The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-03
GASOLINE ECONOMY
EVERY DAY is URGED
Business Men Can Use Sub
ways and "L," Suggests
A. C, Bedford.
COURTS HELP CONSERVE
Sunday Motorists Who vio-
lated Traffic Rules Get
No Mercy.

Checking mp results OF the first gas
less Sunday" fuel administrators here
and pretty generally everywhere east of
the Mississippi found many reasons for
satisfaction. Public response to the
Governments plea for conserving the
huid which drives Uncle Sans military
machine was widespread and sympa-
thetic.
The number OF persons who violated
the Fuel Administrators request de-
liberately was few indeed. according to
reports turned In by official observers.
There were many that pleaded ignorance.
saying they had been out of town or
that they hadn't read the newspapers.
and these had the grace in most cases
to blush and head for a garage.
1t seemed that soldiers in uniform as
sumed that they we're exempted from
the operation OF the plea. for wherever
private cars or taxis were observed in
the city or along the boulevards leading
to roadhouses there were pretty sure
to be cars with soldiers or sailors as
made UP a very small part Of the usual
Sunday motor car traffic, and the fuel
authorities were certain yesterday that
the saving in gasolene had amounted
to at least 95 per cent, or pretty close
to, 100000 gallons in this city alone.
This Is Just about the quantity OF gaso-
lone used daily by the United States mill
tary forces.
Daily Economy Urged.
A. c. Bedford and other officials ex-
pressed themselves as delighted with the
unanimity of public observance and
called attention to the necessity for con-
servation on weekdays as well as on
Sundays. Last Sunday the order fell
heavily upon persons who have only
one day for recreation and pleasure
driving. and the attitude of the Fuel
Administration Is. that persons with
more leisure, who have the opportunity
to use private cars daily. should wake
up to their responsibilities.
The business man who drives to
work In his private car when he can
take the subway. elevated or surface
said Mr.. Bedford. Women who have
been in the habit of using private cars
and taxis for shopping should abandon
the habit and use public conveyances
The great work done on Sunday IL only
q step in conservation. Much more
must be achieved
Unouestionably hundreds of persons
that violated the request either deliber-
ately or through ignorance will not have
the temerity to take their cars out next
Sunday because OF the jeering they re-
ceived last Sunday. The attitude Of the
police court magistrates Is expected to
hn Gnyarnmanf
Magistrate Short. In the Bridge Plaza
court. Brooklyn. unsparingly rebuked
motorist named Joseph Krazlaw. who
was accused by a policeman Of operating
a machine without license and OF
disorderly conduct. Said the Magistrate:
Your conduct yesterday. on a day
when al automobilists did penance. I
might say. to show their loyalty to the
Government. was shamefulIy unpatriotic.
Not alone did you disregard this re-
quest by operating your machine when
not on an errand OF necessity, but you
became abusive when approached by the
police officer. Such men as you should
have your machines confscated and you
ought to be put In the first line trenches
and made 10 do your duty with the boys
over there"
Five Days in wOrkhouse.
Krazlaw was held in bonds OF 81 900
on the disorderly conduct charge and
in bail of $500 for the no license charge
In the Harlem Police Court. Magistrate
Mancuso imposed sentence Of five days in
the workhouse upon three Offenders who
on Sunday night. combined disregard
OF the gasolene request with violation of
the traffic laws. A fourth violator was
held In bonds Of $500 on a charge Of
reckless driving. In the Coney Island
court. Magistrate McCloskey. in filming
an offender, asked him II he had not
heard of the Fuel Administrations re-
quest and was told that the offender
did not read the newspapers"
The operation Of the courts yester-
day. indicated that the MAJ -e m
tend to stiffen sentences wherever traffic
violations offer opportunity to At pub
lie opinion Of persons that drive private
cars on Sunday. In New Jersey the
couru went even further. the Mayor of
Hartshorne, a suburb OF Paterson, fining
thirty motorists SO a piece for violating
DR.. Garfield's order. The Mayor ex-
planned that ne acted Under the authority
Of a section of the Jersey Blue Laws.