RAILWAY WARNINGS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1879, 13 October 1913, Page 5

RAILWAY WARNINGS.

Sir, —During the hearing of tho railway oollision appeal case, Judge Cooper remarked that a railway man in Americi had been paid twenty thousand dollars for designing the notice-board, "Stop! Look Out for the Engine! As a matter of fact, the notice His Honour refers to was much more striking and arresting. ' It was:

, STOPI LOOK 1 LISTEN 1 and is now employed on tho Victorian railways. I regret (for tho railwayman's sake) that tile reward paid nas much less than twenty thousand, dollars. It was more like five thousand. This notice-board might well be used to replace that used by the Now Zealand Railway Department, whose futilo "Look Both Ways for the Engine _ always conjures in my mind the picture of a flustered female standing on tho edge of the line, trying vainly to squint two ways at once.—l am, etc., CrALVO.

Sir, —Upon seeing in your issue of yesterday a paragraph relating how for the fact of suggesting tho sign for railway crossings*. "Stop! Look Out for the Engine 1" a New York lawyer was awarded 20,000 dollars, it struck mo very forcibly that the Kelburne Tramway Company has been equally on the alert in adopting, but not so responsive in the matter of paying, for a. design that they have copied, and aro now using, from a patent time-table, by eolour indication for the tramways, that I had working at the Courtenay Place end of section for about ten months. I refer to the sign: '.'Look Both \v ays Before Crossing."—l am, etc., HENRY ASHWORTH. Wadestown, October 10, 1913.