Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1922, Page 62

Around the Town With The Motorist. BY THEODORE P. NOYES. The put Block occupied by the Washington hotels. at the theaters at | yLiniry to allow such a situation to night and in the afternoon and at ious public functions intolerable Despits the great improvement |usurped by the public cars the street | " itions when Com- | i% and it is not only an unpleasant Fisited fy chuaes coneisions bull by | condition. but a dangerous one. Tyissioner Oyster took “the bull DY | Whyt's'the answer? The answer Is the horns” and did away with the | Enforce the loitering law for public} stand in the middle of Pennsvivania hacke avenue, where the hackers were not only a nuisance but were a menace fo smoeoth running of traffc, mre now becoming worse and the need | 1t CAIS ©f drastic action again is becoming apparent. The “round and round the block” | Tha result was Immediate. A forty- i parade taken by a large number of | dollar collateral was plastered on | Tnase cars in the vicnity of the|each hacker who was brought in for | Washington and Willard hotels is | loitering, which is the official term rapidiy becoming a total blockade of | for driing around and around at all legitimate traffic. | slow spesds. The term “lsgitimate” is used ad-| Morris Collins, then hack Inspactor visedly. inasmuch as the law relating |and :ccentiy promoted, who is one of | ted a hundred | the hardest-worked officers in the po- v these hackers w use + department, has been combating as a hunting greo d for r many years. The ¢ hacking situation in the street. 14th street, Pennsylvania ave- Willard and | nhue and 15th street too important a is becomin, s bec L3 matters | Was n | |0 part of the business life of the com- exist. Al the presert time all business uses migtt as well move out of this k. 1f the parking space is not man’'s regime the writer approached him on thie subject, and. by a tour of inspection. convinced him that action ssary to free this block from and nigntly parade and vio- the law. tha dall Penalty for Loitering. e fares lls the present it ns' notice. lnconveniences Suffered. TN o the hackers practically Drivers who hat casion to travel | woniral” the hlock with the Wash- ;this block on any one of its four|ingion and Willard hotels, but pri- streets have found that it is pra vate owners attending theaters, cally impossible 1o make r b either with or without chauffeurs, are w due to the slow driving. con- immeasurably being tinual stopping and starting. and gen- -eral zig-zag course pursued by the large number of public cars. In front of the 15th street entrance ©f the Washington (s a street c: platform. There i barely room fo twa automobiles to pass side by side between the platform and the curb. himself behind one nf the numerous hackers cars when this point is hundicapped by unable to get up close enough to the entrances to take on their friends and passengers. Why? Well, because there is usually one of these hackers in front of the line, holding every one up. and stopping as long as possible hopes of getting a fare. He may D. | he told to move on by the policeman The harrowed private motorist finds | on duty. but he is so slow in comply- ing that it makes a bigger trafic jam than ever B he cuob SibecAly to) stan wan Parading In Unneccasary. SIokiap w fare: e PREvate ovener al No one wishes to do the public taxi tempts to gel by Not a ance or out of his business. There at this moment the hacker finds that d be siands enough for them in ) 1y Rut they should ed o stav on these stands 1ot slage parades in the on- minE i part of the cits, where every Patform autemohile makes the trafe The hacker. with a sour lnok P! m W ’ out, “In a hurry. ain't vou rking is (0 be restricted In this and proceeds around t(ne cor: congested sect then sharp and &> through exactiv the same Arastic action should be taken to dure at all the other entrances to the two hotsls Perpetual Motion. #liminate blocking of traffic by public | hackers If a private motorist is run into by !one of these men he has practicaily This goes on day in and day out no redress. He cannot collect dam- week in and week out Around and | ages. He is poweriess from every around tha black. apparently totally iangls oblivious and totally inconsidarate of all othar traffic. | these hackers pursue | There is no question of having to sit back and “grin and bear {t”: drive their majestic way ing around and around a block, and Washington has bacome too big a stopping traffic in front of theaters, city and the block bounded by F is a violation of the law relating to During the late Maj. Pull- | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, loitering and action should be taken immediately to eliminate this nul- sance which is daily and nightly be- setting the automobile owners and drivers of the city. In connection with Maryland's cam- palgn