AUTO ACCIDENTS 
The aeroplane -wins the booby 
prize. One person out of every 
24,451 who ride in aeroplanes is 
killed; one in every 5,973,436 in 
coastwise, lake, river and steamship 
vessels; one in 6,313,800 on steam 
railways; and one in every 8,422,460 
'on electric railways. Number killed 
in motor car accidents hasn’t been 
figured out, but accidents in autos in 
the U. S. have risen from 2.2 per 
cent per 100,000 people involved to 
15.7 per cent since 1911, while those 
on street cars have fallen from 3.2 
per cent to 1.6 per cent. 
