The sun., 1916-01-09
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Please let me know the author Of
~ expect to pass through this world
but once. IT, therefore, there he any
Kindness / can show. or any good thing
can do my fellow being. let me do
II now. Let me not defer or neglect II,
for ] shall not pass this way again"
=. r.
The authorship of this saying. the
almost every quotation. has never been
settled. It has been attributed to
stephen Grellet G773-ls55). an Ameri-
can Quaker OF French birth to Emerson.
Sir Rowland Hin u7A-1s33). Marcus
Aurelus. Addison. Carlyle and others
on page 44s OF w. Gurney Benham's
"a Book Of Quotations" IAppincott.
| f907) II may be found In clearer form,
together with a short history Of the ef-
fort to trace 1t. According to foot
note in Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations"
| t?14) II shall not pass this way again
was a saying OF william Penns Bart
lett gives couple: from sam Walter
Fess Us5S-io1D:
Strew Giadness on ahe path. Of men
You VIII not pas. this way again.
| The enclosed print shows wagons on
| broadway being driven on the left side
OF the street. Was this ever done in
New York? q. DAVIS.
The print Is ~ View OF Broadway
in 1850" from The Greatest Street In
the World" by Stephen Jenkins. Mr..
Hopper Striker Mot. says
1T was the rule in Holland for vehicles
10 keep to the left. This custom. Of
course, followed the Dutch to New ANS
terdam. As the same rule held good In
England 1t continued during the English
control here
The custom was legally confirmed to
New York city los chapter ~ Of the
Laws OF 1893. passed March "a. in
/ which the penalty was fixed at 81 FOR
each and every offence. to be recovered Il
| by an action Of debt with costs or the
suit in any court having cornizance
thereof by any person suing for the
same. I; was further enacted that the
proprietor of the carriage. wagon. cart
or sleigh negecting or refusing to turn
to the left should be considered Il
present al the time Of meeting. as the
person committing the said offence. and
II absent. then the driver should be- 50
considered"
| The Corpora ton Counsel Mr.. Lamar
Hardy. has kindly ascertained when the
rule OF the road was changed. lie says
This law tof 1897 was definitely re.
nealed by Section l Of Chapter 537 OF
the Laws OF 1881. Blrdseye's Chrome.
logtal Table Of New York Statutes
however. suggests that Chapter ~ o.
the Laws OF 1879 was probably repealed
hy Chapter 9oe Of II. l.. 1919. Chan.
ter 81. Section OF tho sail revised acts
reads
That In all cases OF persons meet.
ing each other on any turnpike, road
or public highway In this State
the persons SO meeting shall seasonahly
turn their carriages 70
the right OF tie centre OF the road &c.
Turning to the ordinances of the city
Of New York. the first definite ordinance
on this subject can he found in tn,
Revised Ordinances Of the city Of New
York. 1856, section 1851"
This section commands - turn to .hc
right Mr.. Hardy also quotes two Garlic,
ordinances which Indicate that n VIZ,
the custom In this city to drive ON the
right where the streets were crowded
The first. enacted in 1899, forbade stage,
having started on their route throug'
Wall street. or from the corner OF
Nassau street. and Pine street" {,
stop 10 take on passengers until they
should have entered broadway "and con,
,inued northerly close n the walk on IN,
east side OF Broadway" In lsij IL wa.
enacted that stages might not take oi
discharge passengers "excep, upon IN,
right hand side Of the way in coins
and returning between Tenth
street in Broadway, Chatham Square
head OF Chatham street" and the south
or east end OF the route