The age-herald., 1901-09-04
CITIZENS TAKE UP THE QUESTION
 OF CAR TENDERS Meeting Will be Held to DiS- cuSS the Matter This
 Afternoon CALLED AT COURT HOUSE Prominent Business Men Invited to Attend-E. p. ouisley Writes a Card Arguing for Some Sort
 of Protection.
CALLED AT COURT HOUSE

A meeting of citizens will be held this afternoon in the office of W. c. Garrett. register in chancery at the county court house, to discuss the street car fender question.
 p. P. Quigley, the civil engineer and R. P Wetmore, the attorney, consulted prob ably fifty prominent business men in re- gard to the matter yesterday, and invited them to attend the meeting. The question of protecting life from street car acci- dents will be discussed, and probably some sort of petition framed to present to the Board of Aldermen. The present agitation grows out of the killing of Mrs. c. S. Norris and her baby by street car in Twentieth street Saturday. In con- nection with the car fender question, E. P. ouigley sends a card to the Age Herald, which is printed below.
 MT. QuIgley's Card.
 To the Editor of the Age-Herald:
 It is with a great deal of satisfaction that I read your editorial in Sunday 8 Age Herald under the caption of Fender less Street Cars" in discussion of Satur- days awful tragedy
 The writer of this attempted Bix months ago to secure backing to go be- fore the City Council with a petition to that body to pass suitable ordinances controlling the operation of cars upon the streets of this city, the main points to be covered being as follows:
 First-That all cars should be equipped with life guards or lenders of pattern standard in the larger cities.
 Second-That when cars are stopping at the intersection of streets for the purpose of unloading passengers, cars moving in an opposite direction upon the parallel tracks should be required, upon approach ing the standing car, to stop not less than one hundred feet from the standing car and not be allowed to move forward until the standing car has unloaded It's passen- gers and passed on.
 Third-That speed of all cars within the corporate limits of the city be limited to the maximum of eight miles per hour.
 I would now suggest a fourth necessity which a law enacted to that end should compel the car company to adopt, and that Is air brakes. They have air brakes on their Ensley cars. If country cars need them, much more do city cars.
 Ran at High Speed.
 It is observed as a matter of common occurrence that cars are run upon the streets of this city at dangerously high speed, and especially is this very notice able down grades in the residence dis tricts, such as Eleventh avenue, South, from Eighteenth street down to Fifteenth street, and Highland avenue, from Twen- ty-third street down to Twenty first street, when frequently they dash down these grades at twenty miles an hour, which is highly dangerous to the children playing along those blocks.
 In reference to the passing of cars at the intersection of streets: One has often noticed that passengers passing around behind the standing car have narrowly escaped being run down by one of these fenderless cars, to be struck down by which means no escape from its cruel motors and trucks, If perchance the wheels be missed.
 Mayor and Aldermen.
 In point of fairness to the company and the people alike, let your paper, published in the interest of private citizen and cor poration impartially to both, call upon the Mayor and Board of Aldermen to enact such laws relating to all the ques- lions touched upon as the welfare and safety of the people of this city demand, and then let the board of police commits sioners diligently see to 1t that those laws are strictly obeyed, both in spirit and in letter.
 Concerted action upon the part of few representative citizens of this city could not fail to result beneficially to the people.