Evening star., 1914-05-03
SAFETY IS FIRST,
SOCIETY DECLARES
New York Organization Hopes
to Reduce Number of
Street Accidents.
LECTURES IN SCHOOLS
AFEATURE OF PROGRAM
Owners and Manufacturers of Auto
mobiles Have Peculiar Interest
in Campaign.

The Safety First Society of Greater
New York. which has been in process Of
formation for some weeks, is now perma-
nently organized. with Ogden L. Mills as
president. and active work is now in
progress. Jefferson De Mont Thompson.
Ogden Mills Reid. Charles L. Bernheimer
and Gen. Howard Carroll are vice presi-
dents: John x. Woodruff. treasurer, and
Frederick H. Elliott general secretary.
On the executive committee are the fol-
lowing: Ralph Folks, secretary Of the
borough Of Manhattan, chairman: Robert
S. Binkerd. City Club: Harry A. Bullock,
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company; Mrs.
Robert Francis Cartwright, New York
City Federation Of Women's Clubs: E. r.
Hardy. Insurance Society of New York
P. ]. Holdsworth. Mason-Seaman Trans
portation Company: George Keegan New
York Railways Company; R. W. Meade,
Fifth Avenue Coach Company; J. A.
Richie. Interborough Rapid Transit
Company; Frank G. Webb, Long Island
Automobile Club.
Objects Of the Society.
The organization is composed OF a rum
Der Of social. civic and commercial bodies
industrial and transportation companies
etc, with a view primarily to devising
and perfecting ways and means to:
(2> Lessening the number and degree of
accidents occurring in tho public streets
and elsewhere. and the economic waste
they directly entail.
(b) Minimizing, through more sclen-
tif1c planning Of traffic routes and ree,l-
lation of traffic movement, the great eco
nomic waste which under present conii-
tions falls as a financial burden directly
upon those using the public thorough
fares for the purpose of distribution
(c) Creating medium for the exchange
of ideas as well as for the cooperative
effort of those most v1tally concerned
financially and other wise, in solution
of these problems.
The Safety First Sociaty's campaign is
Of especial interest to aUtomobiEsts and
the motor car industry generally. for its
work will tend to make drivers of cars
more careful and the fewe- motoring ac-
cidents there are the better it will be for
the industry.
Lectures in Public Schools.
Ono of the important features Of the
society's numerous activities Is vigor-
Gus and comprehensive campaign of edu-
cation in the public schools, embracing
lectures by a staff Of experts. who will
show with graphic illustrations the more
prevalent causes of accident. and how
they may be avoided. This course should
prove most effective in reaching the
greatest number in the shortest time at
minimum cost.
Thomas w. Churchill, president of the
board of education, is honorary chair
man OF the educational committee. In
accepting this Craftsmanship. President
Churchill expressed himself as being not
only in full accord with the aims and
views Of the society. but offered his
services and heartiest cooperation in
carrying out along thorough and scien-
tific lines the comprehensive educational
program which the society has adopted.
Prof. Fischer Of Yale University is
authority for the statement that at least
90 per cent of the deaths In this coun-
try due to accidents are preventable. An
analysis made of accidents occurring in
Greater New York. involving 173 deaths
and $50 injuries. showed that upward