The Detroit times., 1910-12-27
HOULO CUT DOWN
AMAZING HARVEST
Of DEATHS
Times Correspondent Finds IN Ne"
York Museum Of Safety Many De-
vices for Protection Of People
Who Work.
Hall Million Americans Meet WITH
Accident or Death From Ma
chinery Each Year.
BY w. G. SHEPHERD.

NEW YORK. Dec. 26.-ln % Amer
/ Nican homes there will be received a
3 terrible message of death every day
fOf 1871.
Probably a few minutes later \
heartbroken woman and lrlshteheu
children will receive all that remains
) of husband and father-the mango"
hody of a man who had few short
hours before gone cheertully To the
railroad yard, railroad shop or tram
.Your husband is hurt, is anothe4
ferrible message that comes every
law 10 hundreds OF homes from the
rnilroad tracks: for every day in this
wear of our Lord, 1911, 2Ss American
kSaflrond men will suffer accident,
E Nv the time Jan. ], 1917, rolls
tnround over 10000 American railroad
Er,ep will have been killed. An army
~ about 5000 widows and about 80
mn fatherless children will have
been added to the already grewsome
list. -,
Il And about los, 900 railroad men Will
n have been injured, many OF them
4permanently.
But this is only about railroads.
Many more of us are In DANGER
Imam those who work on railroads
x Thfrty-five thousand of us-perhaps
:.1nore-who work in factories ana
4 mines from the Atlantic to the Pacl-
Ic. who are establishing homes and
I,frying to raise children to be good
j American citizens, Will nave peeh
/! Killed in accidents before Jan. 1, 1917.
Every day during the year the I'M
&hxpected death message Will be TAX
= a to 95 American homes, HE mas
\ been killed"
A Ninety-five funerals a day, in the
lIJpited States, of men, women ana
q children who, being well one moment,
( we're snatched to death in industrial
u uursuits. or killed in the roadways by
Automobiles or vehicles OF some
/ Other sort,
4 II the average of other years is no.
4 exceeded half million of us Will
4 meet with accidents in Industrial pur-
4 suits during 1911.
4 This means that one out OF every
200 of us in this broad land will be
4 hurt by machinery or by some other
h contraptions of modern invention be-
! tore the 1912 New Year comes
\ around.
About 100000 of us will lose hand
u or a leg. Twice that many will be
made cripples for life.
Machinery will crush us; saws VIII
cut of our hands; we will be sunocat'
X ed In mines-perhaps a thousand OF
MS: breaking wheels, bursting boilers
and explosions will injure us; 10000
of us will be burned in residence fires
alone. Exploding lamps will hurt
many more. Street car accidents will
put perhaps $4,000 of us into hos
pitals for longer or shorter periods.
Unless!
Would Save Thousands.
T Unless safety contrivances be In
Produced early and wherever danger
threatens lives and limbs. Inventors
have already placed many safety de-
\ vices and appliances at our com.
\ mand.
In the New York museum Of safety
/ are shown contrivances which would
\ save thousands Of lives yearly and
4 prevent most of the accidents. II is
\ q happy thought to know that such
4 ccntrivances exist, but il is an I'M
n p{easant thing TO realize that the
4 American public has not yet found a
way to force owners of great indus
trial plants TO go to the expense OF
Installing these devices.
In all the fields of industry there
Il are inventions intended TO save hui
I man lives displayed in the exhibit
LIN all the fields save one, that of rail.
\ fonding
Apparently inventors think that 1t
Is useless TO hope that the railroads
win adopt safety devices. The fight
II which the government was forced 10
4 make in order TO coerce the railroads
into placing safety couplers on their
freight cars was evidently a lesson
TO the inventors
II is in the great industrial plants
that the safety devices are beginning
I 10 be used, not for humanitarian
reasons so much. but because it is a
paying investment TO escape law
I suits.
I'm the exhibit are shown guarded
saws. on which a workman cannot be
Injured: warning brushes that force
4 workmans hand away from a de-
ascending punch; fy-wheels that can
not explode; oil cans that cannot
l explode; protection for belts and
shafting elevators that cannot fall;
doors that cannot be unlocked from
the outside except with key, but
that can be opened from the inside
with the first push OF panic water
filters that would prevent typhoid
fever: home plants for rendering
milk pure; kerosene lamps and stoves
that cannot possibly explode. auto
mobile and street car tenders: gas
lets that cannot be accidentally turn
"a OF or on; shields whereby line.
men cannot be injured by contact
with live wires breathing helmets
Tor use in mines and excavations
portable fire. escapes; warning signs
81 all sorts; goggles and screens for
workmen antiseptic mouth. pieces
for telephones; patent scaffoldings
thai cannot fall, and many other lie
Hices.