Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-05-29
WONDERFUL POSSIBILITY.
Railroad with Cars Running Like
Flies Upon a Ceiling,

Manager Miller OF the saltalr Beach
company Is In communication with sew
eral persons and companies, each Of
whom Is promoting some special at
traction for pleasure resorts HE Salt
air. Among them Is the American
Hallway company. that controls what
Is claimed TO be one OF the most won
derful railways ever built II Is called
the Centrifugal cycle railway and pre-
senta very thrilling ride that appears
at first blush 10 offer insurmounta-
BILE objects But when closely studied,
the physical possibility OF the thing
becomes apparent Even then. a prac-
teal demonstration IL almost necessary
IN order 10 convince the general run
Of mortals that the ride may be made
with comparative immunity from dan
ger.
The first and only structure OF this
character ever built was erected IN
Toledo Ohio, last year. and after car
Tying thousands OF men, women and
children daily without a single accl-
dent, fully demonstrated not only
that the law Of centrifugal force could
be applied 90 a railway but that with
the system OF rails and running gear
employed In this curious affair, regular
passenger cars can be run on any
grade. around any curve. going 90 the
extremity OF throwing a sOmersault,
without danger OF leaving the track,
And this may be done az any attain
able rate OF speed. even over two hun-
bred miles per hour and with cars Of
the lightest construction.
one Of these Centrifugal Cycle rail-
ways is being constructed at the Paris
exposition ana the promoters promise
20 startle the old world with their hair
raising attraction. one OF them Is
also being built at Coney Island, New
York.
The principle involved In this new
attraction Is a very simple one, but the
resultant ride Is certainly exciting.
When the passengers are secured In
their seats the cars are taken by "a
cable up an incline n hundred feet AT
the TOD this car Is released and upon
rounding the downward curve by lhe
natural force OF gravity the car. with
rs load Of human freight, dashes down
the incline, at the foot OF which IL
plunges with lightning rapidly into an
upright circle. ZIP goes the car
around the curve turuing with wheels
uppermOst and the heads OF the passeu-
gers hanging downward yet their
bodies being pressed against the seats
and the wheels against the face OF the
rails by the centrifugal force resulting
from the speed impact The car now
descends on the downward side OF the
circle and the momentum carries IL
ana its load Up n slight incline % me
starting point the passengers having
completed the fastest the most fascin-
ating and most daugerous-lookIug ride
possible. Yet there has been no acci-
dent which causes the inventors 90 as
sert thot q u.s. the safest ride on record
The road Is built upon the mon0rail
system Invented by Captain Lima
Beecher who o. now planning several
roads for fast air lines with O speed
OF Two hundred miles an hour
Persons who have seen the steep.
banked. saucer-like bicycle track at he
salt Palace viii more readily under.
stand the principle and possibility of
the centrifugal cycle railway While II
II out OF the question flr q bicycle "a.
der 20 stand on the track motlonlesg hf
n able easily 90 maintain his equll.
brium when going at high Fpeed. hl.
wheel standing upright as compared
with me angle Of the surface Of M,
track, nut leaning very much 49,
ways when compared with ~. u,ori AZ,
regular level. In the centrifuesi cvci.