Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-07-23
new MONORAIL Line
Details Of System Invented BY a
BaItimorean.
CAPABLE OF GREAT SPEED.

CAPABLE OF GREAT SPEED.
Cars on Road Projected Between New
York and Newark, NJ. j., Can Travel
Eighty Miles an HourC Can Be Built
Anywhere - Cost of Construction
$4,000 Per Mile. 5
Three Of the former rapid transit
commissioners in New York have be-
come interested In a project to build
an elevated four track monorail road
between Jersey City and Newark, N. j.,
with the intention Of carrying passen-
gers from New York to Newark for B
cents and from New York to Jersey
City for cents. Ann of the
new project was made the other day
simultaneously with the successful
conclusion Of a trial of the new mono
rail scheme In the exposition grounds
at Jamestown, says the New York
Times. 81 4.
1T has been ascertained definitely
that John 81. Starin, formerly vice
president Of the rapid transit COM
mission In New York; Charles Stew
art Smith and Woodbury. Langdon, 81
so former members of the commission,
are to give the new company the ben
eft Of their experience. n
If possible connection is to be made
with the McAdoo tunnel system be-
tween Jersey City, Hoboken and New
York, now nearing completion. Il this
plan fails the new company VIII In
stall fast ferry service with specially
constructed boats built for speed and
passenger service only. It 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. s Z s.ss5 X, It
1t was stated on behalf, Of those In
terested In the new company that their
purpose Is to institute a 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 overcapita lon, 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 Behr monorail system, pro
posed for road from Brooklyn to
Coney Island. It is the Invention Of
Howard H. Tunis, d Baltimore en-
gineer It is claimed that 1t can be
constructed at less than half the cost
OF a trolley road, that 1t can be oper-
ated at one--third the expense and thai
! eighty miles an hour can be made with
ease and safety. From the explana
lions given out it appears that the
chief feature of the new, scheme is It'd
simplicity! III
Briefly stated, the system consists Of
| 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 az
equilibrium device which holds the cal
4 upright under all possible conditions
4 and at the same time acts as a convey
or OF the electrical current, doing ava,
Il with the dangerous third rail. By rea
son OF this device 1t is possible to op
i crate extremely light cars over an ex
1 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
benta on each side Of the track are tw
small i shaped rails about thirty niche
apart. The equilibrium device consist
of a ladder-Iike trolley pole arrange
ment, at the end of which there ar
BAH bearing guide wheels that run 0
the Z shaped rails. The trucks 0
81 which the little wheels rest may ne
5 be removed from the rails without tai
ing the structure apart, so that there
no chance of the wheels Jumping an
letting the car topple over sideWay
The body Of the car is OF standard col
struction, forty feet long, 81
feet wide, and 1t has eight motors.
81 Mr.. Starin, who is already identifie
a with several transportation interest
l said: #sS
4 81 have been for more than thirt
{ years identified with transportation II
( terests in one way or another, and fl
! seventeen years ! have been memb'
!. OF the rapid transit boards of Ne
I York city and engaged In an effor
which has not been entirely unsucces
full, to work ont the great urban tran
portation problems that confront Il
city, and 1t has given me considerab
pleasure to be able to assist In the d
yelopment of what is without doubt Il
p most wonderful railroad system II
8. world has yet seen. First Of all,
. will do In an effective manner th
G which Ii the main business OF q ra
road deliver you at your OBSTINATE
= with promptness. An average spe.
Of from go to 100 miles an hour Z
passenger trains ought to satisfy ev,
= this hurrying age, and IL 1t doesn't d
speed can easily be pushed up to ev,
q higher average.
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