Safety in Rail Travel.

Accurate statistics show that a person is safer on board a train than at home, which speaks more for the security of railroad transportation than of the insecurity of a man's “castle” (says the “Toledo (Ohio) Times,” U.S.A.). Railroad travel is 100 per cent. safer to-day than it was five years ago. Last year there was only one fatality as a result of a railroad accident for every 49,000,000 passengers carried. Five years ago the average was one fatality for each 24,000,000 passengers. When it is considered that only sixteen of the 800,000,000 persons transported on trains in the United States last year were killed, the safety of this mode of travel causes greater wonder. (New Zealand's safety record is 80 million passengers carried during the past three years without one fatality, thus giving our railways, in this respect a foremost place amongst the railway systems of the world.)

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