Show WO llo do not appreciate railroads t alic to morning papers and the mall mail but on once let them cease coming regularly cery day then indeed we realize their worth suen for the RECOUP RECORD for that many years park city been tho the home of this poper paper and in all that thac time we tire acar felt fell stronger better belter or more hopeful than at present last thursday was mas the day of our adent into journalistic circles in italis greatest gr calest mining camp arid and wo we han hae e neer regretted being here our merchants and citizens lime hac chell us faithful support and patronage andia and in return vo me haxe hn always al ways boosted park city advocated to be right and ender delored ored to alc to everyone a square deal this A will ill la in future be our run anu and policy and though the new 3 ear will doubtless bring us joys and sor boms roms pleasant surprises and disappointments AS has the past ve me expect to bo be hero here our next birthday another year older arid and another car better it THE average industrious american business man dian deprecates the tendency to multiply holidays anya a the mining reporter denser dener they are firc diah trous arous and dis organizing lit in their effect on both the and on business and could veil met bo be dispensed with where large numbers of men are employed the deflect Is multiplied many fold and becomes A problem which is only just juat beginning to be considered in a recent address before the miners minere institute at pittsburgh the subject was ivas dealt it with ith in no uncertain or manner and mas as declared to be a menace the rapidly increasing number of foreign laborers was said to complicate the situation sUun llon for each nationally has its fe bethal thal da days js and the successive obern observance once of all critical of them has the effect of continually depleting depicting the laboring force this 6 probably seen at its height among the south american peoples where religious holl holidays holfdan daN s fill the calendar and the 1 energetic superintendent seeks the aid of the police or soldiery to force his indolent laborers back to work with us tile the situation hits has not grown ho he acute but the tendency is worth remembering mem mern bering so that li it can be checked whenever neNer it appears THE following foll follow oming ing from the bingham bulletin just about expresses our ideas of sunday amusements there are two sides to mr aft Tal Talton tons 8 H B no 64 prohibiting sunday amusements says the bulletin take for instance the wage earner and la in the west they constitute a majority who after abier a hard weeks mark looks forward to his bis sunday of rest and amusement his hia labo labors Is in make a le his cretu return CH home weekday een evenings einings ings too late to enjoy the iho theaters and moreover he is as a rule too tired and worn out to indulge 1 in or enjoy an evening of pie pleasure ure for him sunday is the only day ho be has for rest and amusement and would it be tight right to take lake this little enjoyment from him there is no noise or unseemly demonstration around the sunday theaters as at present conducted and it is not thought the amusements would keep any one away from chu church it v ho he would othera isic attend at ire least none would mould confess that it did sunday a amusements au Is a matter for local regulation each city has ample authority to close the the theartres theatres atres on tile the sabbath it if the people will ill it and the ery large attendance at these performances would indicate that sunday theaters were popular tills Is in a 11 question which should be left to the lie peo people of the each community to regulate WHAT would the people of tile united states ha anc C to say bay about it il if the powers at washington sal sat supinely cly while ten regiments of iho 1110 bl bt amling anding array army were ere marched out in a single hingle y year ear and shot down asks aski charl charles les wane batting who mho urges that tile apparent complacence of congress in the face of the annual sacrifice of life on our railroads affords a b by y no means farfetched farfel ched parallel to this startling supposition it Is true that a law passed about scars ears ago requires railroads to make monthly reports of all railway accidents their causes and the number of killed and injured to tho the Inter interstate commerce Commis commission loll but this body has absolutely no supervisory no cor reethe power I 1 in the matter if the commission coram lesion in question mr batting maintains was vip invented with aith powers tuch such as those exercised by the english board of trade it could practically do away with a state elate of affairs which out our annual railroad statistics reveal as ad a nat national ionar naf scandal the for the year ending IN march forell all 31 1900 brought home to us by mr air Battin glit striking illustrations show that if the graves of hinae killed on oil the railways during that period were ere distributed along our of operated track there would be a headstone every twenty ono one miles while a similar distribution of the maimed would place a cripple at c every ery two find nd one half bull miles the figures are killed and injured tina this slaughter argues sir air batting id 6 nut hut duo due to mysterious causes beyond our control but to causes which can bo be investigated arid and to a grout great extent eliminated this perennial sacrifice of human life lie he asserts Js je notting short of fl a national Dal loual degradation 10 w s bile the inertia of the federal gocan ment meet seems criminal the inter state commerce commission which appeals in vain for more power to correct abuses has boa to content itself with reminding Cong congress c cery cry months in bulletins and every ocarina near ina more comprehensive report that the railroads of tho the country are hl 1 ling 1 men women and c children nt th the e rule rate of twenty six a day and injuring a day 11 ake record of collisions and der ailments for tho the period defined gines a total or of one every ninety or lonc one to too aery cry sixteen and ft a half miles of truck track mr butting batting tt I 1 hoso biow article appears lit in the von van norden Magi maninine nine bringa out the interesting fact that ston on the death toll roll of 0 i tile tho railroads it la is the employees name that we read there m view ere employees killed in the year ending march 32 82 lahi imd and since there are arc 7 employees of railways in the united states it Is 19 seen that one out of cery was killed during the same beat cat calp employees loces cere injured mahich means acair one out of e every cry 28 this in plainer cords v orda tells that the railroad service la IS so hazardous under present lack of federal regulation that a ma man H w aho vho he enters it 11 stands one chance in twenty eight of bring being injured and one chanco chance in 8 7 1 of being killed this risk alik or of mortality morl ulily ii 14 almost as is great as if ho be bared hi its breast to the bullets ballets of modern warfare find and indeed if the mar nr mith spain betaken betoken be taken its as an example it Is quite probable iro bible that he bould liao haie stood A better belter chance of life and freedom from injury by entering tho the army than by entering the railroad serice rab engers have much less danger to fear during the mentioned there were only pa engers killed out of or one out of 94 it thus appears that the person aho ho buys a ticket on the railroad in tho the united states slates and boards a train has one chanco chance against a million and a half of being killed 11 literary literary Lit crary digest |