Evening star., 1919-01-23
81 ARRESTS MADE
IN NTRAFF|CCASES
Police Are Commended for
Activity to Prevent Street
Accidents.
MEN GETTING RESULTS

Members of the police force have
been commended by Mai. Raymond
w. Pullman, superintendent of police,
for the activity in the campaign to
check the increase in the number OF
highway accidents.
''You are getting results" he told
them in today's edition of the daily
bulletin of the. department.
''The public is taking a keener in
terest in the police campaign to
check the increase of highway acci-
dents. Both drivers and pedestrians
seem to be exercising more caution
they? Surely no one wants to get his
name before the public as one who
does not know how dangerous it is to
batter down lamppost or to climb a
tree with perfectly good automobile.
No pedestrian likes to be called a jay
walker as he walks diagonally across
the street and carelessly in front of
a machine in the middle Of the block.
The people are thinking more of acci-
dent prevention and are taking heed.
It is only through the fullest public
cooperation that any street safety
campaign can produce results.
Must Arrest Promptly.
"Our police duty in this drive to
cut down accidents and to save hui
and to arrest promptly in the case
Of fragrant and willful violation Of
traffic regulations. Advise all per-
sons to be careful in their use of the
streets This includes yourself and
your wife and children, If you are SO
blessed. Police themselves need this
advice.
-Four of our good men have been
injured in preventable accidents in
the last two weeks. Warn all per-
sons who are only technically vio-
lating the regulations, but arrest, and
who apparently has no regard for the
safety of himself or for others, the
man or woman who perhaps is late
to dinner and is trying to beat it
past a street car stopped to take on
or let off passengers. The driver
a car with lights out. cutting a corner
or flirting with death by speeding
across an intersection at twenty to
thirty miles an hour is guilty of
reckIessness and should be arrested
to protect himself or herself and
others who are using the streets.
Eighty-Two Arrests Made.
For the twenty-four hours ending
& o'clock yesterday morning the mem
bers of the various precincts found
it necessary to arrest eighty-two per-
sons for serious violations of i'm
portant traffic regulations. This in
dicates that there are still many peo-
pie using the streets who continue
to be careless. thoughtless or reck-
less. and the faster all such law vio-
lators are apprehended the greater
will be the reduction in the yearly
casualties on the public highway.
1--WE enforce traffic regulations to
prevent street accidents.
Knocked Down by Auto.
Nathaniel G. Thomas, colored, 2525
Georgia avenue, was victim of traf-
tic accident on Georgia avenue be-
tween w and TrumbulI streets last
evening shortly before z o'clock. He
of Raymond Howison. 811 Jefferson
street, and injured about the head
and body. Howison took him to
Freedmen's Hospital.
Noble Clark. Maj. Pullman's mes
fects of a traffic mishap on Pennsyl-
vania avenue several days ago. He
was crossing the Avenue in front of
the Southern Railway company's
building, when he was struck by an
automobile, knocked down and Sc
, yerely shocked.
Auto and Street Car Collide.
Passengers on car So on the Ana
| costa line were frightened yesterday
afternoon when the car collided with
q motor vehicle of the Chesapeake
| and Potomac Telephone Company on
ct
| Anacostia. Both vehicles were dam
aged, but their occupants escaped in
An automobile owned by Landon
| Carter, parked in front of the own
! er's place of business at 45S Penn
| sylyania avenue. was damaged by a
! lCso1innsd q sscond Ragol