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Show STI15WAGOS8. Chicago and San Francisco are simultaneously simul-taneously interested in steam vehiclci wr common roads. The two machines -eem to be quite (liferent in constriction, constric-tion, but Wh are represented as 5uc-cesslul. 5uc-cesslul. The Chicaso machine did not originate there, but was purchased in England. A trial of it before it left Lnirland is thus de-iioed : The engine was of peculiar construction: construc-tion: it had an upright boiler so as to enable hills to be ascended without endangering en-dangering the safety of the boiler by leaving the front part dry'. The wagon on which such boiler was placed drew two carriages, with forty-five passengers, passen-gers, up a hill, the grade of which was one foot in nine. The vehicle was freely free-ly and easily handled; after ascending the hill it ran down again, described several turns, and at the pleasure of ihe conductor moved at right angles or in a circle. The last portion of Ihe trial consisted in running over a wet grass field, and then along a macadamized macadam-ized road, which was traveled at the rate of a mile in seven uiiiiiitcc The California machine was invented and built at Edinburg, Scotland, and imported at a total cost of $5,000. The Oakland Transcript gives an account ac-count of its first trip: Besides the man who fed the furnace and the one who guided the wagon, there were some eight or ten petsons aboard on its way up town. Stumps and ruts were run over with ease, or avoided by turning to one side as dex-terou.-ly and reacLly as a velocipede is managed. The wagon started from the boat with an insufficient quantity cf water in the tank: and on arriving opposite Dr. Nicholson's residence, at the corner of G-rove sireet, tho conductor con-ductor drew up and took in a fresh supply from the , Doctor's premises. At the corner of Broadway a large number of people had assembled to witness the curious looking iron monster mon-ster on her trip up, and the way the institution bulged across Broadway and in and out of the deep gully of a gutter gut-ter on the ca.-t iide, somewhat astonished aston-ished the assembled natives. The wagou stopped at nothing, and continued con-tinued on to Alice street, turned the coiner, and proceeding a couple of blocks, drew up at the residence of Mr. Roberts, where it was left for the night. Ex. |
