Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-11
SINGLE RAIL LINE.
Baltimorean PerfectS System
That Offers Many Unique
Advantages.
CAPABLE Of GREAT SPEED
Cars on Road Projected Between Ne"
York and Newark, N. j. can
Travel 80 Miles an Hour.

Three of the former rapid uansn
commissioners in New York have be-
come Interested in a project to build
an elevated four track monorail road
between Jersey City and Newark, y. j.,
with the intention of carrying passen-
gers from New York to Newark for .
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 IL 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 H. Starin, formerly vice
president of the rapid transit com
mission III New York; Charles Stew
art Smith and Woodbury. Langdon, al
so former members of the commission,
are to give the new company the ben
eft of their experience.
If possible connection is to be made
with the McAdoo tunnel system he
tween Jersey City. Hohoken and New
York, now nearing completion. If this
plan fails 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 mOnorail than by
the steam railroads.
It 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. 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
| ly from the Behr mOnorail system, pro
| posed for Il road from Brooklyn tC
| COney Island. 1t is the invention OF
| Howard II. Tunis. Baltimore en-
gineer 1t is claimed that it can be
constructed ut less than half the cost
of trolley road. that it can be oper
ated at one-third the expense and that
| eighty miles an hour can be made will
| ease and safety. From the eXplana
tons given out it appears that the
chief feature of the new scheme is it
simplicity.
| Uses Cigar-Shaped Car.
| Briefly stated. the system consists o
long. somewhat narrow, cigar Shape'
| car, running on two trucks of tw'
| wheels, set tandem. each over one rail
| Overhead the car is supported by a
| equilibrium device which holds the Gu
upright under all possible condition
and at the same time acts as Il convey
| or of the electrical current, doing ava.
with the dangerous third rail. BY rea
| son of this device it is possible to op
crate extremely light cars over an OK
tremely light structure. With sue
| cars the inventor and others claim tina
100 miles an hour can be made easily.
Supported above the car by iro
| bentS on each side of the track are tw
small L shaped rails about thirty inche
apart. The equilibrium device consist
of a ladder-like trolley pole arrange
ment, at the end of which there ar
ball bearing guide wheels that run o