The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-05
Safety Devices To Guard Lives
 Of The Workmen
Interesting Exhibit ir Rooms of Engineering
 Society in New York

0ocleIy m NeW ' OfK In one of the rooms of the Engineer ing societies building, 29 West Thirty Ninth street, is housed an interesting collection for which the space allotted | is as inadequate as is the public in terest, says the New York Sun.
 But several serious accidents of late have in measure changed this apathy
 into interest. This is marked by an increased daily attendance, and at the present moment the layman who drops
 into the Museum of Safety will no longer find himself the only interested occupant
 1 The walls are covered with photo | graphs of exhibits, ranging from the
 newest device for fighting fire to the latest appliance for safeguarding life and limb in factories. At the left of 1 the entrance several charts instruct the American citizen how far behind
 he is other nations of the world. There
 are, according to this proof, IA muse urns of safety in existence, 12 in Eur opean countries, one in Canada and
 one here. All but the American are
 subsidized institutions, the govern ments helping to establish and main l tain them. Statistics furnished by
 these countries and emphasized here | prove tnGt 0U per C0nC. or the dCCl- dents that have taken place in the
 past are preventable. William H. Tolman, Ph. D., director of the muse
 um, says that this percentage will be still further reduced in this country in I time.
 | At the Paris exposition in 1900 pr.
 Tolman noted the Dutch exhibit from | the Amsterdam Museum of Safety, the first one established in the world. He began to work for a similar institu- l tion here and before many years he
 saw his ambitions realized. One in- cident which helped the work occurred
 in 1907 at a banquet of important l financiers when pr. Kirchoff, then edi- | tor of the Iron Age and a director in
 the museum, read the riot act to those present and urged them to put their lhouses in order. His protest met with profound attention Judge Gary, one | of the guests of honor, was especially ! interested and the next year at a l similar banquet announced that the greater part of the doctors sugges- 1 tions had been followed at an expense l of s30. 900.
 It is the concenSus among the off, cials of the museum that more inter est is shown, theoretically and prac- tically, by the employers of the coun- try than by the employees, themselves l or by the leaders of the labor unions who, with the exception of John Mitchell and Samuel Gompers, have not at the present time worked wiss the owners of factories. This indif ference oh the part of the employees f is hoped to overcome by the formation in every one of these places of a com
 mittee of safety. The committee, headed by some responsible person, will give attention to safe guarding
 the workers against their own ignor- ance and fears ana will bring to the
 attention of the officials all such de-
 vices for safety as Shall from time to
 time bear the hallmark of approval of
 the Museum of Safety.
 In Berlin, says Dr. Tolman, the
 foreman of a factory in which fatal
 accident occurs is held responsible and is brought to trial for it. In the same city when the fire department is call ed out the owner, of the property has to pay the expense for it. The Der linese go still further and in the pub lie schools the children are taught the danger of carelessness and reckless playing with fire.
 In the New York museum no rent is charged for floor or mural space but an exhibit is not shown there until it has been passed upon by the jury of acceptance, headed by Prof Hutton. Simplicity and practicability are. the two important requisites demanded, and larger number of would-be de- vices are turned away than are ac- cepted. T. c. Martin, chairman of the executive committee, who was present with Dr. Holman when several new devices were put in operation, said:
 Our present exhibit haM is outgrown and we are obliged to turn away val uable articles for lack of room Two adjoining halls in the building are available for the library, lectures and demonstrations if the requisite amount fc. +.
 contributed will help in saving a hu- man life. It is strange when you think of the subject that people are gener- ous when It comes to that which means adding little to the beauty of life. and so economical when they are approached on the subject of pre- serving that life itself.''
 Accident statistics prove that the woodworking trade is the most prolific of accidents. In such factories in the months of April, May, June, 1910, in New York state alone there were 222 permanent and temporary injuries, while planers and joiners had 72 for the same period Many devices to prevent such injuries are shown. Guards per- init the workingman's hands to push the work along or to glide harmlessly over knives Or cutters. An automoatic device protects shafting in factories from contact with outside objects. By the slightest pressure 1t becomes sta tioHary and clothes or hair are no longer in danger. Goggles and respir- ators are many in the Krupp works at Essen.
 Accidents have been very frequent in factories where emery wheels are used, these often making 5000 revolutions a minute and suddenly flying to pieces. A saftey device holds these broken pieces A safety gas valve for service gas pipes work automatically and pre- vents escape of gas through open burn CTS or disconnected pipes.
 First aids are shown in "a separa te place, for automobilists, aviators, far mers, planters, sportsmen, travellers, yatchSmen, and include the newest and most compact appliances, one complete outfit in an enameled case being 71kx4AX2. There is an invention, of automatic nature, which can be at tached to an oil stove or lamp being overturned and the flame instantly ex- tinguiShed.
 The home pasteurization utensils known as the Nathan Straus EXhib- it'', have an entire table and shelves allotted. A long roll with heavy crepe paper furnishes sanitary towels for workmen, particularly those in chem ical works, where the acids burn through wovenmaterial, infection is of course prevented by their use and cleanliness aided
 The old cork life preServer had a