The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-01-11

/ of the luXurtes when the suDurban,tcs
/ enjoy going 10 and from the city, and
the railroad seems vcritablc gold
/ mine FOR It's owners.
! me horse car has long since diSap-
pcarcd. VIII the iron horse the great
steam locomotive. hc Suppantcd also;
| This question occurs to all who can
soc the significance OF passing cycnts
! Probably not for many years 10 'Omc.
rs far ms heavy freight traffic is CON.
! ccrucd. because steam is especially aD-
plicablc 10 The hauling of freight. But
! the action Of The New York Central in
( clectrifyug thirty-hvc miles Of its road
/ lcaumg ont Of Now York and the
! popular agitation for similar improve
mont I'm aiclge and elsewhere. woull
/ seem 10 point to time not far distant
when electric railroads will connect
distant citics and greatly shorten the
I hours Of travel.
( Chicago TO New York in Ten Hours.
I'm fact such railway already iS
being built between. Chicago aud New
York by the 'hjya@ New York Elcc-
| trio Nir 7 inc Railroad company. OF
! , mcago This company. headed by n
-rorn of practical railroad mon. pro
noses 10 run limited trains. making not
more than three stops, through 10 New
ori or Chicago, i'm ten hours. The
thought fairly takes ones breath away
/ nj first. lint the project considered
! sobcrly seems practical enough. and
! certainly is n ConSummation dcvoutly
| N be wished" The work of grading
| began Sept. near I.aPorte. Ind.
As the new road will be an air line.
! with few curves, the route surveyed
g l6U miles shorter than the Pcnusvl-
| vanin short Line. and 800 miles
shorter than the Lake shore and
! New York Central. each of which runs
! .rainS covering the distance i'm eighteen
hours. Taking into consideration the
shorter route Of the Air Line, this is
! equivalent 10 Il fourteen hour service
| With low grades, Il straight track and
! no grade crossings. the scvcnty-hNo
/ niles an our average necessary 10 ~
! teu-hour service ought easily to be
4, maintained. Even on the first class
| steam roads Of today ninety miles au
! hour is not uncommon for short dis.
/ tancpS
The Scientific American of Fob. II
! 1908, speaking Cditorially Of the New
! York Central experiment. S1yS. "Eht
success of This installation. df wajcI
] there can lac no doubt Whatever marks
/ the first step i'm the gradual Suh~ti
/ tuition ~ the electric for the steam
7 locomotive i'm The operation of long dis
tanCc express trains" Th" Chicago
New York proiect may hc regarded th,
second step.
Mr., Spraguc himself says that speed
/ Is ~ matter ~ finance" What then
/ will determine the future" ne asks.
/ "Chieily the financial factor. rs IL must
/ the future of amy other great industrial
! problem. When savings in operation
and the increased return for traffic
will more than pay a fair dividend on
! money invested for electrical equip
mcnt. will trunk lines hc operated 10y
! electricity"
Professor Charles l.. StciuuCtZ. ono
| or thc greatest authorities ON ClCc-
| tr'city, is quoted as saying. There is
/ no limit to the speed thar may hC de-
! Vcloped i'm electric traction-that IS,
there is no limit up to loo or 2rD miles
\ an hour Higher speed thsn that the
\ Csr wheels could not stand They
/ vPuld DIV to pieces from centrifugal
/ force. Not only can a speed OF 100
/ miles an hour he maintained on a
train equipped with electricity. but in