The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-19
COLLISION MADE TO ORDER.
STREET CAR BUTTS INTO CRUISE
or RUBBERNECK WAGON.

"Aiy Husband" Screams One OF the Brides
Louder Than the Megaphono-Rival
Pilots Exchange OpiniOns-Car Gets
worst OF IL on worst Crossing Ever.
A rubber tired rubberneok wagon left
the Flatiron Building little before noon
yesterday loaded to the gunwales with
couples who have lately committed matri-
mony In Sohaghticoke, N. Y; Forestville,
Conn; Pownal, Vt; Chicago, and other
rural districts.
The big machine clattered up Broadway
at O reckless three knot gait while the leot-
u1er In the rear, with his little red mega
phone, told all about the politicians who
eathered at the Holman House ION the
LETT and how ION the right Lester Wailack
used TO appear at Wallaok's In his most
successful plays.
A Chicago bride declared out loud that
abe didn't believe 1t, but the uniformed
bureau Of information only gave her
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. look and switched
his point of view over to the Hotel Imperial
ION the right, so called because royalty
sometimes stops there, he said.
.And now, ladies and gents he con-
tnued, swe are approaching the most
dangerous street crossing In this great
metropolis Of the western hemisphere
Directly ahead Of us 10 Thirty-fourth street.
Sixth avenue (the street on the left along
which the elevated runs) crosses Broad
way diagonally at almost the same place.
As our conveyance brings us closer you
can SEQ with your own eyes this maze OF
vehicular and street railway traffic 1t
Is estimated that ten cars traverse one
crossing or the other every minute. By
a simple process of arithmetic we find that
means one every six seconds. You will
see, too, the a bsence OF regard for the safety
Of pedestrians on the part Of the car motor
men and cab drivers. A statstician has
deolared-rightly, believe-that more per-
sons are hurt on this crossing every year
than are injured in all the railway accidents
In the State in like period. Especially
The big wagon was just turning toward
the curb a little south of Thirty fourth
street when a northbound Broadway car.
whose motorman had been changing his
bell for block, hit 1T amidships Ihere
was a crash Of falling glass, with which
the screams of the women rubbernecks
blended.
Save me, save mel" yelled one woman,
while another threw her arms around the
man seated next to her and yelled, MY
husband!' so that she could be heard ct
the Waldorf.
The rubberneck wagon withstood the
shock as the Rock Of Gibraltar would II
IL were hit by a missile from putty blower
1t didn't bulge and nobody on 1t was hurt
a bit, although some Of the passengers,
bearing railroad wrecks In mind, thought
from the sound of crashing glass that they
had been in one.
The car backed of bearing on it's side
a blood red smear where it had rllffled the
automobiles painted side Five windows
in the car were broken.
The motornan expressed publicly his
opinion Of the automobile pilot. The pilot
told the motorman plainly what sort of
an irresponsible being he, the motorman,
was. A cop showed up and the car moved
on. So did the rubberneck wagon. and
as 1t disappeared on up Broadway the crowd,
which had gathered when hostilities seemed
imminent, heard the megaphone voice
roar:
AS we were saying before we were inter
rupted the street car motormen show the
most reckless disregard for life and limb.
They arc"
The auto by that time was too far away
to allow his opinion Of motormen to be
heard by those on the sidewalk.