Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-02
|ASOLrNE MVING
| 100000 GALLONS
|nly About 200 of Usual
100000 Automobiles
Out Yesterday
THEFTS
Motor Fatalities Drop
to Zero-Trolley Re.
ceipts Leap Up
AR THEFTs U

Lives and AUTOMOBILES, IN addition to
q 900 gallons Of gasoline, were saved
Yesterday, the test-day of Fuel Admin
i~strator Garfeld's Sunday anti-pleasure
riding edict.
Coroner Knight and city officials, re-
viewing the results OF yesterday, the
arst day of the order, today said Il
had solved a problem they had been try
Ing many years to solve-how to prevent
motor accidents on Sunday.
II was the first Sunday in many wears
that no automobile fatalities were re-
ported, Coroner Knight said.
Also. police officials announced. fewer
automobiles were stolen than on any
Sunday in many years. Only two car
thefts we're reported yesterday, as
against the uesual reports Of a dozen
and sometimes twenty cars stolen.
Cure For Speed Fiends
Coroner knight said the "autoless'
Sunday had suggested a remedy for
speed maniacs" who endanger the lives
of citizens with "ruthrless driving on
Sundays. He said he would seek a po-
4 lice order for the arrest of all speeders
n and have their licenses taken from them
for thirty OdyS, U TIE HTSt OIIeTbe.
The second ~offense, according to the
coroner's plans, would result in the IL
cense being taken from the driver for
ninety days. and a third offense would
result in the license being revoked.
Detective Captain Souder, commenting
today on the 'gasless" order, said he
would ask Acting Superintendent Of Po-
lice Mills to order the police to stop all
automobiles operating next Sunday as a
means of apprehending car thieves. He
believes man stolen cars might be re-
covered # the motorists operating in
defiance of the order are forced to prove
own rship.
Nearly All Obey Rule
Tt rule was generally observed
thre g5out this district, said fuel admin
istr 20 officials. There were probably
200 ra.ztors Of the request" accord
ing estimates. Ordinarily there are
10f automobiles in operation in this
city n vicinity on Sunday.
Accurate figures on the amount OF
gasoline saved here will probably be an.
nounced after the fuel administration
has received reports from the various
gasoline companies in the city as to the
amount of gas" sold, compared with
sales on previous Sundays. Ferry COM
panies are expected to report the num-
Der of machines carried.
For the first time in many years thu
citys streets were silent yesterday. Gar
ages were filled with automobiles and tn,
Customary "honk-honk' was conspicuou!
BY It's absence.
Park houlevards were virtually de
serted, and r~oadhouses, ordinarily the
mecca of Sunday 'joyriders." were de-
void Of patrons.
Boys Taun violators
Fifteen boys, mounted on bicycles
demonstrated to more than a score Of
Automobiles their opinion of using
motorcars despite the order.
' They were stationed at Broad stree
and Northeast Boulevard. When 8
motorist approached a contingent Of fv'
or six of the boys would surround thu
automobile. keep pace with the drivel
and hurled comments at the occupants
whether men or women. A few Of thu
mildest follow:
Slackers, put your car away.
Why don't you help to lick the
Huns.
You. don't care for the boys in
France. Turn around md go home,
where you should be.
You're not patriotic or you'd DO IKE
the men who obeyed orders and put
their cars away today.
\ . Scores of pedestrians halted to watcl
the youngsters and to urge them on.
Fifty per cent of the automobiles II
operation were for emergency" pur
poses, the fuel administration estimates
Physicians cars, hospital ambulance,
ana trucks used to expedite war worl
were among those exempted from tn
rule. -
trolley cars carried almost twice tn
(sGal number OF Sunday patrons.
Trolley Receipts Leap Up
The passenger earnings for the Phila
Alphia Rapid Transit System for yes
-day showed an increase of $7116 owe
mount usually gained on Sunday
ring the month Of August. The sun
rnsd yesterday was $75,se0. Al
ainst an average Of $6s,845 for tn
Is,,st Sundays. This increase repre-
"a approximately $4,000 additions
~usengers, who heretofore have spen
Eir sundays joy-riding on the NOR
pensive gasoline.
persons arriving In the city from dis
tant points. intent upon utilizing a taxi
cab to reach some point OF the city Wit
which they were not ACQUAINTED. foun'
A usual stands deserted n wer
forced to seek their IN troi
ley cars, depending upon the
TO nut them off at the right stop.
Paramount Park GUARDS took Tn
license number OF every machine ina
moved In the park. The numbers WI
be given the fuel ADMINISTRATION
Motorcycllsts and motorooat owher
! also came under the oroer' rev Q
either ventured out.