Safe for 183 Years

A statistic of last week:

"One passenger could travel 32,000 times around the earth, 25,000 mi. each circuit, without accidental death, traveling continuously at the rate of 50 mi. an hour for more than 183 years."

Enunciator of this reassuring sentence was President Arthur Williams of the American Museum of Safety. His authority was an Interstate Commerce Commission report that 118 of the 157 Class I railroads of the U. S. last year carried 148,379,000 passengers more than eight billion passenger miles without a single passenger fatality. Another set of I. C. C. statistics to which Mr. Williams called attention proved that all 157 Class I railroads have cut their casualty list 61% in the last seven years during the life of the Museum of Safety.

Occasion for this pointing-with-pride was the Museum's annual presentation of medals to U. S. railroads which establish the best yearly records for safe operation. In the staid Union League Club. Manhattan, President Williams passed to Alfred Emanuel Smith (Museum director), who passed them on to company officials, medals as follows:

1) Gold, to the Oregon Short Line (unit of Union Pacific), winner of group A (operating over 10,000,000 locomotive mi. annually). Last year Union Pacific won group A.

2) Silver, to Oregon-Wrashington Railroad & Navigation Co. (also a Union Pacific line), winner of group B (operating between 1,000,000 and 10,000,000 locomotive mi.).

3) Bronze, to Nevada Northern Railroad Co...winner of group C (operating less than 1,000,000 locomotive mi.).

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