The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-23

ments and the cooperation that can
be effected by the peculiar construc-
ton of the new town.
Refrigerating plants. placed every
few miles, will cool the water and keep
food sweet and wholesome. Drinking
water can be obtained by tapping any
of the numerous rivers ROadtOwn viii
cross. Express trains. averaging nine-
" miles an hour. viii take the Road
tOWnist 10 his destination. His apart
nlent viii be heated by hot water cir
culated from a heating plant by means
of pumps The heat can be regulated
tubes viii carry scraps from the kitch-
Ell 10 a common cremat0ry. Telephone,
electric Light, baths-in short, ali the
luxuries of the pampered city dweller
will be combined with the manifold
advantages to be derived from life in
the open country
Best Engineers Approve IT,
ChambIess has sought the advice Of
the best consulting engineers in the
country, and has obtained estimates
showing that the plan is practicable in
every sense of the word. One mile of
ROadtOWn would cost the owner of
each house S22.76 a month for up
keep. This includes his heat. light.
telephone, vacuum cleaner, water, gas
for cooking. laundry and transporta-
ton. The cost for constructing a mile
Of ROadtOwn is estimated at S3,109
per house fully equipped.
In a book entitled ~ROadtOWn.
written by the inventor and just pub
lshed by the ROadtoWn press. $50
Nassau street. in this city. Mr.. Cham
bless describes his plan in part as fol-
lows:
The ROadtOWn is a scheme TO Or
ganiZe production. transportation and
consumption into one systematic plan.
In the age OF pipes and wires. and
high-speed railways. such plan ne
cessitates the building in one dimen-
sion instead of thFee-the line distri-
button of population instead of the
pyramid style of construction. The
rail-plpe-and-WiTe civilization and the
increase in the speed of transportation
is certain to result in the line distri-
button of population because of the
almost unbelievable economy in con-
structiOn. in operation and in time.
The ROadtOWn will be built of ce-
ment frepTOOf and vermin proof.
Modern so-ealled fireproof buildings
are frequently destroyed by fire. This
is because they contain combustibie
material. If material in a large build
ing gets on fire and through stairways
and air shafts sets fire to other COM
bustibles, the whole building is heated
10 the ignition point The horizontal
ROadtOwn house. only two stories high,
cannot be destroyed in this fashion.
Any building material may be used.
but We will here consider cement
poured into monlds as a standard.
Thomas 4. Edison. whose efforts at
perfeeting a method of moulding
complete houses by pouring cement
into moulds has attracted worldwide
attention. has donated TO the Road
town the use of his cement house
patents.
THE Roadtown like the railroad.
Will get much of its building material.
such as sand and stone. along the
right of way. and haul il 10 its place
in the structure on the railroad which
Will be the first part of a ROadtOwn
10 be constructed. Thus the expense
viii be greatly reduced. OF the var
ious systems OF transportation devised
and now available, / believe. the Boyes
monOrail 10 'be the most applicable
10 the needs OF a continuous house,
and l have prevailed upon Mr.. BOyes
10 donate the use of his patents 10
Roadtown. This wonderful invention
was perfected after many years of
intense application by a thorough
mechanic and electrician.
ct has been demonstrated and found
TO be thoroughly practical and is far
in advance OF either the present two
rallied electric railroads or the gyrO-
scopic types of m0norail cars which
have lately attracted considerable at
tention because of their seeming dis
regard of the law of gravity.
The Boyes mon0rail uses the prin-
ciple of the gyrOscope used in the
Brennan monOrail. with a difference
that where the Brennan gyroscOpe
acts as a top the Boyes monorail is
kept true by the heavy drive wheel
which acts on the principle OF a hoop
or rolling wheel. The Boyes train is
made in short ears or sections rigidly
coupled together with rubber padded
Each car or section rides
on z single cOncave leather-faced
wheel that runs on a broad convex
steel rail. This wheel is set up with