THE MORNINGTON TRAM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10418, 22 July 1895, Page 3

THE MORNINGTON TRAM.

to,Thi? editor. '■'■*-"

Sir,—Will yon kindly "permit me fco famf-rk upon what is daily becoming more and more a source of auiis'fcy to at least womankind. We must all acknowledge the great booh those cable h-Amcars are to u-i, but why should we bo the subjects of con-taut fear on account oE horaos left unattended or, wfaafc is 9em_fciuies worse, driven by reckless men ? Our intelligence tells ua thafc the cats cannot movo out of the. way, and surely there is some law requiring expressmen aud draymen to keep a ss-fe di-tancs away from fche car when they are warned bythe car men to do so. Fr_qu_r.tly have I seen cars I stopped iiiEign- street ahd the car men having togo aedturn or hold the horses', heads till the car passacl; aud a curious reward tbey sometimes get for such forethought for -the safety of their passengers. The horsemen seem.to r.wenfc such action, and not even the policeman, who I somtt;mes has to interfere, escapes abuse. j On Wednesday afternoon a number of-ladies I got a fright, Euch as they are not likely forget, a-full dray ioad of clay going bick against the side of the car on which they Were sitting. The wonder to me is that no serious accident has .happened at the place where this ocenrted — viz., at the top of High street, where lho meu are eufcliog a footpath to the Town Belt; ; To be on the cars and be terrified by the warning bells ii.igipg, and then to see the slow-conchy way in which the drays move, and to have to tuck up your dreas fed avoid getting ifc Soiled by thedi-ay wheels in p issirg, with the'aWfUl fear of the thiiig bickiug-into you, is a nervous strain which I don't think Jwe should be subjected to, aud I do hops that something will be done by'somebody who has the power tb make these meh mdre.'careful.-. If expressmen and draymen haye.no reg_rd for their own safety, or'the t-afet.y of tbmr faithful animal?, some law -should dictate to them, that they must be careful cf the lives aud property of others.—l am,1 .fee. ~' , July 19. '.'- . ■_. Nervous.