Evening star., 1926-10-09
Traffic Danger Points Listed
in Drive to Protect
Pupils on Streets.
ELDRIDGE OFFERS PRIZE
FOR SCH00LBOY PATROL
Authorizing Tabulating Data to De-
eide on Plan to Change
Glass Hours.

uanRST SpOlS were
listed today as points demanding at
tention by authorities for measures
to protect school children en- route 10
or returning from their classes. in a
city-wide survey conducted by Maj.
Edwin b. HeSse, chief of police, with
the assistance OF the captains Of
Washington's IA precincts, to compile
data bearing on the project Of chang
ing school hours.
In virtually all precincts it was re-
ported that the time of heaviest traf-
fic was Immediately preceding and
during the school opening hour of
o'clock, when children swarm to the
school simultaneously with the onrush
of employees to their desks in down
town offices, q fact considered impor-
tant in view of suggestions for put
ting back the school opening hour.
With experiments at the Thomson
School, Twelfth and l. streets, start
ing Monday. to develop model safety
system, as far as boy patrols can ac-
complish 1t, Maj. Hesse and traffic eX-
perts of the police department were
already making plans TO follow up
the beneficial experience gained there
in all sections of the city, at the dan
captains in their comprehensive sur
vey.
Danger Spots Listed.
These danger spots are recorded as
follows:
First precinct-Tenth and H streets,
Capt. r. r. Bean reporting traffic at
that corner is very heavy from 1880
am. until 9:15 am. and from 4 pm.
until $50 pm.
Second precinct-Twelfth and l.
streets (Thomson SCHOOL,. Vermont
avenue and r street, Seventh and
r streets, Seventh and p streets and
First and p streets.
Third precinct-Dupont Circle.
Fourth precinct - Sixth and +
streets, Maryland avenue and Four
and-a-half street, Maryland avenue
and Sixth street and Maryland ave
nue. and Seventh street, all in South
west Washington.
Fifth precinct-Eighth street and
Pennsylvania avenue and Seventh
street and Pennsylvania avenue, both
southeast.
Sixth precinct-At the Juncture of
Massachusetts avenue, New jersey
avenue, First and G streets.
Seventh precinct-O street west Of
Wisconsin avenue, near the Hyde
School.
Eighth precinct-Vermont avenue
and U street.
Ninth precinct-Massachu ave-
nue. and G street; Tennessee avenue
and 3 street; Tennessee avenue and
Fourteenth street; Rosedale and
Fifteenth streets; Maryland avenue
and Fourteenth street; Florida avenue
and Twelfth street; Florida and West
L.
nue. and Twelfth street.
Tenth precinct-Thirteenth street
and Spring road, Thirteenth and Har-
ward streets. Thirteenth and Kenyon
streets, Georgia avenue and Shepherd
street, Georgia avenue and Columbia
road, Warder and Newton streets,
Warder street and Otis place, Iowa
avenue between Allison and Buchan-
an streets, Tenth street and Spring
road Sixteenth and Euclid streets,
the intersection of Seventh and Shep-
herd streets with New Hampshire ave-
nue., Sherman avenue and Kenyon
street. Seventeenth street and Colum-
bia road. Eighteenth and Newton
streets.
Eleventh precinct-Nichols avenue
and Howard road, the neighborhood Of
the Birney School.
Twelfth precinct-Iincoln road and
Rhode Island avenue northeast.
Thirteenth precinct-Colorado ave-
nue. between Georgia avenue and
Madison street.
Fourteenth precinct - Connecticut
avenue and Calvert street.
Will Guard Staying Children.
In commenting on conditions. after
his survey in the Second precinct.
cot l. HOY nFl
School-Ow!ng to the fact that most
of the children attending this school
are very young. and that the streets
are wide and the traffic from Mass
achusetts avenue. Twelfth street and
l. street converges at this point, there
is frequently much congestion there
during the hours when children are on
the way to school.
LAS an additional hazard at this
point. the small triangular park be-
tween Eleventh and Twelfth streets,
i street and Massachusetts avenue,
offers an inducement for the children
to loiter on the way TO and from
school and in playing to run back
and forth across the streets without
going to the regularly designated
To prevent such hazard
Gus conduct on the part of the chill.
dren will be one of the duties Of the
School Boy Patrol Unit, starting it's
activities Monday.
Regarding other danger spots"
Capt. Rurlingame said: Vermont ave
nue. and r street is also considered a
highly dangerous point for much the
same reasons, except that tratf1c at
this point Is not quite so heavy,
though the width of the streets and
the fact that several streets intersect
at this point make 1t dangerous
point for children to cross"
In the fourth precinct two schools.
st. Dominic's parochial and the
Amidon School, are at the corner OF
the first danger point mentioned,
Sixth and f streets southwest.
Union Station traffic offers a
hazard for school children attempt
ing to go to the Gale School. at
First and G streets. in the sixth
precinct, with Massachusetts avenue
and New Jersey avenue, both heavy
traffic streets, intersecting at this
point.
Central High Area Safe.
The eighth precinct has the prob
lem of safeguarding more than 1000
children attending the Garnet, Pat
terson and Phelps Schools, all To-
Gated near the intersection of Yer
mont avenue and u street.
Much of the school pedestrian traffic