New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-03

THEM.
To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: one hundred and two victims 70 the uoileS
car IN BROOKLYN since its introduction! SUCH APP
o,,,no sacri6ce of human life is wholly without ex-
cuse.
Not long since attempted to cross Broadway OPP
posite the Postofice. from east to west s'eppeu
eisIrely 10 the rear OF car going up that hdi Ju''
passed me- The came 10 an abrupt MATT III i'o'''
Of m. to take on a passenger. / heard the bell OF
car which supposed to be that of the car In 'front.'
Of me- when had just started up. warning SONS
person in advance of it, II proved afterward 70 DO
trat of a car coming down Broadway at fuli uiI
but which was hid from view by the car was pass
ing in the rear Of. AS soon as could nave We"
OF the down track, saw the car bearing DOWN upon
me- twelve feet distant. AS stepped oach
and turned my head to avoid any new danger saw
the heavy team of A large truck. within four feet
Of me coming at full trot in a direction opposite
to that Of the ear. The noise Of the ears and the
rattle Of teams prevented my nearing us aP-
proach. The car and the truck passed within three
feet Of each other BY standing edseways IN TINS
narrow passageway l escaped. Had they passed
one another two feet nearer together should nave
had to choose between being crushed by one or the
other or being ground between them. frightened
woman or child would have been crushed by one
the other.
rc.atc this inciden: because l suppose it is by
some such combination Of circumstances as TINS
that forty-nlne out Of fifty accidents occur Sutaoie
warning would therefore prevent forty-nine out OF
nfty accidents for no one. duly warned. would de-
uheratelv place himself unless intending suicide, in
front of A to be crushed. But the Inotornsn III
this could not give warning "lth suHclen'
pr0mptitUde because ! WAS not in sight unu warn
ing wouid come too late.
\ few weeks ago | saw a Thrd-ave. cable-car run
down truck Park Row. | saw the car APP
proachlng the truck for $50 feet. at iull headway
before II struck The poe Of the truck was JamMsu
into another truck and broken into splnters. me
application % the brake and the nelilgence OF the
not blame the mo;orman. What had the company
asked o. him? That look right and left to watch
out for passengers who wished 70 board the car that
operation rcqu!r!ns timci. and that ne ring a bell
four independent operations that could not De peg
formed simultaneously put must oe done, sue
cessvely. The nos; careful man in the world can
not. In all cases perform each or these operations
al the exact instant that necessity requires IL Is
a question ~ the law ~ Oh inces. one time out OF
certain number. upon an average, an accideht
under such q system D. inevitable
II tho car companies were required by law. or ny
Az automatic bell. operated by the movement Of
tAo car. every pas'or-by would be duly warned ana
instance have first described. although could not
warned f6r my ear could readily have distinguished
th. rapid strokes Of the bell ~ car IN tu! hedi-
way from those OF a car just starting up. .
Then Why should not the cars be compelled 10
employ the low ooilue poHsh,snaPfd lender, To, 81
q description Of recently. employed in Boston; tna'
picks up the fallen passer-by? This would pre-
vent the flfteth accident
work Il until the companies are compelled T.
adopt these two safeguards this appalling ana
wholly unnecessary sacrifice OF human HE VIII De
WIN such tenders We should not hear Of seven
year,old ch.ld being rolled and crushed to death
THEODORE -. kELLOGG
Whiiestone. y y. Feb. 2S 1875.