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Show Protect tha PedtstrUns. Does a pedestrian hare any rights in the streets of Salt Lake? ' . ' ' . Does he have to risk life and limb when he crosses a street? v . . It would seem so. Saturday night a citizen while on a street crossing was run down and seriously injured in-jured by a reckless driver who came around a corner cor-ner at top peed, although he well knew there was a crossing within a few feet of him. ' Drivers of tracks, delivery wagons, automobiles, carriages every sort of vehicle race , over the crossings with supreme disregard for the safety of pedestrians. The intersection of Main and Second South streets is positively dangerous. The street cars slow up for the crossings but the drivers ol vehicles only drive the fasteYr The police see it every five minutes of the day, but the police are'harmless. They won't hurt the feelings of a reckless driver by arresting him any more than they would cause inconvenience to a holdup hold-up man or a gambling-house keeper by arresting him. The Salt Lake police are the most considerate set of men in the United States. It would be a pleasure, however, were the Coun"-cil Coun"-cil to take up the matter and gently but firmly awake the police and tell they to put a stop to fast driving on crowded streets. The man on foot has as much right as the man in a wagon. |