New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . XKW YORK HARBOK. 204 NEW JEESEY AS A COL. Trenton, and was used by passengers in 1838. Inspite of the failure of a syndicate of capitaliststo meet their agreements relative to a lease ofthe joint companies, which lease, in contempla-tion, was used by Commodore Stockton to attractEuropean capital, he succeeded in selling bonds,and overcame all imputations made against him-self and the project that he represented. For ayear and a half no work had been done betweenTrenton and New Brunswick, but with the ar-rival of funds in th
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . XKW YORK HARBOK. 204 NEW JEESEY AS A COL. Trenton, and was used by passengers in 1838. Inspite of the failure of a syndicate of capitaliststo meet their agreements relative to a lease ofthe joint companies, which lease, in contempla-tion, was used by Commodore Stockton to attractEuropean capital, he succeeded in selling bonds,and overcame all imputations made against him-self and the project that he represented. For ayear and a half no work had been done betweenTrenton and New Brunswick, but with the ar-rival of funds in the spring of 1838 such advance-ment was made with the enterprise that by Janu-ary 1, 1839, the twenty-four miles of track wascompleted. The year 1839 was spent in making cer-tain radical changes, such as rebuilding the bridgeover the Delaware, making it safe to sustain theweight of the locomotives, the alteration of thegauge of the Camden and Amboy and the Phila-delphia and Trenton lines, thus avoiding a trans-fer at Trenton, and the introduction of throughcars. By 1840, the first, through all-rail line from
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