The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-11

trio lights, the effect OF this many-tnted
spray will be most effective.
The impetus of the car is very great
when IL finishes the descent, and even
though splashing through the pond breaks
its force, the vehicle is still able to dash
up the opposite curve of the wheel for
distance of about forty feet. where IL Is
again automatically clasped 70 the tracks.
The wheel then begins to revolVe again
and the car is carried down and UP to a
place corresponding with its first starting
point The people ride backward up this
incline, thus experiencing a most remark
able sensation. When drawn up for a dis
lance of about seventy feet. the car is
again released and makes Its second shoot.
A third return to this hight and another
sliding backward completes the journey.
During the shooting the car has covered
just one-third of the circumference of the
wheel. AS the structure stops during
each coasting process, the wheel has,
therefore, made one complete revolution
and the excursionists alight at exactly
the same place that the start was made.
This is the invention in its simplest
form, but the journey will have the added
novelty OF a most sensational tunnel ex-
perience unlike anything OF its kind thus
far invented. The tunnel will be built on
the tracks on the inside Of the wheel, ex-
tending about half way around, or 300 feet
of the 800 feet total circumference. Its
two entrances, or mouths, will be modelled
to represent the open jaws OF dragons.
The interior will be intensely dark, with
hundreds OF little stars glimmering all
about and apparently far beneath the
towers, the roofs and gables and many
lighted windows of a great city giving
the whole the effect OF a bespangled mid
night sky, through which the voyagers
are speeding In twentieth century air.
ship. AZ the tunnels roof will curve
sharply, following the outlines Of the rim
OF the wheel, the voyagers, while in the
tunnel, will only be able to see a few feet
TO the front or rear, further vision being
cut OF by the sloping roof and floor. Thus
the effect Of mystery will be greatly en-
HANGED
The superstructure Is now being planned
by the engineers ~ a prominent bridge
building company near this city, and will
be made so strong and so carefully braced
that breaking will be an impoasibllity. Be-
sides the axle OF the wheel resting upon
upright towers or fulcrums, the outer rim
will be provided with teeth fitting into
the machinery on the ground operating
the wheel. Then on either side OF the In
terror tracks the three-foot barbados Will
form a trough into which the car hts.
Each vehicle will run upon three tracks,
the center one being fitted with a slot
similar 10 that on street cable roads The
cars each have a keel running along their
bottoms from end 10 end. and sha ped like
capital n. inverted the vertical striD
sliding inside the groove. thus locking the
car to the track and making escape from
ia impossible, even though the device does
not interfere with the motion. Besides this
track there Is 10 be- a ratchet construction.
working automatically. which allows the
car 20 clip up over a long line Of teeth,
ana which will hold u securely whenever
a is thought necessary.