! '-. '?! "ira EVENING LEDGEEr-PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1917 5 ' ' ' t my a Announcing the Inauguration of an Extensive Advertising Campaign Advocating Carefulness in Order to Avoid Accidents Supported and Financed by Leading Financial Institutions, Manufacturing Interests, Insurance Companies and Public Service Corporations The Series of Full-Page Educational Articles Important Topic Will Appear Regularly in Public Ledger Evening Ledger on This the FOR YOUR OWN SAKE, AND FOR THE SAKE OF THOSE DEPENDENT UPON YOU, READ EVERY ARTICLE IN ANNOUNCING THIS CAMPAIGN, THE INTERESTS WHO HAVE SUBSCRIBED HERETO AND WHOSE NAMES APPEAR HEREWITH, WANT ITS REAL PURPOSE THOROUGHLY UNDERSTOOD BY EVERY READER OF THIS NEWSPAPER. THE ONE OBJECT TOWARD WHICH THIS CAMPAIGN IS AIMED IS TO Prevent Injuries and Deaths Due to Accidental Causes With this purpose in mind, a few general and simple rules will be laid down, which, if properly observed, will, to a great extent, eliminate the possi bility of accidents and their attendant suffering. In this thickly populated, highly -industrial com munity absolute freedom from accidents is an Im possibility, but through the careful' observance of such simple safety rules hereinafter suggested the number of accidents in this community can be re duced to a minimum. Articles on this important subject will be pre sented. Illustrations of accidents caused by extreme carelessness will bo shown; the frightful results of Inattention to minor scratches and injuries will be portrayed; accidents caused by recklessness and undue haste will be vividly illustrated. Thus the people of this city will be urged to join in and fur ther this great movement of THINKING, TALK ING AND TEACHING THE VA'LUE OF BEING CAREFUL. THE FOLLOWING MANUFACTURING AND PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANIES, FIRMS AND INDIVIDUALS HAVE SUBSCRIBED TO AND, PLEDGED SUPPORT TO THIS CAMPAIGN: The,. Pennsylvania Railroad Company The Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co. The Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. The Corn Exchange National Bank of Phila. Insurance Company of North America Philadelphia National League Ball Club New York Shipbuilding Corporation Thos. Wolstcnholme Sons & Co., Inc. The Western Saving Fund Society of Phila. Henry Bower Chemical Mfg. Co0 Otto Eisenlohr & Bros., Inc. (Cinco) Samuel T. Bodine, Pres. U. G. I. Co. The Baldwin Locomotive Works Southwark Foundry & Machine Co, Specialty Engineering Company Pennsylvania Lawn Mower Works Traylor Engineering & Mfg. Co. Traylor Shipbuilding Corporation Bethlehem Steel Company The Pennsylvania Co. for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities The Home Life Insurance Co. of America, Philadelphia, Pa. Basil S. Walsh, Pres. Central Market Street Co., Proprietors of Victoria, Globe, Ruby, Princess, Savoy, Market Street and Auditorium Theatres John B. Stetson Co. Owen Letter's Sons D. G. Dery Glasgow Iron Co. John Lucas & Co., Inc. Midvale Steel & Ordnance Co. American Bridge Co. J. S. Wentz Co. Alan Wood Iron & Steel Co. Sauquoit Silk Mfg. Co. Philadelphia Electric Co. Atlantic Refining Co. Lukens Steel Co. ' David Lupton's Sons Co. Nagle Steel Co. Aberfoyle Mfg. Co. Ballinger & Pcrrot Bernstein Mfg. Co. First National Bank of Phila. Abrasive Company Crew-Levick Co. The Bank of North America Freihofer Baking Co. L. G. Graff & Son Quaker City Cab Co. Alexander Brothers W. Atlee Burpeo & Co. Louis J. Kolb J. E. Caldwell & Co. A. F. Bornot Bro. Co. Norfolk & Western Railway Autocar Company Philadelphia Paper Mfg. Co. Graham, Parsons & Co. Antonio Roig & Langsdorf Union National Bank John Gribbel Robert K. Cassatt Harrisons, Inc. Charles E. Hires & Co. Pure Oil Company Delaware State College Union Paving Co. New Jersey Zinc Company Chas. J. Webb & Co. Clyde S. Adams Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co. H. W. Butterworth & Sons Co, Keystone Type Foundry Pooley Furniture Co., Inc. John A. Rigg Stephen F. Whitman & Son William Amer Co. American Engineering Co. A. T. Baker & Co. Standard Steel Works Co. Whitall-Tatum Company Bristol Patent Leather Co. mm w The Franklin Baker Co. Irwin & Lcighton MB The Brown Instrument Co. Jacob Miller Sons & Co. MM m Commercial Coal Mining Co. The Schwarz Wheel Co. Ill - Abram Cox Stove Co. E. J. Spangler Co. vfli John T. Dyer Quarry Co. Philadelphia Gear Works MwY Electric Service Supplies Co. Girard Iron Works John R. Evans & Co. Fretz, Gross & Co. Ford & Kendig Co. Defiance Mfg. Co. MM The Hess-Bright Mfg. Co. Cresson-Morris Co. mw Link-Belt Co. F. Blumenthal Co. II The Miller Lock Co. Ajax Metal Co. f Moore & White Co. Aetna Foundry Co., Inc. Pioneer Suspender Co. John Wood Mfg. Co. Standard Roller Bearing Co. Henry Troemner - Mm Sun Shipbuilding Co. Standard Pressed Steel Co. H Susquehanna Coal Co. Hoopes & Townsend Co. Mm F. G. Vogt & Sons, Inc. William M. Lloyd Co. MM. Geo. D. Wetherill & Co., Inc. Bobrow Bros. II The John C. Winston Co. F. Brecht's Sons WM William Mann Co. J. F. Buchanan. & Co. , National Metal Edge Box Co. J. D. Johnson Co. J. Alfred Clark Herman Loeb & Co. " John Daley, Jr., Inc. Henry B. Pancoast Co. MM Denny, Hilborn & Rosenbach The Thomas W. Price Co. 11 Hutchison Baking Co. Quaker City Cordage Co. J M Ehret Roofing & Mfg. Co. Camden Forge Co. (lVB
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