. Electric railway journal . ompany of America, andit proved an excellent medium to illustrate how childrenmeet with accidents through carelessness and thoughtless-ness. Two views from this picture are shown, and tin- pintis well described in the following resume prepared 1>\ theproducer: The Irire of Thotlghtessness.—The children are gath-ered in the schoolroom listening to a lecturer, who, with apointer and charts, discourses upon the dangers of the city street and slmw^ Imw to avoid them. When he is through 1226 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLII, No. 24. he presents each child with a s
. Electric railway journal . ompany of America, andit proved an excellent medium to illustrate how childrenmeet with accidents through carelessness and thoughtless-ness. Two views from this picture are shown, and tin- pintis well described in the following resume prepared 1>\ theproducer: The Irire of Thotlghtessness.—The children are gath-ered in the schoolroom listening to a lecturer, who, with apointer and charts, discourses upon the dangers of the city street and slmw^ Imw to avoid them. When he is through 1226 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLII, No. 24. he presents each child with a safety button as a reminderof his advice. Howard, Mabel and Bobby remain after theother children to ask a few additional questions. Afterschool Bobby lives up to the button by notifying the policeof a live wire he discovers on the car track. He is praisedby the crowd on the scene for his thoughtfulness. ThroughHowards carelessness little Mabel narrowly escapes deathwhen she falls in front of a street car and is saved by the. Brooklyn Accident Campaign—This Boy Succeeded inEscaping the Car safety device on the car. She is crossing the track withHoward. Both are on roller skates. Running in front ofa northbound car, they suddenly discover that a car comingsouth is heading them off. Howard jumps to safety, but hissister is not so quick and falls before the car. An automo-bile coming south on the avenue stalls, forcing a wagon tocut in to the left between the elevated railroad posts ontothe car track in order to pass. Just as the wagon is hauledonto the track the car crashes into it, crumbling it to piecesand crushing the driver beneath the wreckage, all due tothoughtlessness. Some boys are playing ball on a sidestreet. Howard, the catcher, misses the ball, which boundsaway across the car track on the avenue. He runs after it
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