The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-08-04
IfcIllIC TRANSIT
.t~een New York and
,u,go IN Five Heurs.
rr.vsI eco Miles N Hess
,v..ssrssl Taverticn 81
~ century.

=, setfe- in cEicaeo Hefsia.
y srsskirts Of this pretty
"a villaee, stands The gueeres'
80 ever say. II has two
,r,,ch ike any otfser rsii.
4 Z inclosed here IN q sor'
~ ~ork and there by a barbed'
- rhich stretches along On
-. But the queefes. h'ne
- J. ~ v.ilway is what travels on
.1-riily built, handsome man
a sbiry-iive stands IN the door
~ n touches button. when
= ~ =. he'd crswls an iron-plated
.s., two and half feet square
-. - let long. pointed At one
i ~ = = al Wheels and looks very
- cIunssy. No sooner have
d look It over and wonder
~ {. !. torpedo or rock-crusheT
n as.snnesrs. II goes off like a
x..ssrentiy nothing touches 1t,
- rs ssnrais II. But it goes. a
p ~. dark streak going
/. ~. snrye of the circular rail-
s 4 4 hidden behind a clump
The handsome man still
n. s.ffh bis hand on the button,
- : oeucil moving In an auto
49, over q piece Of ruled
al The haIfp' he exclaims,
.~~.enf or two later lone
:. Ts1u "A mile and half y
! ~ seconds more the long,
49, on wheels whizzes by.
- Sat your watch and time II.
"a s3.ss - than minute il reap
n another minute IL whizzes
& 4.::'...'s.' -. As il goes round and
!lsxE STke nothing 80 much IS q
II! ~ ~ 11eging in q circle with In
q ~ gspiAity. The track Is
'S1Si niles in circumference.
1116me man standing with
- - a the button is David q.
IS 7.;z u baltimore, and this is his
z3.:S<s 1,sIsif electric railway system,
Il ~ necmiees to revolutionjze the
& ~ a mails and express
e 81 = - not running very fast
Z - q ~ l1ys, 0nss isroicsoi4ssoi' |.
~ 80 1vnnino. This gives US q speed
d ssnellv two miles minute. Our
s ki1i develop up to 10000 revoIu-
<ss..s m ve have run them $500
4 s;ssSrinljons. equal 10 more than four
I ss1I~ { minute. for twenty-four hours
& si1Snnt stopping. On a first-class
ssrf. wssonably straight and without
- usuy steep grades, we can easily
1es1oo ! continuous speed OF three II
fsnr miles 4 minute. In fact there is
errrticaIlv no limit 10 the speed that
- power can produce. The only
eaes(3on Is how much speed the tracks
pa cars are able TO stand. The track
y sfe nor using Is all curve and fsitl
dhesyy grades :,
Tie success OF this remarkable rail-
nv has been so thoroughly assured
q sctual demonstration that Chicago
a'ny now begin looking forward to the
1oceipt Of mail from New York In
lour or i've hours. Chicago papers
nav be delivered In Milwaukee within
lnll IN hour from the presses, and in
Burlington, Davenport. Peoria and
Djoomington before the people who
- to read Il have risen from Their
tods. Even ST. Louis can be supplied
& tea. m. with a first-class morning
newspaper printed in Chicago.
within very few years. said Mr.
Mems, there will be double track
Slsctric railway from New York 4
Chicago, about go miles long. Tht
4sck will have a tweive.inch gauge
ond will be inciosed in a network o
harbed wire. The wires of which thii
Knee Il made will he used for teie
gfaph, telephone, and automatic sig
mails. Overhead will be space for car
Yying : hundred commercial telegraph
wires. The track Is SO light and h,
rolling stock SO easily carried that q
vefy tmail additional cost the roat
can b elevated through towns ans
cifje1. and wherever il may be neces
eafy 10 ebvia;e heavy grades
Through this protected way trains fw.
and half feet wide and OF about In,
lame height will he run at the spec.
d 30 miles an hour. No enginemen
conductors or brakeInen accompan,
~ train. whose movements are con
lsuled easily and absolutely from tn
power stations. OF these station
there will be one In New York. one II
Chicago, and seven on the line abou
100 miles apart. These power station
vii require capacity of about SOC
horse power each and any practsea
engineer can compute the COS
ol maintaining them. IL Is real,
uifling, considering the efficiency dc
veloped. III water power can he has
nf some OF the stations, even If five o
len miles from the track, IL will b
utilized, power being transmitted b.
vie. In operation trains of four o
I've cars will be run. motor ear an,
nree or four others. The cars are y
telescoped together as 10 form ur
Dsoken surfaces. top. bottom an,
shes. and the rear ear, as well as Oh
ntst or motor car, is pointed, so as I
ofer We least possible resistance I
ar The movement of each train
automatically and accurately rcgi:
tered on chart In the power stations
The slightest accident To the train @
~ presence of an obstacle on th
mack shuts of the connection. at ia
vii OF the dispatcher train can b
Stopped at any point. backed up c
started ahead again. The trains ar,
therefore,. under complete control an
htraflic should not justify the bull,
ing Of a double track single trae
could be easily and efficiently ope
ated.
While il is true the capacity at
train Of five cars is'not large ~about
tor of mail or express matter To u
eaf--the capacity Of the road will |
very great and it, economy aamiram
Ten or fifteen trains an hour esc
way would require no more poes
than one train day, and PRACTICAL
no more expense. since the power
steadily maintained ut the gtneratiii
stations and no employees are require
with the trains. Fifty or seventy ii,
IONS aa hour eouli be easily dsspatche
nom New York 20 Chicago. At pre-
ens II Is not Intended 10 apple the re
invention 10 the Transportation /,
human being; but after the CONNIE
siai success OF the mail and expire,
iine shall have been demonstrated
Is predicted passenger line vi
speedily follow. For the carving
passengers the cars would he mas
about three feet wide. With sing
seats, No sleeping cars would he r
ihsfed. hseauSe i've hoars would sil
h.e Tor a journey from New York
ahicago. The traveller could iea'
Sshieaso early in the morning, lunch
New York. spend the afternoon q
broadway or in Wall street, dine
pelmon,ea's. and reach CHICAGO aga
"a Tune 10 retire az midnight. L
would travel very rapidly bnt cor
.ofsahiy, IN train lighted and heats
ps electricity. lie would. morcave
uavel IN safety, because the eonsiru
Won OF The track would render IL il
possible Ter a train I'm hf.e,.Nna a