during the present generation and it made him feel very old when he reflected that the first locomotive was constructed within his own time and memory. He well remembered his first trip from Detroit to Buffalo by steam. At that time there were no railroads beyond Buffal but a steamboat made the trip from Detroit to Buffalo in three days which vas considered to be ' remarkably fast time.' The first trip by steamboat up the Hudson to Albany was made by the Clermont in 1807 the time being twenty-five hours. Four years later the Comet a vessel 40 feet long was built in England for the navigation
during the present generation and it made him feel very old when he reflected that the first locomotive was constructed within his own time and memory. He well remembered his first trip from Detroit to Buffalo by steam. At that time there were no railroads beyond Buffal but a steamboat made the trip from Detroit to Buffalo in three days which vas considered to be ' remarkably fast time.' The first trip by steamboat up the Hudson to Albany was made by the Clermont in 1807 the time being twenty-five hours. Four years later the Comet a vessel 40 feet long was built in England for the navigation of the Clyde. At that time the railroad and the locomotive were as much be yond human conjecture as any unknown achievement of the future was beyond our thoughts to-day. It seemed almost impossible that in those recent times tallow candles and whale oil furnished our lights and that waterworks and other sanitary aids were unknown luxuries. The carpenter the millwright the stonemason and the government sur veyor were the engineers of the day. Steam navigation on the ocean was a problem of the future. The changes which had taken place during the past thirty-five years had been as rapid as they were marvelous. In 1830 there were only 23 had been completed and including the two continents of Europe and America there had been built in the same short interval 125600 miles of road. Forty years ago the ocean steamship with its side lever scarcely carry coal enough for a voyage across the Atlantic. Now the iron hull the screw propeller the compound en gine the surface condensers the high pressure boiler the steam hoisting engines for loading and unloading freight had converted the Atlantic navigation from the Eastern to the Western Continent into an extended ferry so far as the certainty and regularity of trips were concerned. Old mer chants who began business forty years ago found it almost impossible to keep up with the age and adapt themselves to the wonderful changes which suceeeded
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