Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1915 — SAFETY AT SEA. [ARTICLE]

SAFETY AT SEA.

fteete That Entity the Bailor Whfi Baldt -Qod Help the Poor Folks Ashore.” you * tbouiirt ships or moro <mn lost | ths year before the Mi took Marly ths same toll. To ths tourist his assurance of safety Use in the tact that tt Is the sailing TSsnnl. with Its dependence on the fickle Mai. that largely makes op the tremendous loss. Freighting steamers, voyaging on ■■familiar courts, nearly complete the disaster roll; but to the great liners, with their familiar routes, well known lanes of travel, their ■warded and euril lighted harbors, and aS their appliances for safety, the manifold dangers of ths ocean are amlj the remote possibilities that glee a touch of adrenture to their passage from land to land. Accord* lag to a writer In the Century, the probabilities of disaster are trifling. / Every morning brings us some story of death or accident on eland, while the great passenger ships come »■< go In monotonous regularity, bringing no reports more stirring those of high seas that have kept them from making new records. With the present madness for speed and Its attendant recklessness, our streets demand constant alertness if you would cross them with ufety. Speed at sea has come through larger and more stoutly constructed ships So the familiar old story of sailorman at sea In a storm who, serene in his consciousness of ample tea room, piously ejaculated: "Qod help the poor folks ashore to-night]** is not wholly fantastic.