Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-11

stroll along the broad paths fronting the Manhattan hotel and wonder why Patrick Sarstield Gilmore, did not prevail upon the Long Island railway company to open the season earlier. There are those who predict that the time is not far diS- tant when the hotels from one end of Coney to the other will make June the signal for the opening of the season.
 The new marine railway to Brighton Beach is nearly ready, and within another two weeks all will be life and hustle, where quiet reigns at present. From present indications there will be quite rivalry for supremacy between Manhat- tan and Brighton Beach this season, so far as general attractions go.
 Brighton Beach certainly will be the best place for bathing, and tho most at tractive beach for children to play on. Seidl promises great things with his or chestra, but there will have to be wonders | performed to make it a sufficient magnet to draw the many admirers from G1l- more's band and the popular musical ann | pitheater at Manhattan Beach. However, 1 1t must be allowed that Brighton Beach never looked so inviting as it does this season; the magnificent lawns and the thriving shrubbery, arranged with such excellent taste, in front of the hotel, to- | gether with the pretty flower beds, form very striking picture.
 The construction of the substantial roadway from Ocean avenue direct to tho entrance of the Brighton Beach hotel | will make 1t a most popular drive, and if the Brighton Beach Improvement com | pany succeeds in completing the pro- l posed arrangement for new and unique exhibition in their fireworks enclosure, as they expect to- with Messrs. Cable & Breen to look after the comfort of guests in the hotel, the old Brighton will give 0 l good account of itself long before tho season clo ses.
 One remarkable novelty on these grounds was in operation as an experi- ment for the first time the other day. l the immense structure, which makes a fourfold circuit of the elephant grounds, giving total length of ride of nearly Q mile, the cars being elevated by steam to a height of about eighty feet, and de- scending to the ground through the chute by gravity. The whole cost of this roller toboggan slide will be upward of s15,O ,OOO. Another toboggan slide of smaller dimensions, but on the same general principles, has just been com pleted at the beach end of the Sea Beach boulevard, in the rear of the bathing pa- vilion.
 But the novelty that exceIs all others and one that may eventually solve the mooted problem of rapid transit, is just now the great attraction that claims the earnest attention of the multitude of vis- itors to Sea Beach. Work has been be- gun on the Boynton Bicycle railroad with which the Brighton branch of the Sea | Beach railroad is to be equipped in time for the Brighton Beach races. The in- ventor of this novel improvement in rail- road construction is Eben Moody Boyn- ton, an ex-member of congress from Mas Sachusetts.
 Starting with the proposition that the most perfect application of the ph ysical force of the human body, for the purpose of producing speed, is that of the bicycle, Mfr Boynton has applied this principle | to the locomotive and claims that it's most perfect power of producing speed may be evoked from the same theory.
 The Boynton engines and cars are driven along single rail by driving wheel of great diameter, and are only forty-eight inches from side to side. It has been demonstrated In the Portland engine works that, as long as the trains continue in motion over the single rail, they will, like the bicycle, remain in per feet equilibrium, but to guard against the | possibility of inclination to either side, horizontal friction wheels are placed at the top of the cars and engines which bear upon horizontal beam placed lat orally directly over the rail on which the | cars run.
 The Sea Beach Railroad company has induced MT. Boynton to make his first practical demonstration on an actual railroad upon it's branch running from Gravesend to Brighton, and the cars will | soon be in operation. It is claimed that 15O miles an hour is a moderate estimate of the speed which can be obtained by this system, and as the erection of the necessary structure in no manner inter feres with the operation of trains in the usual manner, q successful demonstra- tion of the principles involved will at tract no little attention in tho railway | world.
 JOHN 0. EATON