Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-09-09
"A CARS OUT ON
'CAS[ESS'' DAY
Pleasure Auto Traffic at Low
est Ebb on Second Day
Under Restriction
RAMSAY THANKS BURKE
Police Keep Record; Also Were
on Lookout for SpeederS--
Two Are Arrested Here

The Sunday order limiting the use
of automobiles together with the In
clement weather yesterday, resulted in
the auto traffic through this city being
decreased to a minimum, the police
here securing the numbers OF only
seventy-four pleasure cars which were
on the streets without a permit.
But fifteen pleasure cars crossed
over the Staten Island ferry yesterday,
this being a new low record for Sun
day. Last Sunday, which was the first
of the 'rideless" Sundays, found 500
cars passing over the ferry.
But few cars passed through the
city on their way to the seashore re-
sorts, traffic across the county bridge
being the lightest of any Sunday this
summer. The Sunday riding order
resulted In many horse-drawn vehicles
making their appearance and doing
the business generally done by the au-
tomobiles in taking persons to and
from the stations.
Chief of Police Patrick ]. Burke
gave orders to all police squads Sat
urday night to stop all pleasure and
joyriding automobile parties between
the hours of midnight Saturday night
and midnight last night. These or
ders resulted in the officers securing
the numbers of seventy-four cars and
Burke also gave all of the officers in
structions TO be on the lookout for
speeders and arrest all who exceeded
the speed limit of twelve miles an
hour. Among the classes exempted in
the chiefs orders were automobile
trucks and moving vans, Doctors cars,
minister's cars, automobiles carrying
workers to munitions plants or other
essential industries.
raIe na4aAn m
took the number of forty-seven cars
not having permits, Traffic Officer
Christ Hansen, seven; Traffic Officer
John Murray, eight; Traffic Officer
John Durham, FIVE; Patrolman Albert
Macdonald, four; Patrolman Charles
Jorgensen, two, and Detective Joseph
Gutowski, one.
Isador Epstein of 26 Smith street,
arrested by Traffic officer John MUIR
ray for not having a drivers license
and no permit TO drive on Sunday, was
fired ten dollars this morning by Act
ing Recorder Stephen +. Somogyf.
John Greeley of Port Monmouth was
arrested yesterday afternoon by Traffic
Officer Murray and gave ten dollars
cash bond for a hearing at s a. m. Sep
tember 16.
The car number secured by the po-
lice yesterday will be filed In orde'
InaL IL may De knONn WHO 6~NlDid-
tors are. The police will continue each
Sunday to stop pleasure cars in order
TO secure the names of the owners and
the license numbers.
County and City Fuel Administra-
tor Oliver w. Ramsay today thanked,
through the EVENING NEWS. the
police department and Chief Burke
for the cooperation of the depart
ment in aiding the fuel administra-
ton in seeing that autoists obeyed
the requirements in regard TO the
saving of gasoline yesterday. There
were no nar1es sent TO Washington
from this city by the administrator.
and there was no trouble, due to the
fact that there were no cars running.
The following telegram from the
United States Fuel Administration at
Washington, ID. c.. which has been
forwarded to County Administrator
Ramsay by Richard c. Jenkinson, ad-
ministrator for New Jersey, states
briefly what the request to discon-
tinue motoring on Sunday is intended
TO cover:
THE request that pleasure motor
ing be discontinued on Sundays for
the present was not intended to cover
the reasonable use OF necessary trans
portation where other means were
unavailable. What is necessary trans
portation must be determined not by
the fuel administration but by the in
dividual who should bear in mind
the effect of his example"