Show THE NEW YORK PLAN when an employed of the new york edison company Is injured ho is sent by tho foreman in charge with a card to the companas comp anys physician which card entitles him regardless of the legal responsibility for the accident to free medical care attendance and medicine during the period of his disability ho la requested to sign a release of all claims in consideration of such medical care the at of tho man towards the company as expressed by his willingness or unwillingness to sign this document is immediately shown if tho man refuses to sign ho Is by tho corn banys representative and the system which the company has adopted Is explained to him the man Is told that the company carries no liability insurance each individual case Is considered upon its merits and Is prepared as to its facts as it for trial it the accident Is caused either by the negligence of the company or of any of its foremen or by the negligence of a fellow servant the man is put upon want fa known as a disability payroll and his wages are paid to him in full during tho period of his disability I 1 the accident la iho result of the gross carelessness of the injured man such tact is pointed out to him his record is fully entered into both as to the length and fidelity of his employment whether he Is married or unmarried and as to the number ot people dependent upon him tor support in these cases the man is placed upon the disability payroll at either one quarter or one half ra to ot his regular wages dependent upon all the facts and such payments are continued during the period of his dlan bality it is a rare case in which a man Is completely deprived of his income from the company during the period of his disability in these cases such deprivation is only made when the man has been so negligent as seriously to endanger the working of apparatus or the safety 0 his fellow servants |