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Show PROJECTILE TRAINS TO BE TRIED, From the Atlantic to the Pacific in a Day" A Claim of 200 Miles an Hour, first train will be run over its enure length a year trom next December. Stops will be made at Buffalo, Cleveland Cleve-land and Toledo. The actuJ length of the route is 956 miles. Nerf York; and Philadelphia capital Is interested. Great secrecy is maintained at the offices of-fices of the company, No. 6 Wall street, especially as to the Atlantic City road. In fact, Captain Beecher and President Osborn Congieton, a retired banker and broker, positively refused to tell where the short road from Philadelphia Philadel-phia was to run. They said the American Amer-ican Railway company itself, exclusive of the several roads, was capitalized for $5,000,000, and that Kdward A. Green, of Battle Creek, Mich., was their constructing engineer. Five hours from New York to Chicago. Chi-cago. That is what the American Railway company officials say they can do with passenger, mail and express traffic Two hundred miles an hour. That ts what they claim for their new transit scheme. Pointed compartment cars the shape of a naval projectile will, they say, soon make it possible to whiz from the Atlantic to the Pacific Pa-cific In a single day. And all this with absolute safety and; comfort to the traveling public.- Electricity; Will be the motor power, j and the single car trains will be opera- partment. and these doors will all slide open or shut at once at the touch of a single button In .the motor cab. Capt. Lina Beecher, of No. 231 Lincoln Lin-coln place, Brooklyn, Is the inventor of this wonderful scheme to revolutionize the business of the world, and he has devoted. all his time to the study of it for the last ten years. He has .one railroad of the kind in operation in Ontario, Can., opposite Buffalo. This is a short road at a summer resort, and runs only four months in the year. Work will. It is said, be begun within with-in two months on the first of these' side resort as the New Yorker Is to his. The Atlantic City terminal has been secured, and negotiations are now being be-ing made for the station at the Philadelphia Phila-delphia end. The road will be completed com-pleted in time to begin running regular regu-lar trains and there will be at least 100 a day as soon as the summer season opens next year. The structure will be elevated, single rail and double track. A belt line is also to be constructed con-structed at once around a western resort re-sort Work will, it is said, begin on the New York-Chicago road in the early fall, and it is estimated that the ted by one man ?.t the handle of a WfJW'L ,.r """P 'fell llts Ml tearless motor in the point of the ve- " . ' "''U&JUjL g . -- INSI . 'Cky hide. The cars will be built of alum- ' S&WJ) PS&ci TSSSUai inum, and will, hold 50 persons. They '0tV tT'SfiVlT W'J""" EfS-SS KKSS" will travel on a single rail, elevated MhJJ VWav:$'. " ""-C structure, and can be run a minute ' Jfe' ifeS 'mmmSSaS''''m' apart. A magnetic brake will make it 00 jSsjjSrJGVJrKSV sjj)!'" possible to stop a car in 40 feet. - f J Mt:,'t!jV Noise will be almost eliminated, and ffigj urr- IViflKV the nuisance of burned out fuses and """"' f&$?3;''i 'VsuX flashes of electric 'flame in the cars will . T 1 f1 4fwc,"J I MiTs f'li-wfKl a c,erlc mav properly, be unknown, as little power will be con- ''" yf f "'' j"""'" V'feta 4" 'A p 'during the summer entratedV . Instead, generating sub- ' JVr'fSrrtTl 1 months or any other line at a "distance of 100 miles from L,,,,,,,, 1 ijtSSfcSSJif Jfe I months, for that matter. each other.. The cars will not stop, I ietff A '"fef'rilbt' I work in his short nor even slow up at these points. The sr,n-n-rJn-r""'-1 ww, I .?pipJ5g i V 55 sleeves," said an old higher the speed the less the strain roads. It will run from Philadelphia 1 AwrijJjQI Wc&Sf I Land Office clerk. "I will be, for the new cars will be opera- to Atlantic City, and the charter has mT xSMm pA VS?',f admit that it is converted conver-ted on the bicycle principle, with ball been granted by the state of New Jer- 1$!$' Sl TSPi ent and Pleasan t( d bearing wheels- and all the weights in sey. That document specifies that the V?? " J51 Sf r'jSTf so' but 1 tnink that niue-the niue-the center. cars must run at a rate of at least 90 . j e4 fXjrf tenths of the clerks, men Each compartment will be entirely miles an hour, and that the motive Vvj fclVl ST, an women. 'n the vari-eparated vari-eparated from the rest of the car: power must be other than steam. The N &m wr ous departments thing as They will be similar otherwise to a right of way is 55.6 miles long, and f-i PiR etTSr I do. that a man should sleeping car section, with two double there is hardly a curve In Its entire NScSaSfej IVW K'lwn never work in a public seats facing each other. Each passen- length. The run will -be made in less j5EAuTTi3j&J I yul BjJjjjJ office in his shirt ' ger will sit beside a window. Thore than half an hour, putting the Phila- '"" "JLw sleeves." Washington will be a private door for each com- delphian as close to this famous sea- Letter. ted by one man at the handle of a tearless motor in the point of the vehicle. ve-hicle. The cars will be built of aluminum, alum-inum, and will hold 50 persons. They will travel on a single rail, elevated structure, and can be run a minute apart. A magnetic brake will make it possible to stop a car in 40 feet. Noise will be almost eliminated, and the nuisance of burned out fuses and flashes of electric flame in the cars will be unknown, as little power will be concentrated".- . Instead, generating subline sub-line at a "distance of 100 miles from each other. The cars will not stop, nor even slow up at these points. The higher the speed tile less the strain will be, for the new cars will be operated opera-ted on the bicycle principle, with ball bearing wheeis: and all tile weights in the center. . - Each compartment will be entirely separated from the rest of the car: They will be similar otherwise to a sleeping car section, with two double seats facing each other. Each passenger passen-ger will sit beside a window. ThOTe will be a private door for each com- roads. It will run from Philadelphia to Atlantic City, and the charter has been granted by the state of New Jersey. Jer-sey. That document specifies that the cars must run at a rate of at least 90 miles an hour, and that the motive power must be other than steam. The right of way is 55.6 miles long, and there is hardly a curve in Its entire length. The run will be made in less than half an hour, putting the Phila-delphian Phila-delphian as close to this famous sea- a clerk may properly, 'during the summer months or any other months, for that matter, work in his short sleeves," said an old Land Office clerk. "I admit that It is convenient conveni-ent and pleasant to do so, but I think that niue-tenths niue-tenths of the clerks, men and women, in the various vari-ous departments thing as I do. that a man should never work in a public office in his shirt ' sleeves." Washington Letter. |
