. Electric railway journal . on at issue was broughtby a resident of Jersey City for damages against the Public-Service Railway. While driving an automobile from an in-tersecting street east into Monticello Avenue the man whobrought suit was struck by a car moving south along suchthoroughfare. The lower court decided that the motor-man was bound by the provisions of the traffic act and wasin error in not giving right of way to the automobile. Inreversing this ruling the Supreme Court decided that thetraffic measure cannot be held as applicable to street rail-way lines. It is pointed out that e
. Electric railway journal . on at issue was broughtby a resident of Jersey City for damages against the Public-Service Railway. While driving an automobile from an in-tersecting street east into Monticello Avenue the man whobrought suit was struck by a car moving south along suchthoroughfare. The lower court decided that the motor-man was bound by the provisions of the traffic act and wasin error in not giving right of way to the automobile. Inreversing this ruling the Supreme Court decided that thetraffic measure cannot be held as applicable to street rail-way lines. It is pointed out that elsewhere in the actdrivers of vehicles are directed as to the course to be takenin passing other vehicles, turning corners and, in certaincircumstances, veering from one part of the roadway to an-other-. The court said that it is evident that such provisionsin the act could not have contemplated street cars, specifical-ly excluding with such considerations electric railway lines. 96 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIX, No. 2. HUGH M. WILSON Hugh M. Wilson Retires Resigns as First Vice-President of the McGrawPublishing Company Inc. Hugh M. Wilson, first vice-president of the McGraw Pub-lishing Company Inc., has tendered his resignation and willdevote himself to his personal interests. Mr. Wilson hasbeen vice-president of the McGraw company for the pastsix years, during which time the organization has grownconstantly in strength. Two new papers, Electrical Mer-chandising and The Contractor have been purchased, Metal-lurgical & Chemical Engineering has been changed froma monthly to a semi-monthly, and the otherproperties, Electric Rail-way Journal, ElectricalWorld and EngineeringRecord have made rapidprogress. Before joining the Mc-Graw staff, Mr. Wilson hadlong been a prominentfigure in the field of tech-nical journalism, and from1899 to 1908 was presidentand chief proprietor of theRailway Age. During 1905,the International RailwayCongress met at Washing-ton, D. C, and Mr. Wilson
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