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Show IHltril 01' A KAIUIUAI) HOW THE CHIEF LINE OF THE EM PIRE STATE WA3 STAGED. trn ftrhsnsctsrir ! -Albany lie rse .U Ur- f -luesU-t lp In hs Msa sf rttllwt and tlw h Mrtlrw-A lilts lit Mrs! Ilor IIsMnsv. Tli ratlroa It t lay su Important a part In the comedy or trajredy vt human life, that It Is wine what dlfflcult to realise that they have only existed In the United Hates since 1S11 (or several years before be-fore that time, however, the iw -papers bad dlscnw! the subject of rsltrcnds Hid In 19I3 Mr btcvens, or JIoboVen lal advocated their cunttractlt n, but Hot hi rt 4 practical lit J been done until then. In the Utlca Sentinel and Gaulle cf Au 23, lttVa peered ft Uttrr H41n.nl NIinprorciiRht,M In which Ihe writer raid ' I intt n 1 to show the probable vx nso of a tingle edged railroad con itracted for burs iwt from tbU II I130 to Albany, Willi convenliiioci fgf jMlnjt teams," Tiie writer then treats cf railroad his lorli ally, and estimate that tho cost of 1 sliigte track n 1 from Ulle 1 to ixbe nectady woul 1 lo ataut 3 300 per wile- ' lis also declares that the wholo Vo.il ( ctmlJ bo constructed for t-VX) WO. After various fttt'intM anl failures the lit it rallroa I, called the Mohawk and U11V ron, between Albany an I Hchencctaly was constructed anl cpuied for trafllo In 1831 All the newspaper of tho time ha J , much to fay of the new wonder The American Itallmad Journal of &t. 13 1U,ealdi "The Moluwlc anl, Hudson rati rail connects the tlty of Albany with Kheuoctady The length Is fifteen inllee an Islity nine chains. Ttie delay and embarrassment resulting from the imtuerous locks anJ tery circuitous course of Ihe icrrat Krlo ranat botwrrti 1 these toiia(t canal which li, luoreotrr liarlzablo only NO days In the year, eren hen no accidents occur), lnltued nl conijwiny to obtain an act of Incorporv tlon for tie punoae of fonnlnn railroad rail-road tosaptriedathepran 1 canal within tne year frtui the cuiupkllon of Ihit far famed enter) rite. Hie work was romtiKiiced on Anir 12, 1830, by the Hon. U. C Cauibnlt-ng. Four hundred and tight) thre thousand twohnndrnl and IlKwn dollars anl forty six ovnu 1jiv linn and f ISO 09J will be exiended In couiplt tlnjt the work, according to the utriclnl rrtturt tna le to the legislature of hew orir In January, IbW" ooruon vKWARps mtsT nine (lorentor St ward rode over the Infant roa 1 toon after tu completion and described de-scribed hU trip In this won "Wear-rhrl "Wear-rhrl at Scbrtieclady at 3 this mondnu anl ImmodlatHy were carried Irijmtt conches, ft dlitnncn of a mite and n half, to He trwwnt tennlnattnn of the railway rail-way 'ITiere uero in wnttlnn three Urgfl cars, which tho poHengers entered These cars difftr not much as to the construction con-struction of the body from lUjecortcht, fucceft that thvy are about ono third lstver and hare scats nn thu top. 1 "The body is set uin very short i priiitft, whlih C4UM but little Jutidty , of miHiou. The fore and hind wheels ' are njual lu sire, made f Iron, an 1 are I about two t,nd a half feet In diameter I They haro rims four and a half lochr wide with n projection 011 tho fide mzt thecarriige which s-rf to keep the j tars sevurn upon the ruili, notauflcrtus I the wheels to vary from tho track. The carls divided Into twoarUbyn LI3Q though cot entlro partition In tho center. the door admitting Into the forward cc mj JUtnifciit Uliiu on one tide of th carriage un 1 that a lmlttiiu Into the other on the othr 1 le, In rath of thvse coiupartiiHiit- were six luuuvnccts. Un the tcp was tho drtvtrs twat aul uuo ether, tach holding thrro xrsous, so 1 tlmt tho car carried ctuhtotn uttiisrcrs, i with all thelrcnonnous bulk of buga. , TWI4MC UlUH AN ItOlIb "llalntf mounlrd our eliklo, a fine, ltrpefcTi) horw was atUchvl to It by shafts, exuetly like thoso of a one hone wagon. 'Head)! sail the stage uunt the driver hlitlel to the prayi away weut the car ihrouiJi hills and over val-leys. val-leys. Ut fore we had done looking at our novel uhtdo tho car was stopped to water tho horse under a bridge, and on inquiring wefoanl we hid come four loltci In lers than twenty inlnutea The liorso drbk at I away wo went two lolles Isrfirr, anl tleu a ttttli strl M imiucdlttoly put In hco of onr ftiay J mounttnl tho top of the car, anl, standing up there, looking over upon the mountains Uond tho rlur was driven In forty minutes tnoro to tho piesent termination of the rallroa-1, thus accompliihlng the jouniey of twehe tnl1is in tlyhty minutes, lucluJing stop-lings. stop-lings. In brief this was the beginning not only of the Nwv ork Onttal, but of tlu rnatrftllwa) sj stems of the country. how York Kecorder |
