15 AUGUST 1903, Page 2

Strong measures will, it is stated, be at once adopted

to secure future safety, especially by building the trains of some incombustible substance, and lighting the tunnels by indepen- dent agency ; but the real lesson of the horrible catastrophe is that if we use these new, half-understood, and " energetic " motive powers we must find a new class of employe's to manage them. The regular engine-driver has courage, decision, and watchfulness; but he always works as he has been accustomed to work, and only half appreciates the terrible forces he is controlling. Men who use electricity require to be educated in a different way from those who use steam, and np to a much higher point of intelligence. The Parisians acknowledge this, but the Companies will be slow to pay the money.