Show honor comes too late to interest inventor if there was ever an unfortunate in it was old jim fitch the genius of I 1 alla belphia who piled the delaware river in a steamboat of his own design and construction 22 years before the fulton effort on the hud son fitch spent years in working out his idea and did it with nith a consider able degree of success but he was a very humble member of society given to minor spells of self indulgence so that he was never nener taken sc seriously by anyone and DO no hand was raised to help him on the contrary he met with opposition and misfortune one blow after another fell upon his ders and finally he be gave gaie up and wan won dered south he ll lived ed a while and then died and was burled buried there the story of his Is a long one the only recognition that he lie ever re calved is about to be bestowed upon him in the st ape of a celebration cele britlon by his descendants which will be held at an early date but it Is a little too late to be of any interest to old jim fitch washington star |