The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-20
Hundreds Of Millions For Stocks
 But PittanCe For Steel Cars
 More Light On Railroad Disaster

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 Coroner John J. Phelan investigates the Stamford disaster to find out what caused It. at IS ms oty Co m he known punished. The prevention of wrecks in the future but incident of his work
 But the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Public Utilities Commission sit with the purpose pr11 Iarfy of ascertaining how such Wrecks may pc tpreVented. hereafter.
 of preyentonsis goatR n many p1unds o Though sensational than that before the coroner' likely to-proVe as useful Once nnore thanks -the~energy of Commissioner E1hord and the sincerity his probe beam of bril- iarE light snternal affairs of greaG raroad the public is permitted to glimpse some oI the sad results of the management provided by W all Btreet and monopoly. added to capitalization of the New Haven corpora Eion but thestesony of yesterday disclosed Frs.of irzes as early as 1862 and 40 of antique arenage the.record of their birth could not be dscov Eered :.
 11bes testimony that from the lips of railroad wit fesses enant with the atmosphere or looseness vic seems have crept into all the affairs or thls Tt manager Clinton L. Tardo in an kt entirely pected, vehement and voln- Etary that when he to the company when was therefis iftle+or discipline among the employees, and ft that esprit detcorps is lacking:
 fence to&tbe Railroad Brotherhoods contention which was left without evidence to sustain it, and position which ME Bardo was compelled to abandon when Com missioner McChord compelled him admit that there ought to have been rule togovern cases like Dohert
 Before. Coroner PReian it was evidently the passing purpose of the company officials to Dohery competent, and to claim that his employment com peIled by an agreement with the Brotherhoods
 the hearing before Mr. McChord this claim was utterly abandoned under of his nterrogatons
 These agreement with the Brotherhoods which required Mr. Meen's underngs to put incompetent engineer first class train
 In fact if these officials had put incompetent man. because of such agreement and they KNEW HIM ITO BE INCOMPETENT when they did it, they would unquestonably be guilty of the grossest negligence
 truth was. and the evidence proved it in several zvays that Doherty deemed competent, and probably competent for up to to this time, has urged aught against him in evidence except that he used bad judgment in applying his air in the precise manner in which he did apply it.
 n other words all claim disappears that Doherty didn't hesignal He did it. He did the brakes
 His train didn't sop but neither did the train stop the test trip, when the specially selected heavyweight gneer applied the air. The train then rolled the danger
 The New Haven has 2288 passenger cars. All but 31 press went the bank in Bridgeport. Most of the 1vouldn hold, wrecking tongs weight
 A year ago the Westport wreck occurred, when Tvere killed Then the coroner found that steel cars would prevented loss of life, and steel cars be acquired rapidly possibly by the New 1Iaven- (
 Today the New Haven has acquired 31 steel cars The Skyark which the death car, not steel wood; ;notnew, butOld Even of the Pullman which steel The remainder are wood, and of them are the very New Haven cars which presumed have been abandoned. =
 There was the Centerdale part of the death train the brakes of which it took pounds of air to then matter which alone would diminish the possibilities of quick stop under brake bv
 Experts of other roads testified that train in the condition of the train would permitted leave terminals
 They testified that green would not be sent for the first time express without being by travelling engineer.
 It appeared that no such assistance was ever given to Doherty
 cred to indicate that Dohery incompetent and much to show that he took all those precautions to stop his