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THE JAY-WALKER.

PROBLEMS OF ROAD, CROSSING.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY

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HANOI PIRACY CASE,

Owing to the fact that no word has been received at Tonkin re- The Brst step in the official regarding the suggestion to extradite gelation of the pedestrian in Lon- don has been taken by the erection of signs in Parliament-square beating the words, "Please Cross Here."

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Chinese who is suspected, of the Hanoi being concerned in piracy last December, the local polico authorities are proceeding with the charge and the man was brought before Mr. R. E. Lindsell on Tuesday afternoon. ».

The following article, by a mem-

One of the Innol's compradores ber of the Town-Planning In gave evidence and said he was in stitate, discusses the problem and his room when he heard shots fired. The men then appeared, suggests that legislation is neces- both armed with revolvers and he Bary to prevent the pedestrian recognized one of them as the de-

fendant. The other pirate prod from taking unnecessary riska:~~ded witness with a revolver, and So great had traffic congestion said he wanted the No. 1 compra- dore. If he was not found wit- become in New York, that theness would be shot. Police Commissioner took steps re- cently to abolish by law the right of heedless pedestrians to cross crowded streets wherever they please. Such persons are arrested now and punished.

The pirate apparently Had a sus- piclon that the first compradore was lying in concealment as ho and the compradors immediately fired a shot at some bags of rice,

appeared from behind them. The safe was then ransacked and $2,000 in money stolen.

Witness said he thought there were teen pirates all told and if i cognize eight or nine of them. they were present he could re-

The defendant was formally re- maaded for week. Further evi

lence will be taken when the Hanai arrives in Hongkong in about a fortnight.

The American term for this type of pedestrian is a "Jay-walker," a species not peculiaș, únfortunately to the United States; nor is their trallic problem without its serious | parallel in this country," No doubt everyone has had momentary lapsos from rational comportment in crossing streets, and the minority, be it hoped, have experienced the the accompanying the esCRPS from injury. After L "narrow shave in trafic and finding one- and selfish person will persist in self still there and thankful, if a retaining and using that right. ittle breathless and startled, the The right to walk in the road holds Invariable second reaction to good, but altered conditions make lame someone, and that someone undersirable and selfish to fight is usually the driver of a vehicle, for that right in full, of beyond the who probably was equally incom-bounds al Common sease and | moded and started.

neighbourliness.

Such incidents occitr, every day

With a fuller understanding and by thousands, and the unfortunate co-operation, much petty jealousy minority who pay bodily penalty.

may be overcome: While it, is is increasing in an alarming man- legal for the pedestrian to enter 11491. A well-known London magis-the roadway at will, it is illegal 'trate, whd' has observed traffic eon- ditions and the character of read-

nsers, has been struck by the blank stupidity of pedestrians and the audacious recklessness' of motorists."

A Church Protest.

for vehicles to enter the footpath except at recognised places, pre- arranged and usually identified by a different type of paying,so that both the pedestrian and the driver, are aware of the faet. It is this principle, long accepted as regards the vehicle, which mukt be applied Andeed, it seems as if a war, a to guvern the movement of the class war, is being waged between pedestrian. All tho, present indi- those who walk and those who ride.eations are that we shall apply this The Parochin) Church Council | principle, and perhaps du more, in through whose area one of the the separation of the pedestrian most important arterial, roads of from those who ride. The common the London system passes took up law relating to the use of the road the cudgels on the pedestrian side will probably have to be changed, by framing a resolution to their modified. Local Authority expressing dis- content with the conduct and con- trol of motor trafit, which, by its

The Hazlitt Walk. William Hallitt was a self-con-

selfishness, it stated, is the negnfessed "Jay-Walker," but his tion of the Commandment. "Thou shalt love thy neighboar as thy self," and demanding that the in- humanity shown by many drivers towards its parishioners should

cease.

laugh, run, leap and song for joy probably had no obstructive effect on the traffic of his, time, and he escaped to laugh another day.

Lard Montagu of Bealuieu's charming poem, "The Spirit of the But this is practical matter, and Road," characteries the road as cannot be dealt with by pious re-free for, the use of all men, and for solutions. We are all pedestrians, all to take pleasure in. A state- but yet, while remaining pedes ment of unassailable soundness- trian by nature, nearly all take full when not applied to his tall road- advantage of the many alternative and supported by the framing of mechanical means of conveyance the common law; yet who but' a while a rapidly increasing numberJay" would wish to exercise his of people are actually either right to walk in Oxford-street or cyclists "op owner-driver motorists, the High-road of Chiawick). The experimentalist might essay the Faults of Motorists.

adventure with laugh and a song, Much of the seeming unreason- but his attempt would certainly ableness of motorists is really end with a leap and a run, not, as genuine ignorance, or lack of road-Hazlitt did, for sheer joy, but as sense and speed-sense. So many a fugitive from the wrath of Jehu, have,not graduated to the use of and with a caution, from the near- the road through the preparatory est policeman concerning traffic achools of riding, driving, cycling. obstruction. and motor-cycling, but have start-

I venture to predict that shortly ed at onco as car drivers. They have no road-lore, no intuitive im- many important highways in towns deductive or will be guarded against the casual aginalion, and no anticipative acumen to apply to pedestrian by the erection of bar- the varying conditions and inci-riers, lekal barriers, and eyen phy- dents in which, as such, they find sical barriers as in the case of the themselves playing a part. There railways, which will make it diffi is "Jay-Driving" as well as "Jay-cult for the pedestrian to enter the Walking" and further, there is road except at recognised places, little doubt that the Jay-Walker" and that walking to the common who becomes a motorist will make danger will be a punishable off. a Jay-Driver."

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The reasonable pedestrian, wiän- Exeluding children who play in the street, exuberant youths sporting to cross a busy street, volun- ing pillions and side-cars, physi.tarily takes off from a spot opposite cally unfit drivers and tempera-a centrally placed rofuge where mentally unsuitable drivers, the such exists. A reasonable motor- "Jay-Walkers" and "Jay-Drivers" ist will expect people to cross are comparatively few; neverthe-there, and be not unwilling or slow less, it is just those few who, to- to allow the manoeuvre to be ac gether with other slow-moving and complished. It is nothing more. than mutual understanding Tel- uncertainly behaving units, cause

low feeling: yet is it not possible the trouble.

to translate a tacit understanding The Pedestrian's "Right."

into a legalised rule? More numerous subways and bridges Much of the thoughtlessness of may have to be provided, but un the pedestrian is due to the ac-legs the circumstances are such quired habit of unrestricted move that surface crossing is impossi ment, given him by right. He ble, these means are not at present knows he has the right to walk in looked upon or used with favour the road, and many an obstinate by the average Individual.

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