. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal . scussing The Safety Work of the Railroads,recited a tremendous number of details in which travel had been madesafer for the public and the employees as well. Then Will J. French of San Francisco, Director of the National SafetyCouncil and member of the California Industrial Accident Commission,spoke on Industrial Safety, describing the work of the Council, which bybulletins, lectures
. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal . scussing The Safety Work of the Railroads,recited a tremendous number of details in which travel had been madesafer for the public and the employees as well. Then Will J. French of San Francisco, Director of the National SafetyCouncil and member of the California Industrial Accident Commission,spoke on Industrial Safety, describing the work of the Council, which bybulletins, lectures, moving pictures, and an active information bureau,tries ceaselessly to educate personal caution into the great bulkWorkman °^ f^e PeoPe- Figures quoted by the Council showed a workerkilled every 15 minutes, day and night, and one injured every16 seconds; with over 30,000 killed yearly and fully 2,000,000 injured. Butindustrial safety had become a theme of general discussion in the UnitedStates and the reproach that the nation was heedless of the human toll ofindustry was disappearing. Corporation records of casualties were improv-ing, and reductions in risks were reflected in decreasing insurance DEMONSTRATING A SOCIAL PROVIDENCE 99 The exercises concluded with an address by Lieut. Duncan Mathesonof the San Francisco Police Department, organizer of San FranciscosTraffic Squad, on Safety from a Street Traffic Standpoint. Greatsaving of life, especially of school children, was statistically demonstrated. So the Worlds Insurance Congress Events and the Worlds InsuranceCongress itself drew to a close, after the most authoritative and impressivedemonstration of this benign activity that could have been staged underany circumstances. Through the Exposition, insurance took its placebefore the world as one of the greatest factors of economics; a social provi-dence of the most expert and scientific character, under which the hazardsof being are spread evenly over the communit
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