Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1915 — HAS MADE ITS SLOGAN GOOD [ARTICLE]

HAS MADE ITS SLOGAN GOOD

Eastern Railroad Able to Regard With Pride the Success of Its SafetyFirst Movement. Safety first is more than a phrase, at least on one of the leading Eastern railroads. In the last two years this line has transported, without an accident fatal to one of them, passengers to the number of 370,000,000 over its 26,000 miles of track. In four of the last seven years the lines east of Pittsburgh carried 558,000,000 passengers without a fatality. Moreover, these records are not the result of good luck. They are the fruit of intelligent efforts to safeguard life, and to redeem, so far as one railroad may, the generally bad reputation of American transportation companies for disasters and loss pf life. Not only have the roads devoted study and time to the protection of passengers, but their officers have endeavored, with increasing success, to save the limbs and lives of their employees and of trespassers who intrude on their rights of way and endanger themselves. Throughout New York one prominent company has carried on a campaign of education for its own employees and the public generally to bring about the observance of necessary caution and the enforcement of laws and ordinances Intended to keep the right of way clear. Other important roads have aided notably in the conservation of human beings. If the public would contribute as much as the companies do, the death toll would be reduced far below its present aggregate. Prevention of a great number of accidents is beyond the power of the railroads. It rests with their employees and the public. When train hands, shopmen, travelers, motorists, drivers and pedestrians learn to take care of themselves, the list of maimed and dead will soon shrink to inconsiderable proportions.