Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21

mons have in turn visited the Workshop
where this tenth wonder of the world
is on exhibition. and they are amazed
at his flying train They have mar
veled, too how the United States, the
motherland of the ingenious. has let this
uncanny product of the scientific imagi-
nation leave it's shores.
The levtated railroad is declared the
latest word in transportation. a train
travelling 200 miles an hour, That rate
should satisfy the most rabid of speed
naniacs: from New York to Chicago in
about three hours,
Your business man could take an early
train, do good days work in the
Windy city and get home in time for
dinner with his family in New York.
Congressman from Manhattan would be
able to commute over 10 Washington on
train that would take about three
quarters of an hour to make the trip.
In England the principal difficulty will
be keeping the trains from running of
the island when they are once started.
In the opinion OF many, NJ. Bachelet
seems to have solved the problem of the
next great step in transportation. A visit
to his workshop at Saffron Hill, one of
the oldest districts of London, has con-
WINGED even the sheptical that We are
arrived at the period of the twentieth
century which corresponds to the period
OF the nineteenth when the locomotive
displaced the coach horse.
His invention overcomes that bugbear
OF the railroad characterization. The
lying train" does not travel on wheels,
but on air Not that 1t has any analogy
A1r0DIAnp
to the unscientific eye, the train seems
to be resting on air, there is in fact an
electric wave cushion between the levi
LatorS and the track, and this supports
the car in space. And while so supported
1t is dragged forward by another electro
cal current in much the same fashion as
a trolley car.
But to arrive at a clearer cornprehen-
sion of this miracle-for surely it is
miracle to float forty pounds of steel. the
weight Of the present model car, in the
air-follow the inventor through his Sc
ries OF illuminating demonstrations.
While watching the experiments that
give an insight into the basic idea
Of tho flying train" you cannot get rid
Of the impression that you are assisting
at private exhibition of extraordinary
conturing. The whole performance is
magic of kind that exceeds the most
astounding feats Of Hermann.
The top floor Of an old warehouse is
curtained off in green baize in a setting
that is peculiarly suited to the manifesto
ton of a mystery. When you pass the
curtain your eye is first caught by what
looks like the model of a section of the
ed railway Of New York But on
the tracks, instead of the ordinary en-
CINE and line of cars, there rests what
might be the aluminium frame OF the
model of a submarine
At one end of the room a girl of typi-
cal American prettiness, sits before an
electrical switchboard, such as is used to
control the lights of a theater. Down the
center of the room is a series of nick ell
posts about three feet high, surmounted
by black steel cylinders eight inches in
diameter and five inches deep.
Beyond these are the dials of scales and
weighing machines that remind one of a
hiEh-ciass butcher shop. over beside the
switchboard is set of bells like those