. The Locomotive. the proprietor of that well-known estab-lishment. Among the toasts offered was one which has been verified to theletter, viz.: The Buffalo Railroad — may we soon breakfast in Utica, dinein Rochester, and sup with our friends on Lake Erie! After dinner thecompany repaired to the head of the plane, and resumed their seats forthe return to Albany. It was an imposing spectacle. It was a practicalillustration of the great preference of this mode of travel and convey-ance. The American locomotive started with a train of five cars, contain-ing nineteen or twenty persons each, beside
. The Locomotive. the proprietor of that well-known estab-lishment. Among the toasts offered was one which has been verified to theletter, viz.: The Buffalo Railroad — may we soon breakfast in Utica, dinein Rochester, and sup with our friends on Lake Erie! After dinner thecompany repaired to the head of the plane, and resumed their seats forthe return to Albany. It was an imposing spectacle. It was a practicalillustration of the great preference of this mode of travel and convey-ance. The American locomotive started with a train of five cars, contain-ing nineteen or twenty persons each, besides the tender, and never did Brother Jonathan as it was familiarly called, perform the trip in morebeautiful style. It came down with its train in thirty-eight minutes, beingat the rate of nineteen miles an hour, the last six miles were performedin fourteen minutes. The cavalcade with horses came down in sixty-eight minutes. Brother Jonathan as it was familiarly called, is as yet decidedly inadvance of John The De Witt Clinton. Ready to Run Under Its Own Steam, July 17, by Courtesy of N. Y. C. L. Magazine. Other than the letterfrom Mr. DavidMatthew as givenabove we have no rec-ord of the early opera-tions of the De WittClinton after Decem-ber first, 1831. Interestin it, however, does notstop here, for on July14th, 1921, almost nine-ty years from the dayit made its initial run,it was taken out on the !<)--•. I r ii h co m or i v [•: 19
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