New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-31
TO HAVE NO " THRILL"
1T HAS BEEN DECIDED NOT TO HAVE A
MADE-TO-ORDER COLLISION.
THE EXPERIMENT THOUGHT TO BE TOO Cosrhf
AS WELL AS TOO DANGEROUS. EVEN

THE EXPERIMENT THOUGHT TO BE TOO COSTLY
As WELL AS TOO DANGEROUS. EVEN
FOR coNEY ISLAND
The sensational project of having pair OF loco
motives run into each other at Brighton Beach as
recently announced. appears to have cohapseo
II was decided that crash should take place
on a siding back Of the Brighton Beach Hotel.
where the summer visitors could see the smash-
up in comfort from the piazzas and feel the cohse
quent thrill that such wreck ordinarily produces
Dummy engineers and fremen were built to order
and the regular engineers and hremen were drilled
when 10 lump or as the locomotives raced toward
each other on the foot track. The calculation
was that they would cone together with speed
of forty miles an hour. and the finale was expected
to be one of the most thrilling scenes that even
Coney Island ever witnessed.
The eager promoters figured on an audience OF
at least 10000. and thought that it might possibly
reach 10000 The question of how this vast crowd
was going TO be accommodated became a serious
question in the minds Of the Brighton Beach hotel
and railroad people They fixed the admission az
81 head.
August was set for the proposed thrill; the
final preparations were made ana the following
prospectus issued
The written history OF each Of the two thirty i've
ton locomotives 10 be used In the rais oad w h
prepared by the master mechanic OF ne road;
showing the exact number OF miles each engine ,sne
facts will be embodied In neat souvenir TO be
distributed TO those who attend the exhibition n
strange feature Of these facts is that neither one
OF the locomotives which now In active service
and will until the day Of the collision has ever
been in n collision serious accident or any KIND
Work is progressing on the track 10 pc useu;
which will be newly ballasted and put In good
order. l.. MARSTON. General Manager;
At the office Of the Brighton Beach Railroad Com
pany could be learned about the affair yester-
day and It was said that the crash was being en-
glneered by Henry c Murphy Of the Brighton I'm
provement Company When asked about 1t he
drew a long sigh and said 1t had been decided to
abandon the collision, as being too dangerous and
too costly well. The cost Of preparation would
be heavy and then II would be all over in second
and there could he second days performance.
Then there might be hitch; either engine might
take Il Its cylinder head not to start on time.
and then the other would run through the
kicker and smash. perhaps. into the gashouse, and
start an explosion that would blow every mosquito
out OF Jamaica Bay marshes Inc thing was not
to be thought of after serious consideration. Then,
again. II the boilers should explode there was no
telling what damage might be done TO several
thousands of people who would throng the beach
to see the grand smash. The experiment might do
out West. but 1t far too risky even for Coney
Island.
Colonel Langford of the Brighton Beach Rail-
road said it had been decided not TO give the eX-
hbiton.