Show THE MIDDLE CA CAR R IS SAFEST how a c commercial traveler secures a minimum of risk lush A commercial traveler tells the washington star that he is very particular as to the car he selects 1 I travel thousands I 1 of miles a year he says and have made it a role rale to observe inthe a accounts of railroad accidents which cars of the trains are most often demolished moli shed the result of my experience for I 1 have been iffa in a dozen smash ups I 1 and observation is that the mid middle dle cars are the safest I 1 never under any ally circumstances ride in the rear car F r avoid the car next to the baggage cai car though this is selected by many as the I 1 safest the greatest danger at present in in railroad arz traveling is telescoping when a man has been in a wreck and afterward seen the engine of the colliding train half way inside of the rear car or rather left of it it impresses him most forcibly the baggage I 1 car Is is usually heavily loaded and in i the collision coll islon its weight together with kith the por ponderous croak engine generally smashes sm aslies the next car to splinters splinter while the central centra I 1 cars are comparatively I 1 y uninjured when the train is da derailed the bagg baggage e car and next coach as a rule go over the roadbeds of our great transcontinental lines are so solid each section is so carefully J examined itin ined thi the e rolling stock is so much improved that a broken rail broken wheel br or axle and like mishaps are reduced to a minimum 11 I 1 |