The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-10


 where a stop is made to view the | gigantic rocks scared and scanned by | the storms of ages, through Manitou | and up historic Ute pass to Cascade, | 12 miles from Colorado Springs From Cascade the Pikes Peak Auto I Highway, smooth as a pavement i winds through the Pike national for est. Gradually the road unfoTds a | magnificent panoramic view of the ] w-cappedFockies, crosses the tim ~berIine and climbs the backbone of the Rampant Range. Lovers Leap, 2,O0O feet straight down, is passed. On and upward the cars will climb, turning out occasionally to view of the matchless seen cry. They stop at the brink of the Bottomless Pit giv- ing passengers a, chance to look down into that tremendous depth which dazes the senses. Eight thousand feet below Is Colorado Springs, whose streets and avenues appear pin scratches on the great plain Fifty ,&aM1es, south is Pueblo and still fur tther away Trinidad is seen against the dim outline of the New Mexican Mountains. To the westward there are a hundred giant peaks of the Rockies capped with perpetual snow. Far to the north the golden dome of Colorado's state capital appears on the horizon. The views obtained from the highway are said to embrace Aan area of s0,oo0 square miles.
 RADD1G causes Sk1I1s
 How Darioi Resta. lost the 1915 In dianapolis 5OO-raiIe race is a story that remained for a rail bird, sitting near the scene of Resta's famous skid on the northwest turn of the speed way near the end of the contest, to tell.
 According to the rai1bird, Resta. and De Palma were running neck and neck, when a rabbit, scared from his hiding place in the speedway's tall grass, essayed to cross the track. Resta did not see the animal and struck it a glancing blow with his front wheel, starting him the skid that landed him against the retaining wall, and looseped his steering con- i.nections so that he had to make 8 pit stop and was unable to drive at top speed afterward. Rules of the Road.
 Motorists as a, class have to be the best trained in regard to the rules of 1 the road, because they are. conductors I of the fastest vehicles on the road" l says Secretary of State Hugo of New York. Continuing. he says: Moreover I they are forced to suffer from neglect | of others both in passing and over
 taking Indeed, it is the commonest l remark of a, novice at the steering l wheel that he had no idea before how lmany persons habitually proceed on l the wrong side of the road, how many ! | and how many risks the average l pedestrian assumes in the course of the day. The marvel is not that so many motor car accidents happen but | that there are so few. considering the l vast volume of mechanical traffic,
 especially in the largest centers of
 population, the immense mileage GOV cred and the absence of any definite regulations.
 ''The so-cal1ed rules of the road are
 of rather obscure origin, although they have grown up as mixture of the~S common law and the highway,
 and a few decisions added to custom 1 which have more or less the force of
 law. This amalgamation of experi- T ence is known as the rules of the | road To take one example of the
 desirability of regulating traffic: ]: There is no statutory regulation of a
 driver on a secondary road to give
 way to one on Q main road, but in
 court decisions it has been held that the driver of a vehicle coming out of I a. side street into one of the more
 prominent thoroughfares should give
 way and should have thrown upon
 him the obligation of seeing that the
 main road is clear.
 ''The proper management of traf-
 fife is not only question which con
 cerns the flow of traffic and the
 drivers of vehicles; it is a serious eco
 homie question well, for if traffic
 is managed so that it proceeds
 smoothly if the drivers of slow ve-
 hicles are compelled to keep to the
 side of the road or street, a road
 which would otherwise be inadequate
 will be found wide enough to allow
 traffic to flow smo oth1y, because if
 receives the minimum amount of ob-
 struction. For motor traffic general
 1y more strict observation of the
 rules of the road and the qualification
 of local ordinances is of special i'm l portance. Probably more accidents
 to motor cars are caused by incorrect l behavior of other vehicles on the road than anything else. At night especially every motorist of expert
 ence knows that the only safe as
 sumption is to presume that no wagon will be ever exactly in its right place There is also another danger
 arising from the fact that there is nt
 statutory obligation, excepting of local character, for the driver of al
 overtaken vehicle turning to the righ to designate his intention of doing st by holding out his hand. It is tru' that the pressure of traffic in 1arg' ! cities has made it customary, with To cal ordinances, requiring that thu drivers are to show such intention . butthis salutary custom is ofte1
 neglected, and accidents follow. Already one of the New ' ork cit. educational authorities has issued al excellent set of rules and the school in some cities are teaching road 1aV l as a part of the regular curriculum of the school It is difficult to imagin
 that anyone would object to such useful form of knowledge, which edu z cates the child in whatever bushes he may afterward be engaged to 1ool ! after his own safety and that of oth CTS as well. Looking forward to tn , time when the number of motor we hic1es on the road will be very muc . greater, one cannot fail to observ 3 1 how important it is that this subjeo of the rules of the road should re 3 ceive more and more attention an r that force should be given to a we D considered code by statute.''
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