The Washington herald., 1918-04-20
Making the Streets Safe.

Making the streets SAFE
The pedestrian has won another
victory.
II they keep on winning them. 1t
won't be long before the streets OF
Washington will be made safe TO
walk upon.
A lady was about to leave an east
bound Berwyn car the other day at
the pit on T street.
Just as she got both feet on the
ground, along comes George Crown
with a two-ton coal truck.
He didn't even stop. He kept
right on-and, OF course. ran down
! the lady and knocked her uncon-
| scious.
II George had been driving a tank
on the western front, and did such
neat job, it would have been all
right-but he wasn't
He was arrested by Policeman
Welch on two charges. one OF as
sault, and one charging him with
running past a street car while It
was taking on and letting off pas
sengers.
He told the court his brakes
wouldn't hold He never thought OF
braking through his engine.
And so the lady had to suffer.
She was almost scared to death. She
didn't know what hit her until the
doctor told her.
Something has got to be done, the
court told Emmett. to give the pc
destrian some guarantee that he or
she will not be killed because he
or she exercises his or her right to
travel the streets safely.
And to that end the court fined
him 500.
Them Gals.
I'm the spring" said a poet one
day. "a young mans fancy turns to
| love"
And-the same applies to the girls
also.
Especially to Alice williams
Alice was bitten by the love bug
She got an awful bite.
Jimmie Murphy was walking
down the street Thursday after
noon. and he got within range Of
AIice's orbs.
She fIirted with him, but Jimmie
was shy and bashfuL
She had a hard time getting him
to talk.
Suddenly the boy picked up
enough courage to run. 4 feeling
came over him that something was
wrong.
He was right Something was
wrong. Policeman Lowry was
W atching the pair. and he ran up
in time to catch Alice.
The cop was wrong. Alice insist
ed. Every woman has a right, she
argues, to flirt all she wants to.
III 1fInHF In that a
wise woman can and does-and no
one knows much about it. either.
It isn't because she flirted that
she was arrested-it is because she
was caught at It
twenty-five dollars or three
months in Jail for her.
The Morning After the Night Before.
Sam Smith woke up from a jag TO
find that he must go to jail for three
months.
Not for being drunk-but for what
| he did while drunk.
He didn't know until they brought
| him in court just what sort Of
crime he had committed.
| Georgianna DeVaughn accused him
of cutting her hand with a glass.
She says that Sam fired the glass at
her-and she caught it.
"Ah dunno what All did, Jedge, 3"
explained Sam. ''Dey might say All
murdered somebuddy for all All
knows. All pleads ignorance TO
eberyting."
Which is a very poor excuse. For
all Sam knows he might be charged
with arson, first degree murder, high
treason, embezZlement or some other
heinous crime.
He wouldn't admit or deny that he
struck Georgianna and sent her to
/ the hospital to have her hand stitched
together again
| welI-there is one thing sure-the
next time Sam gets soused he might
kill himself or someone else.
And to make sure that he would be
sober this spring. the court let him
4 have the three months.
One Pair shoes $40.
John Carabellss is q waiter at a
big hotel.
And John Brown Che never saw Har-
per's Ferry is the elevator boy.
Il About two weeks ago John needed
pair OF shoes-and he didn't have
the price.
And In some way or other he goi
into the locker where Carabellas kept
his shoes and swiped a pair.
He put them on and wore then
about the hotel Just the same as e b