History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . Obverse and Reverse of a Ticket used in 1838 on theNew York & Harlem Railroad. The first omnibus made its appearancein New York in 1830, the name itself origi-nating from the word painted upon thisvehicle. The first street railway was laidtwo years later. The era of the stagecoach was at this time beginning to end,that of canals and railroads .opening. Yet i84o] INDUSTRIAL ADVANCE BY 1840 141 in the remoter sections of the country theold coach was destined to hold its placefor decades still. Where roads we
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . Obverse and Reverse of a Ticket used in 1838 on theNew York & Harlem Railroad. The first omnibus made its appearancein New York in 1830, the name itself origi-nating from the word painted upon thisvehicle. The first street railway was laidtwo years later. The era of the stagecoach was at this time beginning to end,that of canals and railroads .opening. Yet i84o] INDUSTRIAL ADVANCE BY 1840 141 in the remoter sections of the country theold coach was destined to hold its placefor decades still. Where roads were fairit would not uncommonly make one hun-dred miles between early mdrning and lateevening, as between Boston and Spring-field, Springfield and Albany. So soon as. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 1830. available the canal packet was a muchmore easy and elegant means of Erie Canal was begun in 1817, fin-ished to Rochester in 1823, the first boatarriving October 8th. The year 1825 car-ried it to Buffalo. The Blackstone Canal,between Worcester and Providence, wasopened its whole length in 1828 ; the next 142 WHIGS AND DEMOCRATS [1840 year many others, as the Chesapeake andDelaware, the Cumberland and Oxford inMaine, the Farmington in Connecticut, theOswego, connecting the Erie Canal withLake Ontario, also the Delaware and Hud-son, one hundred and eight miles long,from Honesdale, Pa., to Hudson Welland Canal was completed in1830. Salt-water transportation had meantimebeen much facilitated by the use of had been thought a great achievementwhen, in 1817, the Black Ball line of packetships between New York and Liverpoolwas regularly established, consisting of fourvessels of from four hundred to five hun-dred tons apiece. Bu
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