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Et' PASO' HERALD Satnrdav. 12. 1913 Your Personal Every 16 Seconds Some Workman Is Injured in Some Peaceful Pursuit in the Country Eighty Percent of the Accidents Can Be Avoided if Public and Employes Will Help 25,000 Children Killed Plajring on Railroads. By Edward L. Tinker, Supervisor, E.

P. S. W. Ry. UR laws cfcist safecruards around the bird.s of the air and the fish in the seas; oyster.s are watched M'ith infinite care; the federal government through its various bureaus lias taken up the work of the of trees and forests anu is investigating- some method of sand- bapTPring- the weevil order that cotton may grow; our coal lands in far-away Alaska are being protected from the greedy speculator, yet the protection our great army of workmen against unnecessary death and cident has just begun.

And it is that great army of work- Jiit'n who have us what we are today, one of the foremost jiations ot the world, and we must depend on tliem for any future progress that we may make. (ireat Heath Ilato by Do you realize that evei-y 16 minutes of every hour of every day of the 365 days of the year, there is a workman in of tne peaceful industries of the killed, and that every 16 seconds of every minute of every hour of the o65 days there is one of that great army of workmen injured 1)0 you know that this amounts to "5.000 workmen killed per year, and two million injured Can you realize tlu' amount of sufferintr that follows in the wake of funerals the widows, the the poverty and sadness? I'o you realize what these two million injuries mv an in suffering to injured men themselves and to their families? you that many of them are cripples for life, maimed and blind? When you do, you begin to see the importance of any method, and organization, that cfin cut down this horrible list of casualties. to date the railroads have had to stand the curse of all these accidents b('cause they are the only industry that has been foi cr to make rt porls one authority, the ('ommerce Commission. However, this is unfair because only one-tenth of the workmen are railroad peoide and only one-sixteenth of the two million are railroad men. It is only rccer.tly that the causes of accidents have been tabulated and a scientific study made of them.

Tliese figures show that. sneaking. SO p('rcent of this enor.nous number of accidents is ab.solutely that of tliis 80 percent. 20 pei'cent can be pri vented by the employers of labor through installing sateguaids on all dangerous machint-ry and making inc working conditions of the men as saie and sanitary as possible, but the remaining 60 percent is absolutcdy up to the workman tliemst lves. It is due to some chance taking, some carelessness, some negligence on the part of the workman killed or injuri'd, or of bodv with him.

No method of the fallible human that is the nfirligence of been fount! until safety organizations were introduced. an He As an illustration of what the safety organization can do, many of the railroads have cut (Town their accidents, fatal and otherwise, 50 percent. The Pennsylvania railroad shops em- plov men and they cut down their accidents 63 percent: Mr. Smith, superintendent of the Illinois one of the subsidiary companies of' tlie Ignited States Steel corporation, told me that last month his pavment for personal injuries amounted to'only $42 and that he luid a payroll of foiir thousand men. ignorant foreigners many of them, employed in one of the most dangerous steel rolling mills.

Teaching safety has done it. GottliiK Employes Interested. The safety organization accomplishes its results in two ways. It is the man on the job who knows the dangers of his employment: the safety organization provides a method of getting the ideas of everv employe as to the im- provcment of safety conditions and as to wliere dangers lie. These things can then be remedied immediately be- someone is injured.

Then, by orgr.nizing the men themselves Into committees, it provides a method by wl'iich a campaign of education alonir f-afetv lines can conducted, which will spread to every employe in the serv'ce. It arouses the men's interest in taking care of themselves and in' not running useb'ss and unnecessary risks. It creatos a public vs. the chancetakers. ('iiiN of idoivs.

Safety organization throughout the United Stati's has cut of the ows and orphans and the suffering of tht' samt- time, pockets of down the num of wid- a great deal of world. At the it put moiu-y in the the employers because they are the oiies who pay the cost or these accidents. Tn the Southwest the safety idea has Coiintry Girl Now a Princess; 000 000 Was Loeely taken a firm hold and is spreading. Street liailwa.v, the Copper Queen mint-s at Jiisbee, the Cananea mines, the C. A.

mines at Jiis- bee, all taken up the work of educating their employes to avoid accidents. Work. Now. let me tell you what we are doing on the K1 Paso Southwestern, for We have an organization as a board of last appeal, composed of all higher officials of the roau; then a of men on each division, i-omposed of men from the section foremen up to the superintendent and a board in each shop. These men meet and discuss plans for safety and then they are put into effect.

If the superintendent can put into effect the plans suggested, he does so: if not, he passes it up to the board of last resort, where it is passed upon. 3 IakiiiK ThlnjiM Safe. We have spent as high as in idening- one cut because our board of safety on the division recommended it. We have re-eciuipped 100 cars with a different sytle brake because the board recommended it. We have moved ties and poles and changed switches because the board of employes recommended changes for more safety.

It is the man on the job who knows the dangers and we invite suggestions from him. At every terminal we have postal cards and mail boxes where the men are to write suggestions for safety, to be to the superintendent and by him presented to the safety board. At these board meetings, the section man has the same say as the superintendent and his suggestions are given as much fonsideration. Gettiiiii; Meu to Think. Our road bulletins following each accident and we tell how the accident happened and how it could be avoided.

