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New-York tribune., 1922-05-21
Automobile License Plates
Made in Sing Sing

Examining drivers is only small part of
the work of the Automobile Bureau. That in
stitution, occupying two floors Of building
at SiXty-ffth Street and Broadway aside
from attending to the mass of work involved
in getting out license plates for motor vehi-
ces-which plates, by the way, made in
Sing Sing-maintans departments for nves-
tgating criminal records Of drivers, little
court all it's own to hear the cases of people
whose licenses have been suspended, and an
elaborate system of records. Altogether the
number of employees is 150 and during the
December and January rush for new plates
the force is greatly increased.
The figures of the chief auditor teach one
thing that few people rcalizc--that there are
more hired automobile opcators than there are
private owners. There are 1000 operators
licenses out and 10000 chauffeurs'. and there
arc only $4,000 taxcabs licensed The head
ing of chauffeurs includes truck drivers, pri-
vate chauFeurs and taXicab operators. The
prisoners at Sing Sing have made plates for
121 500 pleasure cars and $4,000 trucks which
have actually been licensed since January /,
and there are long lines ,of people in the Auto
mobile Bureau offices every day waiting for
more. The bureau has deposited in it's bank
$3,6OO.00O since the first of the year, and
money is coming in at the rate Of $4,000 a
day. These figures include only the five bor-
oughs, and the money gained is apportioned in
the following manner: Each county gets one
fourth of the proceeds which have been con-
tributed by it and the rest goes to the state
for use on highways
Motor trucks form the chief item in the
s6000,000 year income of the Automobile
Bureau Licenses for trucks cost SIS a ton up
to fourteen tons, and $40 g ton over that. A
twenty-ton truck--and they say there is such
thing--would thus bring in $3.50.
The Automobile Bureau would be the happy
hunting ground for efficiency experts and sin
dustrial engineers"-not, one hastens to add,
because the bureau is in need of an efficiency
man but because there is such bewldering
variety Of activity that the expert would be.
as happy as child in mud puddle amid big
cards and yellow ones and filing cases and
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21
uotng Around the Block
10 Avoid Turning

turning around is another difficulty which
arises to spoil the otherwise perfect records of
4ppacantS. The business between examiner
=. INV woman applicant goes something like
i's' alter left and right turns and signals
nave been demonstrated:
LSaminer-"stop your car along the curb
~, woman applicant-"Why, what's the mat
'ef! What have | done?"
aos oothlng at all. just asked you to STOP
oh, all right.
Now turn around"
lurh around? Why, never turn around.
assays NV 60 around the block
A''e examiner then persuades the candidate
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21
Stopping on a Hill
Is a Favorite Test

Although there is no case record of an
apprentice driver having backed a nice new
automobile and too trustful examiner right
off the embankment and onto the railroad
tracks in the gashouse district, there are
plenty of cases where machines have been
backed into concrete front yards and even as
far as half way into some citizens basement.
The examiners never attempt to put driver
in an unusually tight prcdicament which may
result in damage to his car. Their tests are
all emergencies such as one would encounter
every day. Asking a driver to stop on hill,
examiners point out, is by no means an unfair
thing to do
Warm weather and turn for the better In
the automobile business have resulted III an
almost unprecedented volume of drivers H.
cense applications. An average of $50 people
day have been tested in Manhattan and
Brooklyn and the summer advances this
number is expected to go higher. The deter
mination of the police, manifested recently IN
a great number of sunln,onses, to make every
automobile operator get license also has
made the automobile bureau one of the most
crowded Offices in the city. So, what with
traffic policemen, prospects of good motoring
weather and the urge to buy new cars, New
Workers are much worried over the fact that
% per cent of the applications for drivers Ii
censes are being rejected than they are over
the we'll known statistics that four out of five
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21

