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Show SAMU3L R3v7Z3USE TALIS SHOWN TO AUTOMOBILISTS Mining Magnate Believes That Chauffeurs and Auto Owners Own-ers Should be More Fairly Treated by Authorities. The speed of automobiles has long been a mooted question. The following interview with Samuel Newhouse is of moment. It if the views of a man who knows his subject well. The beliefs of a " man schooled by observation and travel. There is much of profit in his "talk." . Much that comes home to city officials. Much that can be well adopted in city ordinances. l is also a commentary upon Salt Lake's reluctance to take to the, automobile from a commercial standpoint. It is an interesting subjectand sub-jectand well told, by the mining magnate hiineelf. I BY ROBERT COCHRANE, f . This is an Impromptu Interview a talk. If you will with Utah's knight-errant knight-errant of commercial life Samuel New-house. New-house. The talk Is on the subject of "chug-wagons" or automobiles. This interview with Samuel New-house New-house Is of worth. It Isthe views of a n)an.who lives every. day, not fearing to look every man In the eye. The opinion opin-ion of a man who tries to be on earth What good people hope to be In heaven. A Conservative Man. i Samuel Newhouse is a conservative man. Still his capacity for Imparting Information seems endless. There are few subjects in which at some time or other he has not taken an Interest. As everything that he ever touched was Instnntlv In rpnnh nf his nmnlnotent hamper the automobile owner and driver. I believe that the automobile should have the right to maintain a speed the equal of that permitted the surface cars here In Salt Lake. If a person gets on the track of a street car and becomes for the moment confused and unable to turn, it is Inevitable that he be run down. This is because the car can not be checked at a good speed in the same distance as an automobile. ; ' -"An automobile can be stopped within with-in its) own length. Then, again, it can be swerved to avoid the person. An automobile Is much easier handled and controlled than a horse.'"' 1 1 ' J Has Replaced the Horse. "In the East the automobile has re- placed the horse In every Industry. The heaviest trucking, like the moving of ponderous safes, and' the delivery of the .daintiest millinery of the big department de-partment stores are done by automo- memory, he easily becomes a living dictionary dic-tionary of reference. " But there Is in a measure a reason foi all this. Samuel Newhouse was once a reporter and a. good reporter at that. In fact, he was what Is known as a "star." He knows the hardships of the life. Time and again he has had an "emergency assignment" which consists con-sists of getting over some ten miles of space and locating four men for a column col-umn interview each and return to the office within ten minutes. Newspaper life did not make Samuel Nwhouse. A rolling stone gathers no moss; but then It gets over much ground and becomes polished. It sharpens sharp-ens your wits, at any rate. Turned to Mining. Samuel Newhouse then turned his intellect, in-tellect, sharpened by newspaper activity, ac-tivity, to mining. How well he has succeeded Is shown by the fact that he lsj now the "Managing Editor" of several sev-eral of the biggest mines in the country, coun-try, and his "biography" In Dun and Bradstreets keeps the men who edit these necessary', publications marking up "As" after tits name until his rating rat-ing Is away up in the millions and he has almost as many as he has years to his credit. Has Traveled Much. To begin with, Samuel Newhouse has traveled much. For Instance, he has been eighty-eight times across the Atlantic. At-lantic. Clarldge's In London knows him dm waII -. o Hnfii niir rTvn VnntafnrA one. soi aione is me service quic-Ker and more reliable, but it Is Infinitely cheaper. "This condition has spread on the Pacific coast. But not in Salt Lake. We seem to be laggard in this respect. Why, in Los Angeles they haye 100 to our 1. "But on the subject of speed again,-1 wish to emphasize my remarks that in crossing street crossings the machines should not be driven faster than from two to three miles an hour. Trench Machines Best. '"At the present momerit the French" productions are by far the better machine. ma-chine. This is because they took up the new. line of progression first and had the advantage of an 'early start' of us. But America has excelled in time In every other walk of commercial pursuits. It Is only a matter of time before America will turn out the best cars. It is true that the best speed records are yet held in France. But then you must remember that the excellence of the roads In France Is greatly In- their favor In