Show EXPECT HIGH SPEED Miles an Hour Thought Possible Possible Possible Pos Pos- sible by English Expert Success of Plan Would Bring New NewYork NewYork York and Chicago But Six Hours Apart Motive Apart Motive p Power Would Have to Be Electricity I London Should J J. J Sutherland Warner a prominent English railway expert see his ideas ideas' practically realIzed realized realized real real- there will be no denying that we are living in a fast age He Ho Is authority for the I e assertion that a aspe speed d of ol miles miles' an an hour by l' l railway Uway trains Is technically y possible today and will be commercially feasible within with with- in the next ten years ears so long as the railway serves great centers of population population lation yielding a large amount of traffic The rh motive power of course would have to be electricity said Mr 1 War War- ner Naturally too too the high horse horsepower horsepower horsepower power required for the attainment of such speed w would uld necessitate motor moton motors motors' of enormous size and weight In order order or or- der deX to carry cany such tremendous w weight safety It would be necessary to use three If not four rails The great problem however would be ho how y t to deal with the resistance of the air l There are three methods by which which- this could be he met One of these would be to construct the train cigar- cigar shaped with the the sides of the carriages carriages car car- oiled or varnished so as to tom tom tomik m mik ke them as smooth as possible Another nother way would be to reduce reduce the the friction n on on- the track by fitting wings or lifting planes all around the train the object being to utilize the resistance of the atmosphere to lift the weight from the track and thereby thereby there there- b by reduce the track res resistance stance The third method would be not not to torun torun run the train through the air at all This could be done aone b by it in fn ina a tube from which the air had been exhausted in m advance of the speeding train by hy powerful pumps Of course in addition to the thedr dr driving of the electric motors in the ordinary way power for propulsion would be obtained owing to the pressure pressure pressure pres pres- sure of the atmosphere acting on the on-the the rear of each carriage That also would supply air for the s 's s to breathe None of the method are re impossible It is all aU merely merel c c. c matter mat latter lat lat- ter of money I am dubious about all the claims advanced for the monorail system The fhe horsepower required for high speed means weight and the monorail cannot carmot stand the weight Th Therefore the contention that such a system a can attain any speed up to to miles an hour seems not to have a very solid foundation The expense expense of running such uch a system too would be extremely extreme extreme- ly high I believe that In ten years we wo will se see trains making a hundred and fifty miles an hour on regular schedule If It Mr 1 Warners Warner's plan attains materialIzation materialization materialization mate mate- it would woul mean New York o o 0 Chicago tn in little more than six Jour i The longest multiple trains In the world soon will be put into service Inthe in inthe inthe the District railways railway's tubes In Lon Lon- don Th The company has found that even by operating 36 trains an hour it cannot fully cope with the rush of passengers passengers passengers pas pas- at certain times of the day It has been decided therefore to increase increase increase in in- crease the length of trains and those to be put In service will be feet I in length comprised of 12 coaches with seating capacity of 1200 gers The company also Is considering consider consider- ing the question of the abolition of But even if the straps are removed removed from the cars there will willbe willbe be handles attached to the seats for forthe forthe forthe the convenience of those passengers who may Olay have to stand up |