The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-12
200 MILES AN HOUR
Tho Ratio People May Travel With
In q Short Time on tho
SYSTEM. OF BICYCLE RAILWAYS.
The Vast Project Explained by tho
ln%vcntor..Thc Great Engineer lsrics.
son was an Enthusiastic believer In
tho Ultimate Success orthc Project.
Across tho Continent In n Day.

Hon. E. Moody Boynton, tho invcn.
tor Of tho bicycle railroad, was rendered
a~splcudid tribute in tho shape OF q din.
nor at tho algonquin Club, in Boston,
by Colonel Albert A Pope.
From tho speech delivered BY Mr..
Boynton on tho occasion the following
extracts aro taken. In introducing tho
speaker Colonel Pope alluded to tho
wonders the bicycle system was, in his
judgment, destined to work in tho
transportation by steam and electricity,
when the wheel TINT now carries people
with human feet 800 miles in q day
should bv driven with perfect safety in
long, narrow railway trains, as ho be-
lteved it would BID, 200 miles per hour
by electricity.
Mr.. Boynton, among other things,
said:
I've all know how hard it is to re-
store q failure, md when 10000 failures
had preceded, he, by his energy, cour-
ago and capacity, has succeeded, not for
to-day, but forever, in giving mar the
winged feet that enable him 10 travel
from loo to 800 miles o day, instead Of
ten TO thirty, adding alike to the physi.
cal progress, happiness and economy OF
MI men and women.l
FOR ALL TIME TO COME.
ut is meet, therefore, that his sue
cessful work should DO crowned by tho
steam and electric contamination OF
which it is my duty to speak THU e
ing to such q company rs no other city
can furnish OF cnterprising men. 1
would learn the secret OF your marvel.
lous success and invok, your earnest
advice and cooperation.
"1f u bicycle has been driven $50
miles in a day with human feet, using
a three foot wheel, who shall say, with
the same wheel, driven by this nine
loot gearless multipolar bicycle wheel
and motor on a single rail OF any stan
dard gauge road, q
SPEED IN~coNcElvABLE
may not be attained, and that with ab.
solute safety tho Continent may be
crossed in daylight, the five grand divi.
sions of the earth yet be brought to.
gethcr, space nearly annihilatcd?
There will DO neither city nor country,
for both will BIO united. There will be
no dust, heat, smoke, steam or lateral
motion as safe as if an open steel tube
encircled you, touching the earth with
posts only where necessary, driven by
the electric current imprisoned in a
slotted guide beam, the rapid transit
for man is hereby safely solved forever.
You can never got less than q single
steel rail for 4 road bed, or IN electric
current speed OF more than 100, 900
miles per second toIdrive any machine.
The energy from the guiding wire of
Mr.. Whitney's road moves eighty cars
with their united loads weighing be-
tween 1000 and 1000 tons ut tho same
moment V G spaces ten miles asunder,
and the wire is not as large as your fin
ger.
This wire we put into tho slotted
steal beam, where nothing can ever
touch it but the thin trolley, so we may
use 400 volts, tenfold the power, and a
single dynamo plant between Boston
and Now York.
"The waste coal of tho mines, the,
water OF the mountains, the tides OF
the sea, may supply power of 10000
square miles.
HOW FAST MAY WE YET GO?
"With ten-fold the power that now
moves eighty cars. VIC can drive our
slender needle-pointed car, shown on
the last page Of my book, at q speed
that would Immediately melt tho Jour.
nal il nine-foos wheels were used. How
fast before we melt the journals"
"The heaviest planer turns with per-
feet safety, planning the heaviest oak
plank with severest pressure without
heating at 1000 revolutions per min
ute. With q nine-foot bicycle wheel
gearloss motor n similar speed would be
twelve miles per minute. If weIdividc.
this by six it is safe to say. We are with
in the average speed that may be main
tanned OF 800 miles per hour. l know
no reason in physics why, in II lati-
tude, the sun may not be outrun in its
course between hero and San Fran
cisco and made to set in the east, but it
will not do to tell you rich men any
more truth than George Stephenson
dared to tell the house OF lords.
81 sent n copy OF my first book to the
great engineer Ericsson, whose engine,
superior to George Stephenson's. was
excluded by u rule OF weight, adopted
to keep tho educated Swedc iron grasp
ing the laurels OF England.
Ills superiority was, however, ac-
knowledged by the corporation OF Liver
pool, and Lucrative offer for his services
rendered him, but the accidental dis
covery and patenting Of the forced draft
in the stack, which was purchased by
the other company, caused Ericsson to
give up and turn ever his improvements
to the Stephenson company.
In response to my first circular,
Ericsson honorei me by an invitation
to visit him, and for nearly two hours
dilatcd upon the need OF lighter trains
and the possibilities OF tho bicycle sys-
tom. with its deep, light, narrow rail
road trains, making a double track OF
existing railways, saying tho
ENORMOUS WASTE AND WEAR AND TEAR
OF the 50-ton machines now used.
""Turn a board said he, 'edgcwisc,
and it weighs no more, but will support
tcniold in carriage OF freight and ms