The evening world. Newspaper, October 9, 1912, Page 7

0 a J » \ OFFAL ADT ROAD COULD RAE PREVENTED WRECK Safety Device Commission Suggested After Former Disaster Ignored. WCODEN CAR TO BLAME \Investigators Want to Know Why Company Hasn’t Made Inquiry of Its Own. ‘The refusal of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Ratiroad to adopt safety devices recommended @ year axu by the Interstate Commerce Commission after the wreck at Bridgeport, war brought home to the officials of the rokd to-day at the inquiry to determine the cause of tha wreck at Westport Conn., last Thursday, in which seve Persons lost their lives, The inquiry !* velng conducted by Interstate Commerce Commissioner C. C. McChord at th: Waldorf-Astoria. Under the questioning of Lawyer Philip Dougherty, representing the Com- mission, Vice-President 'H. J. Horn, of the railroad, admitted ¢! the wreck last week would not have occurred if the recommendation of the Commission, made one year ago after the Bri port wreck, had been ado recommendation was that @ train should Ue stopped at a ‘cross-over’ before the switch was set to send It from one track to another, Mr. Horn also admitted that his road had, neglected even to experiment with any of the one hundred automatic de- Vices to stop trains that pass signals, now on the markel. None was sultable for his road, he bi Testimony by vice failroad yesterday disc oMclais of the road to latest mechanical devi the tunnel systems of the city, Automatically stop trains that run past danger signals. One official testitled that as far as he knew io action had been sidents of the wet a neglect by taken by the directors of the road to} {aquire Into the cause of the uccident at]! ‘Westport. “This seems very significant to me,” suid Lawyer Dougherty to-day. “The coroner who held the inquest rec- ommended @ criminal — invesigation, yet the directors concern themselves only with the financial end of the man- @mement, leaving tie actual operation te the heads of the various depart- menis. This point will be the subject of further rigid probing by the com- Mission. * The use of an old-fashioned wooden Pullman, in use twenty years, in which all the passengers killed met their deaths, is a point which Mr, Dougherty said he would challenge. This car weighed a bit more than halt the weight of the other Pullinans be- lind it and was entirely of wood, Vice-President H. J. Horn of the road was recalled to the stand to-day. Mr. Dougherty began by asking him why the railroad had not accepted the recom- mendation of the Commission after the Bridgeport wreck a year ago, which su- ested that all trains be brought to stop before every “cross-over’—that curving rails used to shift @ train from ‘one track to another. “Why hasn't your road acted upon this suggestion while it was discussing the adoption of some mechanical device te prevent accidents of this nature?” asked Mr, Dougherty. ‘We have been discussing it,” said Mr. Morn. “Why haven't you put a flagman at tthe cross-overs?” asked Mr. Dougherty. We have debated that question,” an- ewered Mr. Horn. “It does not seem @dvieable to some, for it may mean the transferring of one possibility of acol- ent to another, namely, that of @ train pped. The sik- nals, I think, ‘experienced engineer, knowing that he could be guided by additional signals, might run past the flagman.” “Why haven't you used the flagman @¢ your cross-overs, leading to the ac- ceptance of some mechanical device to stop trains that run past danger «is- “We've been discussing that,” said Mr. Horn, sharply. “Is it necessary for you to go Into a turmoll over jhat simple question? If you had accepted the recommendation of the Commission after the Bridgeport wreck, you would have saved the lives of twenty-five killed and over one hu dred injured since then by your road," {eterpolated Commissioner McChord, tioning that if the recomme: tion of the Interstate Commerce Commission that the “tron,” or switch, in “crow re” Rot be set to cro train from one track to another until the train came to a full stop, had been adopted, the accident at Westport could lave been avoid ougherty then took up t should BETTER THAN SOAP AND WATER FOR THE FACE “1 wes out for an all wald @ society were very dusty, man to her and appearan young women had known ef VELOGEN “Beauty's Guardian” have been saved many hours Velogen rubbed gently into £ with @ sof s ong outdoor smooth, soft fa for in collapsible tubi vices to prevent the t; Port and Bridgeport a “T spent @ great deal of time studying vie nd New York, “With other officials I paid much atten- tion xo (heir development, but our road did not think any of them met the re- quirements.” n't it true, Mr, Horn, that some m roads are using these devices! Yes, the Erie is experimenting on @ branch of thelr road, but they tell me they don't think it at present warrants Putting it over their entire s; id ‘The lawyer learned from Morn that the New Maven road had ne- Glected even to experiment with ary of the one hundred antomatio train safety devices in use on va- rious roads throughout the coun- ranite the great need for ench ce, try. e market seems worthy of filling the reqnirements of our ronda.” Mr. Horn was excused and Charles H. Morrison, the signal engineer of the tallroad, was called to the stand, Mor- rison sald the block system on the road was perfect at the time of the accident. As the actions of ‘he towerman were explained by Morrison, tt was demon- strated that all the rules of the road And all protective controls in use on the road were observed by the men at the levers In the tower houses, Engineer Flwell, acting for the Publie Utilities Commission of Connecticut, asked Morrison {f he could prove that the Signals for the second section of train for the first section when It approached the “cross-over.” “T can't prove that, for I don't know where the eng'neer first saw the sig- day's run in a} nals, but I do know that under the tn- erlockway system of the switches