The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-06
ENGINEER MILLER
 SAYS HE DID TWO MEMS WORK
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 day, at 12:3O noon, went to sleep, got up at 4:30 p. m., and went to Stam- ford to take my train to Springfield I left there at o'clock. When I got to Springfield I thought I was through for the night understood that the man whose run SWas doing expec+eI to report that night. But he was sick and didn't show up so they ask ed me to cover his job again. They were short on account of Labor Day traffic. They thought I could do it and this is where we are.'
 Then, a week previous to this wreck you were doing two mems work?'' ask ed Chief Inspector Re1nap, examiner for the commission. "Yes sir,'' said Miller
 General Manager c. L. Bardo, of the New Haven, the next witness, was sUbje ected to a searching examina ton on trainmen's rules and the manner of their observance. He insisted that since he became general manage, a year ago, he had at various meetings of bis foremen, urged upon them the importance of safety.
 Nearly seven million dollars have been spent by the New Haven in the fnstallat tion of modern, automatic sig nals. steel cars and other safety i'm provements, MT. Bardo testified, since September 1911. These expenditures had been made in accordance with a resolution of the New Haven execu- tive committee adopted in October, 1912, 10 days after the Westport wreck. The minutes of the committee pro duced after request by MT. McChord, showed that a resolution had been adopted ito cause the most searching investigation to be made into the com potency of the engineers employed and that there shall be nothing lett un- done which will conduce to greater safety in the operation of the railroad and that there shall be no limitation placed on the installation of sh7nals, safety appliances or anything that will improve the safety of the passen- ger travel upon this company's lines.
 The late J. P. Morgan and William Rockefeller were among those present at the meeting It was also voted at the meeting that the policy of the company is that all passenger equip ment purchased in the future should be of the all steel type"
 Questioned on the spacing of trains, MT. Bardo was asked by Commissioner McChord, if the New Haven wouldn't in the future, space it's trains at long CT intervals.
 q am perfectly willing to do any thing we can do looking to safety, time system. The mere spacing of trains does not prevent a wreck
 But the wreck would not have hap pened if the trains had been 16 min utes apart instead of B. said the com missioner.
 .I wouldn't be sure about that re- piled the witness. Whatever the space may be between trains it may be used up. Long spacing, in my opin- ion tenpts the engineer and tratnmen to be less careful
 The New Haven road has under or RI,TY comm to New York, costing $15,O0o each, according to the evidence adduc- ed by Commissioner McChord from General Passenger Agent A. B. Smith. These cars are to bring rental of $4, 600 a year from clubs using them, in addition to the regular fares charg- ed These cars will take the p1ace of wooden club cars now getting a rent of $3, 900 a year.
 EsThese cars,'' saiqd MT. Smith, grew out of a desire of a number of young men commuters on our lines to have a car where they could visit with each other and play cards"
 tfIs the general public allowed to ride on them?'' asked Commissioner McChord. NO sir.''
 The commissioner wanted to know whether the new orders for cars had been given prefer ence over the orders for other steel cars This Supt G. w.
  ment, denied, saying that the order was given, last May, for delivery Jan uary l. Steel cars for the regular pas senger service are being delivered now at the rate of 12 a month, it was brought out.
 General Manager Richmond Dean, of the Pullman Co.,, testified that of 216 Pullman cars used by the New Haven 1O3 were steel or stee underframe- Of the 5.953 Pu1lmans in use throughout the country, 1882 are all steel and 404 steel underframe Or a total of 3s.4 per cent not all wood, he said. This com pared, he pointed out, with 43.2 per cent not all wood on the New Haven.
 Dean said that at present the Pull man company was building nothing else but steel or steel .underframe. had FPS all. steel under order and 27 steel underframe. Within the last year. the company butt 360 all steel, 150 steel underframe and 53 wooden cars.
 The Pullman car Chancellor, built in 1908, the last car in the Bar Harbor. demolished, was fthe best wooden car that can be bui1t,'' he said.
 The hearing was then adjourned.