Show THE LENGTHENING GROWTH s The marvellous growth of the railroad interests of the country is illustrated by the fact that old men are still living who took the first ride with Peter Cooper in the first steam locomotive in America Tho locomotive was simply an old station Suy engine about the size of a barrel Amounted on a truck and connected with the wheels by a crank It pulled an old fashioned coach loaded with fortytwo passengers thirteen miles in fiftyseven minutes On the return trip it raced with two fast horses The contest was nip and tuck when the band slipped off the flywheel Peter Cooper then engineer en-gineer in attempting to replace it lacerated lacer-ated his hand The horses won the race The first engine of really servicable quali ties was manufactured at York Pa by Phineas Davis It made one mile in i three minutes drawing thirty persons and it took the prize offered by the Baltimore Balti-more Ohio road |