Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-24
PRESIDENT NEWMAN OF ROAD
ON WHICH ILL-FATED FLYER u,
WAS WRECKED ISSUES
EDIcT.
RUMOR SAYS A BOY
CAUSED THE WRECK

T'oHi 1sue DSrditiH9 OF tne tWentlotn
Century Limited at Mentor, Ohio,
Wednesday Night.
New York, June 23-There will be !,
no more eighteen hour trains between
New York and Chicago over the New
York Central Railroad. This was
decided yesterday afternoon at
conference held at the office
OF President William H. New
man of the New York Central and
Lake Shore roads. with the heads Of
the operating departments. President
Newman has not been a believer in
the necessity of the eighteen hour
trains, although the heads of the oper-
ating departments, in Guiding such old
railroad men as General Manager Brad
field and General Superintendent A. H.
Smith, told him In their opinion that
the schedule was safe one President
Newman declared twenty hour
schedule was fast enough. AS result
sued last evening, abandoning the
eighteen hour schedule that was nut
in force last Sunday.
| New fofk, June 22-To the Press
and the Public: Since the sad acci-
dent which happened on the Lake
4 Shore have had consultation with
4 the operating officials. who have ex-
4 planned that the accident was caused
by a misplaced switch and not due to
the speed Of the train. They assure
me the present schedule can be safely
1 and easily maintained. While I agree
4 with the operating officials that there
4 is no physical reason why the schedule
should not be continued. nevertheless
u In my Judgment the time of the
q Twentieth Century Limited should he
restored to twenty hours, and 1t will
q be done at once w. II. Newman.
i President N. Y. G. and L. s.
I. P. S.-Until the new schedule can
be arranged the Twentieth Century
Limited will leave New York a. $3.50
m .and Chicago at 2:30 p. M, as at
present, but running on twenty hour
schedule arriving at both terminals
4 two hours later than now.
!. Too Fast, Says Newman.
The last Of the eighteen hour trains,
therefore, are now ol route. The train
that left here yesterday had forty-fve
passengers, almost its full complement
from here Before the conference
! President Newman said he always
: had been opposed to running SO fast a
Y train
! II felt from the beginning" he said.
that slower train, as slow as the
trains we ran until lately, would be
more comfortable for the passengers
and give equal satisfaction. The
q faster the train, you know, the more
liable the passengers are to be Jared
q and bounced about. What we learned.
a however, was that the passengers saw
: -l,,N 80, 20
! twenty hour train and the speed of an
!. eighteen hour train. They were salts.
fed with this high speed train.
"Of course we felt that the new
fast train was JUS. as safe as the
. slower one. or we never would have
= put it in commission. Moreover, the
. time Of the Twentieth Century Lin
tied on our tracks between New York
and Buffalo has been no faster than
: the time of the other fast trains which
we operate.
Modern Trains Too Fast.
"Most modern trains, believe. are
running too fast. You will find II
you inquire that nearly all railroad
men are opposed to them. At the
]. same time fast train is not necessa
rily dangerous. Such train, proper
ly uduuleu, lS every DlC DIS SdIS dS
fslower train can be. We satisfied our
selves that the Twentieth Century
would be as safe to travel on as tn.
A. slower trains. or we never would have
w inaugurated such a service. 1t seemed
If to give satisfaction to the travelling
I public. too. as far as can learn" +.
10 The New York Central 1t is learned
le cut two hours off its schedule only be
m cause of the Pennsylvania's eighteen
ID hour train. In cutting two hours of
the twentyfour hour schedule the op
orators took one hour and fifty minute
~ off on the Lake Shore where the acci
-, dent hapepned. The other twenty min
=. - utes were taken off between Buffal,
~ and Albany.
Pennsylvania Keeps Eighteen Hours
lie Philadelphia, Pa, June 23-Th
On Pennsylvania railroad has not We
he consented to take off its eighteen hou
NJ train to Chicago. At conference 0
". the officials at President Cassat's offic
m yesterday the New York Centra
he wreck was discussed, but no actor
he was taken by the road, nor is an
go likely to be.
sr- THE matter of annulling the eigf
teen hour schedule has not been cor
sidered as yet" said Charles N
Schaeffer, superintendent of passenge
IN transportation. .The twenty hou
,e, schedule may not be returned to, but
he 5-
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