The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-30
Large Saving Here to Fol-
low Ban on Sunday
Auto Riding
CAR OWNERS WILLING
TO SUPPORT MEASURE
Board of Trade Abandons Plan to Give
Luther League Delegates Sunday
Ride-Views of Liverymen and 9th
er Persons Affected.

Brattleboro users and dealers in gaso-
llne are desirous of complying with the
fuel administrations request to refrain
from consuming gasoline on SUNDAYS ex.
eept IN eases of necessity. As was to
have been expected, however. many imag-
mary cases have been cited wherein it
might be difficult to determine whether
they came within the government re-
quest, but the people are not disposedrto
cross the bridges until they come to them
so those possible situations are not eaus-
ing any loss of sleep.
It is the general sentiment of automo
bile owners that if the gasoline is needed
to help win the war the only thing to do
IS cheerfully to refrain from using it. liz
Is not believed that the request will re-
suit in much shifting of pleasure riding
from Sundays to weekdays, at least it
should not, as that would not be contrib
utlng IN any way to winning the war and
would not save gasoline.
An accurate estimate of the amount
OF gasoline which will be saved in Brat
tleboro would be hard to make. but
throughout the country the government
figures that the saving will be from
100000 to 100000 gallons That
ought to help some
Ihe two largest garages, X. E. Mosher
and Manley Brothers, sell about 500 gal
Ions of gasoline each on every fair Sun
day at this season of the wear. Some of
this is sold to transient drivers and some
to local owners. That part which is sold
Tor pleasure purposes viii be saved to
the government but lost to the dealers.
and the latter also win lose the sales of
oil, tires and repairs which come from
Sunday pleasure driving. Gasoline re-
tails for % cents a gallon and the average
distance which car can be propelled by
a gallon is - miles. About 400 automo-
biles are owned in Brattleboro. With
these figures the reader is at liberty to
make any computation desired. Both
garage owners state that they will keep
open Sunday with limited help for emer-
gency purposes, but do not anticipate
much business.
One naturally would expect that the
livery stables would do largely in
creased business on Sunday, ON the sup
lposition that persons wishing to take
| pleasure rides would so by team instead
| of by automobile. The theory NAV be
goou, out all Ile horses IN all the local
| livery stables are out Sundays anyway
and the liverymen do not expect to buy
more horses on account of this emer-
geney. This is the statement of Livery
men II. NJ Tucker. George b. White and
Henry B. Allen. Mr.. Tucker has some
horses Ill pasture that he could take up
if necessary, but they would not be avail
able for the coming Sunday as they
would have to be shod
What effect the new plan viii have on
the hotel business also is problematicaL
With the transient automobile patronage
largely eliminated Manager George B.
Sherman of the Brooks House would not
be surprised at falling off in the Sunday
table service. 1t may be, however, that
enough tourists will put up at the hotel
i Saturday and remain until Monday to
offset any decrease in transient Sunday
business.
One of the certain results of the fuel
administrations request is that the auto
mobile ride which the Brattleboro board
of trade planned to give Sunday after
noon to the delegates to the Luther
league convention here viii not take
fplace.