Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-01

the window. A little screen can be fitted
into the opening and there you can lie, half
awake and half asleep. watching the ever
changing scenery and specializing whether
YOU are I'm Missouri or Ohio. whether IN
Idaho or coming into California.
This way Of travelling is not an idle
dream. IL is a reality even now. PreSi-
dent Clark has the third rail system in
operation now between several stations on
the New York New Haven and Hartford
railroad. and &c will soon be used upon the
New York Central the Erie. the Reading.
the Lehigh Valley. the Southern Railway.
the Northern Pacific the Cleveland. Gin
cinnati Chicago and St. Louis. and the
Chesapeake and Ohio study these rail-
ways carefully and YOU will find that they
pretty nearly cover every section Of the
country. Besides these lines others will
take it Up but 10 is upon these that Pier
pont Morgan and his partners in the Cen
eral Electric are already empowered TO
figure.
When these roads are equipped with the
third rail Mr.. Morgan will have placed this
new system upon 5,2>0 miles of road owned
by the New York Central; upon Si3 con-
trolled by the Chesapeake and Ohio; upon
2.O23 miles of road belonging to the New
York. New Haven and Hartford; upon p
I27 miles of the Erie: upon 1277 miles of
Philadelphia and Reading; upon 2,435 miles
of Cleveland. Cincinnati Chicago and st.
Louis: upon 4S26 miles Of the Northern
Pacific: upon 4752 miles Of Southern Rail-
way. and upon 2.694 miles Of Lehigh Val
ley
Fortunately the work does not take a
great while. The third rail can be nailed
down without impeding traffic. The work
men can-put it in place between trains,
pausing when a train is due az that place.
As it does not stick high above the others
IL does not interfere with the present sys-
tenn Of travelling in any way.
The main cost is not so much the laying
OF the actual rail as the placing of the
electric wires and the Stauoning of cleo
trio forces IL is vastly cheaper rhougT
than building new railroad and Is. when
the profits are considered, the greatest
money making scheme of the age.
To the terribly uninitiated the third-rau
system Is blind expression, but when
they are told its operation they viii de-
clare IT very simple.
Inc present E14lrOAQ tracks are uSeQ IN
all cases and the present cars II desired.
But between the rails there is laid a third
rail. The motive power is furnished by a
storage battery. The engine" is a small
affair little more pretenuous than the
front wheel OF a street cable car. and is
carried along the third rail by electric wire
dynamo and motor.
1t has been fully demonstrated that we
can extend the radius Of power house ef-
fectiveness to fifty or a hundred miIes-
and that We can run short distance cleo
trio trains over the same rails as we oper-
ate our steam through trains without in
terfering with the latter; and now YOU will
witness the most radical changes in the
motive power of our roads.
II viii be necessary to have power houses
every fifty miles or so. for thexaSing on OF
storage batteries or for repair in case OF
break. but these. latter the first cost. will
be much less explosive than the car shops
and the locomotive repair works
One Of the strongest opponents TO tho
third rail system IS the trolley promoter
TIE trolley car alnd oSs drove out the loo