The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-05
New York Post.)

Have Actually Been Bought.
 | (New York Post.)
 | Although it has been demonstrated repeatedly in recent New Haven Rail- road wrecks that steel cars would have saved many lives, it appears that the company has made little effort to equip it's lines with the modern type of car, which is now used on every | frst-class railroad in the United | States. The New Haven's passenger | coaches are of the anticipated wooden type.
 Effort was made today to have New Haven officers in this city make some statement regarding the progress 1 made by the road in eQuipping it's was futiIe In accordance with the l custom of the New Haven in all dis asters, including the wreck at North Haven, Conn.,, yesterday, every inquiry regarding the roads equipment was referred from one official to another, without a word of information being l given.
 1 At the offices in this city it was said 1 that all information regarding the steel and wooden cars now in service on the road, and the prospect for fu- 1 ture improvement of the rolling stock. would have to come from Clinton L. Bardo, general manager of the New Haven lines. It was added that MT. Bardo was in New Haven, helping ill | the investiga tion of yesterdays wreck.
 f'I will say,'' said a subordinate New Haven officer, that the road has not i deviated in it's intention to equip its | trains with al1-stee1 cars. An order was given recently for 100 coaches of | this type.''
 Announcement was, made as early as December 2 1912, that the New Haven would begin immediately to equip it's lines with steel cars, in accordance l with the plan adopted by several otn- l CT large Eastern railroads This ac- ton followed indignation meeting, held after the wreck at Westport, Conn, on October 8, 1912. in which nine | persons were killed and fifty badly in jured- In sections of Connecticut where Charles s. Me1Ien, who retired recently from the presidency of the road, had most friendly relations, number of meetings of protest against 1 the methods of the New Haven road were held and Mel1en was forced to make some acknowledgment of the de- mands of those who depended upon | his road for transportation.
 HAD ORDERED WOODEN CARS. A short time before the Westport | wreck, MT. MelIen had given an order for fifty new wooden cars, but when the patrons of the road became indig- nant and epressed their views in pub lie meetings, he cancelled the order. | A new order was then given to "Dia- mond Jina'' Brady's concern, the Brady Standard Steel Car Company, of Pitts | burgh, for 100 steel cars, and it was understood that the road would start inme to convert all of its pas senger rolling stock into that of the modern type. At the time of placing his order for the 100 aII-steeI passen- ger coaches, MT. Mellen aso gave in structions that the Brady firm should build 300 box, 100 fiat 50 refrigerator, l and 50 stock cars.
 As a means of comparison, the fig ures given out in the report of the Pennsylvania Railroad for the year ending December 31, 1912, may be quot ed. As against 100 all-stee1 passenger coaches ordered by the New Haven road, after people had expressed their l Indignation over the killing of pas sengers, the Pennsylvania Company had authorized the equipment of 928 a1-steel cars up to December 31, 1912. | The circumstances attending the wreck at Stamford, Conn.,, on June 12 of this year are still remembered. Many times during the taking of tes- | tirnony at the inquiry which followed the wreck, which cost the lives of six | persons and injuries to more than a 1 score, it was brought out that the number of killed and injured would have been much less had the Pullman parlor car Sky1ark been of steel con struction instead of wood. In this dis aster, as in the wreck at North Haven yesterday morning, the engine of the approaching train (the Boston Ex- } press) pIoughed through the rear car, crushing it to splinters and scattering it's passengers along the right of way.
 While the investigation into the Stamford wreck was in progress, an nouncement was made at the head of fees of the New Haven road that Il
 steel dining cars, 50 steel vestibule
 coaches, 25 steel postal cars, and 50 steel baggage cars had been ordered. } This purchase, the officials said, was : designed to equip the through service of the Shore Line route with all-steel , trains.
 Numerous suggestions have been made by the Interstate Commerce
 Commission that the New Haven
 equip it's lines and train with al1-steel
 passenger coaches. In commenting
 upon the North Haven wreck, c. c.
 McChord, of the Commission, said last
 night:
 DOUBLE HAZARD IN WOODEN COACHES.
 Modern steel equipment for high
 speed passenger trains should be in
 stalled at the earliest possible time ] Mt