Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-02-06


supposed to be employed in steamboats,, fc
of which 700 are ascertained and 100 Il
estimated. About $50 are employed in !!
locomotives on railroads. OF these, 337 t
are ascertained, and Is estimated The {
residue, being 1860, are used in manu-
factories of various kinds. OF these,
1916 are ascertained and 244 estimated.
Number of accidents to Steam ngines. ,
The number of accidents occasioning
loss of life or much injury to property,
| which have occurred in the use of steam
engines of every kind in the U. States.
is computed to have been about 200. OF
these, 253 are -ascertained, and the rest
are estimated. Such accidents, by ex-
| plosions and other disasters to steamboats,.
appear to have constituted great portion |
Of the whole, and are supposed to have
/ equalled $50, of which 2l5 are ascer-
tanned The first of these is believed to
have occurred in the Washington, on the |
Ohio river, in 1916. s..-.-
Since the employment of steamboats, !
in the United States, it is computed that
quite 1900 have been built here. Of
these, about 260 have been lost by varl-
Gus accidents, as many as 24O worn out,
and the rest are now running.
The whole number of steamboats, as
r certained and estimated to be now in this
If country is 500 In England, in 1886,
the whole number is computed to have
q been 600. On the western and south
d western waters alone, near 400 are now
y supposed to be running, where none were
% used till 1911, and where, in 1884, the
lie number was computed to be only 234.-
lie OF these 400. about al are estimated
a, On the Ohio river alone, in 1887, about
m 413 different steamboats, are reported to
OF have passed through the Louisville and
n Portland Canal. besides all below and
m above, which never passed through. But
ut it deserves notice, that of those 4l3, near
u 60 went out of use by accidents, decay
IL SC. within that year; and several of The
% others, viz: 1O4, were new, and many Of
n, them, probably, were destined to run on
OF other rivers. As an illustration of the
Is, rapid increase of business in steamboat:
re- on the Ohio, the number Of passages by
rn them through the Louisville Canal in
creased from 406, in 1881, to l,50l il
&c 1887, or nearly fourfold in six years
nd About 70 boats were running, the pres
Id ent year, on the north-western lakes, where
he a few years since, the number was yer,
m small, having been, in 1885, only Is
I've Of the 800 steamboats, now In the Unite
lis States, the greatest number ascertained t
tu- be in any State is lao, in the State Q
ON New ork.
al II is a matter of surprise that SO few G
uld these are sea-going vessels, considerin
nld that the first steamboat which ever crosse
or the Atlantic was built in New ok, a
ess long ago as 1919, and went from Savan
ave nah (the place after which she was called
self to Liverpool in 20 days; and that tn
lies Robert Fulton, as early as 1922, mad
nee several trips to New Orleans and Havan;
rec A similar remark applies to the circun
md stance that only one of the whole numbe
9TH is public vessel of war, when the fir!
,ry steam vessel of that kind ever launche
in was the Fulton, and was built in thi
leir country as long ago as 1915. The Coy
by eminent of the United States never owne
onS but two steam vessels of war-both Gale
EN- the Fulton. The first one was lost
lies accident, in 1929; and now there is onl
an the other, before alluded to, built IN 1853
oy- 1t has, however, 13 other steam vesset
the employed in the War Department on tn
public works, and In transportation {
the TROOPS and stores.
ind Ofthe whole number of locomotives i
tes the United States propelled by steam, b.
the ing about $50, the most which have bee
rid ascertained in any State is 90, in the Stat
ON of PENNSYLVANIA. Those IN each State, r,
cry spectively, can be seen in the table anne!
ex- ed (V4 ~
Eu- None of them were introduced here ii
of A. D. 1881, though they now run on neal
the ly 1900 miles Of railroad. The first on
the it is believed, was in the State Of Dell
/ Of ware, on the Newcastle railroad ii
lba- second, in Maryland, on the Baltlmol
ngs and Ohio railroad and the third, betwee
,oor New Orleans and the Lake Pontchartrail
Tres in the State Of LOUISIANA. They had bee
the tried in this country, by Oliver Evans,
by early as 1904, and in England as ear
ippi as 1906 but not reduced to useful pra
nor tice in the latter till 1911, for freight, ar
t of IN A. D. 1880 for passengers and speed.
the The tonnage Of all the steam boats
the the United States is computed to excet
,uthd l55,470. OF this. I37.473 is in boats q
by celtained or reported. BY the official r
five turns, the whole tonnage would no,
ling probably, equal near l60, 1000 tons, ha
ney ing been In A. D. 1886, equal to l53 90
row Many boats included in those return
Is have been lost or worn OUT, and sever
MED new ones built since In England. Il
ave- tonnage is estimated to have been 81 ,9f
ring in A. D. 1886. The tonnage of each DO
IS to here averages about 200; and the es
the mates, where the retarns have been defe