Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-16


 stsllation of signal equipment to safeguard the movement of trains According to a bulletin of the League for Public Safety in Chi cago the road which fails to in- stall proper signal equipment b January 1. 1912, will be subje to a penalty of Si.0O0 per week. The railroad commission Is given authority to extend the time for installation fl good reason appears and also to pass on the form of signals adopted. it being specified that 'any other form of block or other signaling system now or here after devised or used which shall reasonably Serve the safety of life and property" may be included une CT the statutory requirement. This advanced legislation may be ac- cepted as a model in other states and if it should be the steam and electric reads Of the United States would be compelled to invest some ss00,0e0.0O0 in signal apparatus
 The enormous savings to the rail roads resulting from properly safe guardea train movement as well as ihe public need for protection to
 life and property are the reasons which caused the Indiana legisla- fare Co enact this bill Copies of the measure will be put in .he hands of state officials together with the reasons why the measure should be generally adopted
 Faith in automatic methods of stopping rains when visual signals are disregarded, which by a claim Of unusual circumstances recently cost the life of Chicago signal expert, Harry H. Cade. at Batavia, N Y, has been justified by the coroneF's verdict regarding the wreck in which he was killed. The wreck was caused by the failure of a following train 10 obey signals % stop. the engineer having sud denly become i'll. MT Cade was among the killed He was then. returning to Chicago from Albany where he had urged the merits of the Collord-Rohe devices which he believed solved the problem of au- tomatic stops without the draw backs found in all which so lar have been reported on by the Block Signal & Train Control Board of the interstate commerce commission. That he should meet his death und CT circumstances which the equip ment he had recommended would have prevented was made doubly unusual by the coroner's verdict which recognized :he same public need. It declared: "As 10 the means to be employed by the rail road company to prevent the pos sibility of the recurrence of such an accident l recommend the ena- ployment, if such be practicable and safe. of a system by which a train can be automatically stopped in the event of the failure of the to observe a signal set against him" The equipment ap proved by Cade included track trips which. regardless of weather conditions in case of need produce service braking of the passing train avoiding the dangerous emergen- cy stop, but accomplishing ne purpose in a simple, direct way. It also protects switches opening from main tracks and registers in the engine cab. for the enPineman information on the blackest night, the location of the train
 The rapaeity of the loan shark of Chicago and Illinois will be curbed by bill now pending in the legislature which has the en- worsement of the Legal Aid society and several clubs and commercial organizatIonsI Persistent warfare has resulted in pulling the faugs of the money loaners, who a few years ago. openly and even now in SC. cret, levy a tribute of 30 and 40 per cent on their victims. On investigation has shown that some S25,00O,O00 is invested in the 1oan shark business, of which ss,5OO.O00 is employed by 125 offices in Chi. cago, according to the repors made to the Russell Sage Foundation That report gave instances where the extra fees, brokerage, protest fees and collection charges added to the interest charges made the total rate paid. as high as 173I per cent per annum. Other instances were found where men and women had been paying for years On a debt of this kind, and then owned sev- eral times as much as the original principal The Madoc bill fixes maximum of 9 per cent per month which may be charged for loans upon household goods. wearing ap- parel. or mechanics tools, and 1 per cent for the assignment of wages A limit of s1.O00 is placed upon any loan in this classification. It was drawn by the committee which included George P. High, rep resenting the Industrial club; RI V Wellington, the Legal Aid so-