New-York tribune., 1871-09-02

tains person: and vGSndnf 9S. fso.oSmodasioSn %aSS
impro%smsn n,r hence their and Che loss Of
life they had been equipped with the Miller . p%Sd
hs1e been driven ahead few hundred feet and per P
hsps injured 70 some extent but peyGna ans nossSy
some broken limbs there would have been only COZ
son % record with unmportan S1 or
engineers, but such men are to be found
it Is all the more important that the MANAGERS ngnce
that will contribute to the safety Of the PassengeI no
matter how intelligent or careful conductors or
As the general public may not know what Miller
platform, automatic coupler, and compression DIer
may be, will endeavOr to describe It, IL conssts o
platform brought up level with the floor OF the car
by means of tmbers Of the same size as the % OF
sion buffer is placed The bnerhead h circular dug due
on the inner end of which placed an vouts
steel spring which receives the blow OF COLLISION anu,
being easc retreats congresses sufficiently 10 Dreax
It's force, and thus the from destruction Inc
coupler another device in the improvement 70 preven
the swayng oscillation common In cars wnen Deng
driven az high speed This coupler s also armed on S
inner end with yolute spring. Its outer end being noon %
shaped, that when two cars come togetner tney WIN
connect BY this arrangement Of the coupler the cars
brought closer together and almost made !f
uOus car that there cannot be that sliding ana shI
ing about on track so common oldstye coupling 49,
More than 50 roads in the country are now using TINS
Improvement, and wherever collision occurs on tnen
no teescOpng Ia heard Of and consequently no loss 0i
life from that cause. One OF the most npSttans rs
i sdopton-eher from inability or BELIEF In US non
ecienoyyet this road carries thousands OF passengers
daily TO and from this city Is not criminal to tribe
with the lives of people, when BY the timely adoption 81
an Improvement disastrous calamity may be aVertedI
In the event Of such catastrophe occurring on tms
road happened Boston on SATURDAY, would & no.
It's officers be held to strict accountability Wou,d @
they not indctabe-particularly as they nave had
this great preventive OF disaster brought TO their pecai
noticei - - q,
The Railway Commissioner OF Massachusetts, {; r.
Adams tr ESQ., has called the attention OF the Legisa
ure OF that State the importance OF this Improvement
and has urged the passage OF law compelling railway
companies attach it to their cars Other states are
waking up the subject and already 1t Is In cOnte-
plation TO introduce bills making 1t penal 0nense 70
run cars without such Improvement being attached inc
writer Of this communication has no pecuniary interest
In the "Miller" Improvement He is prompted Dy mo-
tyes OF humanity 10 call the attention Of the public TO
It, in the hope that by agitation Of the subject rail-
road companies will be compelled TO apply the remedy
preventing the elescOpng Of cars whenever cosl0n
occurs That collisions Will occur there ID no douDt Ih-
deed there Is no way by which they can be absolutely
prevented but there s whlch great lOss OF ne
can be prevented when they do and this should e
made known through the columns OF your influential
and widely circulated paper. Er