The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-14
ROADS OLDEST
 ENGINEER DIES
EDWIN CIIATTERTON, ON TRAINS SINCE 1852, SUCCUMBS TO
 HEART FAILURE.
PENsIoNED SINCE 1903.
Last Charter Member of New Haven Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
 sgineers Passes Away.

New Haven, Nov. 14-Edwin Chat
 terton, the oldest engineer on the
 New Haven railroad system, and the last surviving charter member of the
 New Haven Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers, died suddenly late
 yesterday afternoon at the age of 76
 years. at his residence, 37O Crown St.. from heart failure. t'
 MT. Chatterton was born in this
 city. He came from an old New Ha- ven family, and his work in connec-
 tion with the New Haven railroad
 constitutes an interesting factor in
 the development of this road. In fact
 ago considered of such value, that
 when he was finally unable to per
 form railroad duty he was placed on
 the pension list, where he remained
 until the time of his death.
 As locomotive engineer he was who pulled the throttle out of the
 Union station here. He was one of the landmarks in locomotive work in this city (which is a headquarters of locomotive engineers, and at the last annual meeting of the New Haven the story of his railroad life on the New Haven system, with which hes had always been, connected. In fact Mir. Chatterton's life in active rail- reading connects the time rail- roadihg with the new.
 Two features stood out prominently in the life of this veteran engine drivers story. One was his introduce tion to President Grant and the other the terrible wreck on the bridge at South Norwalk, in which AT. persons lost their lives, swhen as east bound passenger train went through an open draw into the river.
 He went to work for the New Ha- ven railroad in 1852 as a locomotive fireman when wood instead of coal had to be thrown into the fire boxes of the locomotives, His work covered the old Canal road, the Hartford and the Shore Line divisions, none of which had been amalgamated at that time. He was the first man to run an engine from New Haven into Northampton over the Canal road, and in the western end of the system for many years he ran the morning express train out of this city to New York-the train familiarly known now as the ss.eight o'clock"
 MT. Chatterton was the engineer on the train which was to meet the pl- fated train in the South Norwalk ac- cident fatality. By holding his train. which was west bound, he prevented It IrOIn lIllO LuS fOtHST WHICH had been swallowed up in the Nor walk river. He was the engineer who pulled the state militia down to Charles Island when New York prize i fighters had taken chargeS of that island and were pulling off. a mill i there, terrorizing the people. He adapted the first Westinghouse air brake on the New Haven system; he | was stalled at one time for six days | in the snow banks of the upper end of the Canal Road at Westfeld, and | he was handed cigar and compile | ment by President Grant, whom he | took from New York to Boston after | the Civil War.
 In 1884 he was made engine des- | patcher. of the New Haven round | house by ex-Master Mechanic John Henney,s and he served in that posi- ton for 19 years, when he was finally | retired in 1903 on pension.
 MT. Chatterton's death, resulted i from heart failure. He had just arr rived at his home on Crown street, | at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when he was seized with an attack of i syncope and \ died very shortly after.
 He is survived by two children, Mrs. E. F. Schroeder, the wife of the well-kHown member of the firm of f McGusker & Schroeder, and by the widow of General George M. Harmon.
 There will be a large attendance of men at his funeral.