Another post from Tommy Meehan: > Subject: [rlhsgroup] Re: Safety First > > ---ANDREW DOW wrote: > > May I please ask if any member knows if the expression > "Safety First" > > was used by any US railroad in the nineteenth century. > > List > I thought this was a pretty interesting question so I did a > Google search on "Safety First History" > and "Origin" but found little. Then I tried the NY Times archives. > > First and foremost I noticed a group of articles from the > early 1910s when apparently the ICC kicked off a rail safety > campaign with the slogan "Safety First." (PRR was one > enthusiastic participant, at least according to a Times' news > story.) Wonder what the politics of that was? > > Anyway, there were just three prior to 1900, two irrelevant > and one....the Erie! > > According to a Times article of Oct. 4, 1856, when Daniel > McCallum took over as the road's General Supt. in Spring 1854 > he had "declared his intention to enforce the rule of 'safety > first and speed afterwards'..." > > Anyway, not a conclusive answer but "an answer" > at least. > > tommy meehan The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------ End of EL Mail List Digest V3 #2186 ***********************************
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