The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1904-05-19
FASTEST TRAIN IN THE WORLD.
Inventor Claims II VIII Attain a Speed Of
AZ Miles an Hour.

workers. are soon to see some
thing in the way of dizzy speed
over the rails that will make the
EmpireState Express and Twen-
tieth Century Flyer look like
local freights. The mere matter
of eighty miles an hour will be
comparatively so slow that the
passengers are likely to ask the
conductor what's OBTAINING them.
BY July 1st, says the New York
World, Prof. Albertson plans to
have in operation the first mag
netic train the world has ever
seen. His company is about to
begin the construction of rail-
way between Midland Beach and
South Beach, S. 1. The road
will be one and eight-tenths miles
in length, and the rolling stock
will be one little motor of the AL
bertson patent, and, at the most,
three cars. There will be no ne
cessity for more than a single
train, for at the lightning speed
that the inventor purposes send
ing it over the right of way, two
trains would be cumbersome.
INVENTOR is sANGUINE.
Fifteen seconds will be the
schedule time from terminal to
terminal, if Prof. Albertson real
ICES his hopes. He said that he
had figured it out and made his
estimates of the speed with the
little models he has in his work.
shop at Eleventh avenue and
Twenty-sixth street, New York
City. He has a miniature rail-
road there, on which he chases a
toy train of one car and the queer
looking motor every day, in order
to perfect the mechanism. The
inventor says he can burn up the
rails with it, and is really afraid |
to let it reach its maximum.
432 MILES AN HOUR.
According to the time schedule
of Prof. Albertson for the Staten
Island line, the train will travel
at the rate of about 432 miles an
hour, which is approximately five
times as fast as the swiftest ex-
press in the United States. He
says that he himself does not yet
know the exact maximum of
speed that his invention can at
tain, but is convinced that it can
haul train along a straight track
at more than 400 miles an hour.
TO PREVENT WRECK.
The railroad between Midland
Beach and South Beach is to be
sort of toy elevated structure.
The rails will rest on a steel
framework eight feet above the
ground. The object of this is
to give the train what the invent
or regards as absolute immunity
from a wreck. The wheels are
to run on the rails, and then, to
make sure that they cannot jump
the track, the magnets will run
along under the rails. No differ
ence how high the rate of speed
attained, Prof. Albertson says
this mode of construction will
sffectually prevent the train from
the track.
A SIMPLE INVENTION.
THE principle OF the invention
3 so simple that even a layman
nay readily understand IT," said
he inventor. Il have given seven
'ears of my life to it's study and 1
perfection. The time is not far =
Instant when the railroads, not {
My of this country but of every
me in the civilized world, will be I
ompelled TO adopt the electro
magnetic motor. II will reyo-
utionize speed and reduce the :
ost of operation. !
Although a speed of 400 or :
more miles an hour sounds ex- q
ravagant at the present, it is no Il
lOre fabulous than the rate of 0