Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-11
Move Made Necessary by Re-
cent Regulation Forbidding
Solicitation on Streets.
C. OF C. Representative
PROMISES SUPPORT
Secretary Hyde Tells Body Much
Business Is Lost Without
Central Office.

Faced with the recently enacted Com
missioners' regulation forbidding their
soliciting sightseers on the streets of the
city, a group of licensed guides met at
the Cavalier Hotel, $500 Fourteenth
street, last night and formed a tempo
rary organization looking to the estab-
llSnment for the entire list of guide
license holders in the Capital of a CEN
trail booking Office, booking substations
at strategic points downtown and the
establishment Of uniform rates.
Going Into Effect October L.
The regulations will end the soliciting
OF slghtSeers on the streets, aimed par
tlcularly at the guides who have been
congregat1ng in front of the White
house and, according to Inspector E. w.
Brown OF the Traffic Bureau, annoying
out-of-town visitors. Inspector Brown
SAID today the regulation would be
strictly enforced.
Committee Named.
A committee to take steps toward the
completion of the organization of ali
sightseeing guides in the city, at a
meeting to be held next Tuesday night
at 12l Maryland avenue northeast, was
named at last nights meeting. The
Il W
Jack Rowles, Robert Harper, E. r.
Bland and Miss Ruby M. Policy.
John G. Hall, sponsor of the meeting,
was named temporary chairman of the
embryo organization and Miss Policy
was made temporary secretary.
Full cooperation with an organiZa-
ton such as is contemplated was prom
ised the guides at last nights meeting
by Dorsey w. Hyde, jr., secretary of
the washington Chamber of Commerce.
Mr.. Hyde told the guides that hundreds
of calls yearly come to his Office for
licensed sightseeing guides, but COM
planned that without a central booking
office guides are missing much of this
business. He urged the organization
to protect the public from 'fy-by-
night" guides, who are unlicensed and
against whom there have been received
many complaints, both by the Chamber
and the Traffic Bureau.
Booking Office Plan Endorsed.
Thomas Mason of the Traffic Bureau,
also endorsed the central booking office
plan under consideration, haihng it as
an answer to the problems with which
the Police Department is confronted in
its regulation of sightseer solicitation on
the streets.
The plan met with the unanimous
support of those who attended the meet
ing ana It Is expected JnaC the enClre
roster of licensed guides will have been
informed of the plans afoot before the
next meeting.
Guides pay 81 yearly for the badges
emitting them to solicit sightseers and
drive them In the sightseers' own cars
to the principal points of interest in
and around Washington. Before secure
ing their guide badges they have TO
present motor vehicle drivers permit.
present proof of good character and pass
an examination establishing their abil-
ity to properly inform their clients on
the sights of the city.
They were given their authority UNI
der a Commissioners regulation, which
was subject to revocation at any time by
the Commissioners. Recently, after re-
ceiving many complaints. Inspector
Brown asked the Commissioners to take
steps to curb their soliciting on the
| streets and the Commissioners did so.