row OvK OWN Connsszonvexe Canton, Mar. 21.
Motor car accidents are on the Gncrease in this city. Traffic regulations have lessened the chances of accidents dt street intersection Dut have not stopped "Jay-walking-'Cutting across in the middle of the street, veering suddenly in a new direction, and walking with the head down are a few habits peculiar to the race that it will take years to shake off. One rea-on is to be found in the narrow-nese of the sidewalks, which, in many parts of the town, cannot Begin to take care of the crowds of pedestrians, At all important street crossings, traffic officers have been stationed, who, in the daytime, dirvet the movements of motor cars and motorcycles with their batons, and at night red and green lights are flashed on and off, indicating "sto} and "go." This is a marked improvement, but al] that is desired has not been obtained, even in this direction, for the police have not insisted that approaching vehicles shall stop until they get the signal waving them onward, Consequent-Jy, about the only good that the traffic officers do is to "shoo" peestrians and rieshas out of the way just before a car crosses the Moroughfare. The driver of the motor exr, ad a general rule, pays Bittle attention to the signals, The Demon Chauffeur 'The day before yesterday, a ehavffeur ran amok and was sponsible for one of the worst motor accidents in the history Canton, He had delivered a "ture;" and was speeding back to the gar age to get other" passengers for' hire. Passing along a section of the Bund where a gang of Iabourwere uncovering water mains, he did not slacken speed, although the road was black with human ings. He honked his horn, but labourers were too engrossed their work to move quickly. The car tore into the midst of the work. men, killed two outright, and seriously injured several more.
That such accidents happen casionally hardly can be said to be the fault of the municipal author ties, The Commissioner of Public Uiilities, Mr, Fung W:
set of regulate operation of motor Ought to make the most careless of drivers stop and think. Let the driver injure anyone, and he has to pay, even though it may be he was proceeding at " snail's pace while the injured man deliberately jump= ed in front of his car, There is no such thing as a doctrine of con-tributary negligence in China. the ense of un-accident which re-cults in the death of the man hit, the driver or owner of the ear, oF feome bondsman must pay $500 as compensation. At the same time, the chauffeur's licence is forfeited for all time, He never may run '8 car, even for pleasure, as long as he hives.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.