. The street railway review . - and practicallydetected. had horse cars the great majority could not be preventedby the most careful driving. Superadd to this list of casualties the loss of timeentailed upon every citizen using the poor mans carriage,and the consequent inability to expand the metropolitanarea, and thus give better homes and more pleasant sur-roundings to the thousands now cooped up on the lowerend of the island, and you have a sharp, telling and con-cise statement of what immediate rapid transit facilitieswill do for the American metropolis. One of the most idiotic observation
. The street railway review . - and practicallydetected. had horse cars the great majority could not be preventedby the most careful driving. Superadd to this list of casualties the loss of timeentailed upon every citizen using the poor mans carriage,and the consequent inability to expand the metropolitanarea, and thus give better homes and more pleasant sur-roundings to the thousands now cooped up on the lowerend of the island, and you have a sharp, telling and con-cise statement of what immediate rapid transit facilitieswill do for the American metropolis. One of the most idiotic observations ever made by amember of the four hundred was recently printed in adaily paper, bewailing the unfinished appearance ofAmerican cities, and contrasting the decayed somnolenceof European municipalities with the expansion and growthof our towns and their so-called improvements. It is. OF BOILER ROOM. THE DEADLY HORSE CAR. ALL the trolley cars in the country have not equaledthe record of the deadly horse car in New York,with its list of iS6 \-ictims in the week endingSeptember i6. The list of men, women and childrenwho have lost life and limb under the juggernaut (will the reader observe the ease with which the quotedexpression is used?) stretches out as long as Bielascomet. In the list of iS6 no account is taken of any butthe most serious mishaps, and persons who have beenscared out of their five wits bv the apparition of a horseshoof decending upon their devoted toes, are held innocentof the charge of accident. As an instance of the volume of accidents, note theNew York Hospital in September. The number of acci-dent cases treated was 125, of which 60 per cent was thedirect result of horse car operation. Bellevue Hos-pitals attendants stated that 40 per cent of their caseswere horse car cases. A New York car driver recently stated in an interviewthat he knew o
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