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Show WHAT RAILROADS CAN DO. Last fear Mr. Louis D. Brandeis gave out a sensational statement that if the railroads of the country would conduct their business 00 the best principles prin-ciples of economic management, they could sae a million dollars a day. The railroads. &l a rule, scoffed this, and none of them g;rc Mr. Brandeis any opportunity to pul into effect his re marl. able schemes of economy, or even to hud out precisely what it was thai he proposed. And iet it appears that his sensational sensa-tional statement was not entirely fruit les. Western railroad, not. named, is qnoted in the Eastern papers as ap pointing a safety committer to Study and improve conditions with a view to leaaenisg casualties, and thus making vrrv great savings m expenditures by way of damages and compensation. The summarized outcome of the efforts of that safety committee is thus reported: re-ported: IT p r - -ni reduction In trainmen killed. 10 s per cent reduction In trainmen 111-jui 111-jui 31.7 per cent reduction in switchmen killed 18.5 per cent reduction In switchmen Injured. ",n por rtt reduction In statlonmen kllle.1. 10. B per rent reduction In statlonmen injured. 1? per cent reduction In trackmen injured. in-jured. 14 per cut !-duriion in hndgreinen In-jurwl. In-jurwl. 11.4 per cent reduction In shop arid roundhouse m it injured. per cent reduction In csr repalrcis and hasp i tors Killed Total reductli.il of seventeen emploveea killed. Total reduction of :144 employers Injured, In-jured, or per oanL 70 per cent reduction j:n passengers killed. 10 per nt reduction In passengers injured. in-jured. If a sincie road, by appointing a committee of saftey, can achieve r salts like this, other roads can do 1 lie like, and a combination of all the roads for the .;iin'. ot their pa-songcrs and employee ought to make sUCh reduction reduc-tion ill casualties, and the lamage pay-ment pay-ment reult.ng from those eiu.iltie. as well as m s i' ing oi w ato generally, as to go verv far toward realising M r. Bra adena 'a idea The announced purpoae of the War Department to hold extenaiva military maneuvera on the Pa. ifi,- i oaal the coining summer is welcomed with enthusiasm en-thusiasm by all the military com mands. including the State National i.oaids And all of them, even us far enst as Utah, are a n vons to take pari always provided, thai they don't have to make the hike to the scene. |