Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-12
New Haven Road to be Brought up to Standard Set
 by Interstate Commerce Commission
WILL MEET A COMMITTEE OF THE ENGINEERS
To Discuss Matter of Employing Spare Officials and Various Superintendents Also to Confer Signal System Already Changed and Steel Cars Are Being Utilized as Rapidly Possible, Says Bardo.

New York, July 1.-The recent re- ports of the Interstate Commerce Com mission on the financial affairs of the New Haven system and the fatal wreck on June F are to be taken up at once by the roads officials. ac- cording to authorized announcement today
 The executive committee will refer the matter of answering the report on the financial condition to the board of directors which will meet in this city next Thursday. Meanwhile the operat- ing officials will meet with the divi- sion and mechanical superintendents 10 consider the commerce body's re- port on the Stamford accident. This meeting is called for tomorrow in New Haven
 To Bring Operation Up to Standard.
 Immediately steps will be taken to bring the operation Of the railroad up 10 the standard laid in the commits sion's report" General Manager CIin- ton L. Bardo of the New Haven said today in a statement concerning the Stamford wreck report.
 MT. Bardo announced that the man agement will hold meeting with a committee representing the company'S engineers withi n a. few days to discuss that feature of the Stamford wreck which had to do with the employment of spare engineers on passenger trains The general managers state nent continues:
 Signal System Already Changed.
 ''One feature of the commissions report has already been acted upon. For many months the company has been working upon 8 plan for chang ing the signal system between South Norwalk and Stamford from a manu- al controlled lock and block system to nrTf~ 4ir foV@a n 9, change was necessitated as a result of the identification of the line east of Stamford. Under the new system the distant signal is placed 5000 feet east of the home signal. which is twice the distance recommended by the commissioners report. This change has already been made.
 Engineers te Have No Voice in Rules.
 The report of the commission in re- gard to the question of the assign nent of engineers confirms the view. of the operating officials that this is a personal responsibility devolving up- @n the management and one that could not be delegated or safely made the subject of an agreement with the engineers, since the engineers are too prone to exercise the power of the or ganization without accepting the re- accessibility for their acts. This be- ing the case. the engineers can have no voice in the rules made. by the company if those rules are consider cd necessary for the safety of the public.
 The Wreck Record of Ten Years.
 The Interstate Commerce commits sion in its report upon the financial affairs of the company stated that the New Haven passenger service aside from safety is distinctly better than that of any railroad coming into New York The officials of the company have always believed that the trains are operated under as safe if not safer conditions than any other road in the country and the record of train accidents upon the New Haven In the past ten years the company has carried over 75O,000,000 passengers and had but six train accidents in which passengers have been killed. The total number of deaths resulting from these six accidents is only 29.
 Recommendations to be Adopted.
 The passenger traffic of the New Ha- ven railroad is the densest of any railroad in the country.
 However, the company desires to increase the safety of its traffic to the fullest extent The recommendations Of the Interstate Commerce commits rion handed down as a result of the Restport and Bridgeport accidents have either been adopted or are be- ing adopted as rapidly practicable. A large number of new all steel cars are now on order, and the cross-overs are being heightened as fast as pos sible The same diligence will be taken in regard to the recomm enda- tons of the commission on the Stam- ford acident.'