attaining this object. Officials Had Examples. - "The police should check at once any one. Irrespective of who he may be, who runs through the city at breakneck break-neck speed. But then, certain officials have themselves set a bad example. I have been treated with nothing but the most uniform kindness. But then, there are extenuating circumstances In And now for the "talk." I "I have Just returned from the Pacific Pa-cific coast," . he said. "My trip, how-ever, how-ever, had no business significance at least, not at this time. I have already given The Telegram my predictions for ai 'Greater Salt Lake,' which are already al-ready being realized. "What I want to talk about Is the subject of automobiles and the Intolerant Intoler-ant spirit In which they are regarded generally by the public. The automobile automo-bile is beyond .question the most wonderful won-derful and efficient aid yet devised for traffic and all carrying purposes. Yet, despite all this, there Is a marked antagonism an-tagonism on the part of many against its Introduction and general use. Few Reckless Chauffeurs. ( "The concerted antipathy comes from he acts of a few, and I am glad to say a very few, reckless chauffeurs or drivers of these motor carriages. I do not countenance In any way reckless driving. I would be the very, first to decry against excessive speed. But then I believe that there Is a well-defined 'middle' road. The line of de-fnarkatlon de-fnarkatlon should not be drawn too distinct dis-tinct as against the self-propelled car. C "I believe that every driver of an Automobile should be made to run his machine over each street crossing at such a slow speed that even the most infirm person would experience no difficulty diffi-culty in stepping from the path of the machine. On this point I am most jflrm. I "In New York city In the city limits the ordinances allow a speed of not more than twelve miles an hour with a limit of twenty miles- in the same time when outside the city boundaries. This 'tea very wise and safe restriction. Desire to Hamper Th-sm. "But there seems a united desire to t m every Instance. "In the case of my own machines. I give my driver full privilege to run the machines where he desires in the interest inter-est of the police or fire .departments when I am not using them. He has been very good to certain officials. He has given them the use of the machines and they have used them. He has taken them on 'hurry calls whenever they desired. On these occasions when on I city business the speed has been far from slow. "This may have given my driven 'trt believe that he was sort of 'privileged' to maintain this speed when they were not along. Mind you, I am not upholding uphold-ing my driver, but I do say they m.iy set him a very bad example. Should Be Punished. "Any Teckless driver should be punished. pun-ished. Hazardous driving should be checked. But then there is too much opposition to automobiles too much of . an intolerant spirit. The automobile Is the most economic and valuable devise yet thought out by man. . Its use is becoming be-coming general and must become so. ' With its general adoption business must Increase, It is Inevitable. It Is not alone a luxury, but a time-saving devise and a necessity. The opposition to its introduction In Salt Lake should not be so strong. There are always i two sides to every case. The automo-mile automo-mile is not all wrong. It has Its redeeming re-deeming side. I am only asking fair play for the automobile user and driver. The same treatment that the bigger cities of the country accord. . "When wise provisions are made rel-atlve rel-atlve to its speed, Salt Lake will have the number of machines In use in proportion pro-portion to other cities. It will stimulate stimu-late every Industry and aid many. "But as the matter now stands some (Continued on page V) .' Samuel Ncwhousc. ' (Continued from page 1.) of the officials are certainly over-zealous and the Intolerant spirit against the Introduction of the machines seems to be increasing rather than diminishing. diminish-ing. Still, everything will right itself in time.-and the day of the automobile is coming for Salt Lake Just as surely as it has 'arrived' in the East or Far West." Friends Innumerable. Samuel Newhouse is Indeed a man'. The paramount thing in his make-upl is his capacity for friendship. His friends are innumerable. His word is his bond. No one ever forgets Samuel Newhouse nor does Samuel Newhouse forget them. He knows by name and the Christian name at that every man on his massive payroll. And they all know him. He Is to them not only their employer, buf plain, honest "Sam" Newhouse, the man who never goes back on his promise. I And there ya have the man. . I |