Show THE MIDDLE CAR I 1 IS SAFEST boar commercial omm arct traveler beier secures secure a M minimum am of f atik A comm commercial erceal traveler tells the washington istaz that he is very particular as to the car he selects 1 I travel thousands san ds of miles a y year he says and hava T made it a rule role to observe in the accounts of railroad 1 1 accidents which cars of the trains are most often d demolished U moli mol shed the result of my experience for I 1 have been in a a dozen smash ups and observation is that the middle cars are the safest I 1 never undo under r any circumstances ride in the rear cari avoid the car next to the baggage car though this is selected by many as the safest safest the afie greatest danger at present ia in railroad is traveling telescoping I 1 ng when a man has been in a wreck 7 reek and a nd 2 afterward te r w a r add seen the engine of the eol colliding M n rt trairi r halt half way ing inside U e at tt the rear car or rather left oz 01 it it impresses him most forcibly the tha baggage car is usually deavil heavily y loaded and in the collision its weight iv together gether with th the ponderous ponde roas engine generally smashes the next car to splinters while the beut central cars are comparatively uninjured when the train is derailed the baggage car and next coach as a rule go over the roadbeds of our preat great transcontinental lines are so solid each section is so carefully care fally examined the rolling rolli nR stock is so much 1 improved that a broken rail broken wheel or axle aide and like mishaps arc am reduced to a minimum 11 |