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Show ELECTRO-BALOON TRANSIT. A Wyoming H a Schom to Carry I'Kis.og.r. 100 Mtltia mm Hour. A new system for carrying passengers passen-gers is being crystalized by C. H. Lawrence Law-rence of Green River, Wyoming, who is now in this city perfecting his plans. His invention, not yet finished, con templates the using of electricity in connection with gas, tbe latter being used only to lighten the load. The idea as far as it bas taken shape, is to have a car arranged like most of those used on electric roads, but with tbe addition ad-dition of a balloon-shaped top, which looks more like tbe roof of the tabernacle than anything it can be compared with. In this is stored a great number of cubic feet of gas, which Mr. Lawrence believes will les-seu les-seu the traction on the rails and permit of a rate of spend approximating ahun-dred ahun-dred or a hundred and ten miles an hour. Tho cars run on a single rail through which the electric current is transmitted. Should expectations of the success of the invention be realized, the cars will climb the stillest, grades as easy as they would run on level ground. The main end sought to be accomplished accom-plished by the invention is to save power. i |