Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-06

For Railroad tho Delaware & Hud-
Accidents son Railroad Conn
pany makes the inter-
esttns statement In his annual report
THAT his road has killed only three
passengers In twelve years, out OF
about T5,oO0,Q0O carried. These deaths
ali occurred In q single accident;
which was caused by violation OF
orders on the part OF an engineer
Apart From that lot a single passen-
ger has been killed ON the system in
that time. ON the SuEauchanna dI-
vision. With fST MILES OF track. not q
passenger has ever been killed In inc
thirty years and more during which
the division has been In operation.
These rensarka BILE facts call attention
10 circumstance seldom taken into
ccoNnt--nanely, that Am crican rail-
roads do not constitute single sys-
tenn, and that the appalling record
Of death and manning by which those
roads have won AN evil rotoriety does
not belong to all OF them collectlvely-
but only to part OF them- OF course-
| that makes the figures all the more
deadly for thar part TO which they do
apply IN statistical report prepared
for the General Managers association
OF Chicago by Mr. Sason Thompson
II Is stated for The admiration OF the
public. that 2Te companies. operating
l19,462 miles OF road. went through
the years 1905 and 1906 without kill
ing single passenger, and twelve
other companies operating 31,lfl
miles. Killed Only one passenger apiece
in each OF those years That is an
admiral Bile, wonderful record. but II
leaves the companies operating only
6e,423 miles out Of the 22O.p26 miles
OF road in the United States to bear
the frigh,fn responsibility OF killing
s0e pa ssengers in 1906 and b2a IN
1905.---Collfer-s Weekly
Word ON BEN think everybody has
efficient Work the right TO the dollar
or Railroads. that he makes All
workers should have a
chance to share In the fruits OF these
| phenonnenaily prosperous times. The
| pioneer railroad builders of this nation
had 10 walt very frequently q long
time for returns on their lnvestm erlts-
Industrial evolution Of the Kind IN
which railroads have figured brought
| them unusual opportunities for uplift-
| Ing humanity, and they have not
| shirked the burden. IN these tirnes of
agitatio against the private corpora
| lions engaged In business enterprises I
| doubt II sufficient thought or credit is
| given TO the great work done by the
| railroads for charities. philanthropies'
| and religion, Every man employed by
us, no matter how humble his position,
has chance to gain the highest office
OF the road Nearly all the high Off
Gals in the different departments OF
the road at pre- sent started as telegraph
operators billing clerks, engineers.
brakemen. and mechanics apprentices
Vice President Gardner, OF the North
western Railroad, In Leslies Weekly.
The Influence a pastor-not long ago
| or the WAS scrrowing over the
Written Word. fact that some OF his
people had been led
| astray into an acceptance OF the fam
tastes OF Mary Eddy, and that they
were lost 10 the church and the cause
OF Evangelical religion. On inquiry 1t
developed that these people had noS
been readers OF u religious paper and
We're not we'll indoctrinated or very In
| telligent In matters OF Christian faith
| So when they were approached by
| proselyters and induced TO read some
little things, they were led away with
com parative ease, Pastors would be
| preserved from loss and chagrin, and
! would be made TO appear In better light
| as faithful shepherds, if they took prop
| er precautions TO keep their people
| from being stolen from them by the
| sophistries and seductl0ns of false lead
| ers. The pastors who do not take care
as to what their people are reading are
especially apt to have some sorrowful
surprises.-Hcrald and Presbyter.
Sermon ON the Amongst the varied
Eternal Snow recreatons which help
In the Alps, to give a zest to life.
invigorating and exhiI-
arating both the mind and the body.
with some the most plea surable OF all
| is a rannbe, alpenstock In hand, midst
the savage gorges and Wild ravines
/ and defiles the winding glaciers and
| the snowy plateaux and wastes of the
Pyreuees or the Alps. Commencing the
ascent the explorer Is soon In the land
| OF flowers; beautiful columbInes, yellow
| foxgloves. blue mountain gentian, pink
| alpenroses, with many another fair
beauty OF the floral world. Leaving
these natural parterres. and still as
cending upward through forest OF
spruce the dense LEAKAGE causing a
perpetual gloom the path now winds
amidst detached rocks and boulders.
until at length "a wide and deep assure,
| rent In the mountain. is rea ched. Lofty
beetling cliffs and dark. trownlng preci-
pieces bound this yawnine gorge.
| through which a mountain torrent
| foams and eddies. now pltinging head
| long over preciplce, or now swirIng
and splashng amidst the many OBJ
| structions In it's course; while here
and there are piled UP In wild confusion
masses OF Jagged broken rock. upon
which doubtless In former times grace
full channels dlsported themselves until
exterrninated by ruthless hunters. But
excelsior, excelsior; higher and yet
higher Now the eternal SHOWS are
reached. dones and hummocks and
wide outspread pIateanx of perpetual