Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1894 — MAY ALMOST FLY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAY ALMOST FLY.

Plan for Cross-Country “V Roads to Connect Chicago and New York. Chisago Dispatch.

D * MOSHES ’ who has, -beyond doubt, 7 given more thought to th® subject of ele- \ electric roads A. than any other man in the West, is out

• > "I* with an interesting pamphlet on the question. It is devoted to the subject of a proposed United States Government bicyclewheeled elevated railroad, which, the author and inventor claims, would connect Chicago and New York in ten hours, and make the trip from the Atlantic to the Pacific in thirtysix hours. The following sketch outlines the plan:

As Can” be ; readily seen, *tile ph"’ ctiliar construction fiOnderh it Abdoluitely impossible for, .the .to, lehvb 'fhe 'Hfractt 1 .’ Thus, suould the' pijamishd'i'Hpeed c’f 2; 400 jffi tw(?p.ty < hoyps ( p b tgin Aafqfcy> -ia, assured. . , . , BSfS ttie boad : woulii ‘be ’of’the strongest! materiaf/ frhW > tiic-heavy<columns p£ e.na.uieled:steel would by set in beds cement), rqp- ( Bering them as solid as a rock. The ‘riglw-hafnd'skeich represents the-eaf 'going through a steel frame:work.,

This steel frame work is only used, wfieh curves hre otii?du‘rit6red', tbef sot-ming tlihnidst perfect bafeguhra , against Curve ’aChiiderits.' Thky de vice” between the two cars represents h ’ system of pneumatic tubtjs for thf, 'Carrying'df'telegraph hnd ■tferephbnl!’ wires. ' The following' extracts a?e made from, , the. pamphlet, as best showing,the jnventpr’s,ideas: . , -'-L The Government' eleVa'ted railwa.V should be conducted'An •»- grand and’ liberal scale, for the; best interests pt the people to encourage industry ip, every liiie of business, and "to' bring the land under the highest state of cultivation and transport iu the: shortest space of time all the products of the country at cost to the! best market places on the globe. By this device it is suggested for the Government hot only to own and control all the elevated railroad lines, but to own and control all the waterway routes, waterway transportation conveyances, not only through the United States, but ocean steamer lines that will carry the products of America to the best market

places on the glob e for a nominal expense to what it costs the people now. ■ It is proposed to run the Government elevated railroads by electricity for less than one-half the expense surface railroads are run, and save for the people the millions of dollars ; that are invested in steam efigins by • railroad . i The. bicycle, wheel elevated, .railroad cars are. to be built very light and, entirely out of spring 1 stedl' dfid'"thin plate-glass, - wi»h be*twqen eac-bcar, which jw.ill pneyqpt, / sudden jerk, or jar when the ’ca ( stobs' dr starts; with other spiral springs adjusted I'iinder ! the.. car bodies in such a peculiar way anfij manner the trains will not make flpay! rtoise.?and will giveutha paskeliA a ehar<imn,g ■; sensation?. movew mefiV whep fiyjng fih rough aw-. Tike an pour. . I !.[ / i*i h

ELEVATED ELECTRIC ROAD.