El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-06

PASO is preeminentIy a railroad
II town. The Z. P. * s W, the O.
- II. & $. A. the Santa Fe and the
southern Pacific all go through the
CITY and all have safety organizations
as have also the EI Paso Street rail-
wav and the FL Paso smelter. 1t has
always been the policy Of The Herald
to get behind and encourage any move
ment that viii aid its readers As the
safety organizations have proved that
they cut ..,svli the number of accidents
on railroads to a remarkable extent,
and as so many of The Herald read
ers are railroad men, the paper is go
ing to devote a column each week 10
SAFETY First and correspondence Is
solicited on all questions of safety
The Safety bureau Of the J. + q D
W. Railway gave a luncheon to the
members of the eastern division SAFETY
committee at the Paso del NorUe al
noon today after meeting held IN inc
safety bureau at Which all raliroad
men were welcome. Following IS the
menu of Il e luncheon
Hors d ouvres 'PrecaUtion-
Ripe Olives celery
First Aid to the Uninjured e-.-,-
Planked Beefsteak
Safety salad a.. ~.
The Only Unsafe Thing on the Menu
Mince Pie.
clear Headed Coffee.
1T is better TO give your friends
beefsteak and onions while they are
alive than to send flowers to their
grave"
The following members OF the east-
Crn division committee ~ re present a.
the luncheon: L l. Norris, IL l.
Stansbury. Eugene Gordon, c. D. Beeth,
f NJ. Clough, 1. Z Mckenzie, R X
Blair, H. S. Fairbank, W. A Strap, =
l. Hoy. J. Snyder, Robert Gibson, A +.
Howard. /. G. Maitland, W W. Arnold,
Frank. WAGNER. Sam Miller. NJ. Z. Par
IRISH, Frank Fry, p Collins, George
Sharp, T F. German, roadmaster DaF-s-
George NJ Douglass, inspector Of
safety and employees welfare, of the
American Smelling and Refining com
pany, arrived in FL PasO TUESDAY
morning HIS headquarters are new
York city and he makes tours Of IN
spection TO all the plants of the com
Dany with a view Of lettering safety
conditions, encouraging safety organI-
cations and making Improvements IN
welfare OF the employees. Mr. Douglass
reports that he is very much encour-
aged by the progress made in the var
iOus smelters that he has visited up
TO date, and he thinks the safety Work
at the FL PasO smelter viii compare
favorably with the others
". Z. McKeehan, safety inspector Of
the Copper Queen mine and smelter at
Douglas and Bisbee, arrived here
Thursday morning to confer with Geo
NJ Douglass on questions Of safety
Don't be always shaking hands with
death: but get acquainted with safeIy
first"
The American Museum Of Safety
awarded to the tDrager PulmOtOr,
The Scientific American gold medal for
the most efficient life saving appara-
tus designed within. the past three
years The pulmOtor in as artificial
resuScItauOn apparatus and is lnValu-
able in cases Of drOWing, asphyXiation,
suspended animation or lectr1c shock
A recent dispatch from Leavenworth,
Knasas. states. -"PulmOtOr Bradshaw IS
the unique name given the infant son
of Ada Bradshaw of this City. The
child came into the world last night,
and for an hour refused to breathe,
despite the efforts of the physicians
The new city pulmotor was sent for
and the infant responded almost IN
stantly when the oxogen was applied"
The FL PasO Electric Railway Co
has the only pulmOtOr in this section,
and keeps it on instant call at It's gen
eral office 1t viii De sent promptly
to anyone needing it:
Recently the southwestern held
safety rally in Douglas at which over
100 slides were shown, Illustrating the
dangerous and the safe ways for the
men to perform their duties After the
meeting was over, one of the men came
to the safety supervisor and said;
There is only one man in your whole
audience who was against yOu and the
meet him" The safety supervisor was
introduced to the man, and said: q
understand you are not in favor Of
safety organizations" He replied: "Of