and @ signal must have shown on, after testifying that no sal device in his opinion would erted the Westport accident, admitted it “might have been pre- ‘8 were set at “Caution,” as they were | Kitchen and Starts Blaze in Chimney. The boiling over of a pot of melted fat in the kitchen of the St. Regis Hotel, at Fifth avenue and Fifty-fourth street, at about 9 o'clock to-day started a chim. ney fire which blackened the nelghbor- hood with clouds of oily smoke started a report that the hotel was burning down, The fire was easily put out dy city firemen and the employees of the hotel, and the actual damage was tho burning of @ hole from the ventilator shaft to the dynamo room on the nineteenth floor of the hotel and a smudging of some of the costly tapestries and rugs on the main floor and the eighteenth | and nineteenth floors of the hotel by) the particularly thick, sticky smoke. When the large grease pot botied over in the Kitchen, big sheets of tiames roared up to the hood of the ventilator which carries away hot alr and the odors of cooking from the ki'chen and) is fed by a swift fan. The caked grease in the ventilating chimmey caught fire and Instantly there was a roaring column of flames guttering up ninetec. stories through fire-bricked walls, and belching @ very volcano of smoke and sparks vented if @ rule existed requiring all trains to stop at ‘cross-overs,’ partic- ularly If supplemented by an auto- matic train stop.” Dourherty endeavored to asce-tain why the New Haven Road had not jopted any of the mechanical train on the murket, several belag -r use on the great roads of the country, Morriser #ald, in his opinion, they had mot heon proved reliable, He cited one test which had been tried on the State teland branch of the Baltimore and OF stating that 10 per cent. of the tests howe the device to be unreliable. perfect on 180 trials dui in November, 1911, on the same road, rison still insisted that he woul? not recommend this apparatus for use on @ railroad, ord adjourned the but sold that the mmerce Commission would investigation through James Joseph Broomley, A. F. S. Hawley, Duffy and F. -A, Howard, the inspectors In charge of the inquiry. tempesance. people emigrate. sumption of beer into the heavy overhung atmosphere of the morning. The cooks at once notified the office and word was sent to the engineer. He turned all the steam in his boilers into the perforated steel tube which was You can: buy cheaper ats, you can buy more expensive Hats, but you cannot buy better—or more stylish |Hats than OWN Rails Derbies and Soft tats, $3 & $4 As our Navy is a protection fr > _— aa ; f ) om the invasion of foreign foes, so is pure La pretection from the invasion of intemperance of our citizens. ‘The greatest hy ga Me can possess is temperance, which is the true safeguard of the happiness and welfare of the people. Pure Lager Beer, when made from hops and bariey, has been accepted by many of the world’s greatest schclars as a benefit to mankind and one of the most influential agents in behalf of true THE EVENING WORLD WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, Ipue in the chimney for just such an lene hotel affected had been asked by jemergency. The steam quickly equetched telephone to close thelr windows and t ‘ 1 the fre, but increased the density and hag been rei the quantity of the smoke, which feil immediate danger, the peop! [lke a black pall down toward the street |rooma crowded out to the ende of the level. People on the Fifty-fourth street /hall to watch the firemen with intense sidewalk were sure that the two upper stories of luxurious hotel were [without @ trace of fear. | doomed, The hotel has carefully arranged fire drill and all the men employed were e trailing hore to the corrdors on the Forty-fourth street side off all the floors —— of the hotel within three minutes after i + the first alarm was given. Pot of Fat Boils Over in Hotel| matas tett their work and marched to jetations with hand fire extinguishers in case sparks should enter windows, er lodge on casings. FIREMEN RUSH UP THE ELE- VATORS IN never saw cooler guests. After the oc- jcupants of every room in the parts of SQUADS, The city firemen went up the vators by squads, the hotel storerooms hi rushed upstairs, and quantities of it were shovelled into the smoking chim- ney and wet down from hose lines to choke down the smoke. A part of the overheated wall of the dynamo room next to the shaft was chopped away. 1912 terfoaliy. The fathe then calmed his wife ket to the grave, enthusiasm and curfosity but apparently CANDLES LIGHTING COFFIN OF BABY SET IT ABLAZE oe The boty of three-year-old Bugene Grant, who died on Monday, lay in the| front coom of @ dingy tenement at No. 2 New Bowery, to-day, with candies burning at head end feet. In a rear room the father an@ mother were weep- | ing over the final @rrangements for .| the funeral. m| Looking from her window, two etories ibove, Mra. Mary Monahan saw a wisp of emoke ourling from the window o} the Grant flat. She ran downstairs and cave the alarm of fire. Mrs, Grant rushed into the front room. The flame from the candle had caught on the cur- ain and the coffin was ablase. The little lace dress whiche Grant had wkimped to buy for the dead baby was afire too. ‘The mother grabbed the tiny body Chamber- of walt already been ut out the fire, A half hour later they were following the charred Standard foryeas onwit TELLER & Co. One Hundred Women’s Tailored Suits 3 ANNOUNCE FOR (TO-MORROW) THURSDAY An Extraordinary Sale of Expressly Made for This Sale at 28.00 Value 39.50 Cory of Bernard model reproduced in our own workrooms; made of wide wale brown. chevron in black, navy blue, gaupe and seal Cutaway model; collar, cuffs, button holes and back trimming of velvet. High bodice skirt trimmed with velvet to match coat. ' Lined with peau de cygne and warmly interlined. Fifth Avenue at 38th Street a Le i READ THESE EDITORIALS. 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