The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-12-26
George Chasey Is In the City
Hospital With a Frac-
tured Leg the Result
OF An Accident Last Night
CHAUFFEUR LOCKED UP
DANGER TO PEDESTRIANS IN
THE DOWNTOWN SECTIONS
FROM RECKLESS CHAUFFEURs
INCREASES STEADILY.


At $50 P. NJ. last night. George Cha
sey, of No. % Covert street. while cross
ing Newark avenue, near Duffieid street,
was knocked down and run over by an
automobile in charge of Maurice Cor
mack. of No. 300 West Twenty ninth
street, New York. His left leg was
fractured above the ankle and he is now
lying in the City Hospital with the in
jured leg encased IN plaster-of-Paris
The chauffeur was locked up and was
remanded in the First Criminal Court
this morning to await the result of the
injuries of Chasey. The automobile is
owned by John A. Stead. of Short Hills.
n. ].
The incident Tor accident) is one of
many that have been recorded on the po-
lice blotters ever since the advent of the
automobile. Here in Jersey City, espeei-
the lower section, one has got to look
out for his life if he wants to avoid be-
ing run down by an automobile. 1t is
estimated by half of competent obsery-
ers that at least half of the chauffeurs
III charge of the big machines are igno-
rant of local geographical conditions.
They seem to think that once outside of
New York. having crossed the ferries.
New Jersey is like the boundless plains
cf the wild and wooley West" and hav-
ing discovered an asphalt pavement to
ride over they ''let her co. Gallagher"
Many of these men do not own the ma
chimes. They look upon them as costly
toys. Some of them have merely hired
the machine from garage. Others
have the machines left in their charge,
knowing that their masters have gone to
their country homes. gone West or South
or to Europe, and they. with few in
vfted friends, take the machines out for
a spin in New Jersey.
The asphalt route to theS Boulevard
and thence to Newark and the Oranges,
from the Pennsylvania ferries. is through
York street in the lower section of the
city. The thoughtless and ignorant
chauffeur. away from the, surveillance of
the New York police. gives .loose rein"
to the human devised steed" that he is
steering and up he goes through York
street to connect with the Mercer street
yiaduct like jockey at a sweepstakes" !"
In lower York street. between Warren
and Washington streets. is located No.
/ school. 1t is the largest school in the
city and has over two thousand pupils.
When these children are let loose from
school they are like all other children.
They want to romp and play. A group
of boys and girls will commence playing
tag" Unmindful Of trolley cars. which
are running through the stem of YER
liable funnel in an effort to reach the
Pennsylvania ferries, they rush hither
and thither across the streets. dodging
trolley cars and lodging other vehicles of
traffic. They have already become edu-
Gated to danger of lodging approaching
tro,leys, but these and cumbersome
trucks deaden the sound Of the 'toot-
toot" of mile-a-minute automobiles ap-
preaching from either before or behind
the car they attempt to dodge.
Discussing this phaze of the subject
this morning, Chief of Police Murphy
said
"The law provides that chauffeurs
shall not run automobiles through this
city at rate exceeding nine miles to the
hour. That we have had so few acci-
dents. ] attribute partially to the vigi-
lance Of the police, but mainly to the fact
that teachers have been instructed to
carefully caution school children before
the dismissal hour against playing in the
roadways. The courts have held" said
the Chief. "that a citizen about to cross
a street shall look both ways to see that
no vehicle is about to. run him down.
1t ie impossible" he said. ITO prevent
children while playing. from running in
to the roadways. think however, the
law looks upon the roadwaysi as belong
ing to general traffic. The sidewalks
are for pedestrians. / cannot enforce
the idea too strongly upon school teach
ers to warn children just befofe their
dismissal from school of the, danger Of
playing in the roadways. and while talk-
ing upon this subject, would ask them
to teach the children not to throw the
wrappings Of their lunch and other
pieces of paper in the streets. but to wait
until they reach the nearest receptacle. :
scrofuia In the bloei shows itself sooner OF
later In swellings sores, eruptions. But
~ saraS oariila ooin2lessiy cures ii.