Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-11
FENDER
LEGISLA TON
is ASSURED
COMMITTEE NAMED TO FRAME
LAWS
Council Would Indorse Slaughter He
Declares, by Taking Move Urged
by lnterurban Railroad
Company
1ContInued from Page one1

cars, ana reallZlnB tHe SiSal ihPoie
your efforts for the protection of life, |
wish 10 riye.syou my experience in this
respect On Tuesday of last week, sep
tember II. about-o p. m, while crossin 2
Third street, between Broadway ana
Spring, | was struck by one OF the green
cars equipped with fender, and was
carried some distance, probably twenty
five feet, before the car was brought 10
stop. Fortunately, and owing to the
fender attached my life was saved anu
l received no injuries, not even to my
clothing.
~ consider it an experience worth
the relating and thought that perhaps
you would like to have this information
for your records, and if 1t can be OF any
assistance in the campaign for the pres
ervation of the lives of our people, VIII
be glad to give my testimony at any
time. The fender, from my experience
&c certainly a great necessity and by its
use the lives of hundreds may be saVeu
annually.
every truly yours,
&C. ]. BROWN
" Manager Underwood Typewriter CO.
Can Be Folded
"This fender can be taken off or folded
nm at the city limits. The CAIN that
even If folded it will De source OF dan-
ger is false, because with slignt inoui-
fication in the method of folding. the
fender can be folded so that 1t VIII pc
entirely above the bumper oeam. Inns
has been successfully accomplished IN
the Schultz fender. with which MI: NC
MILAN has been eXperlmentinS AoA
number of weeks.
This fender has the advantage over
the Eclipse for the use of interurpan
cars. in the fact, that when 1t is 1oloeu
IN il can be raised above the bumper
beam. which. therefore, does away with
the objection that the railway company
claim that the Eclipse fender sur,ers
from, that it Is too near the track "hen
folded up. The only reason tney 40 hol
wish TO fold this high folding fender is
because it will interfere with the light
this Is certainly a very trifling opJec-
ton especially when we know the po-
sition of the light can be changed
"second-The reason why this request
should be denied Is that from three 10
five times more people are Killed py the
fenderless cars than. by the fendereu
ones.
"The figures I am going to give you
now are not from newspapers, as is
claimed by the officials of the Paclhc
Electric company, but are from the re-
mort of the deputy coroner and the city
clerk for the year ending September l.
1907.
Seventy.seven Cars Kill Fifteen
s'The seventy-seven fenderless cars
upon which the Pacific Electric company
pays a license and which are supposed
to be the number of cars running at any
one time within the city limits, killed
according to the coroners report, nlteen
people. or one person for every five cars
And the Los Angeles-Pacific rail-
road fenderless cars. twenty-eisht
I'm number, killed for the same
year ten people. or one in every
two and eight-tenths cars The
total number of rendered Los Angeles
Railroad company cars, Sl2 In NUMBER
killed eighteen people. or, in other words
it took seventeen and one-third cars 10
kill.
GAS a matter of fact, the number of
deaths are much larger than the num-
Der reported by the coroner, for his re-
port does not include the poor wretches
who linger several days and then die.
If counted. these would probably raise
the rate to one killed for every three
and three-fourths Pacific Electric cars
and one for every two Los Angeles IA
cific cars.
siRv way of contrast I want TO call
your attention to the report of the Mas
sachusetts railway commission. In Mas
sachusetts there are more than 1000 cleo
tric cars. carrying about 700,0OO,00O pas
sengers annually. 1t took thirty-four
cars in that state to kill one person dur
ing the same year that five of the Pa
cific Electric cars killed one and two
and eight-tenths and the Los Angeles
Pacific killed one.
NuIlify Ordinance
"The third reason why you should re-
fuse this request is If you do, City At
torney Hewitt tells me, that it will rem
IL
nance, and the street railway companies
can refuse to keep city cars equipped
with tenders.
1.-THE fourth reason why you should
not permit suburban cars to go through
our streets without tenders is-if you do
SO the railway company, by simply ex-
tending their lines a few feet beyond
the city limits can at any time take
from the city's jurisdiction any Of their
city lines.
mo, gentlemen of the council, TO any
suggestions arising from these sources
asking you to remove life-saving restric-
tions pay no heedA-in the parlance or
Wall street, copper Them
Several months ago you manfully did
your duty In refusing this same request.
The conditions have not changed since
then. If there were any reasons then
why the cars should be equipped with
IeQQerE tl6 same IcdSOho SAioI awe
IF you grant the request of the SUBJ
urban company to exempt these cars
from the use of tenders, you will be put
ting the stamp of your approval upon
this slaughter of your constituents,
slaughter unparalleled in the history OF
street railways.
'If you vote to exempt these cars from
the use of Tenders, you will be saying
that you are perfectly contented that
every two and eight-tenths Los Angeles
Pacific suburban cars should kill one per-
son this coming year, when you know
that it takes seventeen rendered cars to
kill one person during the same length
of time in the same city. If you grant
the request of the officials of the rail-
road company to exempt interurban cars
from the use of tenders while going
through the streets of our city, after
having been informed Of the slaughter in
the past, far exceeds that upon the fsnd-
cred cars; they not alone will be respon-
sible for this needless slaughter. but you
will also be, and while they will bo the
principals, you will be the accessories to
murder before the fact. When you pick
up your morning paper and see that
some poor wretch has been sent into
- 1,utkx, xyo,t ran fvra ara reenan.