The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 17, 1924, Page 16

Hurrah, Boy. Hurrah! l Down Goes Throttle And Flop Goes Car BY M. BILLESE Come or the East dust the South ye as b North. West. He your m 1,500 lives were Getidents. T and not equa make this ‘em off right until we a Rememb« your weapon pOCH cr The old cowpunch his achi of his play Seat keep track of off, by carving a n ing whee! & train off t ists who a be entit! the steerin ings shou motorist's r Now, in order to ge to drive together. I form ans “Kuntry adopt the trophe.” Such a clu the hearty support of ers’ association and the ers’ union. But we mu mouldy-haired that autoists are kill than wars, If peop! OUP annual toll would fill 19 towns the size of Sheby, Montana, they might get angry. We must keep the Cagualtios strung out All states give away little hand books, entitied “Motor Vehicle Laws These books contain laws and regu: | jations for driving. Any Tom, Dick Or Harry can get one by just writ ing for it, but it isn't worth much Or the state wouldn't give it away To keep up with the state, I sug gest We put out a little book entitled, “Motor Vehicle Laws” or “How Driv @a Can Gain Publicity.” The sel! ing price should be two-bits. It Should contain rules similar to the; following: ! v up at intersecting streets, | blind alleys, schools and bridges. You can kill people at such places easier | than a yegs can move a three-ton sate. “Never stop before you cross a track. Beat the train, then turn aronnd and give the engineer the} ‘horse laugh.’ “When you see a car unloading passengers, speed up and dart past | It’s just as much fun as running thru a flock of farmer's chickens. “Always drive with skid tires, so that you can silde around the cor-) ners. In case of an accident, you an say your car skidded, "Don’t drive with good brakes. A number of cars were examined and only one out of 12 had defective brakes. Of a number of accidents, @nehalf the cars had defective! brakes. Remember that. Brakes are made for old fossils, grandpas and people that are going down hill. “When you stop do not consider) the man behind you; he is probably an old crank. Stop quickly and that} Will make his hair stand on end. a you want to pass @ car,| gneak up behind it, then turn sharp- ly out and shoot by. Do not blow your horn until you are by and then shout, ‘get that old trap off the road.’ “If you want to pass a car and gnother one is coming. make a wild dash. This is one of the biggest thrills of motoring. *I¢ another car stops at a cross. ing for a train, pull out around It, that will make the ‘driver feel fool- es you have a tire that ts bout to blow out, test ft out by driving 60 miles an hour. If it stands this, pay no more attention to it. “Be sure you have glaring head- lights, this forces the other fellow Mf the road. The man coming to- A Hetr realized tha min jown, Use NO DETOURING Road Widened Near Scenic Hood Canal OLYMPIA, May | Govan. ling a abe has finished crew ¢ t five miles between there and Priton and has moved the entire camp to Lake Sutherland, lying e of Lake Crescent, where extens widening operatio will be con-| du On the hillside above the the road is narrow, with some and the widening and reduction of the curves will make it a safer and better road. | No ,detouring will be necessary, | states District Highway Engineer W H. Yeager, Jr. the road being kept open for traffic thruout the oper: | ations, as was done on the Hood canal road. A. U. Mills ts finishing up Dosewalips fill, working about men, and Andrew Jorgenson, who has been working about 40 men on the widening job between Lilliwaup, has finished about miles and still has about one and one-half miles to finish The new bridge over the Dose wallips river, built by the federal government, was completed and opened for traffic about 10 days ago. This is a steel structure with 223-foot span. | Work an the Hamma Hamma! river bridges is proceeding slowly. With two channels about 1,400 feet apart, two separate 120-foot span bridges were required, and while the contract provided for completion by May 1, this year, the first one ts not done and the sécond scarcely started FLINT $ ETS 4 THE SEATTLE HILL-CLIMBING STAR RECORD FOR CITY is ~~) FORD INCREASES \ th week did something neve Automobile Co. The city eng cent grade Better Color Sought on 55th st., hill in high gear, AUTO SALES 750,000 Mark Output Now y Pass for Year's Graham Brothers Trucks are operat- the ing successfully in Flint automobile, driven by T. W. Frost, above, |! claims of the Seattle r before accomplished by an auto nobile in Seattle, accord ng .to Thaleotn <Iainah ineer’s office, says that the hill, between Fifth ave. N. E. and Latona ave, is a 20 per | -rennessee—Yeile ‘ 343 different lines f Texas—Black and of business. : Contrast Auto Plates Experts Seek to Make License Num- bers More yaler, president of well 3 believes Chrysler organtza by using pinations of colors and by staggering the figures on automo bile Heense plates and by using a rid of one figure, a right ¢ letter. to got | practical plan can be evolved where. by and quickly read and remerr Washington's ¢ police others can ce mbination of and white, experts declare, has a “fair” degree of visibility It is practically impossible for the average person to remember five or six figures like ‘749826 or ‘84729',’ said Mr, Chrysler, in elaborating up on his idea. But scientists proved. by & series of teats that | easy to see and read and remember a combination Ike ‘749' and ‘S6". A ne plates db! ° t te lningle letter ts alno easy to remem. | ber. “Recently in New York the p complained that the