New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
ELLIOTT TELLS PLAN TO
REORCANIZE, NEW HAVEN

| way to do the good work that believe
they are capable Of doing.
Mr. Runnells, the president. and Mr..
/ Dean. the vice president, OF the Pullman
| Company. are personal as well as official
| friends OF mine
"I have explained to them the impor-
| tance OF the situation. and Mr.. Dean,
speaking for himself and for Mr. Run
nells, states that prior 10 January l the
, Pullman Company expects to furnish
enough all-stee sleeping cars. or sleeping
cars with steel underframes. so that all
sleeping cars running over New Haven
rails will be of this type.
! The officers OF the company are now
making UP a statement so as 10 file
formal request with the Pullman Com
pany for new equipment, based on this
clause in the contract with that COM
pany:
1T is expressly understood that the
parlor and sleeping cars. observation cars.
! buffet smoking cars. combination baggage
and parlor smoking cars, now on the lines
Of the railroad company, are 10 be re-
placed by the Pullman Company as soon
as is practicable by steel cars Of the
latest and most approved types, Of such
kinds and styles as the railroad company
shall desire tor operation upon its lines
Hurryine tho Car Builders.
"Mr. Dean assures me that the Pullman
company is Just as anxious as is the New
Haven management 10 hurry this work
in every reasonable way.
steps have already been taken 10 hurry
the car builders who now have contracts
for furnishing steel cars for the COM
pany.
steps are also being taken 10 prepare
specifications for other cars.
The following statement shows the
contracts for steel equipment in operation
and under contract:
February 2. l9l2-Seventsen steel motor
February ., l9l2-Twenty-two steel
January q. lsla-Four steel combina-
August c7, lsl2-Twenty-two steel pos
November Il. 1912 -Eighty-hve stee!
? November "A. lN2-Eighty-five steel
passenger cars.
November IA. lsl?-FourteeH steel smok-
s sNovember Il. lsl2-Thirty-six steel pas
senger cars.
Total, 2l5.
August p. isi2-Ftttsen steel under:
frame milk cars. flfty-SlA steel cars
now In opera ton. fltU steel baggage
cars Will be ordered soon.
steel equipment already contracted for
will cost approximately sS,730.O0O. and
there is also a contract which was made
November Is, 1872 for 100 steel passenger
I
100 cars not included in previous state
ments. That means also S550o,000 more.
In this connection the policy OF the
company was outlined in a resolution
passed by the board on october II. Isi2:
Resolved. That the policy of this
company is that all passenger equipment
purchased in the future shall be Of all
steel type.
Since then no cars for use in passen-
ger trains have been ordered other than
steel. except some cars for carrying milk
which have heavy steel nnderframes and
|, are as strong as any OF the all-steel cars.
I'm the matter OF signalling a resolution
of the board passed October IL. 1872. is
OF interest:
Resolved. That there shall be nothing
left undone which in the judgment Of the
president and Of his associates will con-
duce to greater safety in the operation
Of the railroad. and that there shall he
no limitation placed upon the installation
OF signals, safety appliances or anything
else that will. in his Judgment. or that
OF his associates. improve the safety Of
the passenger travel upon this companys
lines
ION hearing about the wreck at >nce
asked about the signals on that part OF
the line. and found that new signals were
being installed.
1T appeared. however. that formal au-
thority had not been given 10 the OIL
GERS 10 % this. and ] at once gave tais.
with instructions to hurry the work.
MY action was approved by the exec
utive committee Of the company on fri-
day. September 5. when it voted $500
for the improved signal system between
New Haven and Springfield. and reaf-
tirmed the resolution of october II. 1872.
Just as soon as proper reports and in