Show 4 in I 1 n safety S aa e t y a and aina d danger r the scientific american recently called attention to tho the odd fact that the wan yuan who ride ln a tow score foot feet in a new york city elevator runs a risk of at lury than tho the man who travels from new york to chicago and bade back on the fastest trains no fewer lower than thirty persona persons were killed and many pore bore hurt in new york elo elevator lif accident in the first nine months of thi this year no such proportion of those who traveled oa ou tho the fast paia enger trains between tho the two tva cities wire wore even en hurt yet the rao man buys nn an accident insurance ticket whenever ho he tarts starts on a railway journey of any length and never thinks of such pre pro efat ions entering the car that lifts bim to bis his edtice whenever a notable railway accident occur occurs he talks for d daye myo abo great losa loss of ute ufe but he neve hinks of tho the pro aj jisa greater los loss of at life ey every ery day from accidents that befall men man at homo MX in their ova owa houses tho the ro turned M aho who vho publicly complained pla ined the otter other day that after living entirely unhurt for four years among the wildest savages of 0 africa he h had no sooner returned to civilization than he met with a railway arp aldona al dont Adent that kept him in a for i ix months cur foully illustrated the hubit habit of the human mind to dwell upon remote dancers dangers and ignore those near yet the tact fact IS th Indisputable the accident insurance ranco companies compan loi have it to their financial loea loss end and anin that one of the most dangerous a man can be la Is in his own bamo whereas one out of the safest Is IQ to a first class railway train at full speed while the very safest place on earth Is aboard a first class steamship la in tho the middle of at me tb atlantic chicago inter ocean leli ii |