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Show , v LONDON AND 'NEW YORK ' Automobiles in New York , during the past year have killed two hundred and thirty-four people as against twenty-one killed in London by the snmo cause. Considering that London Lon-don Is about half as largo again ns New York and with K corresponding volume of business, It Is evident that something is radically wrong in1 Now York. What that wrqng la most everybody ev-erybody knows. It is simply a disregard dis-regard for the safety of pedestrians by the man that drives tho machine and non-enforcement of law. It Is not pleasant to mako comparisons hut sometimes It is needful. Tho London police commissioner In accounting for tho few accidents ln that city says: "Influenco does not take prccedenco over public welfare." wel-fare." In New York Influence too often har tho right of vay hence tho disregard disre-gard for human safoty and tho Impunity Im-punity with which men of money and privilege run down and kill and malm their fellows. n |