Show I I CARELESS RAILROADING I Nine out of ton ten of of tile the disastrous 5 train wrecks which form so 60 black a a blot upon th the railroading record of ate axe duo not to fault cars carsO O or engines or r right of way but to a sl single e cause cause carelessness If you OU would know the part that tho tim human factor plays study the record of just justa a few comparatively recent recent- accidents In earlier days even oven up to within the thc or this thirty or even twenty years could not bo be said aid in truth For the early railroads were poorly built even worse equipped Under a fearful competitive com corn strain under tho the importunate demands of a country which re realized that tho the coining coming of the tho railroad brought it wealth it seemed to bo ho chiefly Important important im Im- im- im that miles upon miles of lines Hues be projected and built no matter how hone hastily or ho how poorly Tu Tn the tight little British islands it it was as different Tho The distances were short comparatively the capital with which the they built even I tho the earliest railroads ample As a result re to- suIt sult the they were built right from the beginning be be- ginning And Ana for man many years the they could point the tho finger of derisive scorn corn at t tho the railroads of America Timo Time and aud experience have havo changed that It too took many man many tragedies to bring home the lessons 01 of or safet safety to the tIme locomotive locomotive locomotive loco loco- motive and the car bui builders ders tIe the inventors in in- in- in s of the tho air brakes and signals that seem more human thau than automatic and to brin bring the steel ear car to the front frontas as a necessitY of twentieth century railroading Edward Edward II Hungerford in inthe tho the November Metropolitan I |