Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-03
AUGUST 3, 1915.
TEACHING SAFETY FIRST"

The Chamber of Commences ''Safety First
campaign without doubt will be strikingIy sue
eessful il it is kept up persistently, though at
first results are bound to be slow The expe
riences of cities all over the mainland are that
several months have usually elapsed before
these campaigns attracted wide enough atten-
ton among the poorer classes of people where
they are most needed-to teach the lesson of
heedfulnfss on the streets.
A conference of 1ssafety first workers was
recently heldin New York and marked by state
ments which will be of interest here.
One-half Of the blame for maimings and kill
ings by vehicles in New York streets should be
laid on motormen chauffeurs and other drivers,
according to 4 statement made by Darwin z.
Kingsley, president Of the Safety First Fedora
ton of America, and of the New York Life In
surance Company.
The massacre word is not too strong
that goes on in this city, . he said, els quite
as much the fault of the public as it is of the
drivers of vehicles The public has not adj
ranced sufficiently in its attitude to meet the
requirements of changed transportation and
traffic conditions, which have been revolution
lied in the last few years.
The children are one of the greatest dangers
IN New York streets. Their play in streets fire.
qlented by traffic is absolutely unregulated by
The police They run under the machine when
II IS in motion. Certainly something should be
one to better this condition of affairs.
W. L. Cam Of the Detroit United Railway,
fepfesentink the Safety First Society of Greater
Detroit, said that every horse-drawn vehicle
shonld be compelled by law to carry a rear light
Id
shonld be lifohibitedsto all but fire and police
vehicles, because they go at a high speed and
are menace to the public unless they have
some peculiar distinguishing signal
d w Crawford OF the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit Company announced that the safety
FIRST crusade in the Quaker City during the first
three years has caused a decrease of 80 per cent
III accidents to children under fifteen years.
IN Ottawa, Canada, so it wassstated by Fred
James of the electric railway there, the grade
crossing safety first campaign has reduced &c
cidents 40 per cent The public of Ottawa he.
added appear To prefer the far side stop after
having tried both the near side and the far
side
Sheriff Rose is making a comNendable effort
to render safer the street-crossings In the cen.
Ser Of the city but more actual danger probably
exists in the dozen blocks west of Nuuanu
sffeet en- Beretania or King streets than in the
dozen blocks east Of Nuuanu. There is one
particularly bad stretch-ffom Nnuanu stream
out past Liliha street. usually no traffic
policemen are stationed along these blocks, the
result being that Needless autoistss drive their
cars along at a rapid rate through just as heed
less men, women and children lettering on tie
street
In spite of the condemnation of autosts who
speed past standing street cars taking on or
diseharging passengers this particular form of.
reckless driving persists 1t ought to be
stopped by drastic action.