The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 3, 1899, Page 29

SUNDAY CALL. | | | JBooks of the Wleek * vicious extrs nto fanciful another mask of ipters two te Beck ewéwed by Prof. B. B. iééhron, STANFORD UNIVERSITY. “Here for the first leading to the pres ent active deve ment that might be expected tp show a reasona ble familiarity with the essential in the history Eastern P. use of co as a substit real ¢onstruct mposition, his pe nt for rhetor tricks of style his insincere commir ling of stilted | tion and serpen ers—these sins ¢ E- yrship the re- r cha ritably ay possibly past 1 t centur in the ¢ velopment f dustries at human pre Inclusiv ents and imm i insurrections and the American war. They may be dis- »f Hebrew vowel have no vital rela main theme of this biok. No The New Pa(cific. Review by C. A, DUNIWAY, 1 is that foll declarations » of treatme: : problems Jus Its and the N walian Islar te Professor of et were solved by the war on the in- purpe and expan: Stanford University. x Is the third help Mr. Donnell M NEW YORK TO SAN and that i speed gotiations and the attitude of fore overhead tracks which s through stepdown transformers \imost direct | ATED RAILROAD F g1 na FRANCISCO THAT WILL MAKE THE TRIP IN TWENTY-FOU Ive the use of tw with their crews, and five days to 100 miles an hour all this to turn things are begin The surface roads of the United States but no jolts and no lurches: 150 miles an construction dining car or a supper in d equip- ment of over $11,000,000,000, on which they for blasting, smoke to keep m. must earn and pay int road will be four tracks wid away from the face of ntinental through ©f underground work will gt r tracks for the car still. move d for trans: est. This repre 000 per mile, against line road, cost'ng six times the service and have a proportionately great- of the windows hums and whistles as the 1 will not be m th $ road will not be more than $5 of each track 000 per mile er earning power. both cases being used for passenger traf- ax the building of so many The inventor has been working for vears on the plans, and the important features are covered by patents, either granted or Agents in England are en- gaged In promoting A company to under- take the work and find capital interested in a plan which has both permanency and large earnings to fecommend it road will be fifty feet together will enable economies to be prac- that would not ot The same relative ec ling will Le efther secured to bedrock or to =tone and concrete.founda- reach of frost and rwise be feasible. nomy will also ce of the road. for while it now takes fourteen trains the track all the time to maintain a daffy transcontinental Line” will give a daily service with only ades change he train i up to sp a cannon ball fast that it has no time to move sideward Looking out of the win- dow we see only a haze over the land- upright columns 1t is going so or up or down The electric power will be generated at stations about 100 miles apart, transmitted at high voltage and run on to the feeder This mammoth A e T I bear the ear R TOURG, trains will be inside tracks of collision a clear right c made money out ¢ money by the State Printer of Wi torney admitted to prac o A T T %