ooesn take an experienced examiner long to
'eH IL candidate is 4 good driver. That
i'ooaoiv accounts for some people saying that
"e o'ate lax Departments examinations are
'I'ud'shly simple But if there is any doubt in
'ne examiners mind about the capabity of the
appieaht, the test becomes annoyingly
thorough
ne Automobile Bureau headquarters, at
'"'y-hfth Street and Broadway, is the Man
hde'an rendezvous for the horclcs who want
I" get licenses these spring days. First come
INST served IS the order of the day, and as fast
90 cara OF fourteen names, one name to each
''iie' Is iillcd out, an examiner leads fourteen
'af parde through the West Sixties and Sev-
'"'es. For while the fourteen play follow
''e eaaer The examiner, sitting in the first
'af' mas malicious habit of asking the leader
u stop on hill. The whole line stops Then
fefhaps one of the first cars with the brakes
released little starts rolling back down the
siope If the driver is green" he may become
mustered and lose control of his car IF the
ufNer IN back also loses his head and starts
'ackward there may be retrogresson all
aiong the line, with complications which may
pc 1ancled Mr. Hawver,in the days before he
was ch.et of the department, has seen five cars
pietty solidly damned together Just because
w '.e machine started slowly backsliding on a
hill.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21

people will get pyorrhea after they are forty.
1t is estimated that $4,000 applicants will
have been examined for the year ending July L.
Whenever anybody sights the drivers
animation the Automobile Bureau points
proudly to its 22 per cent rejection list. If
the womens records were averaged there
would be greater proportion Of failures than
that, according to officials SO maybe the
romance seeker had better not ask Mr.. Hawver
for position, after ALL for some feminine
applicants try to pass their examinations with
their eyes and smile or two instead of with
their hands and feet, and examiners must
have CLASSY eyes and stony hearts.
The examiner is like the diner who told the
waiter that he did not have to eat an entire
egg to find that it was bad. There are many
little tricks of motor operation which expert
enced drivers never think of important
which will indicate in an instant TO the ex-
aminer the experience Of the applicant. The
major one Of these little tricks of the game is
shifting from intermediate to high gear. If
your engine is not accelerated to the right
speed and if the clutch is not left out for just
the right length of time, and if the third
speed gears don't mesh easily, then it is going
70 be a hard task to persuade tho examiner to
pass your application.
But all cases Of bungling driving are not
caused by nexperiencc. There is much red
tapc-formaty, writing out ones life history
aIidavits and Northumberland a considerable
amount OF ncrve-trying waiting before the
examiner gets the card with ones name on it
and takes the applicant for try-out. The
psychological result Of all this waiting and
fOrmalitV in manV cases is q severe case of
stage fright. The good examiner knows the
difference between stage fright and inexper-
cncc. If the applicant is nervous the examiner
will tell him to stop the along the curb,
and viii talk to him in this fashion,
Look here, Mr. Jones, you have the idea
that you are being put through your PAGES by
q hard-heartcd and cold -bloodcd examiner
Forget it. Don't think about it, Your are just
taking me out for a ride"
That little talk is very effective.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21
Keeping Tab on Lawbreokcrs
Is a Job in Itself

Checking up on the criminal and the vo-
lator of traffic rules forms one or the largest
tasks which are performed by the bureau.
With the investigation department of the Au-
tomobile Bureau a verdict of mot guilty. or
absolution from guilt by court is not enough
to reinstate an errng driver to good standing.
The investigation department operates on the
theory that, even if the running down of a
child OF less serious accident is legally pro-
nounced unavoidable, perhaps the driver in
question is not good driver. So, in addition
to discharge from court, driver whose
license mas been suspended must bring letters
of recommendation from responsible citizens
before the suspension is revoked Once each
week from thirty to fifty people visit State Tax
Commissioner Bert Lord, who passes person.
ally on each application for reinstatement.
The inspection department communicates
with every police organization in the city, and
leeps close watch Of the records of all on
orators and chaulfcurs Twice a month re-
PORTS come from the Traffic Court in which
are named those who have been arrested
three times for ordinance violations, and these
licenses are suspended The investigating
squad of the Police Department constantly
reports arrests serious charges and these
licenses are also suspended.
The transfer Of the bureau from the Secre-
tary of States office to the Tax Department
has caused stir which has not yet subsidized.
1t entailed reorganization of staff, installa-
tlon of new equipment, expansion of quarters
and the undertaking of two years work in tho
space of few months. 1t was decided TO
make July the date for renewal of operators
and chauTeurs' licenses, thus leaving January
clear Tor the registration Of cars and the
issuance OF license plates. In consequence,
renewals of chautfeurs' and operators licenses
had to be made last January, and are again
being made for the year beginning July /.
One Of the measures instituted by the new
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Continued or page scuen !.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21

