Show f C h hI I to New N f k In in i 10 I 0 Hours Hour H ours Fare Fe r 10 I I 1 i New Direct Line Electric Electr c Road Startles the th Transportation World Route Miles Shorter Than the Shortest Time 10 Hours Quicker Than the Quickest Fare 10 I Cheaper Than Tha the th Cheapest Construction Gangs Are Arc Now Working on o It Interest in m the great Electric Railroad Hai road that will cut ut tit down om the running time be between between tween wi Chicago and New cw York to JO 10 10 nd i arry rry passengers laenger at ut tn a 1000 00 tare fare con continues s unabated People who ho were al at first as us to the reality real of such a project have hae now become con COl work al by y the actual showing of ot R Y done The first grading gading was begun on 01 In the tie first firt day of ot September and every r F L y sees SC additional ta right of way wa made for laying The York ork Mr ir Line ilie Railroad wilt will wi run over a I track that scarcely verges from a straight line lne linein Jn in fl its Is entire entre course of a miles mies thereby making the thu distance 15 miles mies shorter than an the shortest existing steam railroad Over this direct route will wi be run electric trains at a speed that will wi reach a ft maximum of 10 miles mie an hour hOI nd maintain an average of 75 5 miles mies No Not o t n road could uld have ever hoped to do this tile because b it i would have ben been impossible ImposIble flue sible to cry carry enough fuel and water to maintain such tich a speed Moreover the th limit of or r human hUlan endurance has hag been reached Iid I the stokers on steam locomotives tives According A to Warren Stanford c hief of the Brotherhood of ot Locomotive Lo a stoker on a steam locomotive tive shovels as a high as a 23 2 5 tons thus of coal Cal on ona ont n na a t Single trip The new electric engines Ltv Ive no such handicap for ample and uniform power comes omes to them at all al times from mammoth power houses lo to located a d 50 O miles mies apart along the line Jine lne Their rotary otan motors run without thump or jar jarand ar and gt enable them thorn to do work under tinder which a tam steam locomotive would not last six I There is 6 not the tile slightest question queston that tl 1 lie road will wi be he built huilt buit and In running or iti er i on schedule time Every Ever one of its is 4 projectors projector is a practical railroad man ml and their personal onal stand INi are such as pr to guarantee the complete of ot the project They have placed I tEr lr entire fortunes into the enterprise ald have han urged their personal friends to tolo todo lo do iii the ik same faite am How H OW Th This is Grein Electric cRO Cam to Be a Reality Realty The York Electric Air Mr lini 1111 Railroad is duly dul incorporated and Hll 4 bartered under the ti laws of the State of Elaine Its Js officers are LEX C i MILLER President President HARLES T I CHERRY Vice President dent nt M 1 l BATES Secretary and Treasurer formerly Gen Supt Chicago and Alton lon R ij R I BOARD OF DIRECTORS HARRY IARI IF n LATHAM LATHA I President of ot the Latham J than Machinery Co of Chicago o ALEX ALEX C MILLER U LER former President of Aurora Trust and Savings Saving Bank Au Aurora Aurora Aurra rora II HARRY E President of the Moon Moun lg Co Chicago o olIX LION HON lIX CHARLES T CHERRY Cap Oswego Oswe o III II p Economy of Electric Electr c Power Electric power has such great economic advantages over oer steam that there ther can be bero b bT ro nl T question queston that the York Inc will nIll wi pay Steam roads cannot keep 11 ii if a high speed for any ny great gret distance The Thc fire Cre slacks down and necessitates raking the thc water supply becomes a serious problem m and the high speed soon stops toP Electric trains dont have hae to slack speed for a moment if the power 01 Is on and the thi maintenance of miles mies an hour between New York and Chicago becomes boin s an ane easy matter Steam tUes Uns are compelled at high speed peed to burn buln the th best bet of coal oal whereas the power is generated geni from very cry coal I oal even screenings sore some of ot it costing less than 75 Th j a ton Thus in itself itsel r Is h an enormous normous t advantage in favor of the thet i t road roii but it begin to be beall beal benil h nil all al The electric i motor being rotary In Instead instead stead of reciprocating works with wih u a smoothness that means thousands tars lars saved saed in wOr wear and tear from vibration lion tion the 1 groat grett ret Economy onon of electric power owr oer oyer er steam this new line lne will wi have ha the te advantage of ot economy In inton ton With ih rails ris costing more morr than twice as much ml h as a they do d p now and Td with wih waste and extravagance character characterizing izing every railroad project of t the past I lines show te cost per mile mild milert ml I rt records cords that are amazing The new elec dee electric electr tri tr road will wi cost ost somewhat more to build bl than a steam road ral would but this lost will ul iiI power houses I and by lip b ti of the direct route loute there are lO miles less lEsS It s to construct than the lt rOId f builders had to t pay for tor forI I Road Shows What Electric i J i Rapid Transit Can Accomplish he ii Aurora Elgin Chicago ago R