The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-10
ORDER CHILDREN
FROM STREETS
Chief Orders Officers to
Break Up All Games on
Paved Streets.
WARNING TO PARENTS
Children Should Not Be Al
lowed to Cross Fast Highways
without Some Protection.

Stirred to drastic action by an au-
tomobile killing another child during
the past week, Thad Logan, chief of
police, today ordered police officers to
bar all children from the streets, and
to break up all ball games and other
sports where the paved streets are be-
ing used for athletic fields.
While he attaches no blame to the
driver of the machine which caused
the last death, due to the fact that
the machine was proceeding at only
nine miles an hour when the killing
took place, he pointed out that the
death toll from automobiles has al
ready reached total Of four this year
as against none during the correspond
ing period last year.
The chief said that he sympathized
with juvenile Kenosha, and regretted
the necessity of forbidding them the
use of the streets to play in, he felt
that the young lives must be protected
at any cost and the automobile killings
checked through every possible means.
Suggests Fairgrounds.
I Fairgrounds have been provided for
the children at different places
throughout the city, and it was sug-
gested that the children take advan-
tage of these facilities provided for
them. Recreation at the Fairgrounds
is safe. The youngsters are not in the
path OF motor vehicles and there is
room to romp and play.
Parents are also warned Of their re-
sponsibility with reference to instruct
ing the children, particularly the
younger of them, regarding the danger
of crossing the streets without first
making sure that no automobile is APP
preaching from either direction. Young
children, the chief added, should new
er be allowed to go any distance from
home where they have to cross fast
traffic arterials, without being accom-
panied by older children or adults. 1t
may mean the saving of their lives, he
added.
Chief Logan pointed out that it is
not always the fault of the driver of q
machine when deaths occur. A driver,
he said, is powerless to keep from
crushing the life out of child or AN
older person, should they step out un-
expectedly directly in the path of the
machine.
After Drivers Too.
Although children have been ordered
not to play in the streets, drivers are
warned not to take this as a license
to travel at excessive rates of speed.
Mounted officers are riding all streets
of the city and locking for reckless
drivers who speed by blind corners
without first observing whether they
may have Competition" at the cross
ing, particularly from the right hand
side
Motorists are warned by the chief
to have their brakes adjusted so that
they will operate efficiently. In the
life of every driver there comes mo-
ment when the ability to stop sudden
ly means the avoiding of an accident
and the resultant unpleasantness or
even court action.
Officers have also been instructed to
grab" motorists who insist on driving
with glaring headlights, or those who
run with one light.
The reason for this action, the chief
declared will be found in the follow
ing comparison between the accidents
last year up to this time, and the ac-
cidents which have occurred so far in
1924.
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