The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-03
TO RUN 100 MILES AN HOUR.
Az AIR. LINE ELECTRIC RAILROAD
FROM CHICAGO 10 ST. LOUIS.
Dr. wellington Adams's Extraordinary
100000 900 Project Described with True
chicago Enthusiasm Before tho Members

Dr. Wellington Adams's Extraordinary
$4,000, 900 Project Described with True
chicago Enthusiasm Before the Members
orthe New York Electric Club.
At the Electric Club last night Dr. yelling
ton Adams. an electrician OF Chicago. explain
cd to an audience that was interested. aston
ishcd. and. as some frankly admitted rather
increduous. the details Of IN electric railway
that is about to be built between Chicago and
st. Louis. 1t Is to follow an air line. paying no
attention to distractions whatsoever. 1t is to
run cars at a speed Of at least 100 miles an
hour. 1t is to be in operation By the spring OF
1893.
DR.. Adams had a stereopticon and screen
upon which he projected plans OF tho railway
and Of tho machinery. He first produced
map OF the state of Illinois. showing the city
OF st. Louis. Across the map was drawn a
straight line between tho spots marked Chicago
and st. Louis respectively. THAT" said DR..
Adams. lis the line Of our railway-the Chicago
and ST. Louis Electric Railway. surveyed as
nearly to a straight line as the instruments
could do 1t. This road is 24S miles long. or
thirty-five miles shorter than the shortest
railway line now operating between those
points. 1t runs between the line OF the Chi
cago and Alton and the line Of the Wabash
lailroad.
We intend to have this road in operation BY
the opening OF the Worlds Fair. and we ex-
pect to make twice the cost OF 1t before the
Fair closes. The plans have all been made.
the contracts al arranged for. and the cost
will be about S6.O0O.OOO. Tho fare for the
round trip from Chicago to st. Louis will be
So. The schedule time from st. Louis to Chi
caco will be two hours and a half. rs against
eight hours and half the quickest titno at
First. as to the roadbed. For 200 mill s of
the way tho country Is naturally us leve! rs
billiard table The grade on the he other forty,
UPON UPON an m INDEPENDENT bod with drain between
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struction and the rails will be California rails.
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The road will thus be secure against many OF
ss S t%d T 4ss
of poles supporting cross-arm. to either, end
Will S the wire s Mf which 1da
car will he sort Of inclined plane. so that tho
There viii he two trucks. with q pair Of six
foot wheels and pa65 oa or fSs
Which tile passensers viii be put viii be partly
down between the two trucks;
T sTy
other at Edinburs. eighteen miles southeast
coal ipf nnd neae " nns Sfs sell
nll our coal. as now. and the dust which we
road will have In tho midst. OF it a station ior
the storage and transmission OF power to the
.""The operating Of the road" continued Mr.:
asst at she Station h cssc rhs
there tears it out OF his stub book and hands II
iq to e tho pess where the
ma sSsf:isrs r. y %s :, Tie * ", r.
ready the motor man steps ABOARD alss: closes
IN ali the xsysSatil youu, ut to St Louis:
esc as yS1 s OUT tie
be car tbe wts
Viii in turn build SPURS Gom the msin t5ae *
CHICAGO or St Louis. as the case may b. with:
Expect stf to build two more tracks and run &C.
eommodation trains on them. stopping at sta.
with Dr.. Bell wrote work on electrical rail
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doner said that only two men in history had
out railways. "One Of them" said he was
the Car Nicholas. who used map and ruler
In making his surveys. and the other Ia DR.
Adams. listened to him with enthusiasm
but must say not without misgivings."
Prof. Forbes said be regretted that Dr. Ad-
ANS had not been more explicit as to the way
tho electricity was to be. applied. as without
know ing that no one, could discuss the scheme
been most happy to do this had 1t not been
that those matters were at present secrets OF
which he feared he Ind already said too much.