Show THE MIDDLE CAR IS SAFEST how a secures c alt ipiniu 11 or kiik KI ik A commercial traveler tells the washington stair that he is very particular as to the car he selects 1 I travel thousands of miles a year he says and have made it a rule to observe in the accounts of railroad accidents which cars of the trains arc most often demolished moli shed the result of my experience for I 1 have been in a dozen smash ups and observation is that the middle cars are the safest I 1 never under any circumstances ride in the rear car I 1 avoid the car next to the baggage car though this is selected by many as the safest the greatest danger at present in railroad traveling is telescoping when a man has been in a wreck and afterward seen the engine of the colliding train bah way of the rear car or gnats left 01 n it impresses him most forcibly the baggage car is usually heavily loaded and in the collision its weight with the ponderosa oa engine generally smashes the next car to splinters while the central cars are comparatively uninjured when the train is derailed the baggage car and boxt coach as a rule go over alie roadbeds of our great transcontinental lines are so solid each section is so carefully examined the rolling stock is so much improved that a broken rail broken wheel or asle and like mishaps are reduced to a minimum |