Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-06-16
DOHH E&THC.

From the New York & Enouirerl
unprecedented Despatck-Stcan Boat Lerin1ton --'rb,
new and elegant steam boat Capt Jacob Van
dcrb, lett the steamboat wharf, East river for Pror
dsnce, on Monday morning at eleven minutes past min,
cock and arrived in Providence minutes
after nine o'clock the same evenng-having been de
tanned eight minutes, and performing the distance (twc
hundred and ten mes) in the unprecedented short Inn,
OF tcetee hours and t,conty-eight minutesy
The Lexington is two hundred and eipht feet lon,
ieet BEAM and eleven and half feet hold with guards
eleven eet wide She was built by Nlessrs. Bishop &
Snlonson, Tor and under the superintendent of Cant
Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose reputation for s, boats j.
so wen established IN this community; and the great oh
ec IN view by her enterprsing owner was to test the
feast oility of establishing connection with the r.
ton Ind Providence Rail Road, line between this CITY
and Boston, which should perform the entire distance
C2ol miles, by daylight Her engine is from, the fo,n
dry oil the Messrs Kemblc, West Point of about I4o
morse power, with eecen feet stroke making from TWEEN.
y-two TO ticcnfySiI revolutions minute: her cylinder
Is iorty-eght inches in diameter and her wheels twenty
four feet with ten feet space and dip of thirty inches
Inc great and laudabe object of her owner and the
anxiety which the public very naturally felt i'm the sue
cess oil MS experiment, attracted unusual attention to the
ooat her CONSTRUCTION accommodations, and ability Ia
SO powerful an engine; and happy TO sa
that IN all these respects she gave as general satisc
ton as she has asonisled and delighted III. publ;c h
her unprecedented performance in her first trip from hi;
city to Providence and return last evening" i'm cJ.a
hours and ffty-Hine minutes.
we were OF the party who accompanied her ON tJ,is
novel and interesting expedition; and although the Bos-
ton and Providence Rail Road is yet opened-which
event will shorten the time of travelling between thos
ctcs two hours-we yesterday Lrcakfasted M Ros,o,
tfeTe at t'c0 a. II and 01rieed Ia his city off the Dr
Dock an eeeea hours and ftiyniRe minutes from Proyi
dence-perorniing the entire distance in less than
teen hours and bringing with the Boston day
OF yesterday morning. for the benefit If our readers and
those OF contemporaries
On the Importance of this truly astonishing increase
OF speed IN our Steam Boat navigation we have neither
cne nor disposition to comment. Every reader who
feels an interest IN the triumph of genus-which has
already nearly annihated space-and who ia desrous of
seeing the bonds of our national Union cemened and
strengthened, easily imagine the great benefit. re-
sntng from this successful Experiment. and will exult
WIN us IN the cheering prospects which naturally pre-
sent themselves rejecting upon this subject be
Boston and Providence Rail-road Company will always
perform the distance between those cities in oo hours
ana II is equally certain that except in extraordinary ca
ses the distance between this city Providence will
he performed by steam in trcre houS-thus reducing The
Time OF our coming the distance between New York and
Boston oO mes) TO oureen hours, Other sections of
the country will be equally benefited by this improve
ment IN steam navigation by Capt Vanderbilt and his
name VIII IN future be cassed with those of Fulton and
stevens, to the latter of whom we owe nearly all the
improvements which have been effected in the steam
glne since the death of that great to whom the
world Is indebted for the most important discovery which
mas ever been made, except the art of printing.
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