New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1921, Page 11

R. R. PLAN SAFETY GRADE CROSSINGS Important Matter Discussed by Corporations at Boston Meeting Boston, Sept. 30.—Automobile acci dents at grade crossings is the cident most important of all that questions confront the ratlroads of the eountry at the present time, . W Galloway, vice president of the Balt more and Ohlo railroad told the steam rallroad section of the tenth congress of the National Safety efl here today. “It s now netessary for eng 1o consider all construction from th standpoint of safe operation.”” MMr Gallowny said. “Even before the hu man element enters a plant has done its part to make conditions safe and sanitary. This came primarily, because of wity “I have watched the progress of the safety work on the Baltimore and Ohio particularly, for many years and it is with no little pride that I point to some of the accomplishments for safe ty. In 1915 the casualties among em- ployes totaled 9,659; in 1020 the cas- ualties among employes totaled 6,941 or a decrease In casualties of 28 per cent. In 1915 the gross ton mil was 12,335,710,000; In 1020 the ton mileage was 10,867,502,000 increase of 26 per cent. That means that in 1920, compased with 1915, the increase in train mileage, both freight and passenger was 13 per cent. and at the same time our casualties de areased 28 pertcent “Wtih each recurring year the in- erease in the number of automobiles and the growing carelessless of the drivers make it very important that we devote some extraordinary effort to lessen accidents at grade crossings. We are confronted with the fact that ten million motor vehicles in the United States. as with alarm that I noticed reports of grade crossing acci- dents showing Increases month by Helpful Hair Hints Worthy the Attention of Everyone Who Would Avold Dandruff, Ttch- ing Scalp, Gray Hairs and Baldness “What will stop my bair coming out?’ Reply: Parisian sage (liquid torm) is the best remedy for hair and @ncalp troubles; sald to prevent bald ness, grilyness a lnndrufl “Before going to bed, I always rub a little Parisian sage into my scalp,” says & woman whose thick, soft and fluffy hair is greatly admired. This stops ftching sealp, Kkeeps the hals trom falling out and makes it easy to arrange attractively. . Coun ineer sclence about ecoomic neces grosd or an Beautiful soft, lustrous healthy hat is & simple matter for those who use Parisian sage. It's inexpensive and sold by all good druggists with guar- antes of satisfagtion or money re- funded. side line’ his to.amuse the Chaplin mustach. youngsters. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD; FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, THE MAN THE BABIES LIKE S Allen Prntlrr, of Isleworth, England, is a dwarf comedian. But is making crying babies smile! baby shows, picnics and bencfits, because he can be depended upon Here he is dressed up as a cop, with a He's often hired for .aonth in 1919, and I determined to apply a remedy. 1 feit that if the drivers of cars could be reached iIn- timately they would heed warnings. We started the campaign by placing observers at a few crossings where travel was heavy. When the observer neticed the driver of an automobile spproach the crossing and dash over it without taking any precautionary rieasures to assure himself that there was no train coming, the license num- ter of the machine was placed on the sard. These cards were forwarded to automobile commissioners according to the state which issued the licenses. The commissioners forwarded the cards to the owners of the machines. “These cards, after reciting the ticts of the observation, warned the drivers or owners of automobiles that iheir lives and property had been risked unnecessarily, and that a repe- tition might bring disaster. In the #reat mdority. of cases, the recipient of the card realized that he had been careless and a great many even wrote thefy rapppéciation of | odr efforts to savd them from injury. There was & aradually declinig percentage of fail ures to (ake precautions. “When we inaugurated the observa- tion plan, we found that 84 per cent of automobiles falled. to take proper precaftions when crossinz our tracks. In the three months of cember, 1919, January, 1,933 observations and there was a total of 484 failures to take safety precautions, or 25 per cent ‘During the vear of 1920, we ex- tended our observations. In the 12 months of that year there were 49,- G685 observations with 8,236 failures, or 16 per cent. “In 1921, our observers became cven more active and in the first six months of this year, there were 248,- 988 observations made, and the fail- ures reached only 8, or 3% per cent. “The results of our observation tests caused us to have printed more than 4,000,000 warning lcaflets, showing on one side a boy warning an automobil- ist to stop before he crossed a track. On the reverse side is a photograph of a machine reduced to splinters when struck by a train at the cross- ing. We arranged to send out the leaf- lets in mail that would reach the auto- ist. Iz was found that every business house appealed to gladly consented to co-operate in the campaign. The atito- mobile commissioners of the different states also co-operated. “There was one other means to reach the owner and driver of the au- tomobile. That was through news- 1920, we made 775 ovember, De-| paper publicity. One story telling of the dangers careless automobilits ex- pose themselves to was sent out and reached 2,600,000 rcaders. “With genuine and sympathetic co- operation by all the ilroads in some definite plan of campaign, the acci- dents at grade rossing in this country can be cut to less than one per cent of the machines using the crossings. “Were I to ask the average railroad man what they in the week he believ- ed the greater number of accidents happen, he would say Sunday. One hundred thirty-eight accidents hap- pened on the following days of the Sunday, 15: Monday, ; Tues- ay, 15; Wednesday, 27; Thursday, 17; Friday, 19 and Saturday 20. It would seem to indicate that the automobile truck is more likely to accident at crossings than the pleasure car, for there are more of them in use on week-days than on Sundays. ‘Another surprising fact was that nearly all the accidents happen while the weather was clear. This seems to indicate that persons take - more chances in clear weather than when it is raining or snowing. The question of automobile acci- dents at grade crossings is, I consider, the most important one the railroads have o deal with, and I cannot im- press upon this body of safety men too strongly the necessity of inaugur- ating a vigorous educational campaign against accidents of this character, both for humane and economic rea- sone.” REMEDY P. 0. TROUBLE Allegation That Bostony Inter-Cit Service 1s Poor Can No Longer Be Made. Boston, Sept. 30.—Complaint that it (akes longer for a letter to travel from one part of the Boson postal district to another than from New York to Boston may be discontinued if a new plan just adopted by the post -office ASPIRIN Name “Bayer” on Genuine Beware! Unleas you wee the name “Bayer” on package or on tablets you are not getting genuine Aspirin pre- scribed by physicians for twenty-one years and proved safe by millions. 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