. Water & sewage works . rds, 25, square yards. Startingtime, 8:15 a. m.; finishing time, 9:13 Dust, 69 pounds; cubic feet. Streetsweepings, 383 pounds; cubic sweepings, 335 pounds; cubicfeet. Total clean-up, 1\2 yards of tirne, 1 hour, 25 minutes. In 1905 Sergeant Benjamin Mallam ofthe Traffic Squad of the New Yorl< PoliceDepartment organized the first motorcyclepolice detail in this country, and its suc-cess became immediate. More speed-lawviolators were caught that summer thanhad been apprehended for several yearspreviously by the
. Water & sewage works . rds, 25, square yards. Startingtime, 8:15 a. m.; finishing time, 9:13 Dust, 69 pounds; cubic feet. Streetsweepings, 383 pounds; cubic sweepings, 335 pounds; cubicfeet. Total clean-up, 1\2 yards of tirne, 1 hour, 25 minutes. In 1905 Sergeant Benjamin Mallam ofthe Traffic Squad of the New Yorl< PoliceDepartment organized the first motorcyclepolice detail in this country, and its suc-cess became immediate. More speed-lawviolators were caught that summer thanhad been apprehended for several yearspreviously by the mounted horse andbicycle squads, for it was impossible toshake the little two-wheel scouts. SinceGotham did the pioneering in this fieldover 400 police departments in this coun-try and Canada have adopted the motor-cycle. It is difficult to think of a prominentcity which does not boast of at least onemotorcycle officer and this minimum isthe exception, for almost invariably, afterone machine is in service a few months it. MOTORCYCLE SQUAD. Winnipcy. Man., uses twin-cylinder Indian machines. The Gasoline Arm of the Law It is not enough to enact an ordinance,and trust to its observance, for if it can-not be enforced it is valueless. When theautomobile became a reality on our high-ways, its excessive speed and the abuseof that speed naturally forced the draft-ing of regulations to restrict the speedto a safe minimum. However, if themotorcycle had not trailed along in theehadow of the motor car, the speed lawswould have been a huge farce in-so-faras concerned their enforcement. It is unanimously conceded by policeauthorities that the motorcycle put sharpteeth in the speed laws and made themrespected by automobilists. Motoristshave brushed up against motorcycles onthe road, and being fully cognizant oftheir ground-covering abilities it is nat-ural that the average car owner willhave respect for the speed laws of a tow-nwhere he sees a blue coat on a motor-cycle now and then. If the
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