Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-20
Highways and By-Ways
Of Liz Oh" New York
By RA Y M O. Nd C ARR I
Copyright. 1922 By Public Ledger Company -

! NEW YORK, June 20.-This town has
pretty we'll got the ,''hitchrack habit
out of its system, and no longer tries to
park "tin Lizzie" where 'Dobbin'' was
once tied. Any city is just as great as
| it tries to make life comfortable for
everybody. OF course, there are folks
in for the week end to do their trading
and go to the movies" who stifl insist,
but we have more than 10000 private
owned automobiles 10000 taxicaes, 11S,00O
commercial vehicles and 10000 horse
drawn vehicles-altogether 100000 We
hieles of all descriptions-upon the
streets of the greater city, which APP
palling congestion, has been its own cure
for widespread parking.
Everything in New York City heads
! into that portion of the little island of
Manhattan below Fifty Ninth street. Here
| the bulk of the six million work, and
here is where they have come to attend
] the theaters, to eat in the gay restaurants
and see the midnight cabaret shows.
Imagine what would happen if all those
who ride to business each morning in
sisted their cars be parked in the open
! air within a few steps of their offices
during the day? Or consider t1e 7"o-
fusion that would result if all the thes'Ar-
goers and diners out demanded a place
for their cars up the street" from where
/ they were having their enjoyment
Aside from the fact that there is not
sufficient surface in which to make the
experiment, just the trying of it would
create mess even Lloyd George could
not explain, or Houdini wriggle out of.
| On Manhattan Island below Fifty ninth
street there are exactly twelve authorized
! parking spaces for vehicles with a total
hitch rack capacity" for less than $500
cars.
! Perhaps you think the vehicles oper-
ated on Manhattan Island are some new
tangled, collapsible kind. which can be
checked with ones hat and cane. Where
do the vehicles park? They don't park.
They turn in at some garage and there
wait until time to emerge and take the
folks home. In the greater city there are
/ about 10000 stables and garages.t
Naturally, q great amount of time is
lost and gasoline burned in doing the
two trips" and for the benefit Of shoppers
and the patrons of the "whitelight" dis
trict it has been seriously suggested to
the city authorities that huge municipal
motor caves be created under Bryant
Park at Forty Second street and Sixth
avenue and the south end Of Central
Park, with nominal storage charges for a
/ AiiulAtu occupancy VI THESE uHuSA lbuuQ
| garages. However, no digging has been
| begun.
| Another idea is to transform Longacre
/ Square after o'clock into a plaza ex-
clusively for pedestrians, despite the
helplessness OF smart set members who
/ insist they must be rolled to the very
doors of whatever theater or "eaterie"
/ they choose to grace with their presence.
/ One Of the most satisfactory thing that
/ has been done in New York was to segre-
gate to certain streets TO the usage OF
/ private and passenger vehicles. and des-
/ ignate certain other thoroughfares for
/ commercial vehicles
= When drivers of commercial vehicles are
delivering and collecting merchandise or
/ transacting any other business, and pro-
/ vided such business requires several