Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-02
PLAN TO SAVE. LIVES
National Movement to Encour-
age Use of Safety Devices.
MORRIS K. JESUP LEADER
Prominent Men Expected to Speak at
New York Banquet.
UNIQUE EXHIBIT ARRANGED
Object to Arouse Public Opinion to
Necessity of Taking Steps to Les
sen the Cause of Accidents.
MORRIS K. JESUP LEADER
UNIQUE EXHIBIT ARRANGED

NEW YORK, January 2.-The first Amer
lean national movement to encourage the
use Of safety and hygienic devices In the
industries of the country to make the lives
Of workmen more secure than they are
now Is to be started at banquet IN the
Waldorf-Astoria on January %.
Morris K. Jesup Is one of the leading
spirits In the movement, and Gov Hughes
will make speech. Representatives OF
foreign governments, who have already
gone into the subject thoroughly, including
the Baron des Planches and NJ. Jusserand,
the French ambassador are also expected
to speak.
The germ of the idea is that the life
of every workman is a national asset, as
DR.. Josiah Strong recently said. For one
week following the banquet there will be
In the American museum of natural history,
at 77th street and Central Park west, IAN
exposition of safety devices and industrial
hygiene"
To Direct Awakened Public Opinion.
The official propaganda, calling attention
to the coming exhibit which is expected
to be replete with novelties, says Of the
idea:
THE object of this exposition is to di-
rect the awakened public opinion to the
necessity Of doing something to lessen the
cause, Of accidents to American life and
labor, by means of a permanent museum
of safety devices. where all problems Of
safeguarding life and limb can be studied
in their working details.
while in this country public opinion Is
sometimes slow to move in a direction of
this nature, when 1t is started rightly 1t
moves with extraordinary rapidity. The
American Institute Of Social Service does
not anticipate that after the first wedge is
driven home there will be the slightest
difficulty In getting all the cooperation, all
the active assistance that can possibly be
needed
The exhibits will consist Of devices for
safeguarding the lives and limbs of work.
men, and preventing accidents under the
ordinary conditions of life and labor to
which the general public is exposed.
Highly Instructive Exposition.
"rhe exposition will consist as much as
possible of live exhibits that is machines
or devices in operation; models of actual
or reduced size and photographs. Wood and
metal working machinery; stamping, grind
ing and polishing machines; presses, ele
vators, windlasses, cranes and hosting ma
chinery; transportation security by sea and
land; safety lamps and explosives; quarry
ing, agricultural and chemical industries;
safety from fire.
1.-The section of Industrial hygiene will
include improved dwellings,; first aid to the
injured: prevention of tuberculosis and
other dreaded diseases harmful to the life
Of workmen; respirators and devices for
supplying and maintaining pure air and In
dustrial betterment.
THE Importance of such a museum, and
primarily of such an exposition as this will
be, Is to be seen In one or two broad and
definite facts. In the Boer war there were
many times fewer killed than are annually
sacrificed in American commercial pursuits
of peace. Even the Russian and .Iapenese
war has no such death list as what, in a
recent number of the North American Re
institute, termed Our Industrial Jugger-
naut.' In this article DR.. Strong said:
Some Statistics From Germany.
IAN investigation Of 1870 accidents in
Germany shows that SO per cent Of them
were avoidable.
r If among given number of employees
we have more than twice as many acct
dents as Germany. and If more than half
of Germanys accidents are avoidabIe, it
would seem probable that more than three
quarters of ours are avoidable.
+" The active cooperation of European
museums Of security has been secured,
and already there is much interest mani
tested by American manufacturers.
"'1n Munich, for example, a museum Of
security has just been built the govern
ment having spent 100000 on the building
alone. This is to be equipped with the
very latest appliances for experimental pur-
poses. 80
Germany has many museums Of secur-
ity. So have France. Belgium and Italy
There Is fine museum Of this sort in
Moscow. and others Of admirable equip
ment in Zurich and Stockholm