Connecticut western news., 1878-01-24

II enemies to the present management of the | Conn. Western road, there can be no doubt, | Tor the reports sent to that journal bear | positive evid ,nce of it. In its last Fridays | issue, that journals report is especially but ter, and is also in many of it's statements saocking'y incorrect. We quote 6 para
 graph which even an obtuse observer can plainly see was written under the lnfuencr of those who want the present management censured snd cursed, no matter whether 1t deserves to be or not. It says: Superintendent Jones, to whom is as- cIloed the blame for the disaster, was on the ground during the day, but pad little attention to the work of the wreckers. In. deed the apathy of the Connecticut West trn officials concerning this whole mishsp
 has been suject of remark among the suf-
 terers and their friends, who declare thai "utslders have thus far done most of the
 work. One cause of this apparent apathy is doubtless due to a lack ot funds on the
 part ot the unlucky railroad, whose finan- claI affairs are in frightful state of chaos.
 It has been suggested that some of the
 drcapltated officials of this road who reside
 off Hartford way. and who are
 u ,turally disgruntled at the conclusion
 recently arrived at bv the bondholders, that
 they had s'outlived thelr uset olness," have
 had an abundance of time. and have indus
 triously improved this time to doctor" the
 minds Of newspaper reporters. preparatory
 to their entering upon their dutles of writ
 ing up an ''unprejudi5ed, unbiased and fair
 statement of facts ss they exist" but for
 the truth of this we cannot vouch. yet the
 closing sentence of the above quotation
 from the Tribune, viz, "whose financial
 affairs are in frightful state of chaos" is
 very strong evidence that the suggestion
 may be correct, for statement substan-
 ,ially the same iu purport cane to our ears some time before this disaster. and came in
 such a way that we have no doubt of its
 origin, and of the motive that put it in cir
 culation, and that it is more malicious than
 correct must be apparent. for who will be-
 lieve that the present officers of the Conn. Western road, and who are men ot &C.,
 knowledged business skill and ability, have
 not, and cannot manage the common busi- ness affairs of a railroad. which are no
 more complex than those of the larger mercantile and manufacturing concerns of which the country is full. This appears to
 us much like many young clerks in country stores. (aud the number is not smalD who . get an ill pression that their services are es- pecially valuable to their employers, and
 that it would be difficult matter to fill thelr places; in fact, would be almost CA
 lamity to the business to have them dis |. charged, but who, when change does oc- cur, are astonished to see the large con- . cerns move right along with as much sys- , tenn and regularity as before, and as far as - appearances would indicate, 1t would prob ably make but very little difference in the
 atf airs of the greet mercantile world if they n had never lived to beautifv and adorn the
 earth, and 80 it is in this matter: The idea i. that only one set of men in thls region can run railroad is simply bosh, and because n terrible accident has occurred at Tariff lville. is no reason whatever for an opinion contrary to the above. But what caused il tends to know positively but tue Tribune. il which says; .... .. ..-....-.. v There is scarcely DO doubt that the theo : ]. " of the accioent, as published in The Tri-
 buae to-day. is the true one. There are
 only two ways of putting quart of beer II jtntO a ptEsv uUF. 3y Fuyeiag ss-ss end hufsl- ing the cup. or by dividlrg It and putting in o pint at a time. Superintendent .Ones e chose the former alternative and suffered s' the natural cons quence.
 Had the Tribune stopped long enough C before touching off its gun, to ask: If two = engines and heavy train were ever before 0 on this bridge. 1t perhaps would not have koown so surely the exact cause of the sc q cidpnt as it now seems to. The best rail- :. road men and experts at bridge building ip l. the country visited and thoroughly inspect-
 ed this bridge and the wreck last Thursday,
 and they are not at all positive ip their ,. knowledge of the actual cause of the bridge - breaking as it did.
 if Ever since the Conn. Western railroad If has been opened for traffic. it has been IF common to send two locomotives in front
 of train across this bridge, and it has been done as frequently as the officers of the road have desired, ,or have had any inclination to n do so, and the trains have been heavy trains .. and in two or three instances to our certain !. knowledge, have been long excursion trains . out of Hartford, and the cars were loaded h AS heavily as they could be, and those ot
 last week could not have been more so. No e longer than a year ago last fa ], while . the road was under the contro! and man
 agemept of the old officers, some enormous II castings were receiYed and transported oyer '. th,s road, which other roads would not re ?. celve as freight, so great was the weight. F. and which was in ao small compass. Tnese 70 Castings came from off Poughkeepsie way, # and weighed between eighty and ninety o tons! They were loaded on three fit cars, and part of each load reached
 across on to ils ueighooring car in such 2
 way that all three Cars had 10 be drawn
 close together. Here were almost ninety F tons conce ntrated into length no greater
 than that of two locomotives. for three .. open freight cars are no longer than the TWO locomotives which were in the acci 10 dent at Tar,ffyille. and not only was this
 enormous weight on this same bridge, but the o heavy freight ruin of which these Cars were 70 only part, and the heavy freight locomo- s live drawing it all. With these three Cars
 of castings and the other ears and it's loco- Ia motive, the bridge holding all of them that 10 would reach across it, contained, at the d least possible estimate, twenty tons more ,. than was on it at the time of the accident,