The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-07-10
NEW MONORA|L Line
Details Of System Invented by a
BaItimorean.
CAPABLE OF GREAT SPEED.
Cars on Road Projected Between Nsw
York and Newark, N. j., Can Travel
Eighty Miles an Hour-Can 30 Built
Anywhere - Cost Of Construction
$75,0co Per Mile.


S75,0co Per Mile.
Three Of the former rapid transit
commissioners In New York have be-
come interested in project to build
an elevated four track monorail road
between Jersey City and Newark, N. j..
with the intention Of carrying passen-
gers from New York to Newark for 5
cents and from New York to Jersey
City for cents. Announcement Of tho
new project was made the other day
simultaneously with the successful
conclusion of a trial Of the new mono
rail scheme in the exposition grounds
at Jamestown, says the New York
Times. -~-,ulssaa VI 1akii Il -,
1t has been ascertained definitely
that John 81. Starin. formerly vice
PRESIDENT Of the rapid transit COM
mission In New York; Charles Stew
art Smith and Woodbury. Langdon. al
so former members Of the commission.
ere to give the new company the ben
eft 81 their experience.
IL possible Connection is to be made
with the McAdoo tunnel system be-
tween Jersey City, Hoboken and New
York, now nearing completion. II this
plan falls the new company will in
stall fast ferry service with specially
constructed bOats built for speed. and
passenger service only. 1t Is stated
that the whole trip to Newark. includ-
ing the journey by ferry. will be made
more quickly by the mOnOratl than by
the steam railroads.
1t was stated on behalf Of those in
terested In the new company that their
purpose Is to institute real rapid
transit system rather than to build up
great money making enterprise. Tie
announced aims OF the concern are to
give exceptionally good service, to
avoid overcapitalization, to maintain
harmonious relations with the public
and with employees and to prove that
an enterprise conducted OH highly
moral grounds can be made successful
financially.
The system to be used differs radical
ly from the Behr monoral system, pro-
posed for road from Brooklyn to
Coney Island. 1t is the invention of
Howard III. Tunis, Baltimore en-
glneer 1t Is claimed that it can be
constructed at less than half the cost
of a trolley road, that it can be oper-
ated at one-third the expense and that
eighty miles an hour can be made with
ease and safety. From the explana-
tons given out it appears that the
chief feature of the new scheme is it's
$500
Briefly stated, the system consists of
a long, somewhat narrow, cigar shaped
car, running on two trucks OF two
wheels, set tandem, each over one rail.
Overhead the car is supported by an
equilibrium device which holds the car
upright under all possible conditions
and at the same time acts as a convey
or Of the electrical current, doing away
with the dangerous third rail. BY rea-
son Of this device 1t Is possible to OPP
crate extremely light cars over an ex-
tremely light structure. With such
cars the inventor and others claim that
100 miles an hour can be made easily
Supported above the car by iron
bents on each side of the track are two
small l. shaped rails about thirty inches
apart The equilibrium device consists
of ladder-ike trolley pole arrange
ment, at the end Of which there are
ball bearing guide wheels that run Oh
the l. shaped rails The trucks on
which the little wheels rest may not
be removed from the rails without tax
Ing the structure apart, so that there ia
no chance Of the wheels jumping" and
letting the car topple over sideways
The body of the car Is of standard con-
struction, forty-seven feet long, six
feet wide, and 1t has eight motors.
Mr. Starln, who is already identified
with several transportation interests.
said:
II have been for more than thirty
years identified with transportation in
terests in one way or another, and for
seventeen years | have been member
of the rapid transit boards Of New
York city and engaged In an effort
which has not been entirely unsuccess-
full, to work out the great urban trans
portation problems that confront the
city, and 1T has given me considerable
pleasure to be able to assist In the de-
velopment of what is without doubt the
most wonderful railroad system the
world has vet seen. First of all, it
will do in an effective manner that
which Is the main business Of rail-
road-deliver you at your destination
with prOmptness. An average speed
Of from go to 100 miles an hour for
passenger trains ought to satisfy even
this hurrylng age, and III 1T doesn't tho
speed can easily be pushed up to even
higher average.
'The thing that has appealed to me
In this new system Is Its striking COM
mercial advantages. 1t can be built
anywhere-ln a narrow street because
1t Is narrow road and has only one
rail, thus taking up but little space;
In rough and inaccessible country be-
cause 1t Is the master Of the hard prob
lens Of grades, and wherever 1t is built
it's construction Is cheap compared with
the great cost of steam and even troll