Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — Moving Sidewalk. [ARTICLE]

Moving Sidewalk.

Authorities of Paris have under omk rideratlon a proposition for a ata of electric railway from the base to the top of Montmartre (a hill In the Qty of Paris), which b 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, which contains the seats, is to be six kilometers per hour; it Is capable of seating 6,000 passengers kt one time on 840 platforms, each of which has two double-reduction motors of 'fifteen horse-power; the maximum power r» (ufand is said to be 180 horse-power.