Show TO 16 PREVENT TRAINS HITTING EACH OTHER New Collision Preventing Device Device Device De De- De- De vice Is Demonstrated in a Practical Manner RE REPORTERS RIDE ENGINES Lifting Hair Experience for Those Untutored in Modus Operandi Operand of Inventor Nothing between you ou and kingdom Como como coma but the word of a stout Inventor Inventor tor who assures you OU that the locomotive locomotive tive tl which Is dashing toward the ono one you ou are on at thirty miles an hour lust Jut cannot collide was the experience late yesterday afternoon of ot several newspaper men and one ono or two others whom the Inventor had Inveigled ln Into testing Ms toIs automatic stopping I for y railway trains The physician a statement that t a n patients patient's pa- pa patient patients patient's pa pa- tient's tient ute life Is hanging b by a 1 thread Is Isan Isan an assurance or of long on ong lire life and happiness happiness happiness happi happi- ness compared with the the Iron wire running run run- running ning along between the rails w which Is all tho the scared passenger er has hns as aft life liCe Insurance A dozen or so years years' ago a thrilling amusement was waR devised that devised that of In Inu two locomotives on a single ln lo track Ro some nomo lle distance and sending them toward one another at full Cull speed for tor fora i ia a spectacular collision A similar similar show show how was put on yesterday yesterday yester yester- day near the Jordan river crossing crol I of oC lh the lie Saltair line All the HIP thrills of oC two engines dashing toward one another were ere presen present t. t Du But 1 they did not come corne together It was ns lust just a a. near near collie ion Those Thos who vho were on tl t ocomo tives thos said salt It was near enough for tor com- com t fot A. A of Spokane has Invented a a device tle for Cor preventing pro trains from colliding when hen they get et within two miles of or one another A wire or lI light ht third rail runs along the cent center r of the ti s. s. s From tho the cowcatcher of ot the lo locomotive locomotive lo- lo c han hangs hanss 8 a copper brush which comes In contact with the thc wire This forms forma a connection with a device delce Inthe Inthe In Inthe the cab of ot the thA th locomotive which automatically automatically auto auto- acts the air till brake whenever another train approaches within thin a given distance Both en engines are stepped stopped without the touching touchIng touch- touch Ing the throttle or air all brake Selected Good Engineer cr When J. J T. T Hammond William Groesbeck and F. F A. A McCarty made arrangements arrangements ar ar- ar- ar with line to tr tryout try tryout out the device A. A M. M r. r Clayton veteran n cn engineer on the Salt Lake Los Angeles Angeles An An- geles railroad was told about It The roae road has but two en engines sines run- run nine now ho said sald Two are arc all we e need for the demonstrations dem dom replied Mr Ir Hammond who is Interested In the patent But what will the thc Saltair line do for engines s hen whet the experiment experiment- Is over anxiously queried En Engineer Clayton Clarton wondering how lon long It would ta take to get new locomotives from Crom the I factory And Ane even en last at evening after acter he had mad several eral of oC t those t c dishes dashes to almost- almost death neath r Clayton at the final test threw his lever Jever back baek when he noticed hi his locomotive was petting getting close to the he he colliding place T Th The h Inventor declares that the app ap ap- apparatus p ratus can be re regulated hv hy tho the en engineer en- en n Ineer so It will stop without jar jara iara a ht or Ill one ono pulling a long string of ot Ioa loaded d cars sot Not wishing to display streaks of ellor the newspaper nE men In an aft att or vou my d dear ar manner ml accepted accepted ac ac- Mr Invitation to step tep aboard the he engines engine and md see fee the dem The Thc men took tool what th r was a farewell look at the pink and gold od skY behind th th western ran range that t was being painted by the setting tin sun un Reporters on Hoard E. 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A McCarty who Is interested in the patent and ono oro reporter got cot Into Inton J an n ereine with Clayton Clavton Alfred AlIcd Al- Al fred Minnick the Inventor and two other reporters boarded the other lo lo- lo Tho The en engines were ere then backed up several hi red hi feet and at a given n signal al started str toward on one another When Rhen they reached the safety apparatus tu both were going oln- at twenty i miles an hour or more Then tho ho doIce dovice do- do vice Ice began to work The air all was applied applied ap ap- ap- ap plied In the tho same manner that an en- en does docs It while the engineer was simp simply sitting In his place lookIn looking look- look In ing ng out ol of tho the cab window The rhe locomotives stopped Sa easily lly withIn with with- thin th- th In n a hundred feet reet of oC on ono ond another It looked thrilling to the thc bystanders but did not seem scent that way to tho gers The apparatus Is made to whistle automatically at crossings to stop trains so they will not run Into open switches and to enable embla a station agent to halt a tr train ln that has run by ho hi im depot when It should have ha made a 0 stop Inventor MinnIck says sas ho began wor work on tho the scheme seven years cars ago In Nebraska No- No braska when as an electrical engIneer engl- engl leor neer a n division dl of oC a railroad asked him If It he could not getup got get up something that autocratically would prevent pro collisions Tho The Installation of ot tho ho machine costs O a mile mite |