THE KENSINGTON CROSSING.
10 SHB BDIIOK. <&B,— I wißh to contradict a statement in your Saturday night's iesue. You state ithat for some reason or other the gates at the crossing wero not closed. I Was standing near the crossing when my attention was attracted by the ringing of the signalmau'o bell. At this moment the car was about eixty yatds off the crossing, and ;the gates were on their downward move, but they seemed to me to be very slow in ■working, as by the time the car had | covered the sixty yards the gates were | directly on top of tho car. The signalman, Boeing this, had to run inside his box, lift , the gates, and let the car through. If the jsignalman had been slow in putting down : his gates in the first place ho would never •have had the time to go inside his bos, lift the gatea, and let tho car through before the •train arrived.—l am, etc., AK ErE-WITSESS. . January 21.
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Evening Star, Issue 11453, 22 January 1901, Page 7
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166THE KENSINGTON CROSSING. Evening Star, Issue 11453, 22 January 1901, Page 7
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