The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-02-02
THIRD MAN
ON ENGINES
Senator Hudspeth Will In
broduce' a Bill in the
Legislature Tonight
RAILROAD MEN FAVOR IT
The Object of the Measure Is
to Prevent Recurrence
Of Westheid Horror
RAILROAD MEN FAVOR IT

Senator Robert S. Hudspeth will to-
night introduce bill in the Legislature
to compel railroads to put a third man ON
all locomotives of the Wooten frehox or
mogul type drawing passenger trains, and
thereby put a stop to further disasters
like that at West6eld.
The third man is to be an assistant to
the engineer, to ride in the cab with him.
to be able tosdiscern signals and to stop
a locomotive in case the engineer for any
reason lis not at his post.
My bill is ready, and | will introduce
It at Trenton tonight said Senator Hud-
speth Il am confident it will go through.
l have talked with some of the Senators
and Assemblymen, and from what they
say | am led to believe that | shall re-
ceive their support.
Every one the twelve Assemblymen in
Huoson County has promised their sup
port to it and say that they have assur-
anees from Assemblymen of other count
les that the bill viii be supported.
RAILROAD MEN FAVOR 1T.
In different parts of Hudson County
Sunday, engineers, firemen and trainmen
held MEETINGS and appaointed committees
to go to Trenton tonight in the interest
of their" bill, as they call it. Congress-
man Allan Benny, who, when in the
House of Assembly, made a fight at
two sessions for such law as is now
demanded. said:
Why, sir, $4,000 railroad employees
in the State beseeched the legislator to
pass the law Now they are $4,000
strong and they want it more than ever.
s In 1900, when it was defeated for the
second time, they aid to me. Well
wait until the comnlexion of the Legisla-
ture changes and then maybe NE will be
able 70 get what the railroads don't
wan
IT was a hopeless light then, but now
that the warning that railroad men gave
and that / tried, to the best of my abil-
ity, to voice for them, has come true, per-
liaps the Legislature will do something;
perhaps the sacrifice of twenty-one lives
and the breaking and bruising of thirty
others, will appeal to the men who cem-
pose it; perhaps they will now think of
the dangers that were pointed out to
them as lying in the practise of manning
those high speed s'hog backs with only
one engineer and fireman. Providential
interference and nothing else, believe,
prevents daily occurrences Of Westfeld
wrecks.
.'Only the railroads and the railroad
men and | know what a better fight we
made for the bill that would have made
the Westield wreck impossible so far as
the cause that led to it is concerned, and
! may say, taking into consideration all
the other precautions for safety that ex-
isted, that would have made it impossible
altogether.
Il say pass a bill, make a law that will
prevent in the future such disasters as
that at Westfeld Other States-Mas-
sachusetts and Ohio-haye statutes pro-
yiding for the proper manning of ioco-
motives and trains, and why shouldn't
this one? Now is. the time to strike in
favor of such a measure, and trust that
''The Evening World keeps at it until
it shas forced the adoption of a suitable
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