The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-09-22

home of the Youths Directory is about
$4,000. and the building is almost
ready for occupancy. With reorgan-
lied committee in charge of the work
plans will be pushed for the coming
concert and ball, the vaudeville per-
Torrance at the st. Francis hotel Oc-
tober 2 and the fair in November which
will eliminate the campaign.
The case of Robert Anderton, the
chauffeur who was in charge of the
taxicab which struck Father Crowley,
was called in Police Judge Weller's
court yesterday morning, Anderton be-
! ing charged with battery. BY consent
the case was continued until Septem-
Der rs. Following his appearance in
| court, Anderton called at st. Mary's
hospital and left a personal message
for Father Crowley.
None of those who were witnesses
of the accident Monday night were in
clined yesterday to censure Anderton
or to charge him with criminal care
lessness. According to both Boyle and
Walter Crowley, the accident was I'M
avoidable. Boyle, Father Crowley and
Walter Crowley alighted from the
front platform of the Valencia street
car and passed around in front of it,
running for the Haight street car,
which was standing at the opposite
corner. The street at the side of the
Uttered with building material, and
Anderton, who had been trailing the
car. sent his cab to the left of it in
order 70 pass on the side toward the
middle of the street.
Boyle, who had been the first to
alight from the Valencia street car,
rushed across before the cab had
rectly in its path. According to Wal
ter Crowley, he was running with his
head down and could not have seen
the cab. Anderton swerved the auto
mobile to the left, and 1t was the
handle of the side door which struck
rather crowley and threw him to the
pavement almost in his own tracks.
FOLLOWED TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
The peculiar nature of the accident
caused some adverse comment yester-
day concerning the fact that Anderton
drove his cab to the left Of the car in
passing it instead of to the right, and
II was suggested that he had deliber-
ately disobeyed the rules of the road.
Chief of Police Cook, however. declared
that Anderton had strictly followed the
police traffic regulations
The ordinance in this regard SAWS
that drivers of vehicles following an
other vehicle, when the other vehicle
stops, must, in passing, drive to the
left, and the reason for this is OBJ
vious," declared the chief. "Passen-
gers leave a car on the right, and if an
automobile or taxicab following that
car were to drive to the right the lives
of these persons would be endangered
In my opinion the rule is good one.
though of course no rule can be made
to act as an absolute safeguard against
accidents. 1t was only the other day
that representations were made to me
of >chauffeurs violating the rule and
driving to the right, and issued a new
order that the rule must be strictly
enforced,
Among the earliest callers at the hos
pital yesterday morning was Mayor
Taylor, who inquired after the patient
and left his personal card. Other rep
resentative men and women from every
walk of life followed in numbers that
did not decrease until late in the even
| ing. Two nurses were kept constantly
| busy at the telephone and during the
| morning calls were received from the
priests Of every parish in the city, from
ministers of other denominations, from
all the parochial schools, from nearly
every public school in the city, from a
score of city offices and from many
business houses. Handsome floral trib-
utes We're received from the Elks and
from many personal friends. Among
the kilograms which poured in was one
from Father Richard A. Gleeson OF
Santa Clara college extending the SYM
pathy of the faculty and student body
of that institution, and one from James
d. Phelan from Del Monte.
| Among others who sent special mes
sages by telephone were Rev. DIR,
| Byrne of Napa, Rev. DIR. Phillips OF
| San Rafael Rev DR. Blake of Napa