| Show inow boit DWI jourad I 1 the recent terrible ac accident cidell t se sea drool brook and tho the narrow ccapo ampo from on on the new cw york central centra ow owing to tho the gislla misplacement c ement ore or switch na naturally I 1 call litterini litte attention on to tho the class of men em tb J in this important department of public 1 service As a nilo 10 corp corporation orations get what they pay for A fint brat class utan dian in an important place is not 1101 usually see secured red at a third rato larico acu accidents will mil occur joul from misplaced N 1 11 1 1 regard a to w baci 1 paid tho the steadiness X ai 1 jacb sobriety and ni n I il 11 i genece of tho simply for tho the reason rc ison that switchmen on are arc human bunian A very high agh dairee decree of responsibility is put upon nem them in n ilia fury traeva t tho rapidity and often uncertainty uncertainly of their the felt and the rear fear that they will mako make a mis talo take often unnerves uon rca long experienced wen find throws them into eatn can fusion so that they have bare not tho the highl ct idea that they do and accidents which are arc attributed to negligence and inattention to duty are be result solely 0 of f rear fear Unco four hobt successful and loof long fr railroad in reference to the seabrook olk disaster said eaid to me ino tho the other day that no forc no long and no care could relieve a train from tho the danger re rc falting pul tioff from a misplaced placed switch 1 I lad hal in roy my employ a switchman aiho ho had for twenty years served tho compa ny I 1 to fo was as steady aa is alio tit a day was 10 long ya llo ito was reli religious t conscientious nad and a total tola ab abstainer I 1 was uras standing near him on one 04 day 1 when hen le he earned the switch for 1 n I freight attain tiala ile ho didiot did not know inow that I 1 vias as near ile io turned the switch back and it was all ait right for fir an express train rain that was thundering along when thew the bistle sounded bounded announcing the approach of the train ilow ho went i deliberately libera tely to the switch turned ioe it baal H so BO that tho the lightning express would dash right into tho the freight train I 1 yelled with my might your switch llo ile i sprang rang to the handle reversed it 1 and ho a had bad not a second to spare the train flew past with the velocity of light bad and was out of sight eight find and hearing IQ in a 11 moment the man could give giro no a account C of ins conduct when tho lic whistle founded an impulse seized him to turn the abo switch as bo be had bad on an that it was wrong it was not negligence it was not inattention to duty lor for he was in earnest but lie ho was con r luaco and paralyzed by bv fear n boil 0 it did not know what ito bo was doing such accidents tire arc likely to occur on the best managed d roads in the world government regulates about the ho engleh railroad rail roah the roadbed is ia laid under government inspection and royal oversight is a taken talan of cier acry rail 20 no road can croy cross another or of cross arm a on the sonic barea level lorid bridges gei or tunnels must be resorted to itis it is to cross tho the tracks from one aide B of tho station to another switchmen men aro are mado tho the subjects of peculiar care I 1 ibay hey are area a choicely sLice selected ted lot A house is erected over tho the tracts tracks on all sides with glatie s windows wini loira carpeted ond and warmed the barilics or of tho the switches como come up into this room and tire aro ornamented like the 1 bandies 3 11 dlag tit of a beer fountain they are arc all 1 1 nuin numbered krol and tire arc called points conspicuous in tho the room iq tile tho painted caution mind your the room is light mado warm from n fir ore and made chec cheery ryby by si carpet sod holers flowers I 1 here fore tho the switchman tiles takes his Posit position loo sheltered from the storm and wind dinst in a r room in comfor laLle and cheery it he b a malos makes a 4 mistake isome something thio cioto than ehno reprint reprimand and and await bitic 1 ills lis ase is a crime and the elate will n sh him by fine and V V th all thin outlay accidents occur snitch aswill be mi misplace placed dand and statistics athow that there are arc more sah accidents IQ in england than in ia america |
