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""if? yirv- II J THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1907. iSSSZ Coos Bay Times AN INDKrENDE.VT KEPtm'""" """:U,ER rnnLHiiEn f.vkrv hy etceptixo Mon day AND ALSO WEEKLY BY TnE Coos Hay Times 1'uhmshi.nci Co. FRED PASLEY, Editok. HEX LARGE, Business Managkk. The policy of Tlio Coos Hay Times will bo Republican in politics, w ith the independence of which Picsident Rooso velt is the leading exponent. Entered at tlic postofllre nt Miushfleld. Ore gon, for trnnmlfasIon through the mails as eccviid clftss mailjmattcr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES' Single copy, daily, - - 5 cents Por month, daily, - - 50 cents Three months, daily, - - sfl "o Six months, daily - - $2 50 One year, daily, - - - $5 00 Weekly, per year - - $1 00 Address all communications to COOS BAY TIMES Marshficld, Oregon. THE MONO RAIL. AN extremely interesting exposi tion of a new typo of electric currier is given elsewhere in these columns the mono-rail system. Mono is a Greek prefix, signifying one, single, or alone. The cars run on one rail and such -Is the economy in construction that it Is supersed ing the old style trolley in many of the eastern states. Perusal of the following from tlio New York Press, Now York, will convey a clear Idea of the merits of what promises to revolutionize railroad building: "Mombors of the dying Rapid Transit Commission are behind tho Newark & Now York Monorail Com pany, which has been organized to build a monorail line frqm Jersey City to Newark with connection with the McAdoo tunnels. Tho fare is to bo five cents from Jersey to Newark and threo cents from Jersey City to Manhattan. The details of organi zation and tho route over which tho single rail "L" structure is to bo built are withheld for tho present, but those Interested were said yes terday to include John H. Starlin, Charles Stewart Smith and Wood bury Langdon, all of tho Rapid Transit Commission that will go out of office next Monday to mako placo for tho Public Servico Commission to bo appointed by Governor Hughes It is announced that tho promoters of the monorail will strive to make It an 'ideal interurban system" and Mint 'straphangers' will bo forever done away with, because of the short headway between trains and the operation of the trains at an aver age speed of from GO to 100 miles an hour, or even a higher average rate of speed, if tho public demands It. Tho fact that three members of tlio body that has been sleeping on the problem of rapid transit for New York city for ears now purpose to adopt for New Jersey a scheme which they frowned on here until a mont'i ago, was commented on yes terday as a justification for tho se vere criticism passed upon the Rapid Transit Commission. There Is said to be behind the Newark and New York monorail scheme a big realty development project in which tho threo Rapid Transit Commissioners are heavily inolved. Realty Deal, Too. "It i3 said they have invested mil lions in rOal estate along tho lino of tho proposed road and that they are withholding the publication of tho route plans In order to perfect the real estate scheme. At tho eleventh hour, when they were certain of be ing legislated out of office, the Rapid Transit Commissioners decided to act favorably on tho Bohr scheme to build a monorail structure from the South ferry in Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, trhough the Flatbush sec tion to Coney Island. For two years they held the scheme to be impossi ble, but now three of them have started to build a road in Now Jer sey, and In their announcement yes terday the system was highly praised. "Commissioner Staiin gave out a statement In which he said: " 'I have been for more thnn thirty years identified with trans portation in one or another of Its many branches, and for seventeen years have been a member of tho Rapid Transit Board of New York city, engaged in an effort, which has not been entirely unsuccessful, to work out the great urban transpor tation problems which cpnfront the city, and It gives me much plaesuro to feel that I have been able to as sist oven in a small way in the de velopment of what is without doubt the most wonderful railroad system the world has yet seen. The Ameri can Monorail possesses so many ex- ' cellent qualities that it is not easy to describe it In a few words. First of all, it will do in an effective man ner that which Is the main business of a railroad, deliver you with promptness to your destination. An average speed of from sixty to one hundred miles an hour for passenger trains ought to satisfy even this hur rying ago, and if It doesn't, the speed can eaSIly be pushed up to even a higher average.' " As an owner of transportation lines, the thing which appeals to me in this new system is its striking commercial advantages. It can be built almost an where in a narrow city street, because it i3 narrow and has only one rail, thus taking up very little room; through rough and inaccessible country, because it is master of the hard problem of grades; and wherever built it can be done cheaply, in comparison with the great cost of tho present steam or oven trolley railroad. Take, for ir3tance, the three-track steel ele vated viaduct structure which New Yorjc has constructed in The Bronx Boioush as an extension of its sub waj system, it cost $750,000 a mile. The American monorail structure can be built, four tracked, for $75, 000 a mile, elevated, and it can be maintained and operated with equal economy and far greater efficiency. " 'In a word, it seeni3 to mo that this is tho coming thing, and I am pleased that I have been able, before laying down for