The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-07-26
SAFETY FOR WORKERS
Exhibition to- Be Held of Life
Guarding Devices.

Guarding Devices.
COMMITTEE OF WOMEN TO HELP
American Institute of Social Service
to Show MT New York What Is be-
ing Done to Make the Working
mans Lot Easier and Less Danger
Gus Similar Movements In Other
Countries.
Latest of the expositions of the best
devices for safeguarding the lives and
limbs of workmen and preventing ac-
cidents under the ordinary conditions
of life and labor to which the public
is exposed is that planned by the
American Institute of Social Service,
to be held at the Museum of Natural
History in New York from JAN % to
Feb. 8 next year. Several others are
scheduled to take place at various
cities on the continent during the year,
says the New York Post. The Ameri-
can exposition is to consist of machines
of actual or reduced size in operation
or photographs, and in addition to this
there will be section of industrial
hygiene, including exhibits of the sew
eral movements for improved housing
far as possible this section will be
comparative in exhibiting the best H.
lustrations of English and European
methods.
Although the proposed exposition will
be purely temporary, it is regarded as
preparatory to a permanent collection
Of safety devices, because it is be-
lieved that the time has come for the
establishment Of an American museum
Of security similar to the ones found
all over Europe, especially in Germany.
With this end in view the institute has
been collecting photographs, special
lied reports, documents and publica-
lions, showing the entire range of in
duStrial betterment movements.
Among the honorary officers on the
board Of management are Grover
Cleveland, Governor Higgins, Governor
Stone of New Jersey, G. =. Neill of the
department of labor, Governor Guild
of Massachusetts. Governor Roberts of
Connecticut, L. =. Sherman, labor COM
missioner OF New York, and II. c.
BumpuS, director Of the Museum of
Natural History. A committee Of wo-
men has been formed to aid the work.
The west hall Of the museum has been
loaned for the exposition, but it is
thought that the number of exhibits
will require more space.
Promises of exhibits and requests for
many firms and corporations, and the
indications are that the space assured
Will be taxed to the utmost to hold ev-
erything. There will be all manner of
exhibits, from derricks with automo-
bile stops which prevent the cranks
from revolving, to the injury Of the
workmen, to fireproof starch and mod
els and pictures of sanitary houses. A
feature that will receive special atten-
ton will be ways to prevent intoxica.
ton, treated strictly from an economic
standpoint-that is, on the basis of its
injury to the community as destroying
the working ability Of its victims, not
as to its deterrent effect on their moral
| condition.
been received from the Institute of So.
cial Service Of Denmark for loan of
some of the exhibits at the New York
exposition for use Mt an exposition
which it will hold next summer.
The third Bavarian Exposition Of Ju.
| bilee, Industry, Trade and Art, to be
held at Nuremberg this year, will de
vote probably 10 per cent Of its flool
space to safety devices, many Of which
will be brought from the Munich Mu
scum OF Security. The arrangement
Of the exhibits. somewhat on the order
to be followed at the exposition at the
Museum of Natural History, is as fol
lows:
Section /, models. photographs ane
drawings of scaffolding. as we'll as the
personal equipment of workers in build
Ing trades: 2. Is allotted to the Bavarar
| Inspectors association. Here will be
shown protective devices for boilers, wa
ter gauges. signal apparatus, boiler ant
pipe valves; also protective devices fol
| eiectrlcal machinery. showing its actua
use on acetylene apparatus by models
photographs and drawings; g. protective
devices for motors and power transmit
| ters devices for turning on power ant
| shutting 1t or belt connection, couplings
ETC.: 4, fire protection and the prevention
of explosions: S. first aid to the injured
6. mining and quarries. devices in use OF
stone crushing machinery. etc.: storing O
explosives: T. metal industry safety de
Vices for various metal working machin
cry: 8. textile industry. safety devices To-
looms. carding. etc: 8. leather and pape
industry. safety devices for paper cutting
stamping and molding machinery; 10
safety appliances for elevators and hoist
| ing annaratn models. IL fond nrodnct g