St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-11
SOME REFLECTIONS.

There are three points in connection
with the two similarly fatal accidents
yesterday that the general public and
the police would do well to bear in mind
and act upon and one especially which
the officers Of the MINNEAPOLIS police
force could take notice of without in
any way lesseping the efficiency of the
department and some action in the
matter would surely be in the interest
of common decency.
The first point is the criminal care
leSSneSS of the imbeciles who are al
lowed to drive horses on the crowded
streets of the city. There seems to be
in the minds of the people who wit
messed yesterdays sad cataStro-
phe on NicOllet avenue, little, if any,
doubt that the driver of the coupe
was more than careless, and was
driving much faster than the ordinance
permits. 1t is, however, well-known
fact that those who enforce. or are sup
posed to enforce, the ordinance are
much more lenient than those who
framed it ever intended, and so long as
fast driving is not checked,a driver who
has, as what hOrSeman has not, love
for speed. is bound to take advantage of
the opportunity to show the gait of his
horse, and it is a noteworthy fact that
the carriages OF the rich and influential
and of people who should be intelligent
and cOnSiderate of the rights of others,
are the ones that dash over crossings
with the most reckless disregard for the
life and limbs of the luckleSs pedes-
trianS. If people will drive fast unless
prevented by fear Of arrest. they should
be prosecuted to the full extent of the
law they now put at naught.
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North Minneapolis accident should, and
undoubtedly will. set many Minneapolis
fathers and mothers thinking of the
awful risks their boys are running
every day in stealing rides Oh every
passing vehicle. Hair-breadth escapes
from death or serious injury in
this way are seen on the business
streets every day, and accidents of
minor nature are by no means infre-
quent and yet careless boys from four
TO fourteen years Of age go on endanger-
ing their lives without thought of the
peril they are in. Busy transfers en-
gagged at their work cannot be expected
TO take care of the urchinS, and unless
parents can keep them from running
into danger there should be some regu-
latiOn by which it could be prevented.
The scene around the house where
little Otto Monzka lay dead yesterday
afternoon was one calculated to dis
gust and shock any one possessing the
first element of refinement. Nearly
two hundred people, mostly women and
children. with, however, a goodly num-
Der of stupid-looking Young men, who
laughed and smoked, and seemed to
think the event an intensely amusing
one, crowded around the house
peerng in at the windows, pushing
against the door to gain admittance to
the room where the child lay. and even
Slouchy women, with children in their
arms, craned their necks to view the
remains, and refused to go away when
requested to do SO by members of the
family. Small boys played about the
door and shouted, fought and yelled
like a delegation of demons. In
side the house the family sat in silence
and wept over the body of the boy, while
the mother was nearly crazed by the
stupid persistence of morbid fools who
wanted to see the remains, and the un-
feeling remarks and actions or the hood
lumS. And-there was not a policeman
in sight to make the crowd conform to
the wishes of the parents and depart.