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NEW AUTO LAWS. 
Heavy Fine and Imprisonment Confronts the 
Reckless Operator After Dec. 31. 
After December 31 automobilists who 
are convicted of violating speed laws will 
find themselves up against a stiff proposi- 
tion and it will be no $10 fine that they 
will have to ante, but rathera fine of $200 
or a six months’ jail sentence. 
This law also says specifically that a 
person convicted of reckless driving shall 
have his license revoked for a period of 
60 days. 
The state law says that 15 miles per 
hour through thickly settled portions of 
cities and towns, where houses do not 
stand more than 200 feet apart, shall be 
the established speed limit, and where 
streets intersect eight miles per hour shall 
be the limit. 
It is up to the judge of the court in 
which the cases are tried to determine 
whether or not the defendants before the 
bar are guilty of “‘reckless’’ driving. 
The police secure the evidence and 
after that is submitted to the judge or 
presiding justice it is up to him to inter- 
pret the law according to his judgment. 
For the benefit of our many readers, 
who are owners of automobiles, and es- 
pecially that portion of them that ride 
outside the state we print below the new 
law which takes effect at the end of the 
present month, and which therefore an- 
nuls the law of 1908. It is found in sec- 
tion 22 of chapter 534 of the Acts of 
1909, and reads as follows: 
*“ Whoever on any way operates an 
automobile or motor cycle recklessly or 
while under the influence of intoxicating 
liquor, or so that the lives or safety of the 
public might be endangered or upon a 
bet, wager or race, or who operates a 
motor vehicle for the purpose of making 
a record and thereby violates any provision 
of sections 16 and 17 of this act, or who 
knowingly goes away without stopping 
and making himself known after causing 
injury to any person or property, or who 
uses a motor vehicle without authority, 
shall be punished by a fine of not more 
than $200 or by imprisonment for a term 
not exceeding six months, or by both 
such fine and imprisonment; and, if any 
person be convicted a second time of op- 
erating an automobile while under the in- 
fluence of intoxicating liquor, he shall be 
punished by imprisonment for a term of 
not less than one year and not more than 
two years. A conviction of a violation 
of this section shall be reported forthwith 
by the court or trial justice to the com- 
mission, which shall revoke immediately 
the license of the person so convicted. 
If it appears by the records of the com- 
mission that the person so convicted is 
the owner of a motor vehicle, or has ex- 
clusive control of any motor vehicles asa 
manufacturer or dealer, the commission 
may revoke the certificate of registration 
of all motor vehicles so exclusively owned 
or controlled. Whenever any person so 
convicted appeals, the commission shall 
suspend forthwith the license of the per- 
son so convicted, and shall order the li- 
cense delivered to it, and shall not reissue 
said license unless such person is acquitted 
in the appellate court, or unless the com- 
mission in its discretion, after an investi- 
gation or upon a hearing, decides to re- 
issue it. No new license or certificate 
shall be issued by the commission to any 
person convicted of a violation of this 
section until after 60 days from the date 
of such final conviction, nor thereafter 
except in the discretion of the commis- 
sion. 
Sections 20 and 21 of the same act, 
dealing with infractions of the law 
are of interest and read as follows: 
** Section 20. The commission may 
suspend or revoke any certificate of reg- 
istration or any license issued to any per- 
son under the provisions of this act, after 
due hearing, for any cause which it may 
deem sufficient, and the commission may 
suspend the license of any operator or 
chauffeur in its discretion and without a 
hearing, and may order the license to be 
delivered to it, whenever it has reason to 
believe that the holder thereof is an im- 
proper or incompetent person to operate 
motor vehicles, or is operating improper- 
ly or so as to endanger the public and 
neither the certificate of registration nor 
the license shall be reissued unless, upon 
examination or investigation, or after a 
hearing, the commission determines that 
the operator or chauffeur should again be 
permitted to operate. 
‘Section 21. Any person convicted 
of operating a motor vehicle in the com- 
monwealth after his license to operate 
has been suspended or revoked, and any 
person convicted of operating or causing 
or permitting any other person to operate 
a motor vehicle after the certificate of 
registration for such vehicle has been sus- 
pended or revoked, and any person who 
attaches or permits to be attached toa 
motor vehicle a number plate or seal as- 
signed by the commission to another ve- 
hicle, or who obscures or permits to be 
obscured the figures on any number plate 
or seal attached to any motor vehicle, or 
who fails to display on a motor vehicle 
the number plate or seal and the register 
number duly issued therefor, with intent 
to conceal the identity of such motor ve- 
hicle, or who wears a chauffeur’s badge, 
not furnished to him by the commission, 
or who with intent to conceal his identity 
wears a chauffeur’s badge belonging to 
another person, shall be punished by a 
fine of not more than $100 or by im- 
prisonment for a term of 10 days, or by 
both such fine and imprisonment. 
PRINTING 
CONCRETE HOUSE. 
Great Durability a Strong Point in its Favor. 
What ‘' Cement Age"' Says. Py 
Individuals in all sections of the coun- 
try are building concrete houses says Ce- 
ment Age, but there is an important de- 
velopment in the growing interest mani- 
fested in concrete construction by large 
and enterprising corporations engaged in 
land improvement and building opera- 
tions on an extensive scale. “They rec- 
ognize in concrete a good investment, 
even where first cost may be in excess of 
other methods of construction. . 
As showing the extent to which con- 
fidence in concrete has developed in re- 
cent years, an all-concrete house has been 
built at Montclair, N. J., by a New 
York construction company. An inter- 
esting fact in connection with this house 
is that it is neither for sale nor to rent. 
The purpose of the company is to afford 
opportunity to the public to see exactly 
what an all-concrete house means. “The 
house thus becomes an object lesson of 
great value and interest. It is not meant 
that every man who builds a dwelling 
shall reproduce this particular house in 
all its dimensions, but rather that he may 
see and clearly understand the great dur- 
ability and superiority of concrete as ex- 
emplified in the structural processes in- 
volved. He is first given to understand 
that this house is built entirely of con- 
crete and steel. During its construction 
every movement of the workmen was 
noted with extreme interest by visitors. 
They were first impressed with the fact, 
that the foundations were sufficiently 
strong to carry a structure 10 times the’ 
size, and that every feature was of the 
same indestructible character. 
The house weighs 500 tons, and every 
part is scientifically thought out by men 
high in their profession. It was the pur- 
pose to erect a house that time could not 
injure or destroy, and that will require 
neither paint nor repairs and from which 
all danger from fire has been eliminated. 
In its design and construction, all 
thought of other materials was put aside 
in order that the house might also look 
like concrete. [he company did not 
claim that a house of this character could 
be built at far less cost than a cheap frame 
house, and that inexperienced workmen 
could erect it, but they sought to show 
thus the highest ultimate economy de- 
manded the most careful and scientific 
methods throughout. | 
This led to the evolution of a house 
with secure concrete foundations, con- 
crete and steel walls with air space, con- 
crete floors, partitions, stairs, balustrades 
and a roof of concrete tiles—practically an 
monolithic mass. | 
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