Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-07-26
Electric Car and
Motor Vehicle LIGHTS

The Governor and Council at their
Wednesday evening session devoted a
large part of the evening to the consid-
Grafton of the suggested rules and regu-
lations made by the Public Utilities
Commission, in accordance with the act
of the last legislature for the use of
headlights on electric cars and motor
vehicles.
Chairman B F. Cleaves Of Public Util-
tiles went over at length the ways
used for framing the rules and reg
ulations and the causes leading there
to. and with few minor changes.
which he approved. they were approved
by the Governor and Council. to take
effect on Aug. IS. 1917, the date being
set ahead from Aug. !, as in the origin
al framing. The rules and regulations
as approved are as follows:
Electric Cars
No electric street car shall, after
August Is. 1917, be operated upon or
along any street or highway within this
State after dark with lighted arc head
light unless such searchlight is con-
structed and operated in the following
manner, viz:
Each such headlight shall have in
front of the arc-light lens of uncolor
ed glass, sandbasted or frosted on the
inside so that there will be left on the
lower half of such lens a formation of
plain glass. The highest point of the
half-circle arc. the radius of which shall
be 212 inches. forming the up
per portion Of such formation,
shall be no more than a 4 34 inches
from the bottom Of said lens. The
pleted by drawing from each
terminus Of the horizontal chord
of the half-circle arc a line at
right angles thereto and extending to
the bottom of the lens. If any such
headlight is attached to an electric
street car so that the top of said plain
glass will be more than four feet. 10
inches above the rails, the top of said
plain glass shall be. by sand blasting or
frosting. lowered to such a point that
no clear reflected ray of light can come
from said headlight and strike the eye
of a person sitting in an automobile
or carriage at time when the cleo
trio car and the vehicle are on PRACTICAL
ly the same level This rule and regu-
3d dtiOii dcCS i4ON dpPiy ~ idiIlpS III WHICH
incandescent bulbs are used, nor to Jun
ior arcs" so-called.
Motor Vehicles
After Aug. Is. 1917. no motor vehi-
Gle chall be operated on or along any
highway or other way between the
hours of ohe-half hour after sunset
and one-half hour before sunrise un-
less the headlights on any such mo-
ter vehicle are constructed and oper-
ated as follows, viz:
% No bulb or lamp used in any
such headlight shall be of greater can
die power than "a Cor equivalent wat
taee).
% The lens or glass in the front
part OF any such light df the lens be
Of plain glass; shall be sandblasted or
frosted on the inside so that no di-
rect or reflected ray from said light
shall be on a level road and seventy
Ave G5) feet ahead of any such motor
vehicle, more than forty-two 42)
inches from the ground.
This frosting may be temporarily
done with white paint or Bon Ami in
sufficient quantity to prevent glare
Note: Experiments have shown that
this result may be accomplished by
sandblasting or frosting the lens on
level line down to a point one "a inch
below the center Of the lamp bulb. No
clear glass should be left above this
line. Some lamps are hung lower on
some cars than on others and care.
by experiment should be taken to see
that the direct or reflected rays are
not higher than the above-named for
ty-two (42) inches.
80 In case "Fracto" or similar