good Eiy work asla Rapid Transit Commissioner, to be instrumental, even, as I say, in a small way, in making it known to tho world. With such a system and such an opportunity for a rapid tran sit railroad the success of tho New-ard-New York Railroad would seem to be assured from the start.' " Tour-Track Line. The Newark-New York road, it is announced, lis to be a four-track "L" structure a,nd the trains will make the run between Newark and Jeisey City in not more than ten minutes, with a couple of minutes added to cross tho North River in tho McAdoo tunnels, if the traffic arrangement can be effected, or with a frequent ferry service at all hours. The service Is promised to be quicker than tho present railroads furnish. The announcement of the projected monorail system for New Jersey is timed with the successful operation at the Jamestown Exposition op Tuesday of the same system by How ard H. Tunis, a Baltimore civil engi neer and inventor. The Jamestown line Is half a mile long and the pro moters of the New Jersey scheme regard it as being all that a rail road could be and more than the present double-rail systems can be. They say in their announcement that they regard the monorail as the most wonderful thing In a railroad jet seen. "Comparing it with trolleys, steam roads and subways, Starin, Lang don and Smith say it can be built at less cost than half the cost of any existing system, that it can be oper ated at one-third the expense; that it can carry passengers easily at eighty miles an hour without the slightest danger, and that It can be maintained at an Immense saving over the present systems. It Is as sorted that tho organization of the company will he perfected in such a manner that there "never shall bo overcapitalization, and it will be so officered and managed as to Insure a contlnuancp of satisfactory and har monious relations between the rail road company and tho public on the one hand and its emploje3 on tho other." In other words, it wa3 re marked by a railroad man, Now .Icr soj is to have nn "angelic" railroad corporation directed by men who failed to give New York relief from transit congestion. Tho monorail car will be forty-seven feet long, tapering at both ends, "so as the more easily to cut its way through the air at high speed." It will be supported on two trucks of two wliols each, arranged tandem fash Ion, flanged on both sides and run ning on a single rail. The upper 1 body of tho car will be lighter than the ordinary car and tho weight will bo all at the bottom to keep It in upright position, but it will be held in that position by what is called the "equilibrium device" "at the top of the car, which is described as a sort of combination trolley polo and overhead support. It is not an nounced when work on the construc tion of the road will begin. the realms of knowledge? It is a 'rational procedure for one, upon the completion of Ills course of training, to discontinue all further Investiga tion and go lay nside what llttlo love i for learning and literaturo and philosophy and science thnt may have bean aroused In his bosom by school or college inspirations. And how, I ask, is this advancing nnd widening of one's horizon by moans of ho ac cumulated stories of knowlcdgo gath ered by tho previous generations of tho world's strong thinkers and beau tiful writers to bo secured other than by a collection of good books, by a library? C. E. Thnch in Mobilo Reg ister. ! a$jss9Ssg$3Ga&s $ ARLYLE calls the library the I great university of books, and he assigns to the library of the Uni- ' vcrsity of Edinburgh a much more ' 'potent influence in the moulding of! his wonderful literary abilities and , brilliant career than to all tho facul . ties of the university combined. In deed, the greatest boon that the sys-I tern of public, or tho college, or the I .university, can confer upon any boy ior girl is to teach him or her to use a I great collection of literature, to teach i them how to read; and how to plant! .within their hearts an irrislstible Im pulse and an Indestructible delight j in so doing. What profits it a man (to learn how to read if he does not nno -r i.i , ii.. i i imui x-ur wiiii i, inuiJuse ib iuu niniu trained and developed by the process of systematic study in the schools if it is not inspired to go further into Great big tender ones appetising a reai relish You'd pay double for the same grade elsewhere. Ask your neighborshe buys olives here t I tm Corner B. and Second 'streets. hhbbbi wiT vSjSfTyiiXiiP f . WiMSfflraSSM A.vuufHrtiim:aKammi 8 i "If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door'-RALPH WALDO EMERSON Just now empire builders are building iron-shod paths to the commercial door of North Bend because its factories have the frieght to ship, and their payroll talks Like seeks like Is an eternal law of nature Although but imperfectly recognized, as absolute This same law holds good in building of factories A factory is built always at that point where there are fewest obstacles to be overcome, where tributary raw materials are unlim ited and markets unrestricted If this holds good in one case it will hold good in several-a dozen or a hundred North Bend but a few years ago had one factory, soon it had several, now there are a dozen, and the raw materials are here for a hundred more. Factories make payrolls, these in turn create business' houses which invite banks, jobbers, traders and trans portation facilities, and all go to the making of a city because "Its Payroll Talks' which creates a demand for real estate. There is a beaten path to our door because we have the best bargains in North Bend real estate NORTH BEND, OREGON nu ft & A i 1 4p "iP