Letter: Frank C. Childs to Mr. Lovering, 1881 October 19 (page 1)

[Subject: Dangerous Rail]
[letterhead RAILWAY AND MANUFACTURERS' SUPPLIES.
S. C. NIGHTINGALE & CHILDS,
NO. 128 OLIVER STREET,
MACHINERY WASTE. TOOLS & MACHINERY.]

Boston, Oct 19 1881

Dear Mr Lovering,
Some time in the spring of 1879,
if I rightly recollect, an old lady got off a
horse car, opposite the entrance to your office and
started to reach the sidewalk beside the fence.
There is an iron rail, square edge, between the
road & the sidewalk and being painted dark
the same color, as the fence, is difficult to see unless
ones eyes are young & bright. the old lady referred to
did not see this rail and struck it so hard that
she was considerably damaged, being cut on the forehead,
I remember dressing the wound, as best I could &
after plastering it up put her onto a car for home.
Last week my mother and another old lady met with
a precisely similar accident at the same place
and only by good fortune escaped serious harm.
Before somebody else is unfortunate in the same way,
wouldn't it be advisable that some step be taken
to prevent another accident of same kind. Of course
it isn't likely that either of these ladies will forget it,
so my suggestion is for the benefit of those who