New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-17
2 AUTO CRASHES
SPUR SAFETY WAR
Showing Off" Sends Girl
to Hospital Dying-Six
Persons Injured.
SPEED GOVERNORS
URGED FOR TRUCKS
Will Keep Motors Within i5-
Mile Limit-Letters Warn
Parents of Street Perils.

Two automobile accident. YESTERDAY.
In which one girl was injured fatally
and six persons were hurt served to
emphasize the importance Of the cant
paign for safety first" in the streets
which Is being prosecuted thi. week b.
Police Commissioner Woods and the
Brooklyn Institution for Safety.
Five thousand letters were sent from
Commissioner Woods's Office yesterday
to owners Of automobile trucks calling
their attention to the increasing NUM-
Der Of accidents in which the fifteen
mile law is violated by speeding
trucks. He asks the owners TO haze
their trucks equipped with governor.
which will limit the speed 10 fifteen
miles an hour.
A campaign covering the district
along the South Brooklyn waterfront
from Erie Basin TO Joralemon Stree.
will open this evening az the first step
in public safety instruction in the
schools Of Brooklyn. To the parents
10000 letters, in English and Italian,
have seen sent, warning them that the
crowded streets offer more dangers TO
the lives Of their children than the
docks or railroad tracks.
Rose Miller, twenty-five years old
a theatre usher, OF 237 West 126th
Street, is dying in Lincoln Hospital
from injuries she received when pinned
beneath an overturned touring car at
149th Street and Union Avenue early
yesterday morning. Her skull was
fractured and she has internal iniu-
ries. Frank Demares;. OF 1902 Garri-
son Avenue, said by the police 10 be
the owner and driver of the machine,
is held under $500 bail by Coroner
Flynn on charge of reckless driving.
OF the eight occupants in the car,
three were taken TO Lincoln Hospital
and FIVE were injured slightly.
Showing OF" the Cause.
Harry Dunn, of "a South Grove
Street, Newark. manager of printing
house, received a conclusion Of the
brain. Annie Decker, nineteen. of 81
East l26th Street, cashier at a moving
picture theatre, was able to leave Lin.
coin Hospital last night. Several OF
her ribs were fractured.
The auto ride began when Mrs. flor-
cnce Lloyd. Of East l2Sth Street. de-
cided 10 see what sort OF company her
eighteen-year-o daughter, Shairen
associated with. Other members OF the
party were Joseph p. Goodman. OF 1913
Evergreen Street, friend of Dunns
who escaped after the accident Mrs
LLOYD liked her daughters friends SO
well that she stayed with the party
while they made a round OF half a
dozen cabarets in The Bronx. Accord
ing 20 Miss Decker, Dcmarest was try
ing 20 show off" by driving without
keeping his hands on the steering
wheel, when the machine swerved
against the curb and turned over.
Four persons were injured. one seri-
ously, when Howard Bearse, chauffeu.
for Mrs. Mary Weber, OF IL Prospect
Park West. Brooklyn, took a party OF
friends for a ride after he left her
home. While going toward Coney ISL
and. on Ocean Parkway. near Sherman
Street, the steering apparatus reused
to work and the machine ran into 4
tree Henry Belmore is in Sen =,
Hospital with serious internal injuries.
Miss Annie Douglas and Miss Margaret
Tyler received painful decorations.
Rearse was arrested on technical
charge of taking the machine without
the owners permission.