Show TH E SALT LAKE THIBITNE n JULY 27 SUNDAY MOItXINC IDEA TRAFFIC PROBLEMS BORN WITH FIRST AUTOMOBILES w cx y iki i kl£0f li 1 Officers on Horseback Had Troubles in 1906 Trying to Prevent Crashes Bettveen Cars and Animal-Draw- n Detective Jack Brown With Long Experi ence in Trying to Make Travel Safe Tells About His First Ride in an Auto -- ) ''-Vehicle- s m -- )& ?wxsse3I I"' 'WX V VUrh Who there horsiel Took out there man here comes One of them there gas buggies and he sure Is buckin’" When automobiles first came Into prominence In 1906 Salt Lake traffic officers riding a gallant steed endeavored to prevent crashes between teld automobile and horse and wagons or buggies "Back up there get that horse out Of the way of that there gas bronco tent you see her a buckin’ down this here drive ?“ was not an unusual expression of the mounted policeman according to the police accident reports filed In 190S-0- 7 Detective Jack Brown was the first mounted cr traffic policeman in Bait Lake Ills duty was to prevent a collision between "anything" as Mr Brown describes It "Automobiles were considered a dangerous hazard and ad effort was e made by many westerners to have a city ordinance passed to present them from using the streets and endangering the horse and wagon A V f "Much of our fruits and vegetables were delivered to our doors by peddlers These men were licensed to operate upon the streets snd paid also a license to use the streets Automobiles were not licensed and the first crash between motorist and horseman came When a crashed Into a horse and wagon driven by a peddler at Second South and Second West streets "The peddler claimed his horse and wagon had a right of way The was Immediately city ordinance looked up and the court decided In hts favor A few motorists then demanded protection from horses and wagons that refused to give them even the slightest chance to pass" explained Mr Brown Speed limits Tarled and often the city council changed the laws either to lower the speed limit or Increase It Chasing a speeder on horseback was a real thrill but lack of speed mete re prevented prosecution of tire cose so the officers let them go Traffic with the development of the automobile became a daily prob- - Effort Made To Bar Autos From Streets 'two-lung- When one looks up down a street nowadays he sees ho vehicles bui those motor -- driv en The absence of horses Is taken as a matter of course Buch wasn't always the case Back In 1906 and 1907 when automobiles first began to make their appearance In numbers they were considered a dangerous hazard and strong effort was marie locally to have a city ordinance passed to pre- vent owners from driving cars on the city streets and thus endanger horses and wagons And that less than twenty-fiv- e years ago automobile ride He had been a cowboy and railroad man He went driving with a man named Ed Allen cattle-ranc- h owner who used only the expressions of the "Riders of' the Purple Sage" and the dialogue trails along about as follows: “Let’s saddle up and try this here old mar out" Allen Invited Mr Brown The pair started down South State street It was bitter cold and the car with Its two cylinders had no top or windshield and traveled at the unusual rate of 30 miles an hour defying all laws of gravity and man "She sure am a fast colt" remarked Allen “Whoa !" he shouted as he endeavored to stop for a crossing buggy pulling with all his strength on the steering wheel The whoa and pulling on the steerwheel failed to stop the maing the lem and for nearly fifteen years chine’ but an accident was avoided city county and state of Utah have “These here reins don’t work right continually added to the many trafat all— and when I put my foot Into fic regulations now In effect Mr Brown remembers his first the saddle belts things just seem to D'A" i' or V Of Old Chased By Mounted Cop Is one of today’s most common traffic violations They had the same problem back In the old days of the first autos But the method of chasing speeders was somewhat different from today Then there was a real thrill for pedestrians when they saw a dashing officer astride a down the street who was putting too much pressure on the gas horse gallop after someone Lack of speedometers however prevented prosecution and all the officer could do was to let the lawbreaker go after making him listen to “ At Fourth South and Main streets contributed greatly to the number the ride came to a audden ending of accidents Investigated by police when Allen collided with an undertaking wagon drawn by two black SCOTS SPt'RN KILT VOGCE horses No casualty or injuries re Millport Scotland has refused to suited but Allen positively refused to have any further experiences with become a town of kilts The kilted pioneers of the town who started this “gas buggies” From that time until recent years year to popularize the “garb of Old Mr Brown continued as a traffic ex- Gaul" In the Island of Cumbrae have pert and has helped to solve many abandoned their campaign and have gone back to the conventional trouautomobile travel problems sers Despite the Intermittent heat Pointing out that there were 2178 waves of the past two months the accidents In Salt Lake last year with two local business men who led the 34 persons killed and 1244 Injured movement failed to enroll any' reMr Brown says that the days of their fellow Islanders cruits horses and buggies were safer for for the among “wear the kill" campaign The travel adoption of Highland dress was made More than 8254 people were arrest- In response to an appeal by Lord ed during 1929 for traffic violations Colum Crichton-Stua- rt M P who and there were 1618 automobiles in- advocated the kilt as an everyday volved In accidents Horses and dress for the Inhabitants of the wagons numbered 24 while street Island of Bute but the enthusiasm at ears and trains completed the list first shown In Millport scon evapoNot obeying traffic signals fall- rated and rather than be chieftains ing to stop at boulevards and disre- without a clan the two pioneers have garding road signs as well as indulg- carefully stored away their national ing tn Intoxicating beverages have dress Auto Speeders Speeding rC a healthy lecture about endangering lives and property rTGrH“r V i - 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