The evening world., 1922-05-04
HYLAN SHAKENUP
IN AUTO CRASHAT
CROSSING IN B'KLYN
Mayor Showered With Glass
When Trolley Strikes
His. Car.
w t T + RACK CAUSE.
Executives Neck Violently
Snapped by Impact-No
Arrests Made.

Mayor Hylan was in a spectacular
automobile accident on his way from,
his home at No. 959 Bushwick Ave-
nue., Brooklyn, to the City Hall this
morning. He escaped unhurt, though
covered from head to foot with splin-
tered glass and with long keen spears
of glass stuck deep in the automobile
cushions beside his scat.
In the car with the, Mayor were
John r. Sinnott. his secretaIst, and
son-in-law, and Acting Detective
Sergt. Irving O'Hara, his brother.in-
law. The Mayors regular chauffeur.
Sergt. Joseph Eppsie was at the wheel
Eppsie stopped the car at a traffic
policeman's signal on the Bushwick
Avenue car tracks at Seigal street to
wait for school children to be ushered
across. A heavy commercial motor
truck was at the crossing. Behind II
was n light delivery car. The radi-
ator of the Mayors Packard limou-
sine nosed the tailboard of the latter
car
mayor Hylan r. Snnott were
leaning back in the tonneau. Sergt
O'Hara was facing them.
From behind came Bushwick Ave-
nue. b. r. T. car, James Gruth, motor
man and Joseph Brenner, conductor.
The tracks were slippery from last
nights rain. Gruth set his brakes and
the wheels of the heavy street car
locked, but it slid right along with
speed but little diminished and
slammed into the rear of Mr.. Hylan's
car, which bounced forward with a
leap, pushing the light delivery car
ahead until stopped with terrific
bump against the five-to truck.
The Mayors head and shoulders
were snapped back against the cush-
ions, which were not soft enough. be
said on his arrival at the City Hall.
TO Keep him from thinking somo-
body had hit him across the back
OF the neck with a club" Then he
was hurled forward with the recoiI as
the cars in front bumped back.
Either Eppsie's head or O'Hara's
elbow broke the window between tbe
chauffeur and the occupants Of the
limousine. Glass few in a shower OF
PARTICLES and of big fragments.
The Mayor stepped out, hat in hand
and sparkling with glass dust into a
crowd which swarmed from the side
walks and from the trolley car. First
ne wanted to know IL anybody else
was hurt; nobody was; then he
wanted to know what had happened;
md finally he brushed himself off
With Mr.. Sinnott's help.
Tho policeman at the school cross
ns stormed into the crowd and for a
moment seemed to want to arrest
concerned in the collision
xcept the members OF the Mayors
larty.
Mr.. Hylan. as the policeman was
'ulling Motorman Gruth around.
urned from a quick examination ofl
ne SHINY tracks and the brakes OF
he street car and said: Let him
10; 1t wasn't his fault. There was
10 way in the world he could have {
'revented it; he did all he could; his {
rakes are set hard and the car has
zen sliding for fifty feet"
No arrests were made.
Eppsie, in spite Of the joltns the
mousine had received, found the
amage limited to broken glass, dents
the rear and on the radiator and d
cratched paint After the glass had '
cen busted from the interior, the I
Iayor and his party went on 10 the I
ity Hall about fifteen minutes later. /