The Risks of Modern Travelling.
" Of course there is no adventurous spirit displayed nowadays in seeking to make a voyage round the world," says Mr Frankfort Moore in tbe June number of the Windsor Magazine. " I suppose there is more real danger involved iu making a journey on foot; from Hyde Park Corner to Aldgate on a day in the wagon than in going in a first-o'usa ittimer from England to China. I
, think some statistician recently made > a calculation that a person was Bftfei i on the deck of an Atlantic liner than in any other spot in the world ; sc that if one wishes to enjoy a life t spent free from all risk that person t should take a season ticket between England and America. The per. ! centage of deaths aboard an Atlantic • liner was, the statistician shrw°d by 1 figures — carried out to four places ol , decimals, as a guarantee of good ( faith — very much less than the percentage of deaths in the Btreets oi London from accidents and other causes."
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Manawatu Herald, 22 August 1896, Page 3
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175The Risks of Modern Travelling. Manawatu Herald, 22 August 1896, Page 3
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