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Show SAFEGUARDING TRAVEL ON THE HARRIMAN LINES. A record in safety traveling on the Harriman lines during the past year is the subject of an article in the Chicago Tribune, which will be of special interest to many of our readers. The article is as follows : The Harriman railway lines carried 10 per cent of the estimated 1910 passenger traffic of the United States, or 49,491,000 people, without with-out fatal accident to any of the number. This result is ascribed to the installation of safety devices and is believed to have no parallel par-allel in the railroad world. The report, containing this data, just has been compiled in the offices of Julius Kruttschnitt, director of maintenance and operation on the system, including the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific railroads, rail-roads, a total of 17,960 miles. The total number of passengers carried on a one mile basis wm 3,000,000,000. The figures of the country's railroads for 1910 have not yet been compiled by the government, but in 1909 the Interstate Inter-state Commerce Commission reported the number of passengers carried car-ried as 29,000,000,000. The figures for 1910 will not exceed a billion more, it is said. Many other railroads have gone through a year without a fatality fatal-ity to any of its passengers, but it is said that no system has made this record for such a large total of passengers. The results on the Harriman lines are ascribed to a campaign waged by the management for years to reduce accidents. The Harriman Har-riman system now has more miles of automatic block signal protection protec-tion than any other system in the world. Mr. Kruttschnitt himself has directed special attention to the accident problem and began several sev-eral years ago to bring about a reduction by giving complete publicity pub-licity to all forms of accidents and their investigation, which it is believed be-lieved spurred both officers and employes to greater efforts to safeguard safe-guard lives intrusted to their care. In the year 1903-1904 the number of accidents on the Union Pacific Pa-cific was 20 for 1,000,000 locomotive miles. In the final half of 1910 it was only 4 for 1,000,000 locomotive miles. On the Pacific system of the Southern Pacific the number of accidents per 1,000,000 locomotive loco-motive miles was reduced in the same time from 29.5 to 10.5. Important progress has been made in recent months in suppressing suppress-ing ticket scalping, according to the report of the Railway Ticket Protective bureau, issued during the day. "Since the final bulletin," the report says, "announcements by federal and state courts of comprehensive and decisive decisions in proceedings brought by this bureau have enabled suppression of ticket scalping through injunctional 'and criminal procedure in many localities heretofore infected by this persistent parasite." |
