Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1926, Page 51

RIGHT TURN 00D OVER ALL GOTHAM New Code Speeds Traffic and Recognizes Rights of Pedestrians. Bpecial Dispatch to The Stai NEW YORK, December 15.—After several vears of study and experi- mentation, the New York City traffic experts have decided that the right hand turn at street intersections is permissible at all times, and may be made against the red light as well as the green. Few cities of the country permit this practice, but to motorists it always has seemed a sensible thing. New York's new regulations, whickh go into effect January 1, will requir2 that right-hand turns be made wih care and with due regard to pedes- triars. A whizzing right-hand turn will bring the offender to Traffic Court on a charge of reckless driving. New York motor traffic is as con- gested as In any city of the world. ‘Manhattan Island is long and narrow, becoming more and more restricted as the downtown sections are reached. It has been found that holding up right-hand turns for the green light slows tratfic to an appreciable degree. Furthermore, when green light is flashed pedestrian traffic starts and the motorist making a righthand turn must fight his way through this cross foot traffic. The new traffic code for Manhattan @and her sister boroughs is a carefully thought-out set of regulations, which seem to go as far as possible toward solving the problem of street conges- tions, and it endeavors in a Solomon- like manner to judge between the con- flicting rights of drivers and walkers. Rights for Pedestrians. ‘Walkers never have had many rivileges in this city and consequent- y have taken them willy-nilly. New Yorkers think nothing of darting peross Broadway or Fifth avenue ‘without regard to the red and green lights. Sometimes six policemen sta- tioned at Fifth avenue and Forty- second street have been unable to prevent foot ball rushes across the thoroughfares. In the new code the walker is given his rights. At all intersections which are un- guarded by traffic cops the pedestrian has the right 8 way and motor ve- hicles, as well as horse-drawn trucks, are required to slow down and give the walker the preference. It probably will be some time before the dashing taxicabs of this over-cabbed commun- ity will make up their minds that a mere pedestrian has any rights at all. They love to rush screaming upon you and see you leap for life. Then with a merry chuckle, they proceed on their reckless way. Taxi drivers here say the cops are after them all the time and they never do “nothing,” but John Doe, pedestrian, is con- vinced the cabs and the cops are in league to do him bodily injury. All this will be changed under the new regulations, maybe. New York never has been much for YOU RE THE PLUMBER, Er ? COME RIGHT DOWMN 1N THE BASEMENT AMD 'LL SHow You WHERE THE BREAK 1S €EE! THAT Looks LIKE SWELL BourBor, How MANY CASE S YA GOTOF IT? | DoN'T SPCSE VLL EVER HANE + DRINK oF REG LER HL.TcH Cope. 1926 (N. Y. Wodd) Press Pub. Co. the most natural thing in the world for a motorist halted a minute or two by cars ahead of him to begin a screeching and a howling. Always there is a good reason for the delay, the honkirg does not* help, and in ‘Warrant Officer James E. Simmons, band leader, has been relieved from duty at the Army Music School, Wash- | ington Barracks, and assigned to duty | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, HOW TO TORTURE A PLUMBE! —By WEBSTER GoswH! Some L PRiVUT STotw YA GoT HERE,misTER | How LoNG YA FIGGER THAT'LL LASTYA? - 3 7N /////_ \\\\\ vi) WoT's 1IN THEM Two BiG-Casks? paad BACARD! RUM ALL RIGHT, TAKE AS LONG AS YOU WARNT ., ILL STICK HERE WITH You . I'V§ /ALwWAYS BEEM INTERESTED 1M PLUMBING * SAY, MISTER, THIS ‘15 GoIN' T BE QUITE A Jo8B. MAY TARE ME THRES HOURS & N AN N ol SaREAt I AN Band Leader Transferred. Maj. Sheridan Reassigned. Maj. Henry H. K. Sheridan, Ord- nance Department, stationed in Ha- “ed to Camp Meade, Md., for duty. New York at least it /has been de- with the 2nd Engineers’ Band, Fort NEW PAYS TRIBUTE TO HIS DEAD SUIDE Politicians and Business Men At- tend Funeral of 0ld Michi- gan Hunter. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Mich., December 15.— Postmaster General Harry S. New paid a sportsman'’s tribute to his com pinion of 42 years’ Spring fishing and Fall hunting in the Michigan North | woods in funeral services for bert “Buck” Beaufor veteran guide, here Monday. Beaufore, inseparable companion of Mr. New in the official’s semi-annual through the unbroken wilder- joining the Turtle Lake Club near Alpena, died three days ago, ‘at Calro, Jll., en route to California. A native of Ontario, “Buck” was 78 years old, and from the founding of the Turtle Lake Club until a week ago was its guide and master of the hunt. Prominent politicians and business WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1926. men attended the rites for the gulde in a small chapel. Mr. New delivered the funeral oration. | “He knew Turtle Lake as no other man ever can,” sald Mr. New. “Ev since the club was founded ‘Bu has officiated as gulde, and his k ness and love of the outdoors contr uted to our enjoyment. “He was the breath of this great outdoors of north Michigan. He was | one of the few men I have ever known who, when he departed, left no ene- mies or bitter thoughts.” The burial will be at Moorestown, Ontario. Hen Pays Her Cag Fare. Special Dispatch to The Star. SAN FRANC ‘0, December 11.— When Jim Bu conductor on a California._railroad, made his usual | stop at Jamestown, Plymouth Rock | hen got on, making herself at homie | in one of the coaches. Not wishing | to disturb her, Burgess produced a | box and induced Biddy to enter. Next ! morning on_ the return trip, as the| train started again, Burgess looked in the box and found a new! laid egg. Biddy had paid her fare. The plan of selling used automobiles | by auction is being tried in Australia. | | F. 0. Besner’s Wife Fights Grant-| SEEKS PARIS DIVORCE. | ing of Decree. PARIS, December 15 erick Oscar Besner, an American, whose home address was not made public, has applied for a divorce here from Lilllan Smith Besner. | The wife opposed -the petition on the ground that the husband had not established a French domicile. The court, however, decided that a domi- cile had been established, and decided to hear the case later on its merit P —Fred- Cleans ~ Protects DUCO & LACQUERS is “Life itself.” to your home. Winter months! New Columbia “Viva Tonal” Phonograph 275 " This new and improved VIVA TONA Columbia-make phonograph The clear, bell-like tone is really marvelous. and hear this new instrument—no obligations to buy. 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In the outlying districts 25 miles an hour will be permitted at-all times —and more when the traffic conditions permit or the cop tells you to ‘‘come along.” Left-hand turns are made here the same as in most cities. The “turner” advances with the green light, halts toward the center of the street and completes his turn when the green flashes for the direction in which he is going. Wherever a cop is sta- tioned the left turn must be made “inside” or to the left of the officer and not around him. New York City is starting a real crusade against useless motor noises. The new regulations will emphasize rules recently put into operation against the senseless honking of horns in a halted traffic line. This honking has been held to be a nuisance, and many motorists already have been | %4 fined heavily for the offense. 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