The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-12
runs only at long intervals and stops

runs only at long intervals and stops
but few times.
In case of Il wreck the dangers of
fire are almost entirely eliminated.
There is no red-ho fire box in the en-
CINE TO set fro 10 the wrecked train.
There is no scalding steam to torture
the engineer to a horrible death. The
safeguards against are another advan-
taCe on the side of electricity. The
motive power may be cut off automat-
ically from the third rail or trolley wire
when there is a car deralled, or an oh
struction on the track. Motor-drivcn
cars are not nearly so likely TO be de-
rallied as the heavy locomotive with It's
unbalanced reciprocating parts.
Stops may be made with much more
frequency by electric motors without de-
LAYING the schedule from terminus to
terminus, This is possible because it
does not take nearly so long for it
TO get under Roadway as the steam
locomotive. In race at Schenectady
most exhaustive tests were made be-
tween the highest types of steam and
electric engines. 1t required 205 see
oDds for the steam locomotive TO at
tain speed of fifty miles an hour,
while the electric engine reached that
rate of speed in l27 seconds.
Careful estimates recently made for
the electrification Of sevcntY-eight miles
of steam railroad Indicated that thDe
would he n saving of twenty-onc per
cent In the operating expenses of the
road. Lewis b. Stillwcll and Henry
st. Clair Putnam, two eminent engi
nccrs, have made exhaustive caICula-
tions which show that taking the en-
tire 2l6,974 miles of steam railroads
in the United States, a reduction Of
operating expenses TO eighty-three per
cent of the present outlay would be
made by electrificatIou Of all the rail
roads. This would mean a net saving
of SSS7 a mile in one year.
Pending the solution of these main
questions, there is much of the rich
territory of the United States where
the interurban railway is already king.
The great Central Electic railway sta
tion in Indianapolis, the center of the
lines, is the pride of every Hoosier,
and an acknowledged source of wealth
for the Hoosier metropolis. In Mil
waukee the new traction line terminal
building rs a genuine wonder of tho
world With its tracks coming in from
all portions Of the country. It's beauti.
full appointments for the comfort of
IT'S passengers, lls recreation nails ana
auditorium for the benefit of its en-
ployecs, its surgeon s department and
miniature hospital. its chemical and
physical laboratories and its print shop
1t is the very embodiment of the pro.
gress OF the American people.
The Spokane and Inland Empire sys
TEN with It's 169 miles of track CON
Meeting Spokane with Coeur d Alene.
Idaho. and Colfax and Moscow. Wash,
lngton, is an electric road which de-
votes much attention to freight traf-
lic. 1t uses electric locomotives for
freight and the overhead trolley svs-
tenn for passenger service. 1t main
tains speed Of forty miles an hour
for It's passenger service, and il is
said to be doing wonders in building
up the inland empire" surrounding
Spokane.
From Pittsburg to Butler in The
Pennsylvania mountains is a type of
the lntcrurban road built through n
country presenting so many difficulties
that it was for long time believed the
clcctrics wonld not go through There
Is much heavy work in the construction
of this new road, one bridge being 600
feet long and eighty yfvc feet above the
creek 1T spans. But ii is built and its
success seems assured While steam will
not be displaced for many wears To
come, 1T must be admitted that the
electric railway has come to stay.
Tomorrow Stories Of Thomas Jef-
tcrson'' Will be the tonic which Mr.