The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-06

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er scale by the new electric line De-
tween Chicago and New York.
The pleasure and comfort Of electric
travel, together with its great speed
appeals to the average person SO
strongly that he avails himself of them
when he can. No smoke or cinders
smooch the passengers, no slckenlng
stencil from cattle trains befouls the
air, and one is not jolted from size
TO side, or lurched around curves. There
are practically no curves on nigh
speed electric line, for such speed can
not be maintained except over
straightaway course.
Wherever electric lines have been m
troduced they have brought about new
conditions, seeming to create class OF
traffic peculiarly their own and making
money where the wise ones said 1t could
never be done. In the case of the Au-
rora, Elgin & Chicago road, the only
high speed electric road as yet in actual
operation, two steam roads parallel 1t
the entire way, and yet the electric
road has built up an enormous traffic
of it's own without appreciably Grip
ping either of the steam roads in their
suburban patronage. Inc electric road
presents such delights of travel that
new traffic is actually created out of a
class of people who have heretofore
Travelled but little or not at all.
NEW ROAD ENCOUNTERS FEW
OBSTACLES.
The histories of most of the steam
roads read like political melodramas.
Bribery and corruption of State and
national dignitaries was looked upon
as being as essential as the laying OF
rails, industries were throttled, coal
mines forced into line and right -of-way
secured by the most desperate tactics.
No such struggles will be necessary
in the construction of the Chicago-New
York Air Line Railroad. Most OF the
large cities are not absolutely crossed
by the right c1-way, but lie very close
to it. This line given the project all OF
the advantages and none of the difficult
ties encountered by the steam roads.
The line is, in most cases, just near
enough so that an insignificant spur of
a few miles long will, for all practical
purposes, locate the line beside the
city, while it is just far enough away to
escape political or similar obstancles.
Never was railroad project launched
with SO few difficulties confronting 1t.
Everywhere along the line manufac-
turers and other power consumers well
come it, because of the low-priced sur
plus power the new road can sell them.
of homes will glow bril-
liantly from the electric lights supplied
from the same source, feature that
is bound to make friends for the road
from one end of the line to the other.
The problem of grade crossings has
not only been solved, but done away
with. The Chicago-New York Electric
Air Line Railroad will be the first ex-
ample in railroad history in which no
other road, highway or street is crossed
lat grade" or on the same level. The
new road will either go under or over
all such obstacles, a feature which
saves all the time that existing steam
roads lose by their ''slowdowns" at
crossings, and enables the electric train
to maintain its marvellous speed.
The Chicago-New York Electric Air
Line road has among it's staff the very
man who secured every foot of the
right-of-way for the Aurora, Elgin &
Chicago Electric road and was one of
the most prominent factors in bringing
It's great SuCCSSS- hCIC Oil stiSO
among its officials several men who
were actively connected with the Bur
ington road, two of them in the oper-
ating department. 1t is a well-known |
and universally acknowledged fact that |
the Burlington has graduated more
successful railroad experts than any |
other road in the country, and the sue |
cess of the new electric road will be as
sured in no small degree by these two |
men.
NO MAKESHIFT PLANS FOR THE |
NEW ELECTRIC ROAD.
The builders of the Chica go-New |
York Electric Air Line Railroad have |
determined that no matter of expe- |
iiency shall cause them to build with |
1nly today in view and to forget to- |
morrow. Many a minor curve or grade
might be left untouched, and hundreds
If thousands of dollars saved in origl-
nal cost, but they must and will be
out and leveled down. Ev-
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