Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-09-13
OESERET EVENING NEWS
saturday, s.pienbsrIa. 1880.
spAcR WILL rAyIsa.
TIE WONDERFUL RAILWAY SIS
TEsI WHICH Is ~ OPERATION
CLOSE To NEw YoES CITY.

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TIE WONDERFUL RAILWAY SIS
TEsI WHICH Is ~ OPERATION
CLOSE 10 NEW YogS CITY.
Nov iha remarkable age u water
anu fiea b 50 n3ush lJI-tli % 10y
tie fdrJfsiheEs % the p.,ssLt gem
Frat iuu iia- siluusf Sc "a Is Gay. Il
viii soon bg -iPYlautel ny Lie age
Of electricity. The r-ceut inyen-
ton Of Inc e.eclriC elevated hallway
/ sy-ieiA a0i is sucee ssfui operation
warrants Jc'I assruiO1. 10 l. put
ting !. very Dllilly iaicai b say
tua- u J. ths mI-. r-EIaTkAb!s pro
duct - lile geuig- 81 nan recorded
In eithzr ancient or mui-ru lime.
and T. bids iair O. reyola-iJuize the
transport dion facilities of the
world. rhs prophecies concerning
this wonderful transit asc 10y NJ
means a great ~ the marvclgus re-
suifs it has accomplished uI proved
Itself caInc,e ~. 10 J. vers Easy To
believe al tuase urogu1-.is-:iOn
2fter a calm AMI CJu-ilerate con-
temptation OF is merits aud qual!-
ties. .s.....
The Electric EieyaKd Railway
is an aerial iine sJnneslilg Graves
eni wiki Coney l. 4 i, NY. Sus-
lpc1delslieh In ia e might be
cgmFaied 10 q single Fail uniting
ths two terminals. fhr train which
;rlvers. thi- single rail track is eX-
actIy what Il Pretn 20 D., a BIZ
| cycle ipsoml!Ivc- Iuerc are but
four wheels 10 each car, aui they
extend in e stri'glt iilr. A train
weighing tWcliy-tgO tons, having 4
drive wheel eight feet ia diameter
with a ~ Ell o. two miles Ter min
ute, o. u ;ui.es Al hgJr, made the
finsi trip over tine elevated railway
between Gravesend and Coney
Islan !. The car. f0riy--w1 feet In
length, confined both upper aud
logur divisions f1- the ute1mm0 Ia
tiOu VI PASSENGERS, AM hell 81 per
cent more passengers Than an orli-
nary railway coach. Tins dis
tinguishsd iassengers vho hai As
senlb!Cs b witness tie tTi4l u thc
| invention C0mpIi-'-d the mos
emineu; electricians aud me-
| chauieal gttiuses ever known
70 be convocated. There were Hon.
b. =. Pond " tie ps-eut Office Of
Washington, tisree engineers from
the Mlahaitan EIsc.ric Railway
Company, dg,li.cl by Jay q Iuld -
witness the ap=ulGJn of the s.-.ieul,
which he feared WOuiI sIqcrsoie
his own monopoly; the Thomson
Houston EieetEic Cnmpanyis exc
perls, Captain Cross OF the same
company: Dr.. Ba.l, the telephone
eApert. and others. They were
filed with Amusement n the results
they saw accomplished. When the
rails We're elv-rei with ice, up a
steep grade almost mountainous in
It's deeiivity, aud uuicE the seyerest
adyersities which nature or device
could con;riye the new railway sur
| passed the nlust sansIins expecta-
tons OF IS promoters. When the
| start was made from GEIvesend n
| dis; atcE was started TO the Cesiina-
ton, stating the time OF starting,
lUi before the operator had finished
taking the hrie. message from the
| wire the railway train with IL lead
az passengers II he'd into tine C0ncy
| Island depot. The ride was sal ! o.
be 50 smooth. As l.. be almost mirae
ulous. There was no lateral m0ii1n-
| \ lady, who could not sustain
Withou, nausea the JOLT and motion
oioulinary trains, was among those
who made the journey, and she felt
Is comfortable Is IL resting In 4
rocker ia her uyn plrlor. The
train Is built IN slch z manner as 10
oaviate the STONY wind currents
that would ordinarily h. created by
such rapid travel.
/ II would not believe that We
! were moving said DE-. Bell, ''if n
slight zephyr had not waited the
| ashes from tie end Of my cigar"
sslNeil, Were not there are we"
said Captain Cross, surely the days
VI rUmanIs have developed into
rcaliiy.H
The CAPTAIN !.5i reference TO the
specd Of the fiying locomotive,
| which almcst givalri the electric
carrcnt itself. To the startled Ia
Eabiiaufs ~ Tong Island tie speei-
fnr locomotive boxed Ike black
al. describing n mark above the
horizon. y. night The are lights
that illuminate the coaches emit a
faint fash aud disafp-ar. This train
rounds = curve q easily ~ it Iur'
srsa Us clsEse III tI.g.a..
There can bc 10 danger OF acci'
idcnts on this iinc. the equilibrium
q. tine tr1fils h1ilnce themselves
Wbah the railway shall have
tbsen es.lblished on Eleventh ave
M, 10 the h3ulsFar1, New York, Il
viii Prove all the mors efficient ~
isensr.fis.5n with ths iari'ities offered
Inv Ine =,eam elevated railroads.
The lest time jig Gouli's Harlem
iexprezs can maze running from
i O1e ht.r i..fard fgeniy-fiith street
10 ne battery anl making but Fix
igtore, 81 tEeuiy SIX minutes. re
i elevated s.1Ctif- would accomplish
j ne sini5 feat 81 ten minutes and
carry Twice tue passengers. vi
course = much more rapid journey
could no. poSsitly BE- made IN q large
/. city. where 30 many stoIs have 70
] be made and 50 many people accom-;
modated. when tbs nrS lines are
CONNECTED. Harlem anu the battery
viii he vIll..aiiy II the same place.
lts advantages 10 tll- ttia!us-ss inter
esis Of tie northern end Of the city
cannot be oveF@iimlted. One Hun.
dn.d and TgeEty-filth street vii
become eiiiative centre, As II II
extended Tributary to Wall street.
The Invention Is a terrible blow 70
monornIses. For the resources thai
. will build on r4liso3i eau cor=tfnei
snd equip two elevated bicycle
syste-us. Travel viii be revolution
. lied. The inconveniences OF rail-
way travel will-exist cnly In the Te'
membranes of tbs passing ge-era'
tons. When Ills Efyie q railways
neuizces the utt work ofsteam Hoe
ihat eirdie tie urion, trip from
Cbisago b New fork VIII give {
| traee!er barely time 20 finish hi'
morning papeI before he i deposited
al his dsstina!f3A aud civilization
along the Allau1t coast viii rad
. he iiociy Moinsofn Aeirs for th'
latest tidluss Of the Gay.
IL is perhaps IN the charges inal
will effect the transportation o.
] nelght that the electric railway