. Book of the Royal blue . ichended tragically and fatally. Still imbued with the idea of a northwestpassage, he steered far north of the mouthof the Hudson River, until he came to thegreat bay which now bears his name, whichhe took to be the open Polar Sea. He still upon this same broad river is a very differentone from that of its discoverer, although itlikewise has a pathetic ending in an earlydeath through the too strenuous pursuit ofa idea. Robert Fulton was born in LancasterCounty, Pa., in 1765. Both his father andmotherwere poor Irish emigrants, the formera tailor by trade. When
. Book of the Royal blue . ichended tragically and fatally. Still imbued with the idea of a northwestpassage, he steered far north of the mouthof the Hudson River, until he came to thegreat bay which now bears his name, whichhe took to be the open Polar Sea. He still upon this same broad river is a very differentone from that of its discoverer, although itlikewise has a pathetic ending in an earlydeath through the too strenuous pursuit ofa idea. Robert Fulton was born in LancasterCounty, Pa., in 1765. Both his father andmotherwere poor Irish emigrants, the formera tailor by trade. When Robert was butseventeen years old his father died and thefamily moved to Philadelphia, where thefuture inventor and mechanical engineeropened a studio on the corner of 2d andMarket streets, as a miniature painter, asshown by the Philadelphia directory of 1785. Although at an age and with an occu-pation which offered many temptations andopportunities for breaking the laws of Moses,as well as those of the new republic, under. THE -HALF MOON/ 1609 determined to push northward, but his menrefused to go. Provisions were runninglow, sickness had broken out among them,they had lost confidence in their com-mander and the leeks and cucumbers ofEurope appealed to them far more stronglythan fame or fabled straits, so theymutinied. Captain Hudson, his little son,seven years old, and five sailors, who hadattempted to uphold his authority, were setadrift in an open boat and were never heardof again. Thus the man who practicallyopened up a new world to both England andHolland perished miserably on the thresholdof his discoveries. ^ H^ ^ The story of the man who opened up anew era in navigation to the civilized world the plea of the artistic temperament,young Fulton applied himself so assiduouslyto his paints and brushes that at the end offour years ihe had saved enough money topurchase a small farm for his mother, onwhich he established her, rendering herindependent for the balance of her lif
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