Author: Anonymous
Title: Not This, Please! Stop! Warning to Drivers of School Vans
Description: S. l. (Washington, DC [?]), s. n. 1924. Small broadside; 8 x 5 3/4; off-white card stock, printed and ruled in black; illustrated with a drawing; small chip to upper left corner and two small rubbed spots to lower margin; in about very good condition. An unrecorded piece of transportation history, it cited Senate Bill 182 of the 1924 Session and outlined the laws for drivers of "school vans, motor trucks, and motor driven vehicles conveying pupils to or from any school.." and the penalties for breaking those laws. Interestingly enough, the driver was required to stop between 10 and 50 feet from the railway track, walk out of the parked vehicle to the center of the track and visually ascertain that no train was approaching and that it was safe to proceed. Alternately, "some competent person may be delegated by him (ie the driver) to go onto such track and indicate to him by proper signal whether or not it is safe to cross." The driver's penalty for violating the Act was a fine netween $5 and $100, a declaration of incompetence, and a dismissal from his duties. The illustration of the broadside depicted the massive front end of a locomotive, on top of a mangled vehicle, with a bull to the side, observing the scene and saying: "And they still call it a 'cow catcher,' humph!" . Very good .

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