Beaver County News | 1916-09-08 | Page 9 | New Safety Signals

New Safety Signals. After having become a long recognized recog-nized and accepted institution, the red flag of the guard at the railroad crossing cross-ing has been found inadequate for the modern demands, at:yl a movement to bring about its overthrow is well under un-der way. In the light of recent demands de-mands and experiences, many criticisms criti-cisms of the railroad watchman and his red flag have developed. Sometimes Some-times he shook it in the air to warn pedestrians and drivers of the approach ap-proach of a train, and later he waved the same flag with much the same motion mo-tion to beckon them to come on. Then again he was lost to view at the crossing cross-ing at train time. The crossing men employed on the Central railroad of New Jersey and the Long Island railroad rail-road are now supplied with metal hand signals with the word "Stop" painted on their surfaces in large letters. let-ters. At night a double-faced lantsrn is used with the same legend in red letters across the surface of the glass.