El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-03
WITH DYNAMITE
Rotary Speaker Tells HOW
Explosives Are HanIlea'
Wilson Millican Day.

The Rotary club learned. at tnelr
! MONDAY luncheon in the HotSl oiie - =.
grill Thursday that Tor tne ct
1912, 1918, 1914 and 1919, mere ne" GT1tted
been a single death in the inc
! States due to faulty transportation Oh
/ high explosives and that this record -
| due to the fact that the Anne lcdll
| Railway association mas neen -
7 fatigable in its effort to place $40
in TRANSFORMATION ahead of all cohsiq-
erations The informant was Col j. L.
Taylor, assistant to the chief inspector
of the bureau of explosives OF tnS
American Railway association anu ~
e. Blood, inspector for that orBaiiiA"
ton.
The speaker compared modern war
fare with it's nitroglycerine DiproaueIs
as compared with the black p0"aer o.
the civil war days and told OF int
tragic effectiveness of the ne" eA-
plosive as compared to the viu'
Was OutInwed In War.
He told of the outlawing of nitro
glycerine by all the civilized nations,
when first discovered, because OF us
subsection TO the slightest impact OF
disturbance and how Albert NOBLE the
great chemist, discovered that this OBJ
lection might be overruled if the fluid
were coupled with an absorbent III
was then that the Keisel-girth came
into use, so percent of the compounu
absorbing 40 percent OF the explosive,
he said. This substance became known
as dynamite"
Next he told of the dangers in dyna-
mite because the explosive tluld mad q
way of precipitating and working all
manner of wreckage and devastation
and how, as a result OF the oDSerVa-
lions upon the accidents, the railways
had gradually banded together in the
safety first program and how now,
under proper handling and in proper
reeeptacles, the high explosives are
transferred from place to place in com
parative safety.
safety First
The club was urged. especially those |
members who might handle explosives,
and the speaker commented upon the
fact that high explosives had been the |
chief factor in developing the south !
west that they meet with the rules and !
requirements of the Railway associa- |
ton and the inter state commerce COM |
mission in all matters of shipping, use !
and handling of high explosives.
The luncheon was presided over by !
Rev. Charles l.. Overstreet and the |
guests for the day were s l. Davis, San /
Antonio; w. J. Nixon, Ell Paso; Joseph /
Zinkler Kansas City: A. c. Lee, Den |
yer, Colo; c. L. Sirmans, FL Paso.
ID. C. Booth Again n Member.
The membership of d. c. Booth was
transferred from "oil" which he for
merry represented, to the classification |
OF tires and Mr.. Booth. who was one .
of the charter members of the club
was received with cordially under the
new classification.
Gold Brick Trial.
Because of the limited time, the long
drawn trial of J. r. Segall, alleged to
have sold the First National bank a
gold brick, did not come up at the
luncheon. A number of the jurors have
been chosen, but these are subject to
change and the trial may ex-
tend over a long period
wilson 3IiIIican Day.
The luncheon was in the hands of
wilson Millican, dry cleaners and mem
bers of the club, Mr.. Wilson made an
interesting talk upon the business.
while Mr. Milliean gave a history of 4