Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1916 — No Place Left For Convenience of Horse Drivers. [ARTICLE]

No Place Left For Convenience of Horse Drivers.

A farmer living near Rensselaer made a suggestion the other day that seems worthy of putting into practice. He said that not all persons who come to Rensselaer to trade have automobiles and that the driver of a horse vehicle is suffering a considerable inconvenience and he thinks an unjust one because automobiles are parked along the business.streets. He said, and it is true, that on busy days there are so many oars along the streets in front of stores that it is impossible to drive up to the stores with a horse to get the packages one has purchased. He points out that the four sides of the court house offer a splendid parking place for autos and that cars should be left there and not in front of stores. Horses can not he left there but must be placed at the out-of-the-way hitch racks or left in hitch barns. If the streets in front of stores were not obstructed by autos it would be easy to drive horse Vehicles up to get purchases and the auto owners would not be seriously inconvenienced. His idea is a good one. In many cases autos are placed on the main streets and kept there for several hours. They could just as well be left at the public square. Probably in time a city ordinance covering this point will be necessary. In the mean-? time the auto drivers should not leave out of consideration those who travel in horse-drawn vehicles.