Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-21
I'D ROOSEVELT
MEAN THIS MAN?
ice Predicted That American
Would Produce Device TO
Prevent Wrecks.
AWHILE ENGINEER DOES IT
svlcc Whistle "Dnngc." in the Cab
And Stops Train ~ Signals
Arc Not Needed

Ct Especial Correspondence
=, Danvilio. H.. May 16--Rcprcseuta-
y, YES of important interests have been
n Danville the last few days invest.-
ic ting the merits Of "a device Co stop
y, s. OF life and property ON railroads.
h. 18th much secrecy but with great de-
4 - tests were made some months ago
r a device which is as absolute in IFS
~ 1rking as the airbrakc. Negotiations
r the control Of the device have boon
nding at different times and repre-
u natives OF Pittsburg New York.
ansas city and other interests have
AIDE unsuccessful attempts to secure
ie control
Unusual interest manifested az the
ttent office in Washington concerning
!, ais new automatic signal which nll
= gree will reduce greatly the growing
:, tcriice Of life and property on Amer
= an railroads is because no less "a per-
+ image than Theodore Roosevelt in a
u iessage 20 Congress in the spring oi
i lO7 following the Terra Gotta disastct
ear Washington. demanded an audible
q gnal in the cab Of the locomotive, one
!. nat n not needed. would cause the
4 utomatic stopping OF the train
DEVICE IS GREAT SECRET.
t, President Roosevelt at that time said
!, g felt sure that American ingenuity
!, you'd produce such a device Shortly
a fter these remarks. the patent Office
Washington granted patents To- i
r ~ Colard fellow-townsma Of
/ peakcr cannon, and "a locomotive en-
I ineer. for device which practically
lures human fallibility so far as u re-
1tes to the main dangers In the oper-
itiOn Of railroads.
owing to the secrecy which has been
brown about the tests Of the device
nv details can be secured but the
eople who are investigating the mat
er have made sufficient progress 10
promise public tests within very snort
lime IN passenger trains ana electric
ars which viii be run az tuh speed %
yards open switches and stopped with
Tut shock but effectively by the Collard
ignal.
ABSOLUTE PROJECTIONS
II has been learned. however. that
he device absolutely protects against
bpcn switches. misplaced signals or
he ignoring Of signals by engineers
rhe device consists ~ distractions call
"A trips placed ON the ties outside ~
he rail la such position that they an"
,aught by trigger ON the locomotive.
when the trigger touches the trip 10
,ounds a whistle In the cab and also
brings the train to a standsth regard
ess Of the action OF the engineer. These
rack projections or trips are either
permanent, movable or portable inc
movable ones are connected with the
block signal system or switches. II "a
switch Is open a trip Is automatically
set to stop the locomotive and this ls
accomplished long before the locoWo-
tive reaches the switch or point Of dan
ger.
The same thing Is true when a sig-
nal Is set against train. Unless the
track j. cleared and the proper go
ahead signal shown, the trip remains
in a position to engage the trigger on
the locomotive thus stopping the train.
portable trims may be carried hv fag
men Of all trains. They weigh 10 to IL
rounds each and can be put In posi-
tion to absolutely stop following tram
regardless of everything. In fog or bnd
weather. engineers run by hags OF SIG
nails and many OF the most disastrous
collisions have been due 90 this cause.
This new device is neither electrical
nor OF a character which viii easily
get out OF order II viii work when
ever the air-brake Of train works
LONG DEATH ROLL
The neople interested who are here
now believe that n viii solve the uuce-
ton OF the terrible loss of life, limb.
and property which is ever increasing
on the American railroads. For th
first 10 years that the Interstate com
n,erce commission collected facts about
railroad accidents. nearly 5000 passen-
Pors and over 4NO0 employees were XIII
cd IN the same length NJ time over
ON OO0 were crippled scllded or iu-
valided Terrinc as this 49, 70 is only
cmnhasized hv the epct that tho danger
80 railroad travel doubled I'm 1905 1vcr
1Sq5 or on increase of 10 per cont
year. SUBSEQUENT years are also show
ing on increase
"a. fl HnrHnfHf4Hts Cd
rget In railroad travel ir tho Unltnl
states as compared with foreign cour-
tries that an organized effort q" I'm
f,~ove conditions is being 1eit9t'l
-rhoso IN favor ~ now legislation 1lo7"
this line cite q table prepared hv cav
roll W Doton ~ tho Nasso"h"1ett- l0-
atitnte Of terhpologv. That table shows
that per OO0 o0o 0'esenrers carried ~
railroads ia five dinarout fprp'op Corr-
tries and in tho limited Statos tho num-
he~ killed in 1903 by accidents was rs
fOlows.
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