OCR Text |
Show j3! . Here Are Interesting Facts About rsi ' is civic us well as military, ;e H ,t and the armies of Industry battling .M.i j Ior a livelihood suffer losses compara- ttt j 10 111080 oC war- fpast' 'i In tho ycar 1913 no fowor than jCi .( 2.000,000 wage-earners in this country as, wln tor serious injuries and about j n 25,000 v.'ill,be killed. 3 fld j Metal mining ranks highest in the A C kll,e(1 and wounded. Next comes "coal mining; then tho occupations occupa-tions of tho sailor and flahcrman, and after them, in point of hazard, railroading. rail-roading. Tho lowest risk is that of tho farmer. Farminr barred, the cafest omploy-jnsnt, omploy-jnsnt, say the accident insuranco companies, com-panies, is that ol the commercial traveler. trav-eler. He la twice as good a risk as a clergyman. Much of his time, of courso, is spent on tho railway, but a flrst-class passenger train is ono of the safest places In tho world. Tho average person Is actually much safer on a Journey In a parlor car than he would bo at home. In their homes people suffer many disabling accidents. They tumble downstairs, fall off Btop-laddors,. Btop-laddors,. smash their Angers with a hammer, etc. On the train they aro Your Daily Perils sitting still In ono place, and tho whole organization of tho railroad Is looking out for their snfoty. Of 1000 avorago disabling accident) sovon will happen to clergymen, nine to physicians, eight to lawyers, threo to grocers and provision dealers, four to undertakers, two to photographers, throe to hotel clerks, ilvo to plumbers, fifty-thrco to carponters, fifteen to blacksmiths, six to policemen, thirty to firemen, forty-two to rnilroad employes, em-ployes, ono to nn actor aid ono to a cook. Among nonaccldontal fatalities must bo reckonod homicides and suicides. Theso aro steadily increasing in number num-ber In this country. In 191S about G000 of our people will dlo by manslaughter and 15,000 will kill themselves. |