The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-06-27
THREE MILES A MINUTE
Wonderful Things Promised by the weoms
Electro o-Automatic Railway.

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Wonderful Things Promised by the Weomt
E1ectro-Automatic Railway.
From the Baltimore Sun.
The Weems railway system, incorpo
rated under the name of the Electro.
Automatic Transit Company of Balti'
more, after about year of carefully
conducted and conclusive experiments
has patented its multiplicity Of electrical
and mechanical appliances in the United
States and all over the world as pre-
-liminary to putting the system regularly
to work wherever required. By this
electro automatic arrangement the morn.
ing papers may be delivered for the
breakfast cable and the evening papers
before supper time at distant points. 1t
will deliver letters almost with the
promptitude of the telegraph sending q
message. The mails between New York
and Omaha will be carried In night.
It will handle perishable light freight
from long distances, will deliver With
celebrity the mails and parcels in cities
and suburban towns, and will multiply
many times the business of the postof6ce
and express companies. It's advantages
are not alone in its speed, but in the
economy and frequency with which
trains csn be dispatched. In addition to
all these things it will save interest on
remittances at long distances, will bring
the people closer together and will create
new enterprises. Doubtless, as in the
case of the telegraph, its important uses
cannot be anticipated in advance of its
going into active operation. Its devel-
opment will create new fields of useful.
ness not now thought of. Such, in brief,
are what the persons interested in this
invention claim for it.
The motor Car is 18 feet long and 81
feet square at each end. tits pointed in
front, the wedge OF point being below the
longitudinal centre, adjusting it to the
air pressure, thus keeping the car down
to the track. To reduce atmospheric
friction to minimum, all wheels and
electrical appliances are placed within
the walls of the cars. The road is to be
built on the surface of the ground, With
track Of "a inches guage, and will cost
about $4,000 per mile. In tbickly set
tied districts the road can be elevated,
the varied length of the uprights being a
cheap mode of covering irregularities in
the surface of the ground over which the
road passes. The mail and express cars
are telescoped in forming train, the
former into the end of the motar car, and
the latter into that Of the one proceeding
it, forming flexible train cars, Offering
an unbroken surface to the air. The
rear end of the rear car is pointed in q
similar manner to the front of the motor
car, thus preventing any suction IS the
train rushes on its way. The motor may
pull one car or train of cars.
All trains will be controlled from q
generating station, where will be placed
an electrical generating plant Electri.
cal brakes are 10 be used, and trains are
started stopped, speed lessened and
backed at will from the station. Special
appliances will inform the operator in
charge of the generating station of the
exact location Of the train from the time
it leaves or passes any given point until
it reaches its destination. It has not yet
been determined how far apart the gen.
Grating stations shall be placed. Posi-
bly, 100 miles may not be out Of range. as
the current can be run for so miles each
way from the station as q centre without
much loss of electricity.
The electrical force may be generated
by either steam or watsr power. The
main object, that Of carrying heavy cur.
rents over long distances, is attained by
special methods. By these. in given
time, large number of trains may be
dispatched with extraordinary rapidity
and at comparatively little expense.
The frequency of the trains consumes
only small amount of power, aud the
fact that no attendants on the train are
necessary, constitutes no small item in
economy.
The patents of the company number
143 in the United States and the princi.
pal countries of the world, covering the
vital details of this novel system. The
principles patented involve special form
of rail, making it impossible for trains to
jump the track at any rate of speed |;
form of electrical safety rail, carrying
the out; current and returning the
same on the same rail, (this rail can Be
crossed by pedestrians or vehicles with
perfect safety;) form of conductors and
rails combined, with Insulation of the
same for carrying currents over long
distances means of starting, stopping,
backing and controlling trains from the
generating stations; method Of regulat-
ing the electrical current automatically
on trains while in motion, increasing the
power in ascending and decreasing the
same in descending grades; means
whereby trains automatically register
themselves at every station as they pass
every mile of track; form Of journals and
boxes for fast speed to avoid heating ;
reducing the air pressure at high speed
to a minimum By pointed cars splitting
the air in front and preventing suction
in the rear whilat in transit; reducing
the crossaeclion of cars to a minimum