. Railway age . -1838 were a time during wliich the steamer wasevolving from a river craft to a sea craft and the short journeysalong the Atlantic coast tempted men to try the coasting tradebefore the ship was ripe for it. For five years beginning in 1820the steamer Robert Fulton plied unprofitably on the route fromNew York to New Orleans via Charleston and Havana. At theend of this time she was converted into a sailer. Between 1836and 1839 steamers were run fiom New Yorlt to Charleston andfrom Baltimore to Savannah, and another attempt was made onI be route to New Orleans. Two terrible disast
. Railway age . -1838 were a time during wliich the steamer wasevolving from a river craft to a sea craft and the short journeysalong the Atlantic coast tempted men to try the coasting tradebefore the ship was ripe for it. For five years beginning in 1820the steamer Robert Fulton plied unprofitably on the route fromNew York to New Orleans via Charleston and Havana. At theend of this time she was converted into a sailer. Between 1836and 1839 steamers were run fiom New Yorlt to Charleston andfrom Baltimore to Savannah, and another attempt was made onI be route to New Orleans. Two terrible disasters, coming in of the great financial depression, caused all these attemptsto be given up by IHZJ; and just at the time the Cunard and othercompanies were succeeding with their steamer lines on the Atlantic,the coasting lines in the open sea came again to consist entirelyof sailing packets. In 1842, there was no steam coasting line out-side of protected shore waters, but the North Atlantic steam lines. The Quaker City, 1854; 1,143 Tons. Regular Line to Charleston. with their unknown precision made louder the demandfor relief from the uncertainties of packet, and 1846 was the realbeginning of .steam service and therefore of regular line servicebetween New York and Charleston. Spofford & Tiletson, shippingniercbiints of New York, contracted to carry the fnited States mail,and despatched the first steamer in September. In 1848 there weresimilar steam mail contracts to Savannah and New Orleans. Theservice to Norfolk, which had been tried and given up in 183,i, waspermanently established in 1844 by the founding of the Clyde Lineto Baltimore. Richmond was connected with New York in 1835and Boston with Ihiladelphla in 1852. For ten years, , Philadelphia was actively connected with New York by theoutside route. The route affording the most excitement during this periodwas that to the Isthmus of Panama. The gold rush of 1849 madeplenty of travel in
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