The New York herald., 1922-06-03
AUTOMOBILES KILL
4BOYS AND GIRLS
Three Run Down i'm New York
Streets and One Loses Her
Life at Belmore, L. l.
DEATHS GROW MONTHLY
Col. Cornell Believes Number
for This State for 1922
Will Be 1000.

Three children were killed by automo-
biles in New York city yesterday and
last night and another was killed in
Belmore. L. /. She was Gertrude Pond.
the seven-year-old daughter of William
A. Pond and she died late in the after
noon. after she had been run down in
Merrick road. near Bedford avenue. by
an automobile driven by Charles Smith
Of Hampstead, health inspector.
Morris Cohen years old. of SH Home
street. The Bronx. ran under an automo-
bile truck yesterday while trying to re-
trieve a lost ball which had bounced
from his grasp. and was killed. The
truck was driven by Abrum Alandrine
of 1Si5 West Farms Roads. The Bronx.
An automobile. owned by Joseph
Kahn Of AIS Central Park West, wool
merchant, struck Mildred Phillips. Z.
of PA East Eighty-fifth street. as she
was trying to cross Madison avenue al
Eighty-fifth street The child died a
short time afterward in the Lenox Hill
Hospital The car was driven by
Kahn's chauffeur, Elijah Paygon Of
1O7 West 13Sth street.
Stanley Mongoski. 2 years old. was
killed by an automobile yesterday while
playing in front Of his home at 1876
Thirteenth street, Brooklyn. Walter
Shannon of 2i0 Brooklyn avenue,
Brooklyn, driver of the car. was ar
o,o af
eide.
Motor Fatalities Increase.
In presenting statistics of the number
of persons killed by automobiles for
the first five months of this year,
Col. Edward S. Cornell, president of
the National Highways Prosectivs So
ciety. yesterday predicted that the
death rate from automobiles in this
State alone would exceed 900 persons
for 1922.
I'm other States adjoining New York,
ne said, automobile deaths have been
kept down by intelligent legislation
and efficient administration, but in our
own State the killings mount steadily
every month. We need an entirely new
code OF laws to cope with this growing
menace. and it is useless to keep on
adding one amendment after another
to State Laws which ar. obsolete
in the light of the increasing motor
traffic.
So far this year 521 persons have
lost their lives as a result of auto
mobile collisions or accidents in the
State of New York, 303 of whom were
killed in this city With one exception
each month has shown a larger total
than the preceding period, and the
totals for each year have been steadily
increasing
Cfty's Record Is Worst.
The fatalities in the city have .nvari-
ably outnumbered those of the entire
State outside Of New YORK. and there
is a perceptible increase In the ratio
OF those killed in the streets OF the
city OF those losing their lives in other
parts of the State
A comparison Of the figures for the
last six years shows the ever increas-
ing menace of the reckless motorist
From 72S deaths in 1916 the harvest
CLEANED by automobiles reached 1871
deaths in 1921, and there Is every pros
pect that 1922 will eclipse that record.
Already the figures are well above
last year. the 52l deaths from January
l to June / being an increase in the
killings of forty-one persons.
The following table shows the steadily
increasing number of persons who have
lost their lives under the wheels of
motor cars in New York State during
the last six years