A history of the United States for schools . mick reaper, invented in1831, and the Nasmyth steam hammer, in 1838 ; and itwas in 1836 that the Patent Office had so much work todo that it was made a distinct bureau. In 1830, the cityof New York was more than two centuries old, and itspopulation had lately passed 200,000, while Brooklyn hadabout 12,000; the new and sudden growth was to carrythe population of those cities within another sixty yearsto nearly two and a half millions. Chicago, now a cityof more than a million, was then a mere village in thewilderness, and on the outskirts of civiliza
A history of the United States for schools . mick reaper, invented in1831, and the Nasmyth steam hammer, in 1838 ; and itwas in 1836 that the Patent Office had so much work todo that it was made a distinct bureau. In 1830, the cityof New York was more than two centuries old, and itspopulation had lately passed 200,000, while Brooklyn hadabout 12,000; the new and sudden growth was to carrythe population of those cities within another sixty yearsto nearly two and a half millions. Chicago, now a cityof more than a million, was then a mere village in thewilderness, and on the outskirts of civilization. Alongwith other great inventors and inventions, it is especiallyto George Stephenson and the railroad that Chicagoowes her wonderful growth. Side by side with this colossal invention, we mayname a little one. Many persons are still living whoFriction Can remember when it was sometimes neces-matches. ^^^y. ^^ g^ ^q oncs neighbors to borrow themeans of lighting the kitchen fire. Friction matches §§ I23> 124- WESTWARD EXPANSION. 329. A VIEW OF CHICAGO IN were unknown till 1829. A few years afterward (1835),while the invention was still new, some ill-disposed per-sons sought to hinder the business of a meeting ofDemocrats in New York by suddenly putting out thelights; but some of the company present had locofocomatches in their pockets, and the lamps were at oncelighted again; and such an impression did this little inci-dent make on the public mind that for about ten years theDemocrats were very commonly called Locofocos. 124. The Commercial Panic of 1837. The rapiddevelopment of western lands since 1820 led to a vast 1 This drawing, made by Mr. George Davis, a well-known citizen ofChicago, is a faithful landscape of the locality at the junction of the twobranches of the Chicago River, then called Wolfs Point. The building on the left was the Wolf Tavern, where General Scottmade his headquarters during the Black Hawk War. That on the rightwas the Miller House. The
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