The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-02
1920 St. John avenue, fracture of the

1920 st. John avenue, fracture of the
skull.
In the other accident william Talinick.
249 Stone avenue and Ada Rose, SIS
Dekalb avenue. Brooklyn, were badly
hurt when the car Talinick was driving
coliided with the front end Of a Broad
way trolley ear at Stockton street,
Brooklyn. Talinicks skull was fractured.
the doctors thought, and his companion
suffered many cuts and bruises. Both
were taken to St GATHERINGS Hospital.
Frank Downer. S9s Pacific street, motor
| man, was cut by broken glass.
A. G.. Bedford, chairman OF the Ma
tional Petroleum War Service Commit
tee. was Informed by THE Sun at his
home In Glen Cove last evening that
public response to the Fuel Admins
traitors request was astonishingly COM
, plete He was highly gratified.
ut IL wonderful what our people will
do when the Government calls upon them
for service or sacrifice" said Mr. Bed
| ford TT shows that public opinion may
have all Of the force OF Government
| order. Too much credit cannot be given
to the newspapers for the splendid as
! sistance they have given us in the way
| of acauainting the people with what was
| necessary.
II have no exact statistics at my
fingers end. but I assume that at least
100000 gallons of gasolene will he
! saved here in New York city. We figure
| the saving at three gallons to a car.
East OF the Mississippi River there are
more than 100000 cars in use. and IL
one assumes that virtually all of these
private cars were idle yesterday II Is
easy to estimate the conservation.
Gn
But there Is very big side OF this
gasolene saving proposition that has not
been sufficiently emphasized. in my opin-
ion 1t was regrettable that the greatest
sacrifice had to be made by persons who
have leisure only Sundays for pleasure
rides. Some of these might well ask
why others more fortunate in possessing
leisure could not be restricted weekdays.
Now. there Is a good deal OF justice
| in this point Of view. | believe that II is
the patriotic duty Of every man and
woman owning an automobile to use II
as little as possible. no matter what day
of the week it may be.
Let me suggest the reasonableness Of
this course: Suppose. beginning to-mor-
row. Monday. every car owner refrained
from using his machine unless II is alb
solutely necessary to use II that every
one take public conveyance whenever
possible instead OF driving a car All of
this would result in a great saving and
would be obviously the fair thing
THE SUNS estimate of the general
observance is even better than | ex-
pected. but It shows once more how eager
the mass of people are to help If some
thing definite is put up to them"
Although 100000 visitors went TO CO.
ney Island yesterday the resort pre-
sented the aspect of deserted village, so
far as automobile parties were con-
cerned. Apparently the Government re-
quest for cessation of pleasure riding
Sunday was observed there almost TO the
last letter. Along Surf avenue, where
thousands of motor cars usually pass on
pleasant Sundays almost in a continual
procession. one could stand in the centre
of the street and see but two or three
automobiles in either direction.
The sight seeing cars did not run down
from the city, and but few motor cycles
On Ocean Parkway, only seven cars
passed in half an hour yesterday after
noon. At the Bowl. where several hum
dred are usually parked. only half a
dozen machines were standing. Business
at the hotels was cut in half. the pro-
prietors said, but they had no complaints
n mako