PEOPLE WHO DARK HOT BUNGLE employments WITH TERRIBLE responsibilities it would be very ikird thing ul decd or for in or faix other a well it a iiii ou a probably never lic binl oe did not lii upon il ahr la jf hp fai leil eveia town the fail sarr of oceail aing LOUI LOU I would be detained a second and at hint came fraction a wore of other lull on windy headland round tho coast arop too and the i of a hundred elii pi wailing 1 for the ign beet their chro j uie accurate clocks made without which ahey cannot accurate navigate every big town in the kingdom recoil PS alic time by alc tiie current in the mutant and a wore ot one guns boom in of wi ports if the timer were ever q little late in setting hil telescope alig opportunity would be gone and all out hare tu wait till uan who would shako britain if ilia eye overlooked af piece of iron the of k pins head who hodds the safety bt from to lne and of as well aa tho whole neighborhood around on wages is atio examiner of the workmen who go to their daily t isk at the great government powder and x plosive factories though alie are apt by ion use to grow ican careful of all the little precautions eliat mean so much ot alic moat devastating eipl ex pl ions on record at aloia was a tingle nail in tho ahoe of one of alie employed emp loye such a trifle will strike a adaa that though quite wall explode as much powder a nil the has to search every employed before lio enter the works and not alie tiniest scrap ol 01 metal is allowed nor of comire coi ire any nor n mactal button and everyone has to leave hii hi i boots avay from the factory and put on a pair of adt hoes so dangerous ii the work that a stray piece of metal would almoite S cau an ralo efin thi mould amk hy the neighborhood one re J lilt of tiia explosion it ardler Ard in i ais the breaking of ige in blimp at anine a niilo and a iuster iu uter on rubout XI a week often les a certain camin n iiii llast cla s battle hip in alie lri ciny hn in bai 1 mi i i out ii 1111 1 illo soul anil ilief of this i ali e inan fur the time being ulio ir lir ou the ordure of ahr lv the code nags or by flag wag ging and directs the movements of alie fleet lien a ii makii a it travel in called gridiron order aid in changing places at steam tactics hicl ue so dangerous daig erous dial foreign navies do not practice teem a ii igle wrongly signal aed order would bring IMO of the 51 a into and one lv but would certainly be unk it i aci to make nib tiLe in j but only one serious error if gulting ir an accident has been made so far and i that was tea acar i ago if a nf makes cian fee mi he is hauled up and severely dressed down there are ball dozen waya ol 01 signalling sign alling in the navy still more anxious und even baor certain to lead to terrible fatality i fj anything went wrong are the six jobi of the signalmen sign almen in the six most corti and difficult railway signal i boxes in britain before these all oth ers arc comparatively lv unimportant one a mistake by any of these six men bonu casier produce an accident that would kill or injure from to people and destroy about worth of prop 1 erty within twenty counted second A wage ranging little above thirty shill a ings a week this is one of the largest a britain and has one of h y finest records in ease and thi heads and hands of these men deal with fy more lives and more money value pel day than any others the chief are kings cross t eras liverpool street birmingham agias gias gow and waterloo something like trains a day pass under the service 0 A these boxes besides the auxiliary sip J H nal stations carrying about peo pie and an average of worth goods not counting the rolling stock j A wrong lever pulled among the torea of jointed iron bars and medley of tink ling bolls that hardly ever cease ring i ing would transform a train loaded t tho brim with lives and goods an distance away into a ghastly of blood and iron the work for earl man spreads over from ten to tour tec hours and though numberless accidents acci denti 1 have occurred through mistake in smaller signal boxes none of these have ever niada an error still less known in their anxious lone igness are the keepers of the four biggest baim daim in england none of these earn more than twenty five shillings a week and half a dozen times ha a huge catastrophe been averted by their care man who lives a cottage by the aide of a dam and has to make the same in of it the same report day and night year in and year out might well grow indifferent at last and take lesi care especially as the dams arc mighty j erections of stonework which look ae if the atlantic ocean itself would not undermine them let alone a river in the great dam in lanca t shire if the watchman had not seen and 4 reported the tiny bulge and in sa s1 the side four years ago another twenty hours brought ton tont t of water sweeping down the valley which could not hav failed to utterly wipe out several millions worth of houses and havo or people the buhe sini that a rift had started in alie dim was all the warning but alie detected it and the repair was started instantly A few hundreds ot puid pu euid id saed a calamity that many fortune could not havo prevented dav d night later when the floods edme de ilice have tiago 1 a merton dam near hat iff led to destruction but both seen time theah oue wa bulging ot a by not more ahn n cighon afan inch f