El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-27

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ask why the traffic laws are not en-
forced. Automobiles apparently have
paid no attention TO the new ordi-
nance. They fail to give signs in
turning or they give them wrong
quite as often as not, a man wishing
to turn left holds his right hand out
and vice versa-they fail to stop
when street cars stop TO let off pas
sengers and they do many things that
the ordinance says they must not do.
The ordinance says a doctor may
only display a green cross when he
is on an emergency call. yet few II
any Of the doctors have removed from
their cars the green crosses they
carried Of old when they were a per
manent part Of the equipment Of every
medicO's car.
The ordinance requires the opera
tors Of all public vehicles 10 have
upon their lamps in figures not less
than two inches high, the numbers
of their city licenses. No such num-
.bers have been put upon any OF the
public automobiles 50 far as known
No Lights on BuEEies.
The ordinance also requires all We
hicles in the city operating after sun
set 70 carry front and rear lights.
The ordinance in paragraph &C. Of
section one, says that vehicles shall
mean every wagon. hack, coach, car
rage, omnibus. pushcart, bicycle, mo-
torcycle, tricycle.. automobile or other
conveyance except baby Carriages" So
far as anybody knows. buggies and
hacks are not carrying these lights
at least in the majority Of cases
anyhow
The buggy without a light at night
is one OF the greatest dangers the au-
tomObilist has TO contend with and has
caused more narrow escapes from ac-
cidents than any other one thing in
the city
Numbers Hidden.
While the ordinance does not refer
TO the carrying OF the state numbers
on cars, there IS a state law provid-
ing the size Of the number that must
be carried and stating that It must
be in a position where II can be seen
at all times. FL Paso's police enforce
other state laws and the police de-
partment should enforce this one, too,
as Il is a matter OF great moment to
the public generally. Many automo-
biles carry their numbers in such q
position that they positively cannot be
seen at night-the rays OF the tail
lamp do not reflect upon them-and
it is impossible, in case a car with a
pedestrian or another vehicle, to
secure the number II the offending
driver wishes to escape.
Oftentimes it is hard TO see the num-
bers in daylight, many OF them being
covered with spare tires or buried in
mud and grease or swinging in such
A manner that it is not possible to
read them. often II is noticed that |
some Of the numbers have slipped off
Of the number board, but arrests are
never recorded for such offences
Motorists Want Law Enforced.
The automobiles who obeys the law |
wants the law enforced and IL IS due /
as much TO the law abiding automo- |
bilists as to the public in general /
that the laws should be enforced Au- |
tomobilist are blamed as a class for I
what the offenders do and the Auto !
tomobilsts are blamed as a class for !
enforcement Of the law against viO- /
latOrs- Tt wants to see the police en-
force the law TO the letter
'Flisre-is -rnetfer matter that the
police and county officials as well are
dereIect about and that is the indis-
eliminate transfer Of cars and their ]
numbers without officially transfer
ing the number on the Dooks Of the Z
county slerk. The state law provides I
that this must be done. but The Herald |
has often. in attempting to locate the !
owner Of a car, traced it through j