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RACE TRACK ACCIDENTS INSURANCE. The Union Club of Germany has voted the annual sum of ,750 as a personal contribution towards effecting an accidental assurance for those employed in the stables at the training centre of Hoppegarten. The benelit will be extended to all racing establishments where the persons employed hold the necessary permit from the Union Club to find work in a recognized stable. The measure is excellent from a humanitarian point of view, but under the employers liability act each trainer has hitherto been obliged by law to assure each person working in Ids establishment, so the question arises as to whether the tisuel payments have to be made by the trainer or "whether the men he employs are to be doubly insured. It is suggested that those who are duly qualified to be considered inmates of a training stable shall, If under thirty years of age, receive S500 In case of a fatal accident, 00 in the event of total disablement, and two shillings a day for partial inability to work. Those who are over thirty get the same death allowance, but for total disablement the increased sum of ,250, with a sum of three shillings daily for partial inability to pursue Iheir calling. The Union Club is desirous of extending the advantages of an assurance system to the professional jockey, but in order to determine how far such an effort would meet with success a circular lias boon sent out to all Iiuldlng licenses under the technical committee, asking their opinion as to the propriety of taking up the question at issue and their desire to profit by the advantages which would probably bo offered them.
