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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1911)
A" -nJ A. A. , rtrtlT tH constant, earnest and undivided attention of the PORTLAND RAILWAY, amin JdtorfimS,?ntrfH and sobriety. They are thoroughly trained and instructed before they are placed chargeof cars l3 I v f W I f f I I f I I 1 I 1 How It Might Happen &smM . If for1 crr'to stop vv "1 A BtroKE oETTiNGorr. Suppose it were you! A long time spent in repairing your body. Expense! Terhaps death TOMORROW. What difference would it make that you had got off moving cars safely "over a thousand times!" That fact would not remove your pain, heal your skin, wipe the blood out of your eyes or pay the doctor's bill. It would not bring back health.-Or comfort your family if you were buried. Why not let the "thousand times" be enough. Once More! It might be the last time! Your fault. "Wait till the ear stops" actually STOPS. Say this to yourwifc or husband, your children, your pupils or em ployes. If they met death because you had not cautioned them you would blame yourself all your life. iv. How It Might Happen The motonnan knows that this is the saddest accident in the whole list. A little child conies out suddenly from behind a tree or wagon and runs quickly across the track after a ball perhaps. The child is busy intent upon its play. The motonnan is straining every muscle in his body to stop the rar! But it simply CANNOT be done in time. Not with the best car ever built or the best motonnan who ever handled a brake. The wheels go over and . Suppose it .was .YOUR - little boy or girl. Keep the children from playing in the streets. Tell them EVERY day to look out for wagons and street cars. The Portland Rail way, Light a Power Company, in their effort to prevent ac cidents, have inaue'-. urated a campaign among' our schools. They have engaged the services of a gen tleman who devotes his entire time in going from one school to another and delivering' lec tures to the students and their teachers on "THE PREVEN T I 0 N OF ACCI DENTS." He has, within less than one year, talKed to all the school children and teachers of our city on two different occasions. This worK we intend to continue. This is not all this company is doing to prevent ac cidents in our city. They have set aside a larg'e auditorium in their fine hew of fice building at Sev enth and Alder streets, where weeK ly lectures are deliv ered to the trainmen on "THE PREVEN TION OF ACCI DENTS BUT, the public must do its part if accidents are to be prevented altogeth er. Persons who ride in the cars, who traverse the streets on foot or in vehic les, passengers boarding' and leav ing cars MUST BE CAREFUL. They must Keep their eyes open. They must Keep their wits about them. When they do this the number of street car accidents w i 1 1 b e greatly reduced. DOXT CROSS TRACKS WITHOUT LOOKIXG ROTH WAYS DOXT JUMP OX OR OFF A MOVING CAR DON'T FACE THE REAR OF CAR WHEN ALIGHTING DOXT PUT ARMS OR HEAD OUT OF CAR WINDOW DOXT CARRY ANYTHING IN THE LEFT HAND OR ARM WHEN ALIGIIT IXG DOXT TALK TO THE MOTORMAX. II. How It Might Happen II I I .III II II I . I I . I I , I . . . . .. a. ,, V,l .. M i - if Tn i i'r i i I - i r it i x i . inj . '' ' i 'nci - .. 1 1 1 .11 i 1 11 A ir win v r, WAS tJ"irJ kui l Spposfte DIRECTION TRACK This company is trying to prevent this accident happening to you. You ought to be interested. You ought to be w illing to be careful enough not to get off a car and walk behind it in front of another, or, where there is a single track, in front of a swiftly moving vehicle. Remember that no one expects to see you dive out from behind the car. The first that is seen of you is when you are under the wheels or the horse's hoofs. Wait a second. Look. Open your cars. Then cross safely and go home without the help of an ambulance. It w ill surprise you to find.out how careless are the women in your family at least in this matter. Watch them. It w ill call attention to your own carelessness, perhaps. ix. How It Might Happen The campaign that this company is making for the prevention of ac cidents can be assisted in no greater measure than by the warnings that parents and teachers give to the children against "stealing rides." The accident illustrated here would not happen if you would w arn the children if you could prevent them from courting DAXGER by jumping on our cars. They do it for fun OR DEATH. The conductor is the man who knows. You will not find HIS chil dren "stealing rides." PORTLAND SAFETY LEAGUE Every one of our citizens that you see wearing one of these attractive little emblems is a self-appointed missionary in the grand work of saving the lives and limbs of the people of Portland. Each member of this league is daily practicing the rules for safety and cau tioning others to do likewise, and are wearing the little pin as a silent reminder to them selves and to the traveling public. Portland Railway, Light & Power Co mm pasiy
