Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-21

New Direct Line Electric Road Start1es the
Transportation World.
Miles Shorter Than Shoreme 10 Hours Quicker
Than the Quickes-Fae Cheaper Than the Cheapest

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virtue Of the direct route. there are 100 miles
road-builders had TO pay for.
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The Aurora. Elgin 4 Chicago r. r. has
shown the world the marvellous possibilities
Of long distance electric traction. The story
OF this unique project ID q tale Of success
from start to hnish. Fortunes have been
made by the men who had the courage to
thing that the railroad world said could not
be done.
Over this f,fty.seven mile line full trains
are run at a speed that sometimes reaches
ninety miles an hour. Ladies' on the electric
cars wave a swift good-by 10 the passeng gers
on the two steam roads which run parallel to
II, the electric cars going by 30 fast that the
steam cars seem not to move at ALL
This road was built In the face Of pessIrnism
and ridicuie. Nobody outside Of It's promote
was this true Of the masnates Of the two
rival steam roads which II paralleled for It's
entire length. They laughed and said the
electric road would get no patronage worth
mentioning. that people would not dare to
ride at such q speed. ETC.. etc. They were not
day reality Of Q success beyond the widest
dreams OF the electric roads best friends.
Every train that runs 10 flled to Its fullest
capacity. and the trains contain a. many cars
az the engines can draw without sacrince
OF speed. Dining cars and bunet are provid.
cd and to the minutest detail everything 10
most luxurious, comfortable and convenient.
In the I'VE years that the road has been run
ming not one serious accident has occurred.
The Aurora Road has been the greatest
mn loe ~ 0rntaCf
hoated, making rich men out OF some VINO
had out nominal fortunes ~ tne outset.
80 sen. INC ea" ,r, power VI . u
smo;,n,inr 10 more than ten million dollars
and IN one OF the greatest railroad successes
tho world has ever known, What this road
has done Will be done on an Incompatible
greater scaie by the new iectric line between
Chicago and New York.
;rhe pleasur and comforts of electric ira.
vel. together with its great speed, appeal to
the average person no stronvly that he avails
himself OF them when he can can. No smoke
or cinders smooch the passengers, no sick
eniny s,ench from cattle trains befouls the
iurched around curves. There are practically
No c,rve. nm n high speed electric line. for
sich n speed cannot be maintained except
over n strairhtaway course,
wberever eicctrlc Tines have been int roduc.
I'd thew have brought about new conditions,
seeminr 10 create n class OF traffic peculiarly
their own n mi mating money where the wise
ones said II never could be done. In the case
Of the Auroroa. Eivin a Chicago road, the
only high.speed elect trio road MS yet in actual
operation. two steam roads parallel II the
entire way. and vet the eli, ctrc road has built
IN an cnormous trafi,c of It's own without
ai,prccinbly crippllns either OF the steam
ronds In their suburban patronage. The
electric road presents such delights OF travel
that new traiiic is actually created out OF a
class OF people who have heretofore Travelled
hut uttie or mot nj all
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There ID an absurd popular notion that no
steam railroad makes any considerable pro-
1T on It's passenger trafIic. but the new Chca.
go-New York Electric. Road will quickly
prove that such Ia not the case. and that by
special eauipping for passenger trafnc u can
be made 10 pay tar more tnah Ireish' uoes.
The reason passenger trafic on the great
trunk-line steam roads yields no pront 70
speak Of In not because there IL no money IN
the carrying OF passengers. put because the
roads. having been conceived ana built Win
and with freight the beginning ana end OF
the roads commercial desires. the two classes
Of tonnage don't work well together. When
a "hyer" makes a sensational run under
present railroad conditions u often means
that oil freight trains for distance OF one
hundred miles have to be run onto sidinss or
otherwise shifted out OF the danger zone until
the passenger train gets by. This means an
almost incalculable loss, loss that certainly
does kill all the proht that would otherwise
accrue.
Then again. the steam routes being freight
routes first. last and all the time. have to 10
where the freight 10. no matter how many
serpentine twists ana turns divert them from
the pathway Of directness. Passengers not
only have to be hauled far and unnecessarily
out OF the way. but are shifted around curves.
gullies and mountains thar forever rehder an
extremely high speed out OF the question.
The simple fact. therefore, % that passenger
traffc will pay and pay well. even u never q
pound OF freight were carried, y the route
were only direct one and no delay OF nity-
car freight trains. some or them Win perish.
able goods. was caused py the high-speed
trains.
When manufacturer ships freight unper
present conditions, strange process ensues.
Freight may 20 over half q dozen roads ana
many miles out OF It's way before II reaches
Its destination. Most OF the roads are menu
operate within certain spheres or influence"
Business Is divided up. the profits being pro.
portioned out In accordance with FACTOR
schedule and the freight going over which.
ever pool route the situation demands.
When a load OF freight starts from New
York for Chicago. by way o. Jet US say, the
Erie" no man can predict now many other
routes than the Erie II VIII run over peIore u
reaches the end OF US Journey ana matters
not 80 long a. u gets OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
time. But II DOES matter 10 passengers
whether or not they nave TO tolerate SUCH
beating around the pusn Wheh passenger