ALL GIVE HIM THE ROAD.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 423, 2 June 1904, Page 3

ALL GIVE HIM THE ROAD.

On* Drivw for Wko« Hv*ry <Mh»* ■ T*tun*>t*r on th. citjr*a Sir**** • Aoleklr MakM War. r • - - Perennial in it» power of attraction ia the fir© engine dashing along th» city'* streets on the way to a fire, am: it faecina tee all. And every driver andi •verj motorman, every man handling anything on wheels gives the fireman the right of way and he does so spontaneously and giadigr, says the New York Sun.

And often many drive™ hold «p &H at once to give the driver of the fire engine his choice of ways, ae they would where two streets cross, and they do this before they see tJb« engine at all. But they know it's coming and they hear it* whistle.

Here was an engine coming along m cross street to Broadway, whistle « calling. At the first note of it every motorman or driver who chanced a*, the moment to be near the junction of Broadway and this street, stopped short, leaving the central s-paos uaoe* copied, and leaving clear channels away from it in every direction. None of these drivers could know which way the fire driver would want to turn when he got to the-corner, so they all stopped, to give him a free road in whichever way he wanted to go and when he had come and gon* dashing round the corner the? all siarted ur> again on their several way*. But so far cjs they could they hafi give* the whole earth to hint.