gray and white color combination selected by the Adv * 4 BY ISRAEL KLEIN IRECT automobile traffic away | from street car lines. Provide one-way streets. | Limit parking in congested areas. Provide loading platforms for street car traffic. Install rotary traffic at busy oor ners. Cut off corner curbs at a wider radius. These are the salient recommen- dations for the relief of traffic con- gestion and consequent reduttion of accidents made by William J. Cox, traffic engineer of the National| Buresu of Casualty and Surety Un- derwriters. They are made after a close study of traffic conditions and accident causes in several’cities. | According té Cox, congestion ts the greatest physical or non-per-| sonal cause of automobile accidents. | East Pike at Harvard better automobiles are built, Buick will build them Not that they occur at busy inter-| EA st-0842 ises Rotary Traf fic ‘Engineer Plans to Relieve Congestion sections any more than elsewhere The strain of driving thru heavy traffic,” he t “resulta in fatigue which manifests itnelf in the of form carelessness, recklessness and accidents on the outakirts of the congested area, where traffic con trol is relaxed.” But it may be noted, he adds, that the bulk of traffic accidents occur between 4 and & p. m. Parking in congested areas, he points out, has cost Chicago alone about $60,000 annually in delaying traffic. Aside from delays due to street cars, however, the greatest slowing Up of traffic, and consequent strain on drivers, comes from busy inter: | sections. If two streets of equal width, carrying an equal amount of traffic, intersect crossing only half the time. To avoid this delay and at tho |sarne time provide safer crossing, | states by color experts follows: Cox suggests two remedies: 1—Provide circles in the center of crossing where there is room, espe: cially at intersections of more than two streets, Traffic would have to move around these circles, lines blending {nto one another from all streets and all moving the same way. Thus all carz could be kept moving )and contusion would be reduced to a minimum, have} Readable jetate for the 1924 license plates was the plates, which are real lored ould be seen but a hort distance away, The first mix take was in the selection of | Physiciata tell us t the combin colorn ation of yellow and black gives th ent and the second ° ts e and black During the present year, 20 states are using white numenals for figures with a combination of | cream, blue, green, gray, tan, yellow, maroon, orange, red, al | uminum gold and vermilion back | grounds. Eleven states are using | black backgrounds with white numerals and other states are using brown, blue and alumin um for the numerals, | “Tilinote has a good leense plate with bright yellow numerals and a black background |the best of all color combina Idaho has a good one with lemon yellow background and black numer el. Indiana and Maryland use or ange numerals with a black back | krounda, Michigan black numerals on a yellow background, Missouri and New Mexico black numerals on an orange backgrounds. “States could very well stick the yellew-and black and orangeand | black combinations, There is enough [difference to make them easy to d tinguish from year to year. "In times of accidents and traffic | violations, police are frequently tn want of license plate numbers. It ix to the Interest of motor car owners that they should have them. | “Criminals frequently make use of stolen cars; another reason why plates should be easy to read. "Operatives in search for stolen Jears frequently have to rely on lic ense plates alone, “The conscientious motor car own lor and driver is among the first to advocate better means of identifying jcare “It ts only the careless and the jreckiess who oppose such measures Jan these and they are as much of a | pedestrian.” | Alabama—Cream and brown. | Arizona—Blue and white . | Arkansas—Gray and blue. . California—Green and white. Colorado—Gray and black unetts—M'r’n and white, Fair No more emphatic ts ‘ z . Yellow and t Bent Cont Cg at bse - ee . evidence could be Db are 7 1 brown ‘ . je and white Valr ir 2 ; ack and white Fat {esippl—Blue and white..,.F ‘ desired of their suit- ‘ Had urt—O: e 4 ik t ° nae ' Sars ability for every Ida Nebraska .. Rest | MOTORDROME RIDER kind of commercial ndia Bost | Nevada—Green te Bad BUYS FOUR CYCLE . Kan Jersey—Red and wt Fair Speedy Ba champion motor K w Mex Orange and black. me rider of the world, who is now | Low ir| New York—Gray and white Bad) performing in At with the Ww Maine—Blue and wh Fair |N. Carolina—Gray and maroon..Fair| Brown & Dyer shows, has just pur LEaton Maryland—Black and orange Beat | N Aluminum and bi'ck. Fair chased four new Indian Scout motor-| East Pine at Sumunit cach can use the|Menace to the motorist as to the fere with other traffic. “In any case,” Cox concludes, | |"make the safe path the easiest | |path to follow and eliminate con. fusion by marking out on the pave- ment with paint or preferably with \ 2—-Cut off curb corners on a radius|a combination of paint and bumpers | equal to the width of the narrower sidewalk, so that autos trying to make a right turn could do so easily by hugging the curb and not inter- the paths to be followed by both pedestrians and vehicles, If this principle is adhered to in any given case, improvement will surely result Claire Windsor of the screen and she will appear on the gilv in “Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model,” | | HERE'S OUR OLGA CRONK | is Olga Cronk of Seattle, er sheet this coming week at the Blue Mouse. 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