Show WILL THE COUNCIL ACT It is apparent to those who are compelled com compelled compelled to duck and dodge and engage in wild flight In order to cross any of t the principal streets of Salt Lake that the time has arrived to put a stop atop p to the reckless driving of automobiles up and down the main thoroughfares There have been innumerable acci accidents accidents ned dents many of ot them fatal In hi the past few months So tar far the offenders have not been brought to book It is not assumed that they were entirely to blame in each and every case but there have been men women and children left dead In the road after atter the machines have passed It is not overstating the case to say that under the existing conditions not nota a single day would pass without some someone someone someone one being killed by an automobile in inthis Inthis inthis this city were it not for lor the fact tact that these big machines are given the right of way as they come tearing down the streets No one ventures to attempt a crossing or to gain the steps of ot a waiting wait walt waiting walting ing street car without peering anxiously anxIously anxiously in all directions Th The same came difficulty presents pr Itself Itsel blocks away from the heart of ot the city on the paved streets One gets getson on or off a street car at the peril verll of ot othis his life This is particularly true of East South Temple street where the automobile dress parade usually takes place at all hours of the day and night nigh t Men and women in carriages and even those afoot strange as It may seem have the same right to the road roadway roadway roadway way as the owners of automobiles and the only reason they get out of the th way is because delay means death It was stated some time since that the authorities were going to call a ahalt ahalt ahalt halt on reckless automobile driving Some went so far as to say that the city council would take action In the premises Up to date nothing has been done Is it too much to hope that something something some something thing will result from the agitation before more lives are sacrificed |