ALL GIVE HIM THE ROAD.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 422, 19 May 1904, Page 6

ALL GIVE HIM THE ROAD.

Om. DrlW* taw TVfcb« irery Otflu* TMMnat**- oa "Stria** .. — i mM $ -- '. _ Perennial in iU power of attraction is the fire engine dashing along' th* city's streeta on.the way to a fire, and it f ascinatea all. And every driTer and ■every motorman, every man anything on wheel* gives the fireman the right of way and ha does so tpon:~neously and gladly, says the New York Sun. -

And often many driven hold up all at «.nce to give the driver of the fire engine hia ch'oJee :of ways, aa they would where two streets cross, and tfcty do this before they sea the engine at all. But they know it's coming and they hear it* whistle.

Here was an ettgiha coining along a cro*s stftet to Broadway, whistle a calling. 'At the first 'note of ib every mot* »r man or driver who chanced at the moment to be near the junction of Bruailway end this street, stopped short, leaving the central apace unoccupied, and leaving clear channels away from it in every direction. * X«.-ne of these drivers could know which- way the^re"driver would want to ;urn when he got to the corner, so laey all stopped, to give Mtn a free :-:au in whichever Way ha Wanted to" go and when he had come and gone dashing round the corner they all started nn again on their several ways. But so far as they could thayhad given U*e whole earth to him.