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Show LIU ' PARADES, AUTOS, CARS AND POLICE. The Standard made editorial refer, once on Tuesday to the necessity of better guarding tho spectators during a parado witnessed by thousands, aa on July 2-1. We said all traffic should be stopped, if possible. We are informed in-formed that, with the main artery of the street car system running along Washington avenue, it would be difficult diffi-cult to arrange a schedule for tho moving of cars, if the Washington avenue line were closed. Automobiles should be parked, as they aro in Salt Lake during big parades, and onco parked should not bo allowed to move until after tho paraders havo passed. Within the next week a gentleman who has helped to formulate police regulations governing public street demonstrations in Washington is to present a plan to the city authorities as a solution of our local problem. The driver of an automobile presents pre-sents the following complaint. "Editor Standard: Did you seo the parades on July 24th? I'll wager that if you own a machine, and tried to see the parades from it, that you didn't, not if the police force could prevent it. When a parade moves over as many blocks as the one did on the morning of July 24th, is there any reason why two or three blocks out of tho entire line of march shouldn't be reserved for automobiles and their owners? Now, I have not forgotten forgot-ten mother who gets up early, gets herself and little family ready, goes up town on the car, picks out a good shady place to see the parade, stands and waits three-quarters of an hour for the j n nnma n-nrl tlion flhOUt five minutes before the parade passes, have some selfish automobile automo-bile owner back his big machine right in front of her and her little family. I can see the expression expres-sion on the dear little children s faces now, when they look up and find the view gone. No, that is not right. There Is not anything fair about it. "On the Twenty-fourth hundreds of machine owners drove up one block and down another in the hope of finding some place where they would be allowed to stand and view the parade with their family of little children, but they were driven away from every place they stopped. Many of them drove out past the bridge, in the hope that the parade would go to Glenwood park, as advertised, but after waiting an hour or more they learned the parade disbanded before be-fore it got to the bridge. "Hundreds of other automobiles stopped on the intersections in town, in the hope that they would get a glimpse of the parade as it passed. As a matter of fact, the intersections were so crowded that it would have been next to impossible impos-sible for a pedestrian to have crossed them, much less a vehicle. Had- a fire broken out on the bench imagine the fire depart- ment trying to work its way through our intersections! "Many automobile owners make it a practice to take aged people, invalids and cripples to see parades par-ades in their machines. What show would they have stood to have seen the parades on the 24th? The fact is, I made arrangements arrange-ments to take a convalescent to see the parade myself, but when I called for her she wasn't yet strong enough to go; as a matter of fact, if she had been she wouldn't have seen any more of the parade from my machine than she saw from her own bed room. "I would like the city authorities to consider that most of the automobile auto-mobile owners are the heaviest taxpayers in our city, besides they pay a heavy license to operate their machines on our city streets. Wo feel that we are entitled to a little consideration. Hoping that before another parade, someone will figure out a system, whereby everyone will be allowed to see the parade, and our streets will bo kept safo and free from congestion. conges-tion. I am respectfully, (Signed) R. A. SEAGER, 2G67 Barlow Avenue." |