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Show Safety on Itiiilrnad Trains. I ;.,... ..... .i j in a discussion through the newspapers about the safest position for a traveler to assume when on a train, and it seemed to be agreed finally that the person who took a Beat on the right hand side of the middle cur of tho train, in a seat as near the middle as possible, would havo a better bet-ter chance of escaping injury in an accident acci-dent than one who sat somewhere else. "I never was satisfied that there was anything in that theory," says A. D. Martin, a St. Louis traveling man, "but it is astonishing to notice how many people believe in it. You see the effects of the publication everywhere you go on a railway train. People crowd the middle mid-dle car of a train, and get on the right biiTifl unit ha npsfr tlTB frb'ldln .r" Mia f as they can. I have seen on the Iron Mountain the seats on the right hand side of the car crowded, although it was sunny there, while the seats on the other side were nearly empty." St. Louis Chronicle. |