.o25 for the pur-
chase OF property on the north side of
BainbirdGe Street, between Fifteenth
street and Cowardin Avenue, South
Richmond. for school purposes.
Increasing the salary of the City Bac-
tcriologist from $1,000 10 $4,000 a year,
and making the Office a full-t time posi-
ton.
Appropriating $4,000 for the expense
of James River Improvement
relieving the Richmond and Kappa
hammock River Railway Company from
the obligation to Issue and receive
transfers on It's Seven Pines Line.
Extending until June. 1915. the time
limit within which the Virginia Rail
way and Power Company Is to com
plete the extension of It's Broad Street
cac line TO the Roseneath Road.