New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-01-21
m.nced N, Pbapix with ide-wheels, to whcss

moot ofthe remarkable accuracy and mecnahiCai
kill Of the Hoboken workshop, thai the ehgole
of the first small propeller carefully preseI'eu'
was sst I'D again rot more than 10 Or II years
80 m a new vessel. and without altering
Lew worked most successfully. l ne o.d nun
and the blades OF the propeller are yer M eAi'''
ence al HobOken.
STEAM FERRIES.
Not the least useful purpose to which steam
was applied about those times, was 10 'he
ferry -boats which dart al all hours across 'ne
rivers separating al once from, anu U
ing Us 10, the shores opposite our isiah"'
The noble estuares which constitute Jul
City so empharcally III Bnde q me Seas
TOO precious for, and too constantly vexed by,
the keels Of commerce to admit OF bridges as
means Of conn ection, would re ally have $50 ated
rs from the regions around, but for the happy
and timely application Of steam 10 navigation
7 address manv doubtless, who remember the
comfortless row. boats, or the more conloIIleSs
plrocues. which alone, until after the year IclO'
afforded the means Of crossing man or beast 30
I ong Island or to Jersey City The FIRST step IN
ADVANCE was the introduction OF horse-ooats-
twin. boats. with the wheel IN the centre-set IN
motion hy a sort Of horizontal treadm!ll wheel
an which horses were made TO step. Forhorses,
steam was substituted hrst by fulton AZ the
Fulton Ferry. Then came the single boats win
side.uh heels and propelled by steam, OF "hlch
1870 She still is al vsork, much enlarged ahl
sound as ever and much faster than at hrs'.
A. INDISPENSABLE to the new ferry boats came
Of Fulton devisng-the floating bridges al the
ferries which use and tall with the tide, ahel
by counterba anclng weights on snore an ln'eh-
ton ingenious m ItSeliland, as nave salu' inc
INDISPENSABLE compliments OF steam terry ooasS'
The spring piles now used 10 deaaeh sne ioloS
OF the blow as the boat approaches the ltrfy'
err 10 direct her course Alright are uue TO ho''
L. Stevens, who introduced them IN lS22
OCEAN STEAMERS.
And here ! must record, though cannot enter
into any details that IS we were the hrstto Wit
ness he success OF nver steamers, 50 were
we 70 originate ocean steamers. In the wear
ISIS The Savannah, Newly ork built ship, win
SIDE wheels and propelled by steam and sails,
went hence 10 Peiersbureh via Liverpool ana
reumed safely and year later, the Rober. Fal-
ton built 10y Henry EcdoTd. under ne sugerh-
teudence on Jasper Lynch for David Durham.
piled asa steau-packes between this City and
New Orleans. but, the business no. paying, her
engines were taken out and she was sold ~ the
Brazilian Government as q ship-oi- var ueinS Oh
200 ims I have here q memorial OF this snip.
as - were from the grave. The lecturer here un,
rolled and exhibited 10 the audience, c0lored
drawing Of the Robert Fulton, made m ls2l-de.
posted under cne of he marble columns erected
that year m the South entrance OF the PARK
and dlsnteucd. unin'ured. in 1915 when these
columns were removed
STEAM oN THE LAND.
Next lu succession among he operative causes
OF our growth, as connected with steam, was rs
application TO land carriage and soon the rail-
road and The locomotive We're constructed %
soothe and 10 satisfy. so far as that can be done,
our national go-ahead spirit And here again
New-A ok was the point whence proceeded the
first railroad enterprise, which was 90 connect
this City with Philadelphia, hy the Camden and
AmbOy Railroad, IN 1881 and here again Co.
John Stevens claims our admiration and gr1-l'
tute. lie had clearly worked out IN his own
mind long before any locomotive was con-
stmctcd Ii Europe, The theory OF such an appil-
cation Of steam and the actual form IN which
II could be advantageousiy made, as vel! rs the
cost of constructing and WOrslnr q rNltNNy Tor
the use Of locomotives. Long before any eype-
ience existed 70 Justify ms anticipation, be said
and published that there was 10 nnt 10 the
speed OF q locomotive on a rail, but the strength
OF the materials that 1t might easily be made to
run a. fast as pigeon could fly aud It Is one ot
the striking incidents connected with the open
ing. or the early use OF the Camden and AmOoy
RAILWAY, that flock of pigeons which had SET
tied on the track, being disturbed IN rs approach
by the rapid engine took wing IN the direction OF
the track, and that one Of them. attempting TO
cross IN mont Of the car, was struck down low II,
thus most literally verifying the prediction that
the locomotive would equal IN velocity the
pigeons fight
EFFECT or RAILWAYS UPOS TIT CITY.
Since that first road, the number has multiplied
In al directions, and such are the relations and
the functions Of this great City TO all other parts
OF The Union, