The age-herald., 1902-01-19

Trains that will run from New York to San Francisco without stopping, pick ing up passengers while flying across the country, and providing means for them to alisht with safety at any station de- sired have just been made possible through remarkable invention of New York man, MT. John W. Jenkins.
 His project provides for the use of sad- dle cars to straddle the express train. By an ingenious system of raised and lower ed tracks the saddle car is to be auto matically picked up at one station by an express train and carried to the next station. Passengers will transfer from the saddle car to the express while in transit. s
 The Jenkins saddle car paves the way for heretofore undrearnt of possibilities in railroad travelling. It suggests long sought solution to many difficult railroad system problems.
 MT. Jenkins has patented his saddle car and has entered into negotiations with one railroad desirous of giving it a thorough test 4 aea zasI Suburbanites will be interested in this invention because it provides them with trains that do not stop at every station along the road @
 The running time between New York
  five days to about fifty hours If MT. Jen- kins' scheme works we'll. w
 I think I have solved the most per picking problem confronting the great American railroad systems. ##t
 By the adoption of my saddle car rail- road traveling Is to be revolutionized- rapid transit begins new era
 Express trains will run from New York straight through to San Francisco with out making even one stop
 Passengers may get of or on, though, at any desired point en route.
 The Jenkins saddle car. briefly stated. means this: Railroad passengers will in future safely alight from trains running at fifty or sixty miles an hour. At the same station at which these passengers have been deposited others will board the express.
 Imagine the sensation of boarding an express train travelling at the rate of sixty miles an houri EYE And yet 1t Is all as simple as A B c.
 Suburban trains, scheduled to stop at every station along the road will travel at express speed, picking up passengers and leaving others at every station along the road. HEt
 Apart from the enormous saving to the railroad companies by the reduced wear and tear on locomotives and other roll ing stock, there IS an enormous saving ID time to be considered. a San Francisco will be but fifty hours ride from New York City. Five days is the shortest time in which the trip can be made at present.
 Busy toilers in New York Chicago, Philadelphia or any other large city will reside ten. twenty. or even thirty miles from their place of business without hay ing to spend more time traveiing to and from home than they do today.
 My railroad saddle car may not be con sidered a very wonderful invention. It is an exceedingly simple seeptrivance but 1t paves the way for unfold possibilities in the development of our systems of transportation overland.
 From, what I have said about express trains picking up and depositing passen- gers at stations while travelling at sixty miles an hour if must not be inferred that my saddle car is merely an inn provement on the very ingenious de vice by which mall trains scoop in mail bags It is not.
 And at the same time. I hasten to add. 1t is. s&
 Many years ago while l was in Illinois