office machinery and sstenogra pnois~ and blank
forms. 1t would be source of delight to him
to see the simple way in which different kinds
OF correspondence are returned to the bureau
in envelopes of various shades, already neatly
assorted and made ready for the right depart
ment by color r-perceivng employees of the
United States Postotfice. And atfidavits! The
visitor to the inner offices of the bureau
hardly move without the danger of disarrang-
ing an affidavit. Atfdavits thrive there. If
Mad Margaret the eccentric lady in the Gil
bert-Sulvan opera "Ruddgore, had heard of
the Automobile Burcau in time she might not
have had to say sadly, when asked if she knew
what affidavit was, Il made one once, but
it died--t died-t died"
There not as many atfidavts as there
used to be- When the bureau was under the
Secretary of States office there fifty
seven-odd varieties of blank forms; under the
state Tax Department administration they
have been reduced to near a dozen. Perhaps,
after all, Mad Marearet's lonely affidavit
would have been Of those to suffer,
The formality of swearing to statement
before man whose license is continually
the verge of expiring, but which, like the bank
rupt haberdashery which is going out of bust
ness, never does, is regarded as one of the per-
picking problems connected with the operation
of the Automobile Bureau. On Sixty-ffth
Street, from Broadway to half block west
may be an odd fratcrnity-sdewalk no
tares Officials of the bureau claim that the
sidewalk notaries are a nuisance that they
dupe ignorant people out of excessive prices
for their services and that they arc TO use
anyhow, because the bureaus own notaries per-
form all necessary functions free of charge.
The sidewalk operators, however, insist that
they are benefit to the human race, particu-
larly when line of people five blocks long is
waiting for attention, and they assert that they
do many things to help applicants for various
sorts of licenses that the state officials do not
have time to do. Open war has been waged,
and every so often the sidewalk men are ar
rested and taken to the West Fifty-f fourth
Street magistrates court. They always COME
back. They have hired lawyer to care for
their interests, and to date attempts to oust
them from their curbstone positions have been
unsuccessful,
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21

Now take that crossing back there as an ex-
ample. You kept right up to the speed limit
for crossings, in spite of the fact that another
machine was traversing your path. You were
in such perfect command of your car thar if
it had been necessary for you to stop you
could have done it in an instant. You have
tecn trained SO long in pushing clutches and
brakes and shifting gears that intuition beats
your thoughts, But we can't take that into
account We must allow q great margin of
safety. When you try the test again act
as if you We're a we'll trained novice and go
slowly around corners and at CROSSINGS; don't
handle your car with careless assurance"
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21

that it is an essential thing to know how TO
turn ones car around in the middle of the
block. Observation of traffic will bear the ex~
an,iner out. 1t appears to be against soca
usage in New York City to turn around at
street intersection. At the intersections one
must wait the bidding of cop; further in the
block traffic must wait dociley while one
switch backs around to the desired direction
The woman applicant, respecting the wisdom
of the examiners words, either goes home to
ask her husband why he never taught her to
turn around or else, encouraged by the exam
iner's kind and trusting face determines to at
tempt reversal then and there
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21


in front of the Automobile Bureau
picked out fellow who looked ignorant and
charged him $50 for KING his papers There
also has been some complaint that during the
rush at the first of the year men have sold
application blanks for as much as 50 apiece
to people who would rather pay The money
than wait in line 10 pet them free"
"Suspender Jack did not get his name be-
cause he carries little table suspended bv
straps over his shoulders, as do the other side
walk notaries. His "handle' is relic of his
youth, when he rode the pony express, hunted
for the Union Pacific and toured the world
with the Wild West show Of his friend Buffalo
Bill" Cody McGee, who has dabbled with
lariats, politics and afiidavits, and who has
been hunter, policeman and notary public
says that during the rush at the Automobile
Bureau he makes almost as much money from
his - and 30 cent fees as be did when he sold
antelope at so cents Off the hoof-dead-to
the Union Pacific
New-York tribune., 1922-05-21

