The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1952-10-23

FINES lMPOSED FUN AOlO
SPEEDING" and Three Charged
With Exceeding the Speed Limit to
Frederick" Nothing new in that, l
can hear some say, but that's the
point; these headlines are so old
(they were written 40 years ago.
that it is news. For example, the
speed limit that was exceeded was
an open country highway limit of
"25 miles per hour"
But this news note differed in
other ways from the similar news
items of today: it rather played up
the angle of the limiting of the
drivers freedom by opening the
article thus: Transformation reigned
in automobile circles this morning
when three citizens charged with
speeding were before Justice An
keny"
Perhaps some of the gentlemen
involved may recall the incident,
may even read about it here. The
next sentence of the article, from
"The Evening Globe" of World War
one days, says: 81 V. Jamison, Jr.,
Walter Feldman, and R. B. Fleigh,
each paid a fine and costs of 1910"
Another gentleman, w. c. Conley,
was charged with the same viola
ton but was out of town on that
particular morning.
These arrests for speed violations
were made by one 7. G. Cameron,
called speed detective" The ar
ticle states that "Mr. Cameron rides
motorcycle and Immediately gives
chase when he suspects the speed
limit of Is miles per hour is being
exceeded on country roads, And,
as speed was indeed a new phe-
nomenon, the Globe editors felt that
the next remark was necessary: He
can tell by the speed his own ma
chine makes how fast the other driv
er is going"
The "speedsterS" were asked if
any excuses were to be offered, and
one of them came up with this in
teresting, and never-dying eXplana-
ton: Judge, I am guilty, but under
the most extenuating circumstances.
was going to Frederick on Labor
Day, and it was necessary to get
there as quickly as possible, having
been delayed in getting started on
the trip"
But the Justice smiled and said
Nothing doing" and they all had
to pay their fines.
Another of the three offered no
excuse, but lamented the mark on
his record. He said he did not mind
the fine so much, as the marking of
his card, but again the judge said,
Cant help it,
Now, back to the Trolley" In
several past columns of Horse and
Buggy Days I told about where they
ran, in and around HageTstown. l
was told that they ran out West
Washington Street, as far as West
Side Aveue. I now have two addi-
tional proofs of this, one in the form
of a letter from a reader, Mr.. U. L.
burst, and the other a story about a
trolley that jumped the tracks, out
near Washington Street Square.
1 am very glad for the letter from
Mr.. burst He lived in Hagerstown
and rode the trolleys, He says: cat
the time I moved from Hagerstown,
Nov, 1919, the Washington st. line
west terminus was West Side Ave.
The north terminal of the H. & F.
was shady Grove, Penna." I am
supposing that the III & F." was the
name of the whole Hagerstown sys-
tenn, taken from "Hagerstown and
Frederick"
Mr.. burst says further, that when
he first came into this community
the C. G. & w. was being built, in
1902. This must have been the
Chambersburg, Gre en- ca st e and
Waynesboro. Mr.. burst says that the
first car ran this line in September
1903, and the last on January Is,
1880. This line ran from Green
castle to Chambersburg, parallel to
the railroad that is now the Penn
sy1vania. Past Waynesboro, it ran
on up to Pen-Mar. The section to
Chambersburg was built later than
the Waynesboro end, and was also
abandoned first.
Mr.. burst also volunteered this
bit of technical information. The
old III. & F." was of standard
guage width, while the &C. G. & w"
was much wider. Thus neither car
could run on the other companys
tracks, unless the tracks would have
been changed.
Mr.. burst further states that, so
far as he knows, there never was a
trolley line in Quincy. 1t is likely