TO PROTECT PEDESTRIANS AT DANGEROUS CROSSING

Over 70 signatures of students, professors, and employees in buildings in the Upper Yard, have been secured to a petition to the Chief of the Cambridge Police Department, asking that a traffic officer be stationed at the corner of Cambridge and Kirkland streets, where two serious accidents have recently occurred.

The crossing is a bad one, for the street is wide, and autos and street cars come from all directions. Moreover, owing to the peculiar angle at which the streets intersect, vehicles coming from Harvard square and proceeding in Kirkland street, frequently cut the corner and use the left side of the street, thus increasing the hazard.

The petition which will remain posted on the bulletin board in Langdell Hall for a few days, reads as follows: "December 7, 1922.

"Chief of Police,

Police Department,

Cambridge, Mass.

"Dear Sir:

"Last night at the junction of Cambridge and Kirkland streets, two men were run over by a street car. The City Hospital stated that one of the two men may not live.

"All day long and until after 8 o'clock in the evening crowds of people stream through this crossing. It is a direct thoroughfare from the Yard of Harvard University to the Law School, Gymnasium, Lawrence Hall, the Physics Laboratory, and to points beyond. A continual stream of students and employees from these buildings cross the street here. Autos rush and whiz by rapidly. No one's life is safe, for there is no policeman there.

"Therefore we the undersigned, students, professors, and employees in the buildings hereabouts, do hereby respectfully petition that a traffic policeman be stationed, at the junction of Cambridge and Kirkland streets, where autos come from Harvard square, from North Cambridge, from East Cambridge, and from Somerville".