Continuod o., page seven
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1922-02-09

las de dicho Partido; va los u. estan-
co dentro del Partido Federal, eran,
como los Republicanos, partidarios uni
camente de La soluci6n EsTADo, tales
como Nicolas santini, Travieso, etc,
etc.
Y 81 en- la Asamblea de 1913 eli
minamos la soluci6n Estado, y ahora
vamos eliminar la solucion 1ndepen-
dencia. no hay razon que justifique el
hecho de que siga llamandose Partido
Unionista, cuando en- realidad no 10
es. Propondria tambien como condicion
indispensable, que al elegirse el nuevo
organismo director. no Sc designe min
guno de los que en- la actualsdad for
man la JGnta Central Unionj5ta. Los
pariidcs como las mujeres, no tan solo
deben ser honrados, sino que tambien
deben demostrarlo. Y 81 Sc elimina la
tase 5a. para que no Sc nos tache de
antiamericanos. pero dejamos al frente
a los organismos directories q los mis-
mos hombres que actualmente dirigen
al Partido, y que, en- su mayoria, son
los unicos culpables de la actual cri-
sis por que atravesauios, habrd razon
para que Sc siga dudando de nosotros,
y Sc piense y Sc olga, que somos los
mismos de antes, con diferente manera
&c pensar.
70 bendigo la hora de la pvesenta-
cion en- e. Congreso Americana por Mr..
Campbell. del Bill que 1leva oese nom
ire. la bendigo, no por ell Bill en- 81,
que en- parte 10 considero superior al
acta Jones, sino porque nos brinda una
buena oportunidad para elniaar def
nitivamente la independence.
Arnque ell Bill no fuese aprobado,
habremos conseguido mucho con su pre-
sentacion; pues esta nos brinda la opor
tunidad de dar un ejemplo nuestros
hijos Y a, las generaciones futuras; el
ejempIo de ser sinceros, frances Y lea
les; el ejemplo de actuar en- Ia vida
p1blca en- consonancia con nuestra ma
nera de pensar sentir.
Y va que aproveehamos la oportuni-
dad del Bill Campbell para modihcar
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Para ell dia IL del presente Sc h2
convocado una Asambles extraordi-
maria de nuestro Partido, con Ell I'm de
modifcar Ell Progrsma elimlnando pei
complete, de una vez y para siempre
la base 5a que trata de la Independent
cia como Ideal para Ell future.
Yo aplaudo esa determination, no
tan solo porque esta de acuerdo con
mi nlanera de pensar y sentira sino tam
bi6n. porque siendo la Union un Parti-
DO AutoEomista, no debemos corsentir
que Sc siga hacienda la pohtica 3e
doble juego que hasta la fecha Sc ha
hecho para evitar que Sc retiraran los
-elementos NAL namados independents
tas. Siendo la Union de Puerto Rico III
Partido esencialmente AUToNOMIS-
IA, debemos definir nuestro Programa
de un- modo claro, explicito terminan
te Y digo que ell Partido es Autono-
mista no Independentista, pordue Ia
autonomia es la base principal de su
Programa, porque esta compuesto de
un 80 por ciento de autonomisLGs. En-
tiendo que en- Puerto Rico no pueden
llamarse indep endentistas mas que aque
Las 2SS personas, que con mi amigo
don Vicente Balbas la cabeza, re-
nunciaron para siempre a la ciudada-
MIA Americana para aceptar la ciudada
MIA de Puerto Rico. Estos son, a mi
iuicio los tnicos que pueden ostentar
aqrel t.tulo oficialmente. Los otros, los
que estan dentro de nuestro PaItido os
tentando indebidamente ese tilulo, no
son mas que INDEPENDENTISTAS
ACADEMICOS. como los denonin6 Ell
Washington mi amigo particulac el Sr.
Barcel6. Y siendo INDEPENDENTS
TAS ACADEMICOS, no debencs con-
sentr que, por causa de ellos. que son
una pequefa minorfa, Sc couduzca al
Partido como uns barco cuando ma
vega sin rumbo flo, y Sc le este cali
fcando como un Partido Antiamerica-
no. cuando en- realidad no 10 es, porquo
ell 98 por ciento de los que mllitamog
en- sus flas somos partidarics de que
Puerto Rico permanezca unid9 para
siempre la gran Nacion Americana.
Lo creo que no dsbemos limitarnos,
solamente la modification del Progra-
ma a base de autonomia; debemos tam
bien zanzibar su nombre, Uamandole
PARTIDO AUToNoMISTA, para que
asi su nombre guarde afnidad con el
Programa.
Ell nombre de UNION DE PUERTO
RICO tuvo su raz6n de ser, cuando, en-
la Asamblea del olimpo, Sc disolvi6 Ell
Partido Federal. Entonces Ell nombre
de Partido Federal era un obstaculo pa
ra dar entreda los Republicanos par
tidarios del Estado, que no Querian
permanecer por mas tempo en- las f.
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'TRIBIJNA LIBRE
HUYKE Y La PRlMERA ASAMBLEA

