LIFE-SAVING VALUE OF THE AUTOMATIC BRAKE.
Every few days, notices get into the public prints relating how frightful accidents were prevented by the prompt action of the automatic air-brake. And hundreds of narrow escapes, where this brake proves the preventive of destruction to life and property, receive no record, and are known only to the employes connected with the operating of trains. To the men familiar with train service, to those who are intimately acquainted with the life-saving effected by the automatic air-brake, it seems surprising that railroads could have been operated without this or a similar appliance. They certainly were not operated safely without it.