Smyrna times., 1908-12-23
ELECTRIC RAILWAY PROGRESS
Plans Are Being Perfected By j. w.
Endean For Actual Rapid Transit
Through the Peninsula.

long SAAASAOS WACASDy IuS O6ldWdre |
Peninsula will in the near future
reap the benefits of an Electric
Railway System which will give the
Communities actual rapid transit,
and put them in close and easy touch
with all the northern cities, and with
this end in view, on his strong recon-
mendation, the British syndicate
who will underwrite the bonds for
the construction and equipping #
the line, have instructed that de-
tailed information be supplied regard
ing the prOpOsed/system, which it is
proposed to supersede the original
intentieon viz that, of surface
system of trolley line. In this con-
nection Mr.. Endean has been exceed
ingly busy in interviewing the several
authorities throughout the State
through which the line will pass,
placing the new system before them,
and explaining its working, and
requesting that their franchise may
be altered so as to allow that founda-
tion for the standards may be laid
along the curl line of the streets
etc, for the surface tracks, and has
been successful in having most of
the authorities grant his request, and
those not yet granted are held unier
consideration and is likely to be
granted at any time in the near
future.
To Adopt New System of Construction
The new system proposed is that of
the American Suspension Railway,
which is patented in every country
and which is destined to be the
universal system of rapid transit in
the future, the cars being suspended
from a steel superstructure, sixteen
feet from the ground, and operated
on the third rail system of electric
traction. The standards for the
support of the superstructure will be
fifty feet apart, and will be lighted
with a high candle power light at
intervals of every hundred yards,
and the great claims made for this
system are, viz: that speed of
fifty miles an hour can be easily and
safely maintained, the running is
perfectly noiseless, absolute safety
in travel, no interference with street
or road traffic, no dust or dirt, clear
observation from cars, no delays
from snow storms, does not shut out
light or air, perfect construction,
most safe and comfortable travel ir
summer and winter, and the cars are
operated under the most perfect con-
troll. Under thesea conditions pas.
sengers and freight can be moveC
with rapidity and perfect safety, as
with the many safety devices in
corporated in this system, they elm
mate every conceivable accident anC
! with the steel rails placed on true
steel girders, with sound alb
! sorbers, a perfect smooth, level, ant
/ noiseless track is assured. A system
= of suspension railways is already il
| operation in Germany having been 81
) for the past eight years, and carry
! ing %, 900, 900 passengers annually
{ andthere has never been the slightes
. accident of any kind recorded as yet
\ and it was after a close inspection o
this system by the engineers tina
= the British syndicate of Underwater
decided to adopt it for the throug
Y State line in Delaware, and plans an
= specifications have been prepared an
s is now in process of approval by tn
r syndicate.
Would Mean Much to Delaware.
e Mr.. Endean is enthusiastic wit
/, the new system of Suspension rail
n ways and predicts that with thi
! system in operation in Delaware
h that the States rapid development
+, is assured, and it will be visite
: bv deputations from all over tn
a world. who will be interested in tn
: operatinn of what will become tn
d universal system of actual rapit
L transit throughout the world. Ever
effort is being put forth by Mr.. Ell
dean and his colleagues to get all tn
Ie details we'll in hand, and the neces
IS sary alterations to their franchise
It allow of the early placing of the o.
if ders for the steel work for the star
1t dards and superstructure and tn
ct erection of the same. The power an
re substations which have been arrange
a for in connection with the surfa'
m system, will be the same for II
pit new system with the exception th'
in the units will be increased in capacli
sn 70 allow for the use of two or thr'
le car trains to be used if the demar
w requires it, ETC., also for the operl
&c I I-..LIc 4~ool line win III