Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-01
1929 Plates Will Be Honored
Until January 81 Without
Drivers Arrest.
WHITE HOUSE AUTOS
GET NUMBERS 1OO-11O
Members of Congress Are Assigned
From 500 to 750-No. / Goes
to Dougherty.

The Districts 1880 automobile tags
will be placed on sale at $3.50 o'clock
tomorrow morning on the ground floor
of the District Building. Fourteenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue.
Those desiring tags should come pre-
pared to pay the usual 81 plus one
half Of the annual personal property
tax on the car. They should enter
the District Building from the Four
teenth street door, where guides will
direct them to the counters where
the various formalities incident to get
ting the tags are gone through. First
they will secure a cardboard applica-
ton blank, which must be filled out.
This calls for the car owners name,
his address. the date, model and make
Of the car, and its engine number.
Having filled out the application
blank, the next step is to take it to
the counter where valuations for COM
putting the tax are placed on the blanks
in the application left for that purpose.
There a clerk will place the value on
the car and compute the tax. This
amount will be written In the blank.
All on One Floor.
Next the applicant steps to the
cashiers window. where his money is
received and O tag number assigned.
The last step Is to go to the window
where the tags will be distributed. All
of this takes place on the ground moor.
Those wishing tags for trucks. however,
must flrst go to the personal property
ONCE on the first floor.
The tax to be paid on the car covers
the period from July to December l,
1890. II taxes prior to July !, 1890,
have not been paid, they may be paid
at the same time as the new tag Is
bought.
The tags viii be on sale daily during |
January from $3.50 am. to 4:S0 pm. |
District 1929 tags will be honored in the |
District and adjoining States until mid |
night, January 81. After that time |
those using 1929 District tags are sub |
ject to arrest for driving with dead tags. |
The minimum collateral for this onense |
Is $40.
The business Of distributing low num-
bered unlettered tags this year win fol- |
low closely along the lines OF previous
years.
Tags numbered 1, 2 and viii be as
signed. respectively, to Commissioner |
Proctor L. Dougherty. Sidney r. Talia-
ferro and william 3. Ladue. Col. Ladue
viii also receive tag No. 4 for his private
car. No. goes to Commissioner Talia-
ferro for his private car and No. to
Daniel Z. Garges, secretary Of the Board
Of Commissioners. No. goes to Assist
ant Engineer Commissioner Donald A.
Dawson.
President Gets No. Ice.
The White House fleet Of Ofhcial |
cars may be distinguished by their
usual numberS-100-110. Justices of |
the United States Supreme Court viii |
all be assigned tags with numbers be- |
low 100, Chief Justice William Howard |
Taft's tag being No. so.
The numbers between 500 and $50 |
are all assigned to members Of Con-
gress and Senators and those between
400 and 500 to the cars belonging to |
foreign embassies and legations.
Mrs. Dolly Gam, sister and ofncial |
hostess Of Vice President Curtis, win |
get tag No. IL, while Mrs. Nicholas |
1ongworth will get No. 81. Speaker
Longworth's number on the ofncial car
which Representative Garner 20 often
claims Ii Sc. Vice President Curtis
ohlcial car win b tagged No. Ill.
Usually there are only 1000 unlet-
tered tags Issued. This year, however.
owing to the great demand for the un-
creased to 10000. Mathematically
therefore, the distinction attending the
ownership Of an unlettered tag Is only
one-tenth that of previous years. But
the unlettered tags seem to be as pop
ular as ever, judging from the demand
for them made at the superintendent
Of licenses ONCE.
A curious commentary on the whole
affair Is that Wade n. Coombs, super
1ntendent Of licenses, will have no dis
tdnguiShing tag on his car. He will
take his place In line and buy an orci-
nary lettered tag from himself.