New-York tribune., 1918-09-09
New Records Are Made in
Saving Of Gasolene to
Win War
Fifth Avenue Sees
Seven Cars an Hour
Only Three Machines Out
of 200 in Club Garage
Are Used

New York's second gasoleneiess Sun
day SURPASSED all records of the first
non-touring Sabbath Of the week be-
fore
In spite OF the rain practically the
enti.e motoring public of the five bor-
oughs walked yesterday. One pedes-
trian, with three cars locked in his
garage, summed up the attitude of car
owners in general when he said:
every step takes US little nearer
Berlin"
The amount of gasolene saved, men,
bers of the petroleum board said last
night, could not be estimated, but there
was no doubt in their minds, they said,
that the record of 100000 gallons last
week had been made to look almost in
significant.
A line on the general spirit in which
DR.. Gar.icld's "request' was met yester
day is furnished, however, by the rec
ord of the Automobile Club of America.
More than two hundred machines are
kept in the garage of this club. Yes
terday calls came for just three of
them. Of these, one belonged to physi
clan who had to make round of pro-
fessional visits. The other two were
Red Cross ambulances.
Between the Grand Central and Penn
sylvania terminals one taxicab COM
pany kept twenty cabs running, but
even upon these the calls were com
paratively infrequent. Most people
needing conveyances used antiquated
hacks and hansoms and coupes.
Picnickers Shock Worshippers
Just as the churches were letting
out three large automobile trucks, dec
Grated with bunting and laden with
merry makers, chugged past the Pub
lie Library, at Fifth Avenue and Forty
second Street. AS they came abreast
the car line there the picnickers pro-
duced horns and set up a great toot-
ing The returning worshippers paused
dumfounded in their tracks, staring
as at an apparition.
In the Morrisania Court Harry c..
Iiebout WAS brought before Magis-
trate Ten Eyck and fined $40 when he
admitted having protested at patrol
mans taking the license number of
MS touring car in Third Avenue tow
ard Boston Road.
AT Broadway and One Hundred and
oixty-elghth Street an unidentified
man in runabout, in answer to an
oihcer's query, shouted: "Whcn there's
law against my driving my car III
'oey 1t, but there's no law now" and
sped dehantly on his way.
these cases were exceptions to the
prevailing attitude in all five boroughs.
ihe rule was so cmphatically the other
way that New York seemed like a city
transformed.
No TaXis at Hotels
before the Biltmorc, the McAlpin,
."e Waldorf, the Vanderbilt the
afge hotels, where long lines of wait
aug taxls are so much a part of the
Aofnal scene as almost to seem a part
W 'he hotel architecture, not single
A'o'of cab was in attendance. On the
.'osed taxi stands scattered throughout
me city signs announced that service
""s discontinued for the day. Garages
S'uiharily open for the sale Of gaso-
's"e likewise showed, almost without
sAceptlon, series of closed doors.
even the sightseeing buses, which
Usually Go their biggest business on
.uhaay and had contemplated discon-
snuihg for to-day and tomorrow in
s'ue' TO operate yesterday, at the last
:A'ment decided to join the overwhelm-
as brigade of stay at home motorists.
day, '''''
Occasional Truck Seen
"cr' and there an occasional van or
'u'N could be seen. Ever and again
bakers runabout or laundry do,;v-
ny car glidcd shyly around a corner
,u' mat was about ALL
y" riverside Drive. where SUNDAY
Continued on last pogo