Show author of the railway system thom thol n as gray wai was born in leeds england about half a a century or more ago and this is all we know of his early history 1 the middletown colliery had a railway to carry coals to leeds a distance of three miles the cars moved at the ramelot matox three and a half miles per hour it was laughe at buot not by gray but by the wise aublib gray saw in in his little work cometh something I 1 n that might toe augmented caf greatness 12 asa 1 he thought uton upon the and forthwith became a vis visionary he talked and wrote upon his project of a Generall drori ron railway 11 the people declared him insane ile he petitioned t Par hament sought I 1 with 1 1 1 1 the ahe lords and other great gr e at men and thus tie 9 1 came the laughing stock of all england he received nothing but rebuffs wherever he went all this took place in 1820 or thereabouts I 1 but he succeeded at last the railways were laid the world was benefited by the madness of thomas gray well what became of him bim the reader will ask we do not know but we believe he still lives in exeter to which place p I 1 ace he be removed remo V ed I 1 I 1 up to 1846 he had bad been neglected 1 j I 1 while thod thousands sands have oben been enriched by the consummation of his brilliant scheme he remained forgotten forced by poverty to sell i glass on commission for a living I 1 howitt Howit fc in the peoples journal a few years I 1 ago Q gave a sketch of his career thus bringing him im into into public notice we have seen nothing I 1 in in print in relation to him lately |