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The children are gathered in the schoolroom, listening to a lecturer, who, with pointer and charts, discourses upon the dangers of the city street and shows how to avoid them. When he is through he presents each child with a safety button as a reminder, of his advice. Howard, Mabel and Bobby remain after the other children to ask a few additional questions. After school Bobby lives up to the button by notifying the police of a live wire he discovers on the car track. He is praised by the crowd on the scene for his thoughtfulness. Through Howard's carelessness little Mabel narrowly escapes death when she falls in front of a streetcar, and is saved by the safety device on the car. She is crossing the track with Howard. Both are on roller skates. Running in front of a northbound car, they suddenly discover that a car coming south is heading them off. Howard jumps to safety, but his sister is not so quick and falls before the car. An automobile coming south on the avenue stalls, forcing a...
