New-York tribune., 1918-09-09

touring cars are generally thick, the
big numbering green buses had it prac-
tically all to themselves. And even
the buses which have recently in
stituted a gasolene saving competition
among their drivers were running on
allotments that arc calculated to save
$500 gallons of the fluid weekly
Along lower Fifth Avenue, over a
sevcp-hour period, exactly seven cars
passcd-one per hour Of these one
was returning from the station where
it had taken Red Cross nurse on a
hurry out-of-town call. Two others
were cars from other states, bearing
Massachusetts and Connecticut license
plates. One was a doctors and an
other an invalid's.
Numbers Are TabuIatcd
In every case, complying with orders
from the Mayors office, traffic officers
noted down the numbers of whatever
pleasure cars were in evidence. These
numbers are to be gone over to-day
and the owners given an opportunity
to explain. How vigilant was the watch
kept for offenders was illustrated when
George Arllss, the actor, was held up
at Fifth Avenue and Thirty eighth
Street. He was going, he said, to the
Pennsylvania station to take a train
for Pittsburgh.
But" he added, plaintively, "I've
been stopped six times in as many
blocks, and if it keeps Vi much longer
like this I'll miss the train altogether"
Trixie Friganza "Works"
Another theatrical celebrity who
came under the attention of the police
yesterday was Trixic Friganza. Speed
ing along Bath Beach, she announced
that she was going to work" For Il
time the patrolman was dubious as to
just what ought to be Gone in case
= like that: But Trixie smiled and ex-
planned that she had to move some
costumes that would never do at all on
the elevated; so he forgave her and let
her continue on her way.
| Such actual violations of the tour.
| less request as did occur were noted
/ chiefly on the outskirts of the city.
But even here police officials say, the
record was astonishingly crcditable.
Making allowances for physicians
cars, funeral automobile coaches and
cars driven by army or navy officers,
here is the roster Of gasolene vehicles
tabulated by the police between 8
o'clock in the morning and A in the
afternoon at these ordinarily most
populous thoroughfares of the pleas
seeking motorists:
Pelham Parkway and Bronx Park
East, 81; Boston Post and Eastchester
roads, az; Boston Post and Williams
bridge roads, 19; Grand Concourse and
Kingsbridge Road, 81; Grand Con-
course and 162d Street, 90; City Island
and New Rochelle roads, SO; Broadway
and 2O4th Street, 25. And on this list
too, it is believed that there will be
discovered many duplicates.
Fewer Cars On Ferries
Ferry lines and bridges showed a
ing and sundown only ninety-four
motor vehicles crossed from this city
70 Jersey City by way of the two Penn
sylvana ferries, and the majority of
these were trucks delivering produce
and supplies From midnight Satur-
day on, the Fort Lee ferry, which
! ordinarily transports between 1000 and
1900 cars a Sunday, had to handle only
| 132-of which alone three were pleas
ure cars.
Over the ferry to Staten Island. on1v
four cars passed, and three of these
were in charge of army officers. The
ferries to Brooklyn took not a single
gasolene vehicle
Over the two main bridges, the Man
haitian and Williamsburg, the police
took account of a total of 1851, or
scarcely more than ] per cent of the
normal Sunday traffic. OF these. TOO.
many were carrying produce or sup
! plies.
Coney Island. the usual mecca Of
tic Sunday tourist, was practically de
serted. From the windows of the Hotel
| Shelburne, on Seabreeze Avenue. exact.
ly twenty -one cars were checked up
for the day, and four of these were
army cars and three physicians. Of
the balance, the police said that most
OF the drivers were xoreignerA