Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1901 — Burns the Riders Over. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Burns the Riders Over.

Proprietors of amusement enterprises who are looking for a novelty to take the place of the common roller coaster, toboggan slide, “shoot-the-chutes,” etc., will find in the invention presented herewith sufficient novelty to last for one season at least. In fact, most people would be inclined to think there was too much novelty to the apparatus, since it turns the passengers completely over in the early part of its journey around the circuit The inventor claims this can be done with perfect safety, as the centrifugal force of the moving .weight in the car holds every passenger in place almost In spite of himself. Edwin Prescott of Arlington, Mass., is the inventor, and the idea here applied is that of

imparting such high speed to the car by causing it to descend a steep grade that when it changes its course as it does in passing through the vertical loop of track, the center of gravity will tend toward the bottom of the car, thus forcing every rider more firmly into his seat. The passage through the loops is accomplished so quickly that it is hardly realized, and then the car proceeds with the less exciting portion of its journey. The car takes on its load in the position shown, and the cable elevates it to the top of the steep incline, with the passengers facing backward through the first stage of the journey. Michigan’s decline as a lumber state is strikingly shown by the figures ol the product of 1900. In the Saginaw river district there were produced in 1882 1,011,000,000 feet of pine lumber, while last year the pine output dropped to 129,921,408 feet

CENTRIFUGAL RAILWAY.