. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. n the canal it was made in a week, and a loadthat cost thirty dollars to send to Buffalo by the old way,could be sent by boat for one dollar. The results were greater than any one thought with the West increased rapidly; towns and citiessprang up on the banks of the canal; and New York Citysoon became the first city of the Union in prosperity andpopulation. Inventors next began to study the best vf ay to put an en-gine on wheels and make it draw loads on the land. In severalplaces rails had been laid, on wh
. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. n the canal it was made in a week, and a loadthat cost thirty dollars to send to Buffalo by the old way,could be sent by boat for one dollar. The results were greater than any one thought with the West increased rapidly; towns and citiessprang up on the banks of the canal; and New York Citysoon became the first city of the Union in prosperity andpopulation. Inventors next began to study the best vf ay to put an en-gine on wheels and make it draw loads on the land. In severalplaces rails had been laid, on which cars were drawn by horsesto carry heavy weights a shortdistance. In 1826, one of theseroads was built at Quincy, Mas-sachusetts. In 1827, anotherwas made at Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania. But the first ^^:-^^7:a5^s?3a:^-^^mpassenger railway in this ^^^ ^^ Railroad, country was on the Baltimore and Ohio system (1828), onwhich the cars were drawn by horses. Soon, however, locomotives were brought from England,invented by George Stephenson, and our mechanics began to. ■i^-SSi^fi^.i-^^ 266 HAZENS ELEMENTARY HISTORY. LESSON.—In 1837, there were 1500 miles of track in the United ^ railroads reach everyw^here. Electricity is made to carry messages. make others. People laughed about the noisy little steamwacjODS at first. Locomotives will uever do this work. They will run off the track. Awful accidents will these objections were all answered by the steady increaseof the railway systems, and even the croakers soon began tosee what great results would follow the locomotive. One railroad led to another, until, in 1837, there ^vere aboutfifteen hundred miles of track in the United States on whichtrains were running. Year after year, new roads have been l)uilt, until to-day our mapslook like spiders webs, andthere is scarcely a corner ofoui Union that is not reachedby cars. Sometimes a railroad would be built several hundred miles through ail unsettled country,
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