Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-08-30
SUNDAY FOR
AUTOlSTS
Two Persons Are kllle5 and IL
Injured.


the fatalities was the result of the at
tempt of an inexperienced mar trying
to drive a machine, and the other was
due to a motorist hitting a pedestrian.
The killed:
Thomas F. Ryan of rs Ocean avenue,
Jersey City.
Unidentified mar struck by an auto
mobile and back broken at Beverly,
N. j.
The injured:
Mrs. James Strang, 80 St. Paul place,
Brooklyn, skull fractured, several ribs
broken and injured internally.
Ettore Frieri, 46 years old, 76 Mount
Prospect avenue, Newark, both legs
and nose broken and cuts about face
and body.
John Foyer, a clerk, 95 years old, of
Graniteville, S. l., leg broken and in
jured internally.
Robert Bailey, 81 years old, of Staten
Island, cuts about face and body.
Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan of IT'S Ocean
avenue, Jersey City, bruises about
body and v shock.
Miss Gertrude O'Brien, 81 East 13Oth
street, several teeth knocked out and
cut about face.
Joseph Treffler of 2196 Dean street,
Brooklyn, shoulder dislocated.
Mrs. Treffler and five children, cuts
about faces and bodies.
The accident in which Mr.. Ryan was
killed took place on Mount Pleasant
avenue, near Livingston Centre, N. J..
Mr.. Ryan, who had just bought a car,
started out early in the afternoon from
his home in Jersey City. With him
were his wife and two children, Edward
Riley, a neighbor, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Spaulding of Jersey City.
When the party left home, Mr..
Spaulding, who had driven a car for a
long time, was at the wheel. Later Mr..
Ryan took charge to learn how to run
the machine. On a down grade he lost
control of the car and it turned turtle.
He was pinned under it and his neck
was broken. Mrs. Ryan was badly
bruised about the body when she was
thrown out of the machine. She was
taken to the Orange Memorial Hos
pital. The others were u%ninjul ed.
The other accident in which there
was a fatality occurred on the Borden
town road in New Jersey. Morris
Levin of Beverly, N. j., struck a man
who was walking along the road when
his car swerved toward the right hand
side of the road. The man, who has
not been identified, was unable to ge
out of the way of the machine. Mr..
Levin picked him up and hurried to the
st. Francis hospital at Trenton with
him, but he died on the way. His back
had been broken. Mr.. Levin then sur
rendered himself to the police.
A speeding automobile at Ocean Park
way and Avenue X struck a surrey in
which John Tref1er of 1886 Dean street
and his wife and five children We're
riding and wrecked it.. All the family
were thrown out and Mr.. Treff1er's left
shoulder was dislocated. His wife and
children were all cut in a number OF
places. Mr.. Trefler was taken to the
Coney Island Hospital and the rest of
the family went home after their
wounds were dressed.
James Strank, a public accountant,
of so st. Paul place, Brooklyn, took d
party out automobiling Saturday and
they came to New York. With him
were Mrs. Strang, Miss Miriam Austin
of Norwalk, Conn.,, his son, James, 10
years old, and his daughter, Dorothy,
II years old. The automobile was
coming down Fifth avenue near Eighth
street when Mr.. Strang, in trying to
avoid a car, turned too sharply and his
automobile skidded and turned over.
When cabmen from the Hotel Brevort
lifted the machine Mrs. Strang was
unconscious. She was taken to st.
Vincent's Hospital, where it was found
that her skull was fractured and she
was injured internally.
Ettore Friere, 46 years old. of Y
Mount Prospect avenue, Newark, an
embroidery manufacturer, shortly af-
ter midnight Saturday morning ran his
car into the garage and when he tried
to stop it shot forward at top speed
through a brick wall and dropped into
the yard below with Frieri under it.
Nobody heard his calls for help and he
lay there until his groans attracted the
attention of a policemen, Both his
legs and his nose were broken and he
was badly cut.
John Foyer, 50 years old, a clerk, of
Graniteville, s.. l., was struck by a car
owned and driven by Miss Lille DuX of
Annadale, S. l., on the Town road.
He stepped in front of the machine