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THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1907.
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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
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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.
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"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
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