Show S I The Safety Zon Zones Zones' S W We 0 were glad to Chi Chief r f see o Police Grant r recommend c moreS more S safety zones ones for pedestrians waiting for street ca ears s. s in th the busy S downtown blocks The chief tel tells s the city commissioners that the zon zones s have proved eminently satisfactory We Ve agree agree with with him him I and hope the commissioners will follow his advice and establish more zones S The greatest danger to pedestrians lies in the middle of the S. S long blocks on which traffic is heavy The automobiles travel faster 1 1 i there than they do at the intersections of streets If a person steps near the track to wait for fOJ his his trolley car cai car he ho will will have to make makeS S several leaps as likely as us not to escape beh being g iun hm run down by some S criminally careless driver of an all automobile If H he hC stands back baek near near the curb he is li liable to miss his car for hiv invariably a a wagon or automobile comes along parallel to the trolley car just as he J. J wants to get on OR the latt latter r. r S Chief Grant calls attention to the fact that some of the uprights S supporting ropes along the safety zones have been boen knocked down by motorists and wagon drivers When THE TELEGRAM made 5 f th the first suggestion here for safety zones and amid worked up the agitation that resulted in the present experiments experiment it had in ll ind S S the the establishment of more solid supports They rhey should be so heavy 5 5 5 and firm that the motorist who hit them would have only himself S. S to sympathize with Th There Thre reis is no safety in the zones i if a careless driver can skid or carelessly bowl over the posts and knock people peopleS S down The pe people like the thc zones zones and we hope the cit city commissioners S S I will lose no time in providing for them on all the crowded places downto i. i S |