The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-08-27
new MONORAIL LINE
Details VI System Invented by a
BaltimOrean.
CAPABLE OF GREAT SPEED.

G@Fu OF Uo@u FF0lecteo between new
York and Newark, NJ. j., Can Travel
Eighty Miles an Hour-can Be Built
Anywhere So Cost Of Construction
$4,000 Per Mile.
Three of the former rapid transit
commissioners In New York have be-
come Interested ia a project to build
an elevated four track monorall road
between Jersey City and Newark, N. j..
with the intention OF carrying passen-
gers from New York to Newark for s
cents and from New York to Jersey
city for cents. Announcement of the
new project was made the other day
simultaneously with the successful
conclusion OF trial OF the new mono
rail scheme in the exposition grounds
at jamestown, says the New York
Times.
II has been ascertained definitely
that John II. Starin, formerly vice
president Of the rapid transit com.
mission In New York; Charles Stew.
art Smith and Woodbury. Langdon, al
80 former members of the commission,
are to give the new company the ben.
eft Of their experience.
II 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 win In
stall fast ferry service with specially
constructed boats built for speed and
passenger service only. II Is stated
that the whole trip to Newark, lnclud
Ing the Journey by ferry. win be made
more quickly by the monOrall than by
the steam railroads.
II was stated ON behalf Of those In.
terested In the new company that their
purpose II TO institute real rapid
transit system rather than to build up
great money making enterprise. The
announced aims of the concern are to
give exceptionally good service. to
avoid decentralization. to maintain
harmonious relations with the public
and with employees and to prove that
an enterprise conducted on highly
moral grounds can be made successful
( financially.
The system to be used differs radical
~ from the Rehr monorali system, pro-
posed for a road from Brooklyn to
Coney Island. II Il the invention OF
Howard IL, Isinis Baltimore en-
| gineer. II Is claimed that 1t can be
constructed at less than half the cost
OF trolley road, that It can be oper-
ated at one-thlrd the expense and that
/ eighty miles an hour can be made with
ease aud safety. From the explana-
lions given out 1t appears that the
| chief feature nf the new scheme Is its
simplicity.
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 II Is possible to op-
crate extremely light cars over an ex.
tremely light structure. With such
cars the inventor aud 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-llke trolley pole arrange
ment, at the end of which there are
ball bearing guide wheels that run on
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. 10 that there Is
no chance OF the wheels jumping and
letting the car tOpple over sideways
The body OF the ear h OF standard con
structiOn, fOrty-seven feet long, six
feet wide. and It has eight motors.
Mr.. Starln, who Is already Identified
with several transportation interests,
said:
Il have been for more than thirty
years Identified with transportation I'm
tsrests in one way or another. and for
seventeen years have been a member
Of the rapid transit boards of New
York city and engaged In an effort
which has not been entirely unsuccess.
ful. TO work out the great urban trans.