Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 17, 1924, Page 14

PAGE TWO Dependable | Dealers Use | These Pages | MORE EFFECTIVE PARKING OPACE BEING SOUGHT Suggestion Only One of Many Methods Being Used to Solve the Traffic Problem in Cities of the Country. BY J. C. ROYLE (Copyright 1924 The Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, Feb. 16—Plans now under consideration for most effec- tive use of parking space in the cities throughout the country are naturally dependent upon the lay- out and conformation of the streets themselves, but in general the con- gestion is such that in many cen- ters parking during busy day hours in business sections is entirely pro- hibited. In other locations, the time a car may be left is strictly im- ited. In New York City there ts no or- dinance which precisely regulates parking, except that cars must not uct traf-| e powers are suffi cient to allow determina as to what constitutes obstruction of traf-| fic and parking privileges are se- verely restricted. Oblique parking in most cases throughout-the coun- try is permitted or prohibited ac-| cording to the width of the streets involved. Synchronized traffic control has been of tremendous benefit in the moving of automobiles in both New York and Philadelphia. The dri- ver, however, who failed to follow the New York system in Philadel- phia, or the Quaker City signals tn New York would soon find himself in trouble, In this city a red light gives preparatory signal to stop traffic in all directions, A change to amber permits north and south bound vehicles to move while a change to green will start the east and west bound traffic. In Phila- deiphia, an amber light 1s the pre- paratory signal, with a green light to “go” and a red light to “stop.” The use of the one way street sys- tem in Philadelphia hag been espec- fally successful because many of the thoroughfares are narrow and have only one way trolley lines, This permits drivers to pass on either wide of a street car and allows street car passengers to enter and leave cars with greater safety. In cities Uke Washington, where the streets are exceedingly wide, there has been less extensive use of the one way street system. 'nsh- ington is one of the few cities which has raised safety zones for protec- tion of street car passengers. How- ever, if the strict system enforced in ‘Washington, regulating the passing of a street car by an automobile were enforced in larger centers, traf. fic would be materially slowed down. Philadelphia prohibits parking for longer than one hour on any. street in the down town section between 8:30 a. m., and 6 p. m., but the ban is raised at night in some streets for the benef of theatre goers. Even with the advantage of diagonal parking permitted by Washington streets, congestion has forced the District of Columbia authorities to strict observance of the regulations in the business district. In Boston, where streets are nar row, fully 90 per cent of the thoroughfares in the business sec. tion are limited to one way trafti fn the day time. Parking on Wash- ington street is held to two minutes and on streets bordering the rhop- Ping district the time a car may be left ranges from 20 to 60 minutes. Unlike Philadelphia, it is forbidden in Boston to pass a street car on the left side, even on a one wey street or to approach a standing street car closer than 8 feot In this connection it is worthy of note that the average speed of Boston traffic in the downtown district is only 10 to 12 miles an hour. A new thoroughfare is under con- struction from Park Square to South Boston station which will cost many mfllion dollars, but it may be found to be too narrow to accommodate traffic by the time it is completed. It seems to be a fairly generally Practice in the Hub for business men who use their automobiles in- termittently during the day to “take a chance” with thé parking rules. een isis linens OAKLAND AND DODGE BOOST AUTO PRICES DETROIT, Feb. 16.—Two im- Portant inceases in the prices on automobiles went in effect Friday. The Oakland Motor company in. creased its prices $50 a car, Dodge Brothers have announced an in- crease of $15 a car on open models with no change on other models. ‘These advances which followed that of the Oldsmobile company earlier this week, are believed here to be forerunners of similar action by many companies. While sales last year broke records, the profits in the last half Of theyear were not in proportion to those of the first six months. General Motors for ex ample made only $20,000,000 in the last half of 1923 on sales of 399,000 cars, whereas they made $41,000,000 in the first half of the year on sales of 497,000. €be Casper Sunday Cribune USE OF AUTO Many say they find it cheaper to pay their fines than to obey the rules strictly and use a garage for day time parking. Pittsburgh is another city where parking rules are somewhat freely ignored. Parking is positively pro- hibited in the main downtown streets but the traffic police follow the practice of “tagging” the of-|* fending care thus notifying the owner to appear in traffic court, The automobile owner however, has the option of mailing a $1 fing if it is his first offense, All parking spaces in the center of the city are crowded to.capacity thruout the day time altho a charge of 50 to 75 cents paid. The city maintains a public parking station at the Mon- ongahela river wharf where 10 cents is charged, but it ts inconvenient to h for most business men Eddie Foy and. Notice the famous Foy family smile? “mddie"’ says its lasting quality is partly due to the fact that the witys owned an Oldsmobile, When chorus girls wore long skirts and pompadours, and “In My Merry Oldsomobile” was the song hit of the country, “Eddie” Foy, one of America’s foremost comedians, invested some of his earnings in an Oldsmobile. Since then he has purchased nine automobiles, and every one has been an Olds. The above photograph shows “Eddie” and six members of his family in his recently purchased six-cylinder Oldsomobi'e sedan. The one missing member of the family, a son, was in the west when the photograph was taken. Last reports were that he was hurrying home to New York to try out the new car. THE UNIVERSAL CAR 1] l delivery. Sales now are far ahead of sales at this time last year. Advance orders calling for delivery under the Ford Weekly Purchase Plan have already reached a total of 255,758 Cars and Trucks, The prospect of securing prompt delivery is daily becoming more uncertain. We can- ‘ee not urge too strongly, therefore, the necessity of placing your order immediately, if you are planning to drive a Ford Car this spring, See the nearest Authorized Ford Dealer Ic is not necessary to pay for your car in full in order * to secure delivery. You can get on the preferred list for early delivery by making a small payment down. Or, if you wish, you can arrange for delivery under the terms of the Ford Weekly Purchase Plan Cheap Motor for Casper 503 Routh Conwell Buy Your Ford Now ‘TH spring almost here thousands of is certain to exist for Ford Cars and Trucks are placing their orders for immediate SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1924 is 50 “pounds. The recommeniy pressure _at 890 pounds whee weight for a. 5.25 balloon tire, which replaces the 32x4, ts only $2 pounds, Thus, there 1s produced a seem wonderful im one es provements in balloon tires which make on much less air pressure not only comfort. able, but absolutely safe and not injurious to the tires. “Not unless a motorist has been up in a balloon can he appreciate the supreme com. fort of literally floating over rough roads,” is the way Miller balloog tire men express the sensation of riding on balloon tire: SUPREME COMFORT IS CLAIMED FOR BALLOON TIES BY MILLER 60. Two features of balloon tires are likely to engage the motorist’s at- tention as soon as he begins to acquire knowledge about them. The first of these two is occasioned the question of trans: ion. ‘The new fuel Is” derived from | bY_& slimpse_at_ the tire—ite un- —_ — common charcoal, and replaces petrol gas by a gas composed of 30 per cent oxide of carbon, cent hydrogen, 2 per thane, and the remainder azote (nitrogen- through admixture with. alr. The new invention enables the engine itself to manufacture its own gas. A receptacle in which the gas is produced holds a supply’ of charcoal under which “a flame burns, forming gas, wfich is sucked in by the’ motor’s aspira- tion into a small reservoir, and thence through a special carbure- tor into cylinders. A motor-lorry ran 218 miles, con- suming 165 Ibs. of charcoal bought about $1. 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