Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
In the Motor World
BY q. ADAMS HOWARD.

for indicating safety zones and
croSswalks. Paint jobs won't last
and the self-vulcanizing tape is
inclined to get too wavy. Button
markers are Of higher initial
cost, but are regarded as much
more practical.
Speaking of the painted lines,
there have been about five strips
of them laid out on Pennsylvania
avenue in front of the Traffic Bu-
reau. They were put there for test
purposes. A story is related by
Inspector E. w. Brown that old
Dobbin just couldn't make them
out the other day. Hitched to an
old cart, the pride of other days
happened along. His spirits were
low and so was his head. Motto
ing the white and yellow strips, he
paused and would not proceed.
Finally the driver had to get down
from his seat and lead the horse
around them. Evidently, it is
thought, the horse mistook the
lines for strips of wood over a
bridge or something and feared
that he would get his hoofs
caught in the intervening places.
However, the installation of the
button markers is not on that
account.
March production factory
sales of motor vehicles in the
United States, as reported to the
Department of Commerce, was
401 1873, of which 1876, 789 were pas
senger cars, $4,000 trucks and
1889 taxicabs, as compared with
324,018 passenger cars, trucks and
taxicabS in February and 585, ass
in March, 1929.
Will Observe Garden Week.
April % to May 3 is garden
week in Virginia. For the second
year the owners of beautifully
Powered and Shrubbed estates will
throw open their gates to the pub
lie. Last year, it is estimated, one
half million motorists from every
State in the Union took advan-
tage of this Southern hospitality.
These gardens, located in every
part of the State, are full of his
toric and romantic interest. A
map Of their location and the
route to reach them will be found
elsewhere in this section.
The Automotive Daily News
speaks its mind editorially on the
hit-and-run drivers. It states:
Perhaps the meanest creature
that infeStS the highway is the
hit-and-run driver, the man who
Injuries some one and then tries
to escape the consequences of his
miSdeed by putting on speed and
getting away. 1t is claimed that
more than 1000 people are killed
annually in New York City by hit
and-run drivers, most of whom
get away. In fact, last year there
were only about 800 arrests for
this miSdemeanor.
Zone of the reasons why hit
and-run drivers get away so fire.
quently is found in the disinclina-
ton of the average citizen to take
down a number and report an
offense to the authorities. Why
any citizen should hesitate to re-
port a wretch guilty of so cow
ardly a crime passes understand
ing, but the fact remains that
most citizens do hesitate.
I'm order to encourage people
to report hit-and-run drivers, the
New York Automobile Club has
just offered a reward Of 500 to
any one who reports such an oc-
currence. It is felt that this re-
ward will obviate the feeling that
most people have that they will
be tied up in court proceedings by
making a report and will lose
time and money. If this reward
for reporting hit-and-run cases
works out as the New York club
hopes it will, the idea probably
will be taken up by other automo-
bile associations"
The local A. A. A. has offered
similar rewards, and only too sell
dam have they been claimed. 1t
may be because there are fewer
such drivers here.