Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-12
MORE LIGHT
ON SAFEST
CAR FENDER
TWO OTHER MAKES BROUGHT
BEFORE COUNCIL
GARDNER-SCHULTZ INVENTIONS
EXPLAINED
Huntington Manager and Attorney
9a3' Their Respects to DR..
Haynes and Voters
League

After lengthy debate the city council
as a committee of the whole Yesterday
found itself with new light on the fender
question.
Instead of the Eclipse alone-which the
present ordinance sanctions exclusively
the William r: Gardner fender. a Los
Angeles invention and the Schultz fender
are now before the lawmakers as re-
presenting distinctive type of life guards
and will enter into the legislative reck-
oning.
The decision may be made at next
Mondays meeting of the council and
the prospects are that the whole ques-
tion may be finally disposed of at that
time, as both sides have had exhaustive
opportunities of looking at the difficulty
from all phases.
Huntington Field Day
The Voters league had it's say Tues
day and yesterday was field day for
the Huntington trolley interests.
The principal talking was done by
Traffic Manager j. Mcmillan and by At
torney Walter Trask
Beginning by stating that he had no
desire to be Citizen Fixit man Mr.. Nc
MILAN sought al the information he
could on the fender problem because the
trolley company more than any
Individual or set of individuals
was interested in keeping down the
death and accident lists. Accidents were
exceedingly costly to a railway COM
pany.
"Dr. Haynes has carried on a cam
pagn of Misrepresentation" continued
Mr.. Mcmillan. IF he had acted faith
fully in the matter he would not have
made so many rash statements against
us.
He stated Tuesday that the car which
struck little Japanese girl who was
saved by the Eclipse fender was trav-
cling at rate of twenty-five miles an
hour.
Calls 1t Eclipse Scheme
THAT is base Misrepresentation, and if
the doctor had investigated carefully he
would have found that the car was
running eight miles an hour. This is
all scheme of the Eclipse fender people
and a few others to get another rake
off.
He showed that the Eclipse fender is
protected by patents, and that while the
ordinance did not specify the Eclipse
fender, the description tailed and that IL
any other fender is used, suit would
be brought for infringement. Compli-
ments that left a sting were paid to
DR. John r. Haynes and Fielding j.
Stison, both of whom spoke Tuesday.
To the speaker 1t looked as If they
were seeking the credit for, forcing the
interurban lines.to put on tenders.
THE railway company has studied
this fender question more honestly
and diligently than DIR. Haynes and
and other Citizens Fixits,' said Mr..
Mcmillan. and l can truly state that it
would be impossible to equip interurban
cars with these tenders
Manager Mcmillan then read statis-
teal reports of accidents and injuries
showing that ,the fender did not save
lives even on the city cars
1.-THE automobile is more deadly |
than the street car, said Mcmillan,
,'and if DR.. Haynes and his friends are
sincere in their task of saving human
lives, let them look on it from all sides"
May Stop at City Limits
Then Manager Mcmillan made the
sensational statement that If the coun-
ell forced them to do so the interurban
cars would be stopped at the city limits
and slower going rendered cars would
be used within the limits.
II YOU make us undo the work Of j