The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-05
SAFETY APPLIANCE
 IS DEMONSTRATED Railroad Men Are Impressed
 With Invention ANOTHER FATAL WRECK Engineer Fincher Killed in Freight Wreck on Western of Alabama.
 Enthusiasm In Barge
 Line Project
FATAL WRECK

Montgomery, August 4.-(Special. )-Rail- road men and others who saw demonstra- tions of the Andrew safety appliance to- day. express the most enthusiastic be- lief in it's efficacy to prevent accidents of all kinds that result from derailment of rolling stock on rail lines An engine. tender and coach were sent out over piece of private track and derailed with out injury to equipment or marked de- lay as to time.
 J. T. Andrew, the inventor, has with him Karl Kennedy, engineer. member of the Brotherhood of Engineers, and Will liam Morris, white fireman, also broth- erhood man. He is assisted by B. Lee Smith of Atlanta, a former member of the council of his city, and very much Der of the crew, including negro utility man, stays on the train during the demop- strations
 The train which was equipped In Att lanta. and brought over to Montgomery early in the week. has a standard engine and tender and a coach. These are used In the experiment First the train was derailed by taking off the f1shplates at joint and separating the ends of the rails leaving space of about 10 incnes. When the point was reached the main wheels dropped off but the auxiliary wheels inside and out of the main one' caught the weight and applied the air, the train stopping safely within 50 feet.
 In the second test derailing frog is used. These are made to wreck trains when running away or beyond control, and have in view the certainty of throw ing the wheels from the tracks. When the Andrew train struck the frog 1t took the grooves as expected but only to the point of dropping from the raiis' where the emergency wheels caught and helo the train upright and safely in hano. in other words, according to men who kno" of such things, the experiments snow that the appliance is ablc to prevent all such wracks as follow derailment and broken rails.
 If Is said that railroad men though back ward just now, fully understand the good of the invention. One of them stated that if it had been on the Louisville and Nashville flyer Sunday night the wreck In which Engineer OiOlnS Wdo hiiiOo "oN'N never have taken place; also that IL would have prevented the recent smasnup at Murder Creek, few miles south Of the city, when a whole freight train went through a trestle and blockaded traffic for two days. The experiments are to be kept up here some days, after wnicn the train will be sent back to Atlanta for 5o,,or ratratiopa there.
 MT. Andrew proposes to manufacture the appliance here and in Atlanta, having factories in both cities. He intends 10 get his money out of royalties, charging so much for equipping the cars. The entire cost of car Is small. compared to the advantages, 1t Is argued. What the loss of one freight train would cost would equip a system" stated one of the narties interested As many Montgom- cry people are interested largely. the demonstrations are attracting large crowds out to the tracks of the Bipee F Fertilizer plant, where demonstrators are being made.