The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-17
THE RUTLAND DAILY GLOBE MORNING. JUNE H. 1873

desk, and he is a better Judge of horse than
of birthstone. The affair last Sunday
was scandalous. The pcw-holdcrs were
crowded out and the mob was crowded in
One elderly woman suppose he, she or
1t was o woman -straddled over the tops of
the seats to her little pew, which place the
other part of her had succeeded in reaching
before the pressure became SO intense If
these people had been less nggardly they
would have seen more worthy and greater
curiositics when Barnum was here than the
man Beecher Is o, for little more man
and much less nabob in the average Ameri-
can
In view of the many accidents which oc-
cur to railroad trains that would have been
avoided could the trains have been stopped
in few seconds less time, and few feet
less space, il is refreshing to know that
perfection in the matter of car brakes is
nearly reached The improved Westing-
house appears to lead, as was evidenced in
II trial between that and the Vacuum brake
on Wednesday last which took place on
the Boston and Maine Railroad, between
Reading and Lawrence. The first trials
were between the old Westinghouse and
the Vacuum in which the Vacuum gained
decided advantage, but most signally lost
it when the improved Westinghouse was
put to the test The two trains consisted
of nine passenger cars and locomotive
each, and upon the first trial were running
at a speed of % 2-10 miles when the brakes
were applied; the improved Westinghouse
stopped in thirteen and one-half seconds,
which was nine seconds less time, and 3l5
feet less distance then required by the
Vacuum. Another trial was had under the
same circumstances, except that the trains
were run at the rate of 30 ITO miles an
hour, the result being that the Wcsting-
house was stopped in twenty seconds, being
an advantage of six seconds less time and
265 feet less space over the Vacuum. The
last named train was now entirely with
drawn and the Westinghouse train made
further experiments, one of which was to
attain a high rate of speed and then dctach
the locomotive, when the nine cars were
stopped by applying the automatic arrange
mcnt from the inside of the cars in II dis
lance of about 300 feet. -Four cars were
next brought TO stand-still at the end of
$50 feet. The experiments were witnessed
by representatives of at least ten different
roads, besides the members of the Master
Car Builders Association, holding its
seventh annual convention in this city. 1t
is unnecessary to speak of the importance
of providing all railroad trains with the
most complete and approved apparatus for
quick stoppagc, and public sentiment
should assume that shape that all railroad
managers will feel compelled to adopt
every contrivancc possible for the saving
of human life. With the utmost care. ac
cidents will happen, hut willful murder is
ineXcusabe
"A great inconvenience now existing in
Boston is the nuisance that travellers from
the South and West find in changing cars
for the North and East. There is now Il
good prospect that this will soon be done
away with, as the New York and New
England road is making arrangements by
which cars from its depot at the foot of
Summer street can be run over the Mar
ginal road to the various depots on Cause
way street This will be great saving of
time troul1a and nxnonpn O., +l,o .I,.a,,..I,
travel, and it is quite probable that the
Boston and Albany road will lool. out for
the interests of their patrons in the same
direction. The great need of Boston is an
immense union depot at the west of the
city, into which all trains may run, and
from which lines of horse-cars shall diyerge
into all parts of the city. 1t is strange that
MIR. Quincy mas not suggested this idea.
No steam railroad ought to be permitted to
enter the limits of such n city as Boston,
and especially to cross streets at grade
should be made a crime.
The longest session of the Legislature of
this State, with two exceptions, ever held.
is the one just closed. The members con-
graduate themselves upon the large amount
of work which they have performed and
the uncxceptional manner of its accom-
plishment, which is just what every pre-
vious Legislature has done. The people
feel sense of more than ordinary satisfac-
ton that it is not any worse than it is, and
wonder if there is not any better use to
which 400 men can be put than to stock
chin-music mill with them