The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-05-08
OF the New York & Erie Raii
Hand.

was granted. lh 1850, subscription oi
one million Of dollars enabled the Com
pauy to commence the work And the
first cars lh,ongh reached Dnnklrk April
DIST literally flying over an iron track of
465 miles. II is the great work of the
age. aud the Board of Directors decided
to have the grand Opening Celebration
come off at Dunkrk about the '5lh of
May The Journal says "it will be big
affair. reaching from the shores of the
Atlantic to The Lthes" On and after
the 5Ih of May next. one train, of cars
day will leave Dunkirk for New Ynrk
| THIS arrangement will continue till about
| the 18Th, when the season arrangement
will commence.
The N. Y Evening Post gives an in
ters,ing account Of the excursion ct the
officers ot the road, in tie first train of
cars. They storped at Elmira inr the
uight, aud pursued their way the next
morning at GI o'clock tor the Western
| Division. The road has been in effect
i've operation as far as II rn,viIle since
September last, aud in partial operation
! to Cuba, fifteen miles further, since the
middle of February. This portion OF
the road huwevcr, having been finished
during the winter, and portions Of the
track uat thoroughly completed, has only
been used for freight, aud fer passengers
incidentally The Post says:
AtCuba, the convoy reached the un.
~ 1 all. hi ht
road The distance thence to Dunkirk,
on Lake Eue, is ~ miles As the train
passed various sections of the road, the
resident and experimenting engineers
aud contractors joined the patty AT
Olean, the rushing waters of the Allie
ghany met ther view, covered with RATS
floating To- the great alhrrof waters, and
On it, banks, gathered 10 groups the won
dcring children Of the forest. For sew
clal miles, the road fpilpWa lls hauks thrn'
the Indian reservation, aud the Indians.
whose attention was arrested by the
shrlI whistle nf the lucomotive, as it
Ithnndered through their hcret"tnre quiet
/ dumafn gazed with = sort of mrlanchnly
! interest: there was no expression OF sur
! prise in their cGunlenauces-np" the
rude d-turb-rs nf their peace, the pre-
cursor Of their fate, The cXiermiua'"r of
ihrlr race-the genius of mechanism
At Albion. the train passed over an
cnhiuk,neut 200 feet long. and l3O feet
hjgh. which, ia eraudeur Of conception
aud execution, rivals lhe Star1cca; 1t Is
called "Drrw's Gulf" The length of
lire cu,vrrr t.rnug6 wh,rh the sa'er rush
.ps, is 3?0 irct. and IS uf ~nlji masonry,
hoilt f,ra.I tiae. 4 short distance fur
iher ON, is auuIher emhBnkmrnt, whlch
strikes rur traveller with degree "t won
der a,n. ave only hes, thau that which he
experiences un first Looking upon the
cult THs pprjion Of the road exceeds
% picturesque beauty aud effect anything
even on the Delaware or S1sqnrhana
Division I'.r some m'!es the road trav-
erses the. sides nf the mountain, at an ell
eva,nn nf 800 feet. aud the successi"u
.uf views are wonderfully grand anA rX
citing Throughout the "nnle valley,
called "LirtIe Valley" the eye an,! auen.
rou are drrpiy Interested, and the eXcIa'
nations. HOOK! hook! lDok!" were con-
slaut.
At Dayton, twenty miles or more be-
You'd. they came in view of Lake Erie
wing hrinw thcm. aud extending far AS
ihr eve could reach As the party caught
the first glimpse of the hke, three hearty
cheers burst from the dirrcrurs. engineers
, aud contractors. They felt each one, as
4, DcS Soto felt whruhe discovered The Miss
issippi they had achieved their "hlect
for wears they had struggled ON, at one
time under embart assment and anX
. iety. The Board had said in a public
1 address TO their Stockholders, they Cnulo
il almost see the Luke," rhey now saw II
not "as through glass darkiy,' bu
clearly. di.ljuclly--uot 10y faith, but by
works. There we're three hearty cneerS
II On sped the train; the superintendent!
engineer himself at the helm. and IN al
, hour more, catching occasionally glimpse
Of the Lake the shrickng steam horse
whose advent fnr nineteen years ha,
been hoped wished, prayed and waI,e'
}. tor, rushed into the village of Dnnklrk
About the coueratula ioas firing of eau
non, Illumination, &r., let some other
r write; we have no time al present, bu
q there is a thought or tw" as we contem
, plate the subject that seems as It were
in an instant to I'll us with ast"nishmen
liz twenty hours, running time, d.
d lance of fur hundred aud fifty mile
- we're passed, extending from the Arcti
ID hnrders To the Western Lakes. which, i
L former times aud under favorable circun
ID stances, occupied ten or twelve days.
II Wuhin a siugle day, the sources of III
" river ST. Lawrence. the Delaware, I'll
I'd Susquchanna and the Mississippi wei
ns travrrsed. BY tullowlng their sever
III courses, voyagers could reach the Gu
re- Of 81. Lawrence, Chesapeake b y, or II
er Gulf of Mcxlco The locomotive dasI
r. ed up the mountain, reaching an elev
q ton of seventeen hundred feet, at spec
49, on the way, portlons "i the ruad, of ov
he twenty one miles the hour IN "twel,
7y minutes, sir" said the telegraph operate
'ir your arrival will be known in New Y0rl
III STEAM! ELEcrRICITY! ENTERPmsE!
A GERMAN lady in Pittsburgh, Pt