against reckless drivers, in- toxicated drivers, dirty tags and tags obseured by bumpers and the like, a |request for co-operation on the part of District motorists comes from Sergt. Albert D. Sharp-of the Ma land state police, who Is stationed at | Laurel. Sergl. Sharp points out that many of the automobiles passing between Baltimore and Washington are Dis- On account of the campaign which is chap who kmows it ‘all. Let's Horn In More. {horns suMcientiy? Or are {of the many who can't appreciate the | importance of tooting? The modern motor-driven horns are such corking good sounding affairs | It's funny that the average car owner doesn’t enjoy tooting them. A violent blast of noise sounds like money even of a cheap car. Something's wrong with human conceit. Perhaps something’s wrong with the horn buttons. Are they where they ought to be? On one make of car you flap a knee to see a flapper flee, but in most cases you bang the palm of the hand against a button located In the center of the steering wheel. Sometimes when ) would like to confer with the button | to horn began to observe his own method of teoting. He was surprised to discover that in about 50 per cent | of the times his hand sped to tha horn bution the contact was 8o brief that the horn either did not blow at al] or 50 feebly that it couldn’t be heard by the party it was intended to warn. now solidiy sold on the idea Don't remember who it was that first advised everyyman to blow his {own horn. but: whaever it was cer- tainly must have been thinking of the modern automobile pilot. Have vou noticed how few drivers use their| you one when it comes from under the hood | | | trict cars, and that a large percentage | to take advantage of this suggestion of them have their tags covered over |and by a bumper on the rear of the car.|M The Sunday Motorist An Abridged Magazine for Car Owners. ' EDITED BY WILLIAM ULLMAN. The wise motorist {s not always the produce i ur hand | it is husy with the gear shift lever. | The other hand hoids the whee!, one | foot is working the cluteh while the rother des its attentnn hetween he acceierator and the brake pedal |v Where could a buttnn he moars con- ventently located, what would oparate i1? ne motorist who notlced that a e number of road collisions and ! raMc accidents were due to failure | He i of locating the horn button where it | will not only be convenient hut where the slightest touch of a finger will! must of necessity he flexible poli mot fraction of the law. He urges that all Washingtonians )~operate with Maryland and have thelr tags placed so that they can be plainly seen from the legal distan of seventy-five feet. save local drivers the being stopped by the state police. but will make the work of the guardians of the law much easier in the appre- hen Inasmuch as ce are compelled to atop thel orists and warn them of the in- 1t will not only noyance of sion of stolen cars. the obscured marker [ until D. C, JUNE 4 1922_PART 3. ' ' - OTORS and being waged in Maryland, the state ure of the rear sp¥ings upo: a rough ‘spot in the road rear axle to turn a little in the direc- tion of wheel rotation and thus shift the pos! If the brake pedal is depressed while the aprings are flexing at maximum the brake linkage will keep chang- ing its position enough and decrease the application of the brakes automatically, disturbance chattering” either b; ion of the in only ke triking uses the linkage. o Increase thus. creating the brakes be Thix stopped releasing the brake pedal smoother place appears | top of the gear shift lever. regulation in the District is practical- Iy similar to that of the neighboring state. it will be well for all motorists co-operate, not land authorities, s well only but wigh the the Dis- triet sufficlent the horn boisterous! ton of the future ma: contact to blow The horn but- appear at the Here it would he excellently located for traffic work—for horning while shift- ing. The time may come, too, when ihere will be seyeral horn buttons; one on each siieo f the Steering wheel so that either hand can oper- ate the horn. and one attached to the emergency brake in such a way that e horn would be operated when the hrake is appiied suddeniy, though not when it is used merely to hold | the car stationary on a hill. In the meantime let us toot the best we can with the horn buttons now available. Do You Know the Answers? Q What causes apparent carbu- retor leakage from modern cars dur- ing night storage? A Condensation of low-grade fuel in the intake manifold as the motor cools off. The kerosena content coi- lects, runs back into the carburetor and drips out on the floor of the garage Q. What is meant by “period of vibration™ or “critical speed”? A Al' engines vibrate in running. bul at a certain speed. which varles with different moters. vibration reaches a sudden maximum. 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