Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-09-09

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q David d Wee,n. Il rs,ss..,-. 4.
the inventor 81 ! a. -s,.sa III. * I. =
electric railway svater, ,ist 49,
to reyoIutionize the carrvino Z, ,n.irs
and express RI. IN. ~, i,stsr..s-s-s
OF, the subject 81 III re- trv.,ss 4, 9. 8
his home ii Laurel MarvIand IA ~
now given the foIlowisc inter.st5r ], 2,
details Of the Man. The v.sI~e 8 40 !.
two rails. yerv much Ijka srv 49, -
railway. but Il 4 encfs,ss.d -. &.
sort Of lattice work and fhare IL !
barbed wire fence wh;ch st-<t.i,,,.
along on both sides. nut ina a,,ee,es,t
thing about this raflroad Il = NJ 1900
on ii.
Mr.. Wecms. standing q IA dnor ~
shed, touches i button. when Al: Il
the shed crawIs an iron .plated fhinc
shout two and half feet satsarn ana
twenty feet long. pointed Il onA end
+ Is on wheels and looks very heayv
and clumsy. No sooner have vo,, ~
gun 70 look It over and wonder whether
II II q torpedo or q rock crusher thar
i disappears Ii goes Oh like ! nash.
Apparently nothing touches it, nothing
propels it But II goes. Il little rum
Bile, a dark streak Going around tf.a
curve Of the circular railway. and Il 4
hidden In cIump Of trees. Mr. Weems
still stands with his hand On the but.
ton, watching pencil moving il II
automatic device over q piece Of ruled
paper. .sAt the halfl'' be exclaims Z
moment or two Iater One milers then
"A mile and 4 halfrs and ! few
seconds more the long black thinvs
on wheels whizzes by. You take out
your watch and time ii. n
little less than minute it re-
appears. In another minute it whizzes
past once more As it goes round ana
round It is like nothing SO much as a
big shuttle moving In circle with in
conceivable rapidity. The track Ii
exactiy Two miles IN circumference.
I'VE are cot running very fast now
Mr.. Weems says. Only 1, 400 revolu-
tlons Of our dynamo This gives us q
speed OF exactly two miles minute.
Our machines develop up to 10, o revo-
iutlons and we have run them 3, 500 rev
oiutions, equal to more than four miles
minute, for twenty hours without
stopping On frst-class track, rea-
sonabiy straight and without too many
steep grades. we can easily develop
continuous speed OF from three to four
miles minute. In fact, there is prac-
ticaliy no limit to the speed that our
power can produce. The only question
Is now much speed the tracks and cars
are able to stand. The track we are
now using Is curved and full IF heavy
grades
The success of this remarkable rail-
way has been so thoroughly assured by
actual demonstration that Chicago NAV
how begin looking forward to the re-
ceipt of mail from New York in foar or
five hours.
within a very few years said Mr.
Weems, there will be Al double track
electric railway from New York to
Chicago. about 900 miles long. The
track will have twelve inch gauSe
and will be enclosed in a net work Of
barbed wire. The wires of which this
fence is made will be used for teIe-
graph. telephone and automatic sig-
mails. Overhead will be space for car
rying hundred commercial telegram
wires The track is so light and the
rolling stock SO easily carried that At
very small additional cost the road can
be elevated through towns and cities.
and wherever it NAV be necessary to
obviate heavy grades. Through this
protected way trains two and a half
feet wide and OF about the same beieht
will run at the speed of 200 miles an
hour. No enginemen, conductors or
brakemen accompany the train vbosa
,novamants ara oontro1la3 asz;1,- 80
a soI,,teI,, e., ~,
go; ~ 49,
sioe seae,ohs .nere Will
De one IN new Iork, one In Chi
cage, and seven on the line about 100
miles apart. These power stations will
require capacity of about 800 horse
each, and any practical engineer can
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I'm po'c wig eo1e VI liishiii e<a'hiuS eneu-
- - really eiiliihs, considerlng the ell
hciehey developed Ii water power
can De mad for some OF the stations,