| Show MAD llirilOtLII II1UKLS i je Incident reporlej In todays illt patches a runaway electric car by which the lives 01 nearly a hundred persons were Imperiled and which caused the Injury of nearly half I lhat tl number li only one ol several I lhat have Iron chronicled In tile recent past and eland out In a demand for Improved brake service on slimt rail ways Tbo old handbrake In Its present Improved condition lioipatle I I of fairly good lervlco on coral aiallvaly i level ground but JlI li not enough for a railway on which there Is anylhliig of I astetpgraJe HIm tol sky Service has brought Into use the automatic brake In such ttllrleeoy as to render It luUlij en stable Tire progress 01 street Oil rvloi byoaula Bud electricity flat reich a point now when bore should be a change In the street car brake Tire awkward uncertain end Inccmrttent manner lu which handbrakes are often apt 110 on tlltet fin It too laky to euJntr long on lines whom Ibo are atetp 1 giadtr The automatic service mrely Is capable capa-ble ol dlvenlflfJ applloallon aolloau rracli this feature Whllu a handbrake hand-brake undir Ibo ojtrillim ot one who kuovs lilt tuilueii le I as iir < utlve as one applied automatically can be and perhaps more to the proportion 01 motoriiiou electric care who really know hour to set it oraki when a air li rising at ii high aiwej li ai small that automatic alteration al n certain llml ot spew or when the power 1 Is I reverted would be salvi r from all points of consideration ban ihs service now given Two little and r hall down Iho luiuntalu ildo affair ai the oOIu > iDt < of tlu 1 re Irak ear hall iand e from diatb I I Ar veloia Ithl I tot clulleas suit u au accident to happen In a mu h boor dlitancw on tome of the hill aiuu grades oven III Hilt lake CRY although the car 0 mplialas mature rules so itrlctly that no Inubla h o come yet Hut with Ibo quicker 01 d more nlndoJ service rtiulrtil of Ml of electric car Hotel a better system o applying necessity brakes li I an eccompeaylCK i |
