El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-31

A MONTH ago the FL Paso street
~ railway company sent out warn
- ings to automObilists about ap-
preaching street cars-how to do it
without accident-and in the month
that has followed, the lowest number
Of accidents for many months between
recorded
This shows that a little caution is
run great deal 1t may be partly
Que 10 luck that the number of col
Ilslons has diminished, but it is more
t-le.l Hhely due TO the care the auto
A-cblllStS have used Tt has been q
saving in money TO the. street car COM
pany and TO the autOmobinsts, too.
AlFes DlNen, claim agent and safety
SHSLHeeE Tor the street railway COM
pany- Is q bug on the subject Of
SstLety and is working every hour he
mas 10 spare on ONE scheme or other
10 prevent accidents, not only auto
AoDlle- out accidents OF every sort, on
the lines Of the local street car COM
pany. He has invited his friends and
the public in general to send in suE-
geslons and he is adopting all of
these that he can and trying TO get
the public to adopt as many as pos
SIDle. and IL is all having its effect
II is true that many accidents have
occurred in FL PasO between autOmO-
DllSLS and the street cars and il is
automobile drivers has caused many
of them A little more care viii pre-
vent many in future
One of the suggestions received BY
Mr.. Dixon, if followed, would in itself
lessen the number of accidents q great
deal This comes from a man who
writes that he never attempts to cross
a street car track straight but that he
runs down to the car track, then turns
into the street with the car line on
il, parallels the track a block and then
turns over it. In this way, he never
runs into a car or narrowly escapes
being hit and he crosses the car track
at an angle, which is much easier on
his car than If he made a straight
crossing
Another man. sending in a sUEges-
tiOn-he lives on the north side-says
that when he is coming down town ne
never crosses the Boulevard track any
where except at Stanton street Be
cause of the switch at that pOln-
where the cars leave the Boulevard 70
run down Stanton. all cars are forced
to stop at that street AS a result,
ne says there is no danger Of being
run into and he always comes down
Stanton across the track and then goes
wherever he chooses, but he never
crosses the Boulevard track except 1t
Stanton.
Here are two men who have figured
put two matters OF vital lnpOr Ja-llce-
they have given study TO the danger
that the street car company VIII never
have to pay them any damages ana
that they viii never have to so with
out the use of their car or lie In
hospital with broken limbs as result
of collision with street cars Iheir
suggestions are offered to others, wac
If they viii use them. may also AVOID
many an accident or close call at least
NEED OF TRAFFIC RELES-Lack
of proper traffic regulations is Tespo1-
sible for many accidents and near
accidents in FL PasO- Few cities III
. the country the size of FL Paso pay
so little attention TO traffic regulations.
. MaEcr c. T. Kelly realizes that III EaSO
is behind in this respect and, with
alderman Clayton, is now at work on
a traffic ordinance, which viii De
adopted shortly
Several years 90 the council adopt
ed an ordinance limiting the speed OF
automobiles in the city to j. miles
which is slower than is necessary. and
, compelling automobiles to carry lights
front and rear but eNempting bugglas
from carrying any sort of light IN
fOrcement of the regulation against
exceeding this speed limit has been
rigorous, but that is about the only
regulation that is enforced. An auto
mObilist running 90 miles an hour on
Montana street at IL o'clock at night
when the street is perfectly free Of
people and other rigs. is arrested and
soaked SlI-S5 for speeding and IS
allowed next day to run his machine
up alongside the curb on san Antonio
/ street and block traffic for two hours
! or cut a corner on some busy street