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Show RAILROAD SAFETY MlEjJMPRP Quigley Tells of New Style That Promises Cutting the Death Toll. "The speeding motorist, ' says C. A. Qnigley, local distributor of the Dort motor cars, "can continue to flirt with fate at the grade crossings, but his excuse ex-cuse that he did not, see the. white bars of the safety gates will lack the conviction convic-tion that has caused sympathetic juries to award damages to his sorrowing relatives rela-tives in the past." Continuing. Mr. Quigloy said: The American Railway ' association associa-tion is setting a new style for safety safe-ty gates at grade crossings. From ".' row oil they will be striped in broad bands of black and white, painted diagonally. This permits them being be-ing seen at nearlv twice the distance dis-tance of the old-style white gate and will undoubtedly be the means of materially cutting down the grade crossing death toll. Kailroads all over the eountrv are following the suit of the eastern railroads iu this respect, and many of them have also adopted the round target hand signal in place of the old-fashioned flag. This is usually made in the form of a six-teen-inch white disk on which the word "Stop" is printed in large black letters. Few motorists fail to catch its meaning and bring their cars to a quick halt instead of trying try-ing to beat the train. In one large' middle west state alono there were in 1915 ninety-five deaths and 241 injuries at grade crossings. The figures fig-ures for 1916 have not been completed com-pleted yet, but it is known that there were considerably over 100 fatalities in this same state. As there will be more autos'than ever this spring, the value of this new safety move is apparent. Analysis of the buj-ers of Dort cars indicates thatVhere are relatively few speeders speed-ers among them. The Dort primarily pri-marily appeals to the conservative family man who wanls a car that he can depend on to give him a lot of ' service and a small upkeep expense. ex-pense. Speed is not the consideration considera-tion with the average buyer of a Dort, although the roadster type will step along with the best ' of them. |