Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser

A Correspondent Says

Whether it is incumbent on the officers of the police of this city, to take some effectual measures to guard the lives and limbs of the citizens, old and young, from the dangers and accidents to which they are exposed, and from which they very frequently suffer, thro' the carelessness of draymen, carmen, waggoners, coachmen and others, who drive carriages thro our streets in an unlawful manner, the sad experience of many leaves no room to doubt. Two or three very melancholy instances have occurred in the course of the last week, of children being run over, and shockingly bruised— some have been so badly injured, that their lives are almost despaired of. A person can scarcely walk the streets without witnessing the most wanton deportment on the part of servants and others, who gallop thro' the streets and turn corners with such rapidity as to hazard the lives of foot passengers, who cannot be apprised of their danger, till mischief overtakes them; surely these things ought not to be.