Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-13
URGES EDUCATION TO
BAR STREET M|SHAPS
w. F. Peabody Tells Northeast Citi-
zens Enforcement of Laws
Is Needed.
P. v. Heating Predicts Reductions in
Cost of Street Car Service, Gas
and Telephones.

street Safety Association. and p. v.
hcatinS. chairnau OF the executive COM
mittee of the Public Utilities Conference.
last night addressed the Northeast Wash
Ington Citizens Association at Il meeting
held ut Northeast Temple The former
ID urged the education of the people in the
H'3:ttcr of preventing accidents, while the
latter told OF what his association ex-
poets to accomplish in the matter of re-
ducins the cost of street car service gas.
telephone and other public utilities
Mr. Peabody started out with the state
ment that one person in every 80 resi-
dents of this city is injured every year.
Last year thirty-two persons paid the
extreme penalty of accidents, he stated,
and 1,c:36 were more or less hurt. Four
teen deaths resulted from automobile
accidents
What number of prosecutions result
ed from the automobile accidents" he
was asked.
One chauffeur was held for the grand
jury" MIR. Peabody answered.
If some of them were arrested, tried
and convicted q. mans,aa-nter, sug-
Sested a member. don't you think it
would have tendency to put q stop TO
such accidents
II most certainly do was his answer
The speaker urged a strict enforcement
said he hoped the time would come when
the street crossing would be considered
places of safety. Pedestrians and those
in charge vehicles, he stated should
1ainlllarize themselves with the laws amt
regulations and study methods that vii,
end accidents in this city.
Records of other places he declared,
show 1t is unnecessary for Washington
~ nave So many accidents each year
Washington should be a model for all
other Cities
Commends Railroad Company.
The question of traffic accidents, the
speaker said, should be discussed IN all
civic associations. He told of the work
that is being done to educate the school
Children, and commended the Pennsyl-
wanna Railroad Company for what it has
accomplished in the matter of prevent
ing accidents.
Mr. keating told his hearers that the
Public Utilities Conference was organized
three years ago. and that it is composed
of representatives from civic bodies and
ianor organizations. He predicted that
the people of this city soon will get uni
versai transfers and that eventually the
cost OF service of all public utilities will
be lessened.
We are sure to get cheaper gas and
lower telephone rates. he asserted
Mr.. Heating stated that gas can be
III iilSiitu IOF 4D cents at a DIX pfofit, and
that telephone service can be furnished
at the rate of cents message. The
puDlc utilities companies. he said. pay
nothing for the right to use the streets,
condition which, he said, was I'M
usual, and still most of the people seem
to have been satisfied all these years.
Demand strict enforcement of the
laws" he stated, land if we can't get
service at reasonable prices then let's
take over the public utilities to municipal
ownership"
On a recent visit to Toronto, he said,
he found the street car companies sell
six tickets for quarter, ten for a
quarter to school children, eight for a |
quarter during certain hours for the |
benefit of the laboring classes, and seven |
for a quarter on Sundays
A resolution providing that the aSsocia- |
ton send three delegates to the public |
utilities conference was discussed. Presi- |
dent Tucker opposed the resolution. He |
stated that the Northeast Washington
Citizens Association always had favored
the aims of the conference, and he
thought individual effort would be more
effective than membership in the other
organization. The resolution went over
for consideration at a future meeting.
Report Condemns Bills.
W. s. Bransom presented report on
the measure which provides for the abro-
cation of the half-and-half plan for the
maintenance OF the District, the bill pro-
viding for placing the total cost of street
paving on property owners and the bill
relating to the improvement of side
walks. The report condemned the bills
and contained expression of appre
citation of the efforts of those who will
rec that attempts at procuring vicious
legislation come to naught.'
Thomas Will and others protested that
the language used in the report was too
strong, and the association sought to
have Mr.. Bransom modify 1t, but he de-
Cined to make changes. The report was
not adopted. but the association voted to
instruct the committee ON proposed legis-
iation TO oppose the three bills.
Or. Starr Pa: sons, chairman of the
committee on schools. submitted a report
favoring a division of the 81 10000 ap-
preparation for a high school in order
that East Washington may get a new
high school building. The report was
adopted.
Roscoe jenkins presented a motion IA
Noring the employment of large enough
force to keep the public comfort stations
open until midnight. He stated that some
of them are closed at o'clock His mo-
ton prevailed.
Thomas Will presented resolution IA
yoring municipal collection of ashes and
refuse. His motion was referred to the