The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1914. AMERICAN RAILROAD METHODS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 97, 17 April 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1914. AMERICAN RAILROAD METHODS

American railroad methods as compared with British and German, are discussed by Mr L. G. Chiozza Money, M.P., who resents Lord Claud Hamilton's condemnation of the labour for- ; cos of Britain, in his speech to the Great Eastern Railway shareholders,! it the time of the announcement that an American railway man, Mr H. W. j Thornton, had been appointed General Manager of this great railroad. While tdmitting the necessity for improve- j ment in the English railways in many, lirections, Mr Money points out that there is one especial and particular dung about American railway methods' which it is as well to call attention! to, as much in the interests of Ameri•an railway passengers and railway j ■servants as of British. It is that too 1 many accidents occur. Taking passengers, railway servants, and others' together, British railway work kills ibout mOO and injures about 8000; oersons every year. But as compared I vitli the statistics of America these, 'railway fatality figures look small indeed. The latest report of the United States Inter-State Commerce Com-j mission, in its chapter on Railway: Accidents, gives some terrible figures for 1911 and 1912. Killed and wound-! ed on United States Railways: 1911. 1912. Killod 10,816 10,90!) Wounded 153.822 171,200

Totals 164,638 174,200 Mr Money proceeds : When allowance • s made for the fact that the United States population is greater than that of Great Britain, and that the mileage is greater (although the number of passengers is not greater), these figures remain nn awful reproach to American railway methods. Tt is not a railway service, it is n warfare against the American public. It is, unfortunately, typical of the disregard of human lifo which characterises Amarican institutions. . Comparing Britain,Gwmany, and America in res-

pect of railway accidents in 1910, the last year for which figures were available the writer concludes that the British public can hardly expect to get from America "a due sense of respect for human life." The figures given are: Country. Killed Injured. Britain ' ... 1 -OIL' 8,342 Germany ... 926 2,338 United States ... IU,3D6' 150,159