The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-04

know that the Kinetic motor was adapt
able to railroad locomotives also. We
want a system that will obviate smoke
and cinders and find that is the point
attained in the Kinetic system.
Cost of Operating New Motors.
Through the operation of the Kinetic
motors now running on the Babylon
railroad, the extended trial runs in Chi
cago, and through the average record
made by the new motors on exhibition
at Wilmington. Mr. Dodge has been
able to carefully compute the cost of
building and equipping with his system.
as compared with all other existing
systems. From these figures thus COM
piled, it appears that the Kinetic sys
tenn is not only cheaper than all known
street railroad traction systems, but
also cheaper than the operation of the
ordinary locomotive, which has hith-
erto been considered the most direct
and economic motive power. According
to the New York railroad commission
ers' report for 1897, the motive power
cost per car mile on the Manhattan Ele-
waited railway of New York City is 1.99
cents per car mile. OF the three known
traction systems, namely, the under
ground and the overhead electric and
the cable system, the overhead electric
trolley system is the cheapest and the
last offensive. The report of the Mas
sachusettS railroad commissioners
shows that the motive power cost on
the West End street railway in Boston
(where the trolley system is in use) is
5.S cents per car mile The operation of
the Kinetic motors in use on the
Babylon railroad has proved that the
motive power cost of Mr.. Dodge's sys-
TEN amounts to the fraction of but IL
of a cent per car mile.
1t is not only in operation that this
system is cheaper and better than the
other known traction agents, but also
in the cost of equipment per car mile,
which the following table, prepared by
Mr.. Dodge, will show. Cost per mile of
equipment including three motor cars,
per mile: Cable. S175.0O0; overhead troll
ley $31, $50; underground electric, S75, 900
to 100000: kinetic. S23,500.
This marvelously simple system re-
quires no bonding of rails; it does not
demanding the raising of POLES and eX-
tending of wires or of underground
conduits, and it does away with the I'M
mechanical recorversion and transmits
sion losses of power attendant on other |
systems. The weight of the Kinetic mo-
tors rests upon springs, thus avoiding
the great damage to rolling stock and
rails and rail joints experienced with
electric systems. the adjustment of the
actually upon the dead axles or equiv
alent to it. The wearing parts. the me-
chanicai machinery of the Kinetic mo-
tor, are the same as in the locomotive.
which has no superior in mechanical
perfection.
1t is said that Mr.. Dodge has already
closed large deal for motors and that
he is making arrangements to increase
immensely the capacity of his plant in
Wilmington.
Governor Roosevelt recently signed
Senator Douglas BILL which permits the
running of Kinetic motors over any
part of any surface road. Previously
the railroad commissioners claimed that
these motors belong in the classified
ton which prohibits the running of To-
comotiveS on street surface roads, but
the Douglas bill does away with this
distinction, stating that inasmuch as
the Kinetic motor does not emit smoke
steam nor cinders. and since it's steam
power is not primarily generated in
transit as in the ordinary locomotive.
this motor comes under the new clause
which now permits the employment of
locomotive power, ''in the use of which
neither steam nor smoke is visible"
JOHANNES H. WISRY.