OCR Text |
Show I. RELINQUISH THEIR M LIES Interstate Commerce Commission Com-mission About to Send Notice to Railroads. WASHINGTON, Dec 6. The intor-tato intor-tato commerce commission is about to notify railroads that applications for an extension of time beyond July 1, 1014, in which to divest themselves of ownership or control of wntar linos, must be made to the commission not later than March 1, 1914. Tho Panama canal act prohibits ownership own-ership or interest by a. railroad in any competing -water carrier. W. P. Borland, chief of the safoty appliances work of the Interstate commerce com-merce commission, asked tho commission commis-sion for legislation to empower the commission with authority over operation opera-tion of block eignal systems and other MLfety devices. H. tf. Belknap, ohief inspector for the interstate commerce commission, who investigates wrocks, Ratified bo belioved the strain on engineers en-gineers In the operation of high-speed trains was largely responsible for ' wrecks. He said that many mon had broken down oarly in lif o because of I tense competition for spoed, that block : signals would not prevent accidents in the nbsonco of adequate reputations, and that the interstate commerce commission com-mission should have the right to rogn-late rogn-late the speed of trains. He condemned con-demned caution signals, and said trains should not pass any kind of signal without stopping. |