Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-25

railroad which Will cut down the
running time between Chicago and
New York to ten hours, and carry
passengers at a $40 fare, continues
unabated. People who were skep-
ticall at first as to the reality of
such q gigantic project have now
become convinced by the actual
showing of work already done.
Grading commenced on September
l. The Chicago-New York Electric
Air Line railroad will run over a
track that scarcely verges from
straight line in it's entire course of
$50 miles, thereby making the dis
tance 16O miles shorter than the
shortest existing steam railroad
route Over this direct road will be
run hourly electric trains at a speed
which will reach a maximum of 100
miles an hour and maintain an
average. of seventy-five miles. No
steam road ever could do this, be-
cause it would be impossible to carry
enough fuel and water to maintain
such a speed. Moreover, the limit
of human endurance has been
reached by the stokers on steam
locomotives. According to Warren
Sanford Stone, chief of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers,
stoker on steam locomotive
shovels as high as twenty-five tons
of coal on a single trip. The new
electric engines have no such handi-
cap, for ample and uniform power
comes to them at all times from
mammoth power houses, located
fifty miles opart along the line.
Their rotary motors run without
thump or jar and enable them 10
do work under which steam loco
motive would not last six months.
There is not the slightest ques-
tion that the road will be built
and in running order on schedule
time. Every one of it's original
projectors is a practical railroad
man, and their personal honor and
standing are such as to guarantee
the complete success of the PROJECT.
PERFECTION OF RAPID TRANSIT
Here is a great trunk line railroad
to be laid out on a route so straight
that it will save 100 miles; to be run
by electric power so economically
that some of its trains will carry
through passengers for $40, and TO
run at a speed that Will average 20
miles an hour. What steam railroad
that now exists can stand competi-
ton like that? How many people
will continue to travel over the not,
smoochy, cinder-laden steam lines,
when the new electric road will carry
them to their destination for half
the money and in half the time?
The territory through which the
Chicago New York Electric Air Line
railroad will run has a population or
$500, 900 people, and the passenger
traffic is the greatest in the world
This traffic is sure to go to the new
electric line, for people will always
favor the shortest. quickest. cheap
est route, and that is exactly whac
the new electric line will be, Every
track or highway will be crossed
either overhead or underneath, and
the deadly grade crossings that
cause the steam roads so many acci-
dents and loss of millions of dollars
in damage suits will be done away
with
One thing that will insure the sue
cessful building of the Chicago New
York Electric Air Line railroad is
the fact that the people have been
given an opportunity to participate
in it's success. Many a man who in
vests his savings in this stock at the
low price at which it sells today will
find himself possessed of an income
which will make him independent
for life after a few years.
With confidence in this gigantic
enterprise, and approving what the
promoters of the Chicago New York
Electric Air Line railroad have done,
the people have responded nobly
Every day they throng the office of
the company. eager to invest In such
safe and sane proposition. Thou
sands of shares of stock have al
ready been subscribed for and rapid
building of the road is now in prog
ress.
NO MAN CAN LOSE A DOLLAR