Show nali Rall waT safet eyt dys SYSTEM IN ENGLAND V mr r alfred watkins an english hallway railway superintendent bas baa published a 11 pamphlet in which he thus describes ohp the ea lock block system of signaling in use on the southeastern south eastern railway a plan so efficient bays says the eoon Econ economus that for three yeara years it has enabled that railway w to be almost alone in its exemption t i 0 tny from even minor casualties the true objects to be attained in unimpeachable train signaling are 1 I presume to consid consider dr first that no train shall be allowed to leave one signal station until that signal station hab has asked leave from the signal station in advance and such second bignal signal station has replied in the affirmative second that when the train has been so allowed to leave the bending sending station shall inform the receiving station that the train has haa left and the receiving station shall acknowledge that be he has been so bo informed third that the signals of danger shall not be lowered until this process has haa been gone through fourth that a record taken down at the moment shall be kept in each signal box ot of the time of all signals these four conditions will secure safety from collision BO so far as it can be secured by human agency these conditions can only be realized in our modern practice by the use of 0 the telegraph and the absolute block system they are and have long since been realized on every part of the southeastern system I 1 know of no other railways where the whole of the system is in application except on the southeastern and london chatham and dover these two railways had no accidents to report last year whereas the greatest and most moat prosperous of our railways the london and northwestern lancashire and yorkshire and northeastern northeastern contributed 61 ou out of the accidents which disfigured the railway calendar of the whole empire again an electrical means of communication electrical because in no other way can an instantaneous and certain signal or message be conveyed should be established in the case of trains running long distances between the driver and tile the guard I 1 now proceed to describe the system by which the four essential conditions which I 1 have laid down are and have been secured on the southeastern the personnel of the signal box or station consists not merely of the ministering but also of the recording In gangel angel the signalman signal man especially selected for intelligence and paid good wages is accompanied by a youth who must understand having been carefully taught the use of the telegraph signal and speaking instruments who records with the clock before him the exact time of all signa a given and received the Ar ardennis ardennes dennes moir DOS the dog of the ardennes ardennis Ar dennes denues accompanies the flock when it leaves the pen fold in spring only to return when the winters snow enow drives the sheep home again for shelter each shepherd possesses one or two of these dogs according to the size shoe of his bis flock to act as sentinels their office is not to run about and bark and keep the sheep in order but to protect them from outside foes when the herdsman has gathered his flock in some rich valley these white shaggy monsters crouch on the ground apparently patently ly half asleep but now and then the great sagacious eyes will open and passing over the whole of their charge remain for a while fixed on the distant horizon as though they followed a train of thought which led them away from earth so sadly do they gaze into the infinite but his ever moving nostril the scent of the hated wolf or his quick ear detect an unknown noise then is the time to see oneff one of these dogs doga in his glory his ayea become black with fierceness his hair stands erect his upper lip becomes wrinkled showing a range of white formidable teeth while a low growl algne signe alone escapes from hib his throat when his keen faculties have detected the whereabouts of his foe he rushes forward with a bound that overleaps over leaps all obstacles and a bark that echoes from all the bur eur rounding surrounding hills every dog of the like breed that may be near takes up the note and rushes gleaming through the brushwood to join inthe in the attack tender as the childhood he protects prot ecta woe to him who dare lift a hand on one of the little ones with whom he has baa been brought up it is not he who buys buya him who is his bis master it Is ilg lip N 4 him when a arup acup pup who petted an and shared his fils pittance c wit vi milDa he it ia is who has his hia love and who reci reel reciprocates probates pro cates his hia falth faith faithful fal oui affection affection overland monthly |