New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-02-19


Gl,ncing at some of the special advantages,
which would accrue to different countries by their in
PRODUCTION. we will state that in our own the fruits
and other perishable products of Florida, Alabama
and the Southern States generally could be delivered
at the North in few hours fresh as gathered; the
meats Of the great praires of the West at seaboard
the same day inI perfect condition the minerals Of
distant mountain regions to the great manufacturing
ccnterS and the fuel of the coalfeds to the towns
and cities promptly and at a triling COST the mails
of the Atlantic shores to those of the Pacific between
sun and sun; and the morning journals of the great
cities hundreds of miles distant in time 10 be morn
inc journals of the same day.
England, with the cooperation Of the intermediate
lying countres-FTance, Austria and Turkey-could
construct line to her India possessions. and bring
them so to say. to her doors.
Russia could build line across Asia TO China flor
which she has all facilities both in men and materi
asl and bring the vast China trade overland TO her
cities and the marts of Europe and she could, by
other lines. open trade with immense and torpid
Asia and communicate to her commercial life and
activity.
Countries, like Hungary and Spain, which have
but few railroads and whose industrial resources lie
dormant-fne soil and climate and people willing
to work-could build smaller and cheaper lines. and
open markets at once for their products which would
give them the means of Interior industrial develop
ment.
Such are some Of the results that coudbe achieved
10y a system of transportation of the character we
have described. new industrial and commercial
life would be awakened everywhere by its introduc-
ton. Mems ideas would expand with the expansion
of their interests and operations and at the spectacle
of cosmopolitan commercial relations established
over the earth AS simple as the new Principle and
the instrument it employs may at first appear, they
are ADEQUATE we believe, to the realization of the
vast results anticipated. The principle repro
duces in locomotion, the highest order OF move
ment in crcaton-the planetary-while ITS supe-
ror mechanical properties sef-evident.
Loaded spheres. operating in pneumatic tubes, VIII
furnish man with the maximum of motion and
transporting power at the minimum Of cost in labor
and management.
GREAT PRACTICAL RESULTS TIE EMBODlAhNl Of I'm
OF THE SIMPLEST IDEAS
The greatest practical results are often embOdl-
ments of apparently the simplest ideas When the
young man, Stephenson, perceived in thought the.
locomotive on the rude tramway as then used who
could have foreseen the great lines of railways now
covering the civilized portions of the earth1 When
Morse struck on the idea that certain reps ticks of
an electric machine ght furnish en- alphabet which
could be rendered available in transmitting human
thoughtsl through insulated wires. who could have
foreseen the great lines of telcgraphs and the ocean
cables that are now betting the globe and preparing
the means of instantaneous communication over all
its parts
We prophecy results equally great in another
way from tho new Method of Transportation-from
the Hollow Sphere operating in the Pneumatic Tube;
carrying its load inside; rolling frictonless on its
periphery running swiftly and smoothly its clean
and protected track balancing itself by its rotary
motion moving with the precision Of bodies that
create an exact center of gravity by revolving on
thor axes, from the planet to the rifle ball opera
! ting as a unit or single body, undsturbed in its
course by connection with other bodies; doing
its work without the incumbrance of accessory and
complex parts, such wheels, axles. springs, bolts,
braces, &c, and ATTAINING the maximum OF speed
possible to any form of structure. With its aid,
will obtain the industrial control Of his globe COM
mand the of all its regions, and establish
| the means of rapid and economical commercial in
! tcrcOurse between all its parts.
! That such a system of transportation exists in
principle or in what is termed 81 the nature of
things there can be, we think, no doubt. In all
| departments OF creation from the least to the
greatest we see the perfect adaptation Of means to
ends, of external conditions to internal requirements
of organs TO functions Nature everywhere estab-
/ llSheS proportion ana equation between the two.
We find the law finely illustrated in the Of man,
who, requiring the means of prompt intercourse in
thought over his globe the magnetic telegraph APP
peared rs his organ lie requires in equal degree
the means of universal commercial Intercourse
of prompt and cheap exchange Of his products
everywhere; and he is destined to possess it, With
the present imperfect slow, and expensive methods,
he is shut out from the quarters of his globe,
deprived to an equal extent of its resources, and
greatly rammecd in his industry he is. so TO say,
without his natural organs of commercial trans
portaton and exchange-which is cOntary TO Natures
law of means proportional to destinics of organs to
| functions
The question then is not, whether sys-
ten of transportation of the character We
have described exists in principle, and
can be discovered, but whether tho solution
| which is now presented is the true one. and is to
| furnish man with an organ of transportation AIDE
quate to his industrial wants; or TO state the quss
ton in detail. Whether the Hollow Sphere Is the
best form of "A vehicle of motion and transportation
| Whether the highest velocity, possible to any form
of material body suited to the Junction of transport
| alton, can be attained with itr Whether it be
| operated with the least power and worked with the
least handling aud management by menf And
whether II is the most Independent Of external con
| ditions, such as wood. water. and climate
| The Sphere fulhlls these conditions, 30 that the