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Show 00 1 1 LOSSES REDUCED BY SAFETY WORK I CHICAGO. Oct. 7. An annual sav- t log of $33,000,000 can be effected in f the electric railway Industry by .thorough organized safety work, de- H dared the report of the safety com- mittee of the American Electric Kail- H ' .'ssoclatlon. submitted at ttfl con- H ' The estimated cost of ac. idents on j electric railways during tlic last year ha's been 1 1 4 enu c.i- ; p-r . , -0- mi , of the Industry's gross revenue of J $966,000,000,'" said the report. "Acoi deuts cost some companies 17 per cent H of th ir revenue while one company, H the QtMbex Railway. Right and Power, bits e duced its cost to .34 " no and eight-tenths of one per H cent, the accident expenditure of the ( lilt ago & North Shore railroad, was H pointed to by the committee as Ihft m o!e aeiae c nst tu a road with H D well organized safety department (n thi basis, the national accident ccsl to roads could be cut from $4 4.- H 000,0(10 to $11,000,000. it was de- H "Continuous organized safety work mm will reduce the number of suspension, and labor turnover." W H. Boyce, of IH New Brighton. Ponns, l a nia. halrma-n Am of the1 safety committee, declared "To jj operate xour property economically, 'mt you must adopt a sane, systematic and m continuous program of safety." mj |