PR R fl has hn ha shown hown the thc world the p tits ties tes of electric traction ton The of this unique is I tale of success from start to finish Fortunes have been heen made by b the men who had the c to break away from precedent I and Iiii do something that the railroad world worl did alel could not be done donI Over Oer ver this frI line Lull ull trains art tre ar run at a speed Mid tl that sometimes reaches Ini iwi t miles mies an hour hOr on the th dee elec electric irk trl cars ar irs tan wao a 1 swift sift goodbye to tD the la on the t e two steam roads road which I r Tm n parallel to it the electric el oars cart going bj 1 II so 50 fast that the steam cars car seem not nott notI lot lott t I move at all 11 This road rad was but buIt In the face tace fai of f pea S and ridicule Nobody outside of ofUs ofIs Us its Is promoters promoter thought it i would succeed and ind especially was this true rte of the mag magnates I notes nates of the two rival rhul steam roads which l lit it paralleled for or Its Is entire length They laughed and said the electric road would get Bet Iet no patronage worth mentioning the people eople would not dare to ride at such sucha a speed etc etC They The were not good gool goo prophets eta ets t for we e now have the everyday real It ity of a success beyond be ond the wildest dreams reamS of the roads best bet friends Every fer train that runs is filled fied to its is fullest ca and und the tho trains trins contain a many cars ars as the engines can draw without a sacrifice of speed Dining ears cars ar and buffet buffe art are provided and to the minutest detail detal everything is most must luxurious I comfortable tint Ind 1101 convenient In the tho five years Ys tihit tl the tho road roal has tins been running Wot t oia 0 serious rous accident has ha occurred The Aurora road rad has been t the great grat I st moneymaker of any an e tr project t I r I or cr floated making rich men m I out ont of some 1 who virn had but nominal fortunes at the th out outset set tet tt So Sc s great grat Is the earning of this thi I road today that thit it pays pas interval interest t on se s i unties roat amounting to more than 0 9 and is one of ot the greatest railroad I r fAS s the world has lel known What this road rond has hrs done will wi be be done don r greater goater scale sele by b the new n 1 York ork line lne between Chicago and New NewYork The pleasure and comfort of electric travel together with wih its Is great speed ap appeals ap peals leals to the average person peron so 80 strongly that he avails himself of them when he can No Xo smoke or cinders smirch the passengers passenger no nt sickening stench from ca catle cate catie tie tle te train trin befouls the tte tle air and one is not i Jolted jole from side to side or lurched around curves There Ther are arc practically lra pra no curves on a line lne for tor such a speed cannot be maintained d except e ce t over oer overa oera a straightaway course Wherever electric lines have been Intro Introduced Introduced they have brought about new condl condi conditions tons seeking to create a class cass of traffic peculiarly their own and ald making money where the wise ones said it could never ne er be bedone bedone bedone done In the case of the Aurora Auora Elgin c j Chicago road the tho only high speed sp ed electric j road as yet et in i actual operation o two steam roads rods parallel it I the he entire entre way Va and yet et the electric road has built buit up an enor enormous j I II I mona traffic of Us its Is own without a pr I crippling either of the steam roads road m IA 1 their suburban patronage The Tho electric 1 I road rad presents such delights of travel that new n w traffic is actually created out of a class ss of PeoPle who have hae heretofore tray trav led but buL little or er not at all al How Passenger Traffic Pays Better B ter Than Freight Feight Ther is an absurd popular notion noton that no steam railroad makes any tny considerable profit prof on its Ih passenger traffic but the then new n w York Electric Road noad will wi quickly prove that such Is not the case ese and ana that by special equipment for I passenger traffic it can cn be b made top far more than freight does The reason passenger traffic on 01 the great geat trunk line lne j steam roads yields no profit to speak of ofis ofis t is not because e there is IB no money mone in the thc I carrying earr ing of passengers but bUI because the i roads having been conceived and built buit with wih no consideration for tor passenger ri I re and with wih freight the begin beginning beginning ning fling and end of ot the roads rods commercial de tie desires sires irdi the th classes da i dont ok k U 1 together 1 a flyer 1 h ii sen f li run rtin r present prent pi railroad conditions it often means that I Ini all ni freight trains for or a distance of 1000 miles ric have hEC to be b run onto sidings tidings or other otherwise I wise shifted out of the danger zone until a train gets bj by h This means 4 an almost alm incalculable loss a loss that I I certainly doe doea kill kl all al the profit that I would otherwise accrue Then again the steam team routes being I freight routes frit hl hist t andall the I have hae U tt I go so whre r the th freight is m no matter matte I how maj mal