Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-08-19
AUTOS q OTHERS
Police Department Promulgates Rules
to Govern Motor and Horse Drawn
Vehicles i'm Streets of Chicago.

Sec. 8. No vehicle or street car
shall 80 occupy any street as to in.
terfere with or intercept the passage
Of other cars or vehicles.
Sec. 4. During blockades or stop.
pages q clear space Of ten feet shall
be kept open between cars opposite
the alley or the center Of the block
II there be no alley.
Article .vii--spsed.
Section 1. No vehicle shall proceed
at any time at q greater speed than
the law allows and which is safe and
proper under the conditions then OBJ.
tanning.
Sec. 2. No vehicle shall cross any
street or avenue or make any turn at
q speed rate exceeding one.half its
legal speed.
Sec. 3. No vehicle shall emerge
from an alley, stable or garage at
pace faster than a walk; at the lat.
ter places an attendant should pre-.
cede the vehicle to give warning.
Sec. 4. Horse.drawn vehicles and
pedestrians should habitually cross
the street intersections as promptly
as circumstances permit. Teams NOV.
ing at an unnecessarily slow walk
across street intersections greatly i'm.
pede traffic.
Sec. s. On all thoroughfa the
heavy and slow moving vehicles shall,
as far as conditions permit, keep to
the right, In order to allow the rapid
moving and lighter traffic to proceed
independently.
Ordinance Regulating Speed Of We.
hielss Near Schools, Public Play.
grounds and Churches - Passed
July IS, 1915.
Section 1868. No motor. electric or
animal drawn vehicle Of any kind
shall proceed, while within four hun.
dred (400) feet Of any schoolhouse in
the city, at q greater speed than FIVE
(5) miles an hour. between the hours
Of 8 o'clock q. m. and o'clock p. m.
on any day during which school Is In
session In such schoolhouse;
Sec. 1963a. . or within four
hundred (400) feet Of any public play.
ground In the city, between the hours
OF 8 o'clock q. m. and o'clock p. m.
on any day during which playground
IL open and in operation;
Sec. 1864. - or while within
four hundred (40o) feet Of any church
in the city during the time or times
that persons are customarily entering
or leaving churches ON Sundays or
holidays. or any other day set apart
by such church for religious worship,
Article viii-ksspIns TO the Right
Passing, Turning, Crossing and
Stopping.
Section 1. A vehicle, except when
passing Q vehicle ahead, shall habit
ually keep 90 near the right hand curb
as possible.
Sec. 2. A vehicle meeting another
shall pass to the right.
Sec. 3. On an avenue or street di
vided longitudinally by q parkway
walk, sunken way or viaduct, vehicles
should keep to the right Of such di
visions.
Sec. 4. A vehicle turning into an
other street to the right shall turn the
corner as near the right hand curb al
practicable.
Sec. 8. A vehicle turning into an
other street to the left shall circle
around the center OF the street inter
section.
Sec. 6. A vehicle crossing from on,
side Of the street to the other sid,
shall In doing so keep to the right.
Sec. Z. No vehicle shall stop will
left side to the curb.
Sec. 8. No vehicle shall stan,
backed up to the curb. except whel
actually loading or unloading. and
said vehicle IL horse.drawn and ha
four wheels. the horse or horses mus
stand parallel to the curb and face
in the direction Of the traffic.
Sec. 8. A vehicle waiting at tn
curb shall promptly give place to
vehicle about to load or unload.
Sec. 10. No vehicle, unless In al
emergency or to allow another vehicl
or pedestrian to cross its path. shall
stop in any street or highway. excep
near the right hand curb thereof, an
SO not to obstruct q crossing.
Sec. II. No vehicle shall back I
make turn In any street II by q
doing It interferes with other vehicles
but shall 60 around the block or to
street sufficiently wide to turn In with
out blocking traffic.
Sec. ~. Vehicles will enter Mort
and South and all IL" shaped or RICH
! angled alleys from the North an