The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-28
Copyright, 1902, by A. S. RichardsonA

no trace of relatives or friends and he
was buried in the Potter's field.
Another trick responsible for many
accidents is the Observation-Disclosures of
women out shopping.
nave stood at the intersection of
Sl@th avenue, Broadway and Thirty
fourth street and wondered how so
many escaped. A woman will stand
glanc1ng leisurely through her shopping
llst or picking things over in her purse.
several cars will pass, chances for
crossing the street in safety will come
ana go, and she will not notice Then
suddenly, the notion to get onto the
olher SIDE of the street will strike her,
ana ike an arrow she darts away. Cars
may be coming from both ways. and
oIagohally on Broadway, forty people
may yell at the top of their lungs, but
by some mysterious working of Provi-
oence she lands on the opposite side
walk, stops coolly enough and looks
ABOUT her as much as to say: What
are you all making so much fuss
aboutE If she doesn't happen to make
lt-well it's the careless motorman
again. Have you ever seen a woman
reading her shopping list or studying
a clipping from the bargain ads in the
morning papers while she crossed a
crowded thoroughfare? Can you look
on that picture and then fail to feel
some sympathy with US motormen?
A HOOdOO Hour For Accidents.
Now, here is another funny thing.
I we have noticed that 10 O'Clock Sun
day night is a regular hoodoo hour for
the motor companies We have more
small accidents then than at any other
time of the week. More women are
PQp6 Thrown lie
and it puzzled the officials for awhile.
But after time we found that most of
the victims were servant girls, partic-
ularly Irish and colored girls, and the
accident was generally due to leaving
the car before it stopped and, incident
ally stepping off the wrong way. Then
by system of reasoning that Sherlock
Holmes might scorn, it is so simple
they decided that the accidents were
due to the anxiety of these women to
get to their homes. 1t seems that in
all boarding houses and in many pri-
vate families a rule prevails that girls
must be in by 10 o'clock. A girl is late
and in her anxiety to get in before
the house is closed for the night, she
throws personal safety to the winds
and-jumps from the moving car.
'AS to all this nonsense about mobs
forming to attack reckless motormen,
let me tell you that in nine cases out
of ten these riots are started by thugs,
who pick pockets when the crowd
forms. The company has found this to
be true over and over again. Recently
one of our head officials witnessed just
such an occurrence in the northern
part of the city on the East Side. The
car had run over and badly injured a
little girl. The ambulance had arrived
the motorman had agreed to appear in
court at a certain hour, the inspector
had done his work and the crowd was
dispensing when a notorious tough in
that section came out of a saloon with
some kindred spirits at his heels and
melted the crowd. 1t was all the in
spector and policeman could do to pro-
tect the motorman and get his car
under way. But the official had been
watching the other end of the game.
He saw what those in the thick of the
rioters did not see and when it was
over there was some quick arrests and
two members of the gang owned up
to the scheme. The one district where
a riot of this sort is apt to be genu-
inc and where the motorman is really
in danger is the Italian section, where
their passionate love for children will
set the whole population afire.
Accidents Where Danger is Least.
Another popularity about accidents
is that they seldom occur at points
where the danger is known to be
| great For instance, there is Dead
Mans curve at Fourteenth street and
Broadway. Every suburbanite who
comes into town shopping, every out
of-town man who has read anything
of New York, looks out when he
comes to that corner, but let him be
crossing at some level, smooth, straight