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, 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
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How It Might Happen
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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
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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
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