The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-07-22
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go into other inaccessible places TO make
repairs. add ornaments, etc, seem en-
dowed with the characteristics of the
common house fly and go about with ap-
parent unconcern. while the blood OF the
| spectators is chilled with the realization
of the awful risks that the men take.
| The workmen in factories where high
| explosives made are also subjected to
| a well-known danger Men who work
| with powder, gun cotton. dynamite or
| other high explosives, must be protected,
| and at certain points In their manipua-
| ton the men stand behind a network of
| woven rope. Such a protection. being
| flexible, Is much better In case of an ex-
| plosion than al armor of steel or wood.
Trades Not Thought Dangerous.
| There are, however. n number of trades
| believed to be entirely without risk that
| really very dangerous Among them
| are that Of furrier and tanner. The in
| PRODUCTION into the lungs of fragments of
| hair results In serious injury to the health:
| but the greatest danger is from malignant
| poisoning. Men employed in polishing
| stone run great danger of tuberculosis
| from getting fine particles OF stone into
their lungs, while sand-blast engravers
are so exposed to danger that an espe-
| cially designed alright suit has been In
| vented for their protection. This latter
| trade, quite common in Europe. Is COM
| paratively unknown in America. The
| manufacture of white lead, too, Is q dan
| gerous occupation. The dangers are also
experienced by house painters, who are
| subject to the double danger Of the posi-
bility Of a fall from high place and the
whitehead poisoning. The man who makes
| the common kitchen and pocket match
fran a
| necrosis. The polishing of electric light
bulbs Is exceedingly risky for the eyes of
the operator; and employees in factories
where ammonia Is used in any form are
daily subjecting themselves to the dan
| gers of death from diseases OF the kid
neys and other organs. Employees In Euro
pean ammonia factories seldom attain an
| advanced age. Gases of powerful corro-
sive strength escape from the ammonia
and kill vegetation for miles around. Chic
ride Of lime. too, in the process Of it's
manufacture Is a very dangerous article.
and employees who make 1t frequently
wear special masks. Even with this pro-
lection they are enabled to work for but
q short time.
The farmer, away from the rush and
hustle and hurry of the city. is supposed
to live a care-free and perfectly safe life:
but with his many threshing machines
and other machinery, his spirited horses.
his mad bulls and his hives of bees, he is
IOunu 10 De SuDJecleQ TO q constant string
of dangers which seldom beset the city
man. There are something like 5000
beekeepers in the United States, every
one Of whom is In danger of being stung
to death every time he goes among his In
sect charges.
StiII Another Class.
gers of daily employ ment are being con-
sidered, are the railway employees. The
nineteenth annual report of the Inter
state Commerce Commission shows that
for the year covered by the report there
were killed and injured In the railway
service 94,201 persons, of whom 10,048
were killed and "a, 155 injured. The fig
ures look like the report of casualties
after some of the worlds big battles.
The members Of this vast Industrial
army, fighting with steam and steel to
defeat time and space, met death and in
| jury In various ways. Some fell from the
cars and trains; some were run down;
some while jumping on and of cars in
motion and some by collision. While in
| the act Of coupling and uncoupling cars
| BOT were killed and 4,019 were Injured.
The various branches of the service suf-
| fered as follows:
Trainmen-Killed, ala: injured, &c, 275
Switch Tenders and Watchmen -
Killed, 900; injured. 2,07O.
| All Other Employes-Kiiled, 1,2So; In.
| jured, 35,722.
The number Of passengers killed in the
| course of the year covered by the report
was All, and the number of injured Gill.
The most picturesque figure In the list
Of the railroad employees is the locomotive
| engineer-the man who, like the general
| of an army, leads o regiment OF people
safely across a stretch OF travel. The To-
| connective engineer never regards himself
| particularly a hero because he is al
ways a hero. He has long ago learned to
| look death in the face-to act quickly in
emergencies. He gets his orders from the
train dispatchers. He reads his orders
and he obeys them. Like the hero Of the
Six Hundred, His not to reason why,
his but to do and die" It is an unwrit-
ten law that the engineer of the locomo-
tive, like the pilot of the boat, never
leaves his place. Straight into the thick
of danger he goes, his eyes to the front
and his hand on the throttle. In the same
category may be classed motormen Of the