Ell programa base ilniea de autonomia,
debemos tambien sprovechar ssa opor-
tunidad para olvidar viejos rencores,
que no tienen razon de ser, y entrar
ruevamente en- la lucha politica unidos
como un solo hombre.Y digo este, por
que he leldo con pena que el Sr. Coll
y Cuchi ha dicho que 81 ell sr. Euyke
dtssa asistir la Asamblea, 6l le pro-
NEE darle en- vez Gle una, tres creden-
cia.es de delegado para que tome la par
te activa que el desee en- dichs asam-
blea.
En- politica, jsr. Coll y cnchi, debe-
mos sumar y no restar Con ST. mani
fessacion de- dar tres credenciales al
sr. Huyke. 10 que Sc quiere ieTnostrar
es que en- la Asamblea habra Gle pre-
dominar I'm ambiente hostil dicho co
rreligionario. MO hay dentro del Par
tido ninguna persona con mas derecho
Que Huyke para asistir la proxima
ASamblea v tomar parte en- sus delibe
cones. De los actuales Leaders de
nuestro Partido, Huyke ha sido ell uni
CO consecuente con sus principles. Ell
ha proclamado a todos los vientos que
debia eIiminarse la independence del
programa del Partido, y constituirse
este como Partido Autonomista: Y 81
ahora vamos hacer, 10 que en todos
los tiempos propuso Huyke, icon que
derecho vamos serle hostil. cuando en-
realidad deberfa recibisele, puestos de
pie todos los asambleistas para tribu-
tarle un APPLAUSE y darls ell abrazo de
bienventda? 81 Sc excluye Huyke,
porque tuvo la virtud de ser sincere Y
honrado en- polftica, deberiamos excluir
tambi6n Santini, que tacitamente es
taba fuera de la Union, puesto que era
y es partidario de Ia soluci6n Estado,
" a Travieso. que patrocina tambien
esa solucion, otros muchos mas, Gu
yos nombres no recuerdo en- cstos mo-
mentos.
Ell Sr. Huyke, desde que entr6 en- la
vida politica, milito siempre en Ell Par
tido que hoy Sc llama Union de Puer-
to Rico, y los que, como el son elem
ploS de honradez y consecuencia politi-
ca, debe premiarseles, llevardoseles a
los puestos mas altos en- Ia direction
del Partido, para demostrar a esa ju-
ventud que en- Ell dia de mafana ha de
regir los destinos de nuestro pals, que
la honradez y la consecuencia politica
tienen su premio dentro de los Parti-
dos. Hacer 10 contrario, este es recha-
zar I'm hombre porque en- 81 vida
politica ha tenido la virtud de ser hon
rado y sincere para con su pals Y
para consigo mismo, es tratar de CO.
rromper las conciencias, de inculcar
a nuestros hijos sentimientos impro-
pios de todo hombre digno bonrado.
Pedro vergue DE LA CoNcHA.
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Nearly Loses Life
On Prairie In Big
Snow Storm

rort Pierre, S D., Mar 7-Aitc.
being snow-bound the blizzard
which swept over this section OF
the country recently, William Pow.
ell managed to reach his home
here last week from Eagle Butte
via Mobridgc. he is now rccuper-
ating from the effects of the
storm and is still in a critical con
dition.
Powell has been employed by a
banking concern for some time
and at the time of the big storm
was gathering up horses and cat
tie of the Sonncnschein stock on
the Cheyenne river banks. He
was on, his way to Eagle Butte, q
small inland settlement, for sup
plies when the storm struck him
with all its fury. His team after
plowing along for several hours
came to a halt, completely exhau-
Stcd. He unhitched them, and
mounting one and leading the
other attempted TO pursue his
course through the binding snow
The storm however became worse
and finally the horses refused to
face the wind and while Powell
was familiar with the country
over which he was travelling, he
became confused and this with
the intense cold nearly ovcrcame
him. He was out in the blizzard
for just twenty-four hours, wan
dering over the prairie completely
lost, but on the morning the storm
cleared he found he was just one
mile from his destination, Eagle
Butte.
For three days snow and ice
water were applied TO his feet and
he finally was permitted to leave
his bed. The toes of one foot
both heels and his face was badly
frozen.