To our iMexican section hands who cannot read Knglisii, we send pictures of accidents and how they might have been avoided. I have a number of cigars bearing the label which I distribute aniong our employes wherever 1 go. They read the label, talk about the cigars and then talk about the safety plan. On our pay checks each month we have some new motto relative to safely. One month the motto read: is ter to be careful than We try each moiitlTi to bring out some idta that will direct the attention of all ployes tow'ards the idea of preventing accidents.

Kin pi Because we have the best set of ployes of any railroad in the United States, tiiey are backing the Safety Organization. The reason have the best men is that they are trcateil fairly and are well paid. For these reasons our men stay with us and the public is not subjected to the dangers of a green man. A Trainninn. While on the subjec't of our ployes and thfir work in behalf of safety, I cannot refrain from mentioning the heroic act of P.

W. Ankerson. in the union depot yards at Kl Paso, recently, when he saved a 'passenger from being run ovt-r by one of our trains. W. Feidt, of Fayetteville, the ngt'r, had come in over the S.

P. and was transferring a dog from the S. P. baggage car to one of the cars of our road, when the suddenly jerked him across a track on which one of our engines was backing equipment. Ankerson saw' the predicament of the man, who apparently was so absorbed witli the do.ir that he did not see the cars, and, quitting his own work, leaped onto the track and dragged the man off just in time to prevent him being crushed.

The man was bruised a bit by being pulled back so (luickly over the slag, 1 ut his injuries were oniy slight and he w'as very thankful for his salvation. Hostler showed much presence of mind in stopping the equinment as he saw' Ankerson make a rush for th(passenger and realized the peril of the tw'O men. I am proud to be in the same service with a man of that tj'pe. The reason I am telling you this is that the public lias a vital interest In the kind of man we employ and in the Safety Organization, because it means to every person traveling- on our system, g-reater safety, greater ri'gularity of train service, and it means also that you will receive your freight in better condition, and quicker, and will not have so many freight loss claims to adjust. The liO.ss.

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f)f the total numbt'T, only Wt-ie hoboi-s. number. 1-0. rrsidinir in vicinity wlit.Te they met were children under of aiie. If a milejMist was erected evi-ry mile for every child kiib-d uiM.n a trjick.

the line would extend around ttie world, every milepost meaning the death of a. cnild. All were trespassers upon tb.e rieht of ways of railroads. Think of the heart aches that have if parents had kept their children off the railroad tracks, away from the depots, off the passing- A The other day a erippb boy passed through iOl P.aso tiiking- care of a bunch of horses. Once he was a bright boy, IT) years of age, with both legs and a bright prospect before him.

leaned against a box car on a lailroad was playing in the railroad a switch engine came along, kicked string of tars. the boy and he ftll iron wheels and his was off. If he only played the railroad yard, he still have had both legs and might have been some high position in life: his missing leg was a handicap to him in the battle of life. Mothers and if you do not want thir; to happen to your children. them from playing around railroad For TTere is somethiiig that I prepared for the are going to issue it In book form for to them that will read it and profit by it: it includes seven The Commercial National Bank Knows Your Wants and vVants Your Business 4 Paid On Savings Accounts 107 Texas Street GESS mi Is Declared Most Important Development Since the Dis covery of the Cyanide Concentration Is Now Set Up and in Operation in El Paso.

Some History of Copper Production and Treatment in the U. S. and the Old World. to teach a eyes to see, of this is to deposits of (Continued from page 1, this section.) Boston, 3 in and unexpected m.arriagf, or the form rie Foster, a typical country girl of liUcinge, recall a surprising statemen Iiome friends at her beautiful mansion, was in America, six months ago, Mrs. in referring' to he every material comfort a woman coul I ever marry ag'ain, it will be for com Carrie Foster was 22, just out of Stickney, the wealthy mine operator a age.

This was in 1890. Tw'o years la The marriage was a happy one, St tween his wife and his business. His when he died, in 1902, he left his bea prominent americans who have been for the hand of Mrs. Htickney w'ere: Fr 3athe diplomat, and 1 milHonai OF MliS. ke IMI STK'I XKV altham, hearing ab(uit the recent er Mrs.

Joseph Stickney, originally Car- altham, to the prince de I'aucigny- Mrs. Stickney made to one of her old on Fifth avenue. New York, when she deceased husband, said: left me desire. Hut now I am lonesome. If ar.oll where she first met Joe nd hotel owner.

He was 50 years of ter they W'ere married, ickney dividing his time equally be- ortune g'rew' by leaps and bounds, and utiful widow $20,000,000. Among the entioned from time to time as suitors ank Hitchcock, former postmaster gen- ouis Bruiguierre, the San Francisco those of us who w'cre to succeed them that of the Anolentiii. It was my fortune to have charge, for a number of ears, of one of the large mining and metallurgical concerns in that district, and 1 had thus the opportunity of studying the methods of our celebrated predecessors in that branch of industry. An enormous quantity of Roman slag is piled up at these mines and it is found by analysis that this slag is as good and free from copper as that produced today in the niost up to date orks. liemains of some of their furnaces have been brought to light.

These were small reverberat.ory furnaces, built entirely of stone and evidently heated with wood fuel. I mention this because, it is a remarkable fact, that in the couise of the 2000 years that have (dapsed since the Romans sinelted in the Iberian I)eninsula, the tnod emidoyed to re- er coopt from its ores is substantially the same. Aiuioiit Still. Tt is true that by advances in me- chajiical engineecing, improved metiiods of Juuidling material and rfduced working costs, furnaces of tooav are furnaces have to a'large exLent rei)lactd reverberatories, but that is all, Ort's are snii by heat and the copper in a concentrated form is settle.l out of mass today, just as it was 20o0 years ago. Formerly miners took out only the rich oi'es and left tlie poorer ores alone, but as richer deposits more and se.irce, means iiad lo be (leviscd for treating the low grade ores.

The means employed to make these 'oorer ores available for smcltintr was read an account of of the mines to grind th finely and concentrate ihem, and apj)liances were borrowetl from the g(dd and tin industries to carry that out. This is wh('re all the trouble and began. SiK'ffSN of onociilration. The success of concentration depends on the difference in igiit betweeji the valuable mineral and tlie barren gangue. The difference in wtdght be- twiM average copper laineral and the barren material is approximat-ly 5 to 1-2, which is suffnient to make a fiiir separation with i-arcful handling, but unfortunat( ly Ihe alw'ays shows a persistant tentieiicy to slime -and float off with the tailings, wliich go to w'aste.

A few days I the opt'i'ation id" one in Mexico, when mining. crui-hing and enf. ating several thousands of tons of ila.ily and jnaking a saving of only 05 re does t'ne other 35 go to? Undoubtedly it is lost. 1 om of nliie.n. years 1 was ned by London ndicate to study American tlio ls of coj)per smelting.

In of the largest in the country, where an immen.se tonnage is trt tailings from the concentrating I lant. cat one percent of Copper, into the I do not know proportion the tailing.s bitre to v.lnde, l)ut it must have a A'ei considei-alde loss. Thr-se two examples of such heavy losses in tlie pri'paratory to smelting is enough to open our to the fact that there is something wrong. Add tliese concen! rat loll losses the values in tile slags from the smelting furnact', in the best pi'aciice is less than oiie-fi'urth pt reent ot eopper. and the heavy upkeep cost of a smelting p.iant, that has to l)e charKi'd for.

ami a can undei'- stiUKl why low grade mines in tl'iis country cannot be made to pay if the ores are to be snielted. n' In southern Spain and Portugal cop- pcr ores containing as little as one-half percent are treated at a considerable profit by weatiierii.g the ore. washing out the resulting coppt sulpiiate ith water and couducting the copper lici- uors through wooden canals, in which the Copper is on iron. This method only recovers the copper; tluiafore if any gtild or silver is present, some other means has to be devised. Nature is always reaoy lesson to thos.

who have aial a remarkable example be found in the copper Lake Superior. ork. ho takes the least interest in those matiers, is more or less familiar with the woriv being done on liirge deposits in that district There the g.mgue is a cidlular lava, the cells in hicli ai filled with particles of metallic cop.per. Some of these particles are largt. out many are so small as to be only visible under tlio liiicroscijpe.

s. While copper mineral is less than five time.s tiie Aveigiit of metallic copper is nine times tne weight of water. Furt'u'r, the nu tal cannot slime, as the mineral dor-s, an-d be ried (df with iiie tailings. Therefore all that ojierating tin se Ccj)per (b'jMisits have to do is to mine 1 oi grind it as iine as retaiired and paraie the copper fiom tlie gangue, cn concentrators. As has en cone ent rat ion by na- coinpriiiies make a of over 90 percent.

New I. omn r'ompare that with the 65 percent ri' 'ovt'ry obtainetl by concentrating ci'utle ore in Xew Alexico, and you will rea.dils- apTue. i.iie 1 tic advantage to gaint'd having copper in the state of before concent ratii'n is at- nipted. Tne qttestion then before nieta.llur- gists is; ('an not devise Uicans of repeating in a commercial manm processes )iy nature in ittrm- in the That has been answered by and a tilant. ai- ranged to ttsns is novv oi tlie establish'd con.ccrns of tiiia city.

Si: at i ki iv i AN OF F.lJv Uocliester. N. July 12. i of gi.in»! bfdge of close.1 last night with ball in the stat'- armory, at thou- sand of tbe order. visiting left for biune last night.

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GILCHRIST. Asst. Cashier. relative to the railroads, all directed to the child mind; 1. A ever otomjh the tracks by or by Without to and look 2.

alonp: the railroad You alway.s truMt your ears and e.ve.s. 8. Never on a freiisht, for nothing: I quite heals The wound received under iirlndlnpr wheels. I 4. Xever, on a hot or a Sit beneath box ears or play, 5.

under a ear of freifcht I When the I Kafc. and wait. G. JVever jutnp on or off a movlnpr train. You ri.sk much witli nothing to gain.

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