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Show WILL SHOOT IIS CHUTES I New Railroad tunnel Will J Be Conducted on Gravity Grav-ity Principle, ; :' NE3WY.ORK, April -.iWhen the tunnel tun-nel under the East river now being built Is completed, passengers will "shoot the chute" under the East river from Battery Bat-tery park, Manhattan, to Nassau street, Brooklyn; - ; . . :The. tunnel will be in the shape of & crescent, with a- 34 per cent dip on either side. The trains will be's'tarted by- electricity, but-'the -power wllk- be shut off when the gravity of the grade exceeds Itself and the trains shoot down, acquiring a velocity of tt mile a minute at the lowest portion of the tunel In the middle of the river, and with, enough momentum to climb the grade, on the other side. i ; . :., The road will be equipped wrth electrical electri-cal brakes, so that in case of an accident acci-dent at any point on bne track the train behind will be automatically stopped. Trains will start from both sides of the river simultaneously. This will be the only gravitytunnel road in the world. |