serpentine twists and turns I divert them th m from the pathway of or direct I neF not only haVe hao to be I hauled haule far r r and an unnecessarily out of the th wa way but ae ac a c shifted around curves gul gut gulI I ties Jes and arni mountains that forever render I an extremely high speed peed out of ot the tho ques question ques tion Tie I simple fact tact therefore Is that passenger traffic will wiil wi pay and pay nar la r well wel even een jf j never neer a pound POlI II of ot freight were carried carde If the route were only onh a direct one and ant no iii delay of or o fight feight trains some of ot them with perishable goods gods WES was caused aused bj by b the trains When a manufacturer m ships freight f un der tier prest conditions a strange process ensues Freight may ma go 0 over oer half a dozen doz n roads t tati and ana many man miles mies out of its It way ww wa before it i reaches its is destination n nIost Most of the roads art are members of treat great get freight pools Iol or Trusts which operate within certain spheres of Influence Business is divided up the profits being portioned ortone out in accordance with wih a fac factor factor factor tor schedule and the freight going goins over oyer whichever pool route the situation de tic demands d dI I mands mantis When a load of freight starts from New York for Chicago by way of let us say sa the Erie no man can pre predict predict predict dict how many man other routes than the Erie it i will wil ili run rn over before it reaches the end of Its is journey joure and it matters not so long longas long as it gets there somehow some time But B t Undoes matter to passengers whether or not they have hae to tolerate such beating around the bush When a passenger starts for a given point pint he wants to get there therE directly and therefore the pas passenger passenger sang r trains trIns of existing roads pick their way war through a sea of o freight trains cat cattle catte cattle tle te cats on a siding here hert fruit frit cars cn on ona a aspur aspur spur th there re all al being delayed to the ex cx extent extent tent of hundreds hundred of thousands of dollars What a blessing then it will wi be h when the th new York Electric Air toe flash it clean luxurious trains be b veen een Chigi ia ld K cv W York ork City It at the marvelous HJ oed d of ley nt fe miles mies an hour some of them making no stops If I freight Is ever carried carrie it it will wi be b over oer ex cx exclusive e elusive freight tracks Iracks track ample space for tor which has been provided The territory traversed by the new ne electric line Jn is the most densely populated in the country and Ind the bulk of ot all al the traffic both freight and passenger front from Cleveland Toledo Tole Detroit Philadelphia and other othel large cities will wi ultimately be carried by this Uli route It Jt It has been shown by bJ the tho th work of the Twentieth Century Flyer of ot the New York Central that there are arc arcI plenty I nty of people peo lc willing to pay pa the thenny fifty per pur cent extra charges required on this train trin what then theil will be the patronage p g J Ja f a road that carries wi one from Chicago JO JOI te tO tOI I I New York City for fot f i 10 l a figure r that I i 1 I abut about abt lt the regular r gul r fare tar tai pOw now I I charged There Ther can be no question q that I the tho York Electric railroad I I will wi become the richest richet and most mot power powerful pwe powerful ful business factor Jn In this country country Ua its Is workings working beine b ilg on the basis of or a t new or order order der tier of things industrial and the foda foundation tion tOI stone thing upon which our economic e well wel being will il rest ret When hen this great electric road gets sets Into full ful working order the small shipper can cn send nd his freight freigh on Oti Or a shipper basis bais of absolute equality with wih the big bl Wonderfully Level Route Rout It is ts s almost beyond belief belet that t a so lo per feet a national route for or a railroad as s that surveyed by the th new York Electric Air Ar bf line could have haxe h o stood sto alt all these years ears and lne not had a railroad built bui upon It For a tf pf pC 0 15 miles mIlc nl por in Ohio there Is a n fall fal of pt only two feet fet fetI I to the mile mie From Irom Chicago to the Penn Pennsylvania Pennsylvania t sylvania state line lne the grade does not not no ex exp exceed sixteen feet per mile and itt In the en entire entire tire Ure distance distance of 0 miles mies mie between Chi Chicago Chicago cago and New York 0 no grade on the route exceeds 1 I per cent No doubt dOi t the tho reader read r who looks look on the map 10 and observes s the i winding of ot the existing trunk lines marvels panels as to why wh they ever were erp I built buit so crooked but the thc reason becomes plain enough when it Is realized tha that many of the t e cities clUe from which these thele roads ras draw dra their industrial life blood blod were lo 10 located located on the great rivers which then con constituted constituted geat the only highways of ot trans transportation n None of ot the great roads tit df f today tO r T was built buit with wih any al Idea ot of f catering to o through direct route passenger traffic |