Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1896 — Moving Sidewalk. [ARTICLE]

Moving Sidewalk.

Authorities of Paris have under coo. eiderstion a proposition for a sort of electric railway from the base to the top of Montmartre (a 'hill in the Oity of Paris), which is to be quite similar to the moving sidewalk which was exhibited at the World’s Fair. The speed of one of the platforms Is to be three kilometers per hour, and that of the other, whleh contains the seats, is to be tlx kilometers per hour; it is capable ol seating 0,000 passengers at one time on 840 platforms, each of which has two double-reduction motors of fifteen horse-power; the maximum power required Is said to be 130 horse-power.