Show THE DEADLY HANSOM london want a th vehicle kill london Is sorely in need of a public vehicle to supersede the hansom cab the streets ol 01 the metropolis are more slippery and more crowded than those of any other city horses drawing hansom cassare cab sare notoriously prone to stumble on the shiny surface of our asphalted and wood paved thoroughfares and when a hansom cab horse falls the passenger has little chance of escaping injury he Is generally flung head foremost over the curtain on to the body of the horse struggling frantically on the ground if the win dow Is down he Is thrown through that as well it the window Is up the sudden stoppage of the cab frequently brings it sliding downward with such force that the glass Is shivered into pieces and the sharp fragments lacer ate his face and bead an authority who has spent years in studying the question of street passenger traffic mentioned several cases to a dally mall representative where hansom cab passengers known personally to him self have had glass extracted from the face head and lege in consequence of the horses merely slipping another fruitful source of accident Is the kick ing in ot the footboard by a restive horse the splinters are showered into the passenger s face as in the other cases he has no means of escape tor it he attempted to jump out he would probably be struck by the lunging hoofs of the horse in fact no matter what the nature of the accident the hansom cab passenger Is perfectly helpless it matters little what type of carriage Is adopted so long as it Is safer to ride in than the present ban som which alays its acore ecore of people annually and injures many hundreds london mail |