The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-03-05
.HORNER DONS WAR
. PAINT AND SEEKS
DRIVERS SCALPS
Supervisor Indignant Over Lax
Police Methods and Heed
less chauffeurs III
SAYS TRAFFIC LAWS +
NOTHING BUT A JOKE
Reckless Autoists, Arrested For
Violations, Released On
Thin Excuses

| IL you want to know what effect II
produced by waving a rod flag j.
front of a bull, walk up casually ngt
easily to Supervisor Robert Horner
chairman of the police committee, and
remark to him that you believe no city
in the world has better traffic laws
and regulations and their attendant
enforcement than Honolulu insofar AZ.
automobiles are concerned. Just try II
| that's all 'sa...' ~, H.. ~ .
Horncr Is on the warpath not only
against reckless and needless auto
drivers, but against lax police methods,
and he makes no attempt Mt conceal.
ment that he Is on their trail. He is
bedeeked in war paint and feathers and
swings a tomahawk in either hand. =.
Sheriff Rose, Police Judge Monsafrat
and police officers generally must make
accounting to Horner before he, washes
of the war paint IL the supervisor re.
mains In his present mood.
This is not all, because Horner re.
Gently broke all records for the run
ming broad jump on a downtown
street intersectiony getting out of the
way Of an automobile which had been
signalled by the policeman to cross the
street at a speed that raised cloud
Of dust. s. To-, a.
Racc for SAFETY ,-
HorIer says that since that time he
has seen his record broken many times,
and that he has Witnessed women and
children compelled to race like mad to
otiieef stood IN the center of the street
intersection and paid attention only to
see that autos did not have to come to
q full stop in negotiating the crossing
Former became SO worked up that he
was compelled to don his hat and wipe
HIS brow with d 'kerchicf.
81 don Z know just what can he done
but am going to find out and then
there will be Something doing. At the
present time our traffic laws and their
enforcement are a Joke. Traffic officers
stand in the center Of street intersec.
tions and pay no moro attention to
pedestrians than II theyRdidnt exist.
They seem TO think that their sole duty
Is to see that autos get across the inter,
sections without humping into each
other. | have yet to see a Honolulu
traffic officer walk over TO curb to
help across the street a woman or child
while he held an auto or strectcar in
check" Persons who have Travelled
widely have told me that they must ex.i
ereise more care and vigilance in cross!
ing street intersection in Honolulu
than they would in San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Chicago, New Pork, Paris OF
Berlin
Court Too Lenient
thnH 4 su4n
use In making arrests because when
they go before Judge MoLsarrat with
conclusive evidence their cases arc
thrown out of court on grounds of in
sufficient evidence. Some weeks ago |
went to Sheriff Rose and asked him to
give me specific cases and the evidence
at hand which had been worked up by
the police and which had been thrown
out of court by Judge MOnsarrat Since
then ] have gone to Rose four or five
times with the same request, but the
Information which ! desire has not yet
been furnished. 1t does not seem to me
that it should be such a difficult task
to supply this information for the bene-
fit of the police committee of the board
of supervisors.
Need New Ordinance
II have attended police court SOS
sions and seen auto drivers arrested for
violation of the traffic ordinance re-
leased On the thinnest of teehnicalities.
II our laws are no good, as Judge Mon
sarrat rules, we will make laws that
will hold in court. If Sheriff Rose de-
cliues to make arrests for traffic law
violations because he feels convictions
are impossible, we will try to provide
measures whereby such arrests will be
made. Two things are certain-that
we need now traffic ordinance and
that the Office of chief of police should
be distinctive from the Office Of shcriH
and made an appoiutive office, 50 that
one police official cannot enforce or
wink at laws to suit his own whims
and have no check on him. AS it is
now auto drivers have BECOME imbued
with the idea that pedestrians have alb.
soluteIy no rights on the streets, and it
is a wonder to me that more people are
not killed and injured than our already
heavy toll. No other city in the world
would stand for conditions as they ex-
list here, 49,. psf7fg r-,.
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