The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-05-05

government bureau. The train will
give the people of the country
quarter of a mile of graphic illustra-
tions of the governments efforts
along humanitarian lines.
While the schedule has not yet
been definitely arranged, the safety
special will first go over the lines of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
stopping first at Philadelphia and
then proceeding west, taking in every
city and town of any moment. After
exhibiting at nearly 200 cities on the
Baltimore and Ohio and on the Balti-
more and Ohio Southwestern, ar
rangements are to be made to take
the train over the other trunk lines
of the country, so that every citizen
of Kentucky and that of every other
state who cares about what his gov
eminent is doing may have an OPP
portunity to witness the exhibits.
Big Health Exhibit.
1t is thought that this government
Safety First special should be of in
tense interest to the people of the
country in that it will bring to their
homes a much better idea of what the
Federal government is doing for
them. The public health service, de-
partment of the treasury, for instance
will show by models and charts what
this service is accomplishing for the
health of the people. This branch OF
the government is charged with the
responsibility of keeping epidemics
of dread diseases out of the United
States, and it claims that the present
freedom of this country from typhus
fever, cholera and yellow fever is due
in great part to the efficiency of the
quarantine service.
This organization also will show
that the death rate from preventable
diseases is continually being lowered
in the cities because the urban dwell
er is protected in the water he drinks
the food he eats and the manner in
which his working conditions are
regulated, while those people living
in the rural districts are still exposed
to the same health hazards, with the
result that the death toll in country
places has not been lowered.
The coast guard service also of the
treasury department, which last year
saved 1907 persons on the oceans
and Great Lakes from untimely
deaths and also saved property to the
extent of more than 100000, will
exhibit lifeboats, rapid-firing guns
for throwing life lines to ships in dis
tress, the breeches buoy for saving
life at sea and wireless outfits for
use with boat expeditions or for set
ting up on shore or wreck to COM
municate with the revenue cutter.
Mine Safety Display.
The bureau of mines, interior de-
partment, will have a complete ex-
hibit of it's apparatus for the saving
of life in mines, and will show how
the death rates have already been
lowered through its efforts in CO.
operation with the various states. A
unique exhibit will be an apparatus
invented by one of the engineers of
the bureau which permits the wearer
to enter places filled with poisonous
gases. Heretofore all apparatus of
this character came from foreign
countries, but this American appara-
tus is said to be superior to any of
the foreign makes.
The forest service, department OF
agriculture, will show how it prevents
detects and suppresses forest fires,
which in the past have ranked as
great calamities, destroying scores
of human lives, devasting ranches
and settlements in their path and
burning millions of dollars worth of
the nations finest timber. This SER
vice shows also that 1900 towns and
cities obtain their water supply from
the national forests and that it is the
duty of the service to see that the
watersheds are protected from fire
and also to prevent the contamina-
ton of the water supplies.
The American Red Cross society
will explain how it goes into crowded
factory districts and teaches the
workmen first aid to the injured.
Two instruction cars are maintained
on the railroads of the country for
this purpose. The interstate COM
merce commission will be represent
ed by three model cars. fully equip
ped by the United States government
and will show the marked decrease
in the number of trainmen killed
since these appliances were adopted.
Weather Bureau Show.
The weather bureau, department
Of q gricuItura will shOw tho intricate