The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-06-10
TIE KIMBALL GRAPHIC
cLATE r. TINAN.
Tie Official PapaI Of nIule County.
No RAILROAD sLAuoHTERs.
In Europe Human Lite Ia Valued. ut Its
rrrne Worth.

In Europe Human Lite I, Valued Mt Ita
True Worth.
The average. American is apt to make
hasty and indignant comment when b
critic, who may be Just as earnest g
citizen of the great republic, intimates
thatdn some respects many things COM
mon to civilization are done better In
Europe than in the United States. But,
patriotic indignation should not exert
dtseH to hide a national weakness. In
poiat OF the equipment which relates
most closely 20 the comfort OF those In
%diyiduais WHO travel, American rails
foads are superior to any and all 9TH
srs, but there are matters of much
greater public consequence in which Is
evident a painful and annoying infcri-
grity. In this country u few human
lives more OF less do not CONT much;
in England the killing Of half n dozen
people on grasie crossings would result
in proceedings most uncomfortable to
tho corporation or corporations on
whose tracks the sacrifice took place.
Instructive comparisons and contrasts
are Instituted and made plain by Will
lam NJ. Acworth, who writes from across
The Atlantic to the Engineering Maya
zine. This instructive communication
elbows clearly some OF the great differ
ences between company methods In the
fealm OF her MAJESTY and on mat por-
ton of the footstool over which Grover
Cleveland now reigns without assist
ance. Asslngle track line from Ann
bank colllerles to Troon Harbor, on the
Firth Of Clyde. was constructed to di-
vert some OF the coal shipping business
from Ayr. The line is but. three miles
long, does no passenger business, and
has no stations between its termini,
yet In its entire length there is not a
after the American fashion there would
be fifteen OF those homicidal opportuni-
ties, but oyer there there are fifteen
over and under bridges, some built In
solid masonry throughout; others with
steel Orders laid on masonry ahut-
ments. But two trains go G that
road each day-through the fiat agrl-
cultural district-yet the law, which is
eolidly supported by public sentiment,
made tho construction cost sos, 900 por
mile. A new railway cannot be built
to Cross q public road on tho level with
out special :, Parliamentary sanction,
which Is given only under very extra
ordinary circumstances, and then the
company is compelled to maintain gates
OF tho crossing, with interloc.ea sig
Hals, ana Win q Gatekeeper IN con-
slant attendance. Mr.. Acworth-who
Is q high authority-says that railways
would never have been suffered to exist
in Great Britain had they been as reck-
less Of human life as American rail-
ways have been and to Il great extent
still are. He has o vivid recollection
OF watching long trains of freight cars
running down Tenth avenue in Now
York, to the New York Central's depot,
in n Of the busiest parts of the city,
and as he looked he remembered that
the most powerful Of English corpora
tions-the London and Northwestern
tried In vain for three years to obtain
permission to move M freight car at a
time by horse power across a narrow
STR OF In q worry quiet part Of London.