Show OUR STREET CARS A street car cut a little liitle girl in two on Thursday Yest Yesterday r ny the rusty brake on one of the rattletraps of the First street line refused to work wore and the car rushed down n the steep hill near State street at express s train speed There was a panic on m an approaching approaching- rattletrap and a death death dealing dealing collision was averted a by hJ the grace race of Providence and the presence of mind of the motormen In the first case the life of the unfortunate child would have haYe lave been heen spared had the car been equipped with a fender This fact even een the power company o officials will not elt deny ny Several months a ago o the management management manage manage- ement e- e ment promised the public that a fender should at once be attached to every car in the city This pledge has not been carried out an and as fiS a result the life of an au innocent little victim has been sacrificed ced In n no other city in the country are arc traction companies compan ies permitted to operate cars which are without some saving lifesaving device In Salt Lake when a person person per per- son falls in front of a moving troll trolley J he lie is ground to io pieces In the second case had not courageous headed cool men been in chal charge e of the First street Noahs Noah's arks several persons would probably have been crushed to death and man many injured for the car that was going up hill toward the wild rattletrap rattletrap rattletrap rattle rattle- trap was crowded to the platforms Defective brakes on weather-beaten weather shacks such as are arc run ran on First street are to be bc expected The rhe hill which starts from State street on First is a death trap in it itself elf and the operation of defective rolling stock stack std k kon on such a line i is criminal The Tha power poweL company is iR spending a great deal of money in improving its tracks hacks and in laying switches but demands demands de de- demands mands that a little cash b be used where it will save lives Salt Lake citizens have hae been patient and lenient with the street car company but hut a repetition of the thc two occurrences of Thursday and Friday will stir them theta to action |