The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-08
Because The New Haven Company Has Been BIed Its Passengers
 Bleed In Many Sad Disasters

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 Commissioner NcChord has made the Wallingford wreck the of inquiry into the whole operating of the Haven Company His is ary and commendable
 As The Farmer has on several other occasions said Onekwreck railroad system be accident Two be misfortune and three combination of untoward of which the system is victim But when wreck upon wreck occurs and accident follows accident must be CONSTITUTIONAL It will be found in the methods and management of the railroad company whose lines the disasters
 A,run down railroad is like played out automobile Todaythe transmission gives out tomorrow the axle breaks and the day after that the steering mechanism fails to work
 that fault in the several parts but in the whole, and that the question merely is which part will played out machine junk and consgn it to the heap
 wreck that has taken place in the past several the New Haven system has it's story of stutonal Arrangement to tell to the intelligent observer
 In wreck ancient and ties are
 In another wreck switch point defective, ties tive the brakes not attended and it nears tat there is no system of reporting whether re- pairs have been made or not any adequate system of nstrucng engineers who to take sudden charge Signals found to be too close together
 In yet another wreck banjo signals are found They are ordered replaced.
 The Walingford wreck but the banjo signals ancient discarded everywhere else and anostt
 Astengineers not instructed in wreck, sol fagmenare not instructed in this wreck which is trife more than five minutes apart
 ivefast within miles of other, speeding in a fog.
 It appears that for the purpose of running these trains at least rules of the company violated I'D rises the of horror from the officials of the Company, who abitually hold up their paper hide the actual rules under which the trains on their,system
 The little coroner Mix, may probe away in secret, concealng from the public much he what takes place before Connecticut authority The proceedings be- fore the strong McChord will be ilnatye of the differ RAILROAD OPERATION IN FACT a line disorgan-I ized by high finance and the tratorous management of those high in counsel.
 THE PUBLIC WILL. IN DUE SEASON ANDI THAT IF TRAINS SHOULD RUN IN NEW ENGIAND| BY THE BOOK OF RULES NO EXISTING SIGHED ULE WOULD STAND OR COULD STAND.
 hat he public of conditions in neiphbOr-I of Wangford what takes place again again. the difference in the Walngford being merely that disaster CAME
 The of spades is always in the pack, and the player who draws often enough will surely get it.
 There are enough employed to properly man the trains of the New Haven system It appeared in the hearing the Full Crew bill that there fewer train under the grade of conductor employed than there employed in 1906.
 The number of section hands had also been decreased
 The spent maintenance, when compared with the spent by other railroad lines, far too small
 The ancient old, elderly, wooden and ire quently rotten.
 There been poured into the cofers of the Ia Company than $500 OOO in yearsalmost enough to build the Panama Canal
 WHERE IS THE MONEY? It is not cars, nor in labor nor bed, n signals, in other equipment of modern up-to- date high speed railroad
 Where the money? It is in the pockets of bankers nanciers Heading citizens, whose greedy hands stains blood freely shed the crimson ustre of which whitewash can obscure.
 THANKS FOR THE OMISSION