The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-04
aR. GREGORY MALL0RY'S
 SEA,ON lNKcT.
By William Hamilton Osborne.

Copy right. 1854, by Daily Story Pub. Col MT. Gregory Mailory's male visitor smote Mir. Gregory .Mallory's table with his clenched fist.
 NO, SIT" ne emphaticaily exclaimed, "catcu me riding on that road again. An accident like that IS simply soui-as.ound- ing-lTs scandalous; it murderous. Ten people klIled; and Lord knows now many injured.
 lie stopped to wipe his heated brow. And to think. sir he went on, that that tram was my regular train Into the missed 1t. And I'll never ride upon that road again. Never-never, sir. It's worse than foiiy-it's suicide, l tell you, sir, nothing but suicide."
 visitor were both residents of one munt- cipality, and each transacted business in the neighboring metropolis. This or teo mes Mallory's town with the metropolis were some half-dozen railway lines, connecting with IS many lines of ferry. Each road carried carried , burden after burden of buman morning, and every evening brought It back. l.
 The c. T. and A.. which. for the time being, . was MI MT Gregory Mailorys fay1r, ns catastrophe-one of those accidents whicn for some unknown reason are bound to occur every once in awhile. Two trains had crashed into each other head on. and the result had been tine inevitable. Il was this accident that led Mir. Mallory g friend and crony to denounce the road as a corporation saturated with careless nes. But MT, Mallory shook his head. Ills "I do not agree with you," he answered. ''and for 8 good and sufficient reason. Like you. l ever lave been cautious like you ever have selected the safest . of k-ox rnI A,aA fnr Fra xtAW rf,E- son I shall continue on with the c. T. and A. That, to my mind, is now the safest road-
 Ills friend was about to interrupt him but he went on: T have watched the course of accidents. and ! find that the very safest time to travel on any gwen road is during the few months and years succeeding some dreadful catastrophe like the fact, that the road which has suffered such a terrible affair will immediately take all possible means to prevent repe' tition of the disaster. New orders are gwen. easar' Every e nam nam IS % put on his mettie Every man is held responsible for the slightest disregard of the rules Every inch of the road is immediately inspected -sdlutary, changes and improvements art introduced and made. And the result oi it all Is. that the passengers of that road are safe for long while to come. Tha' at least is my theory, and I shall pro ceed 10 travel on that road.
 But the other shook his head "A roaG that has been careless once, will be care less twice. I won't trust 'em myself, no sir, not with my own poor carcass"
 MT. Mallory smiled. Friend Job," h. inquired, which do you consider the saf | est road for daily use"?
 The other man lifted one finger in tbt
 air. ''rhe road. sir, that consider tc
 be the safest, is the one that |! nave de l termined to travel on. It is the R. ant
 W. and 1t has not had bad accident IT
 That" said Mir. Mallory. 'is just thc
 thing that keeps me away from it. That
 road had been lulled in fancied security | simply because it has kept safe so long It has grown lax, and. mark my words | sir. that road will soon have an acci. dent quite as serious as this other. fol it has not yet learned its lesson of care. fulness. That. sir. is not as yet the road
 for me. stick to the c. T. andrA.'' And so It was. Mir. Mallory continued
 with the z. T. and A. and his old friend patronised the R. and W--for him a new departure. But MT. Mallory was right
 Before the year was out. the R. and w