. Electric railway journal . SAFETY ON THE CHICAGO ELEVATED—PROTECTION IN CABLE SPLICING; PROTECTION IN TRACK WORK; CANVAS PROTECTION IN THIRD-RAIL WORK Forest, Hawthorne and Clyde, which had a combinedpopulation of 2,300,000 according to the 1910 are five divisions of which the Union Loop is thecentral one, the others being spread out in fan loop district traffic is greatly congested. Travel ismostly of the long-haul variety, the surface lines takingcare of the shorter runs. All of the lines but the out-lying portions are on elevated structure. The Safety Movement The Me
. Electric railway journal . SAFETY ON THE CHICAGO ELEVATED—PROTECTION IN CABLE SPLICING; PROTECTION IN TRACK WORK; CANVAS PROTECTION IN THIRD-RAIL WORK Forest, Hawthorne and Clyde, which had a combinedpopulation of 2,300,000 according to the 1910 are five divisions of which the Union Loop is thecentral one, the others being spread out in fan loop district traffic is greatly congested. Travel ismostly of the long-haul variety, the surface lines takingcare of the shorter runs. All of the lines but the out-lying portions are on elevated structure. The Safety Movement The Metropolitan division began the safety work in1910 by the appointment of a committee which made in-spections of the property and reported on possible im-provements to reduce accidents. After the consolida-tion of the elevated roads in 1911 safety committeeswere appointed in four divisions, each consisting of thedivision general foremen of the way and shop depart-ments, the division supervisor of service and a repre-sentative
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