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Show 83ir TEI Sinli l; FROM GH1GAGP HI B YORK This Is Startling Plan of a New Air-Liiie Railroad. Rail-road. CHICAGO, April 16. Ten hours between be-tween Chicago and New York on trains operated by electricity and ma-ing ma-ing an average speed ot seven ty-flve milts an hour Is the plan of Incorporators Incorpor-ators of the Chicago & New York Air Line railroad. The scheme appears to be far In the future, however. It Is asserted that "some of the right of way has been secured," but thc projectors pro-jectors decline to say how. much. Speed Chief Aim. As the name Implies, the proposed road will sacrifice everything for speed and distance. According to the statement state-ment of Jonathan D. Price, president of the Co-operative Construction company, com-pany, which was organized to build the road, thc line will be 712 miles long", or 200 miles shorter than any steam road now connecting the two cities. Part of the line already has been surveyed. sur-veyed. "Work Soon Begins. The first section of the road to be built, nccordlng to the promoters, will bo out of Chicago, and the work on tins, one of the Incorporators said last night, will begin soon. In choosing the route no attention Is paid to whether thc line runs through large cities or not. As now surveyed the road will be eight miles south of South Bend, Ind., and at that point It It proposed to build a station and run a spur Into tho city. The same plan will be followed where the road passes near any other city. These spur lines will be connected' with the street railway system In each town and It Is proposed to run freight trains at night. Details Hot Complete. The details as to the kind of cars to be used has not been thoroughly worked out, according to F. H. "Wood, a lawyer living In Oak Park, 111., who Is one of the Incorporators He suggested, sug-gested, however, that the Germans have attained great success In building build-ing third-rail roads, such as it Is proposed pro-posed this one will, and ho mentioned the fact that on .a specially constructed roadbed electric trains there have been operated at 131 miles an hour. |