The New York herald., 1921-07-02
ENDOF AUTOMOBILE
CONTROVERSY SEEN
Commissioner Says Arrests in
Jersey Were Not Intended
as Reprisals.
MOTORISTS ARE FINED
Victims Hunt for Court; One
FOrfeits His Bail Because
He Is Late.
MOTORISTS ARE FINED

The end of the motor vehicle contro-
versy which has caused bad feeling
between New York and New Jersey for
several weeks apparently was reached
yesterday when William l.. Dill, Motor
Vehicle Commissioner of New Jersey.
issued statement denying that the ar
rest of nineteen motorists from New
York last Sunday by two inspectors on
the Lincoln Highway at Kearny, ". j.,
was due to any design for reprisals.
The motorists were arraigned last
night before Police Justice Leonard A.
Winner at Kearny. Six forfeited their
bail, which ranged from $40 TO $25: nine
were fined S. each; two were fined $40
each, and two were discharged. The
State OF New Jersey was s207 richer by
the action of Inspectors Dykeman and
Fitzpatrick iE deciding 70 arrest all mo-
torists who passed their way without
licenses.
Commissioner Dill, declaring that the
outcome of the controversy was COM
plete victory for the contention of New
of New York as saying that 1T would
be absurd to hold arbitrarily that an
operator who has been examined and
certified as competent by New Jersey
officials was not fit to operate in this
State, regardless of whether or not they
have had any examination"
IF Secretary Lyons Ia correctly
quoted" said Commissioner Dill, his
words are a. clear cut repudiation Of
the arrest OF the sixteen-year-otd Pater-
son boy for driving under a special
license issued by this State. We have
never demanded that New York motor
lists. who outside of the metropolitan
area are not compelled to have licenses
in their own State. should show them
here. In all justice. therefore. New
York should have honored the license
OF the Paterson youth.
TT was not the fine for which / was
fighting, but the principle. New York
apparently realizes that New Jersey has
the whip hand. for there are countless
more motorists who enter this State
without nny licenses whatever than there
are six xteen-year-old drivers entering
New York
Il should like to make 1t plain to
the people of New Jersey that the
Kearny affair was not one of reprisal
In fact. | have been waiting with a
good deal of miatience for almost a
month for a definite reply from New
York State officials. which as yet has
not been forthcoming. L intended.
however, to give New York an oppor-
tunity of having its say before 1 began
action against It's drivers.
New Jersey. / feel confident. has al
ways played square with New York.
This year. in fact, / granted to Secre-
tary Lyons an extension of forty-five
days on 1921 license plates. because New
York was unable to get them completed
in time / granted a similar courtesy
to Secretary Hugo in both 1919 and 1920,
when New York began its new year
with thousands of old plates on auto
mobiles"
A. f. Siegel of 566 West 15sth street
appeared In his new Franklin sedan
forty minutes late before Judge Winner
last night. Hts bail was declared for
feted and wAtn he told the court he
could "get better deal in Russia
he was threatened with being locked
UP for the night. Court was held seven
miles from where the arrests were
made. and most OF the defendants were
confused II. W. Linsner of 3l2 West
Forty-seventh street was late and was
fined s.. His bail was not forfeited,
however. when he explained that he
had been hunting all over New Jersey
for this place Kearny." Several blamed
the fight crowds for the delay.