Can you not hear without putting your hand up? I don't wish to be offensive, but I want, as a matter of fact, to find out. Not in that tone. I can hear, yes; but I can hear better by putting it up, as anyone could reasonably argue; probably you can yourself. It is not necessary to do that where there is any noise or confusion going on. Could you have heard a notice to stop, or a notice that there was a crossing, if Seegers had given it to you? I would have heard as well as any other person. Then you would have heard him if he gave such an order or gave such information? You are very well aware of the fact you have to speak more or less loud on an engine to anyone. Did anyone speak more or less loud to you as to notify you that there was a crossing there, and that you should stop 400 feet from it? No. Did you notice the crossing board on the Quincy road? I did not. There is a board 400 feet from that crossing, four or five feet in height? Mr. Dawes: Who says there is a board there? Mr. Sullivan: I will show there is by another witness. Mr. Dawes: There may be, but I have not heard anybody say so yet. Mr. Sullivan: How long would it have taken you to bring that train to a full stop, running at the rate of forty-five miles an hour? When I say how long, I mean in distance; at what space from that crossing should you have attempted to bring it to a full stop in order to stop it? A. If I knew the crossing? How long would it take a train to stop? It would take in the neighborhood of 1,000 feet. You could not have stopped it at the rate of speed you were running if you had noticed it at the 400 feet distance? No, sir. When you got out of the cut was any information given to you that it was necessary to stop there? I received no information. The first intimation I had was the sight of the train. Mr. Sullivan: Was there an engineer on the cab with you at the time? Yes, sir. Wasn't that engineer who was on the cab at that time held responsible for it? He was. When you were held responsible for it you never in your life run an engine that length before, did you? No, sir. If you had been working at the engine-house, and there was no such emergency as this, would you have considered yourself competent to do it? Not on a road in which I was entirely unfamiliar. You were entirely unfamiliar with this, were you not? I was entirely unfamiliar. Did you shut off steam before you saw the Milwaukee train? No, sir. How far was it from you when you did shut off the steam? Fifty or sixty feet. Did you reverse the engine? No, sir, I did not. With a well designed driver-brake there is no benefit in reversing the engine. Did you bring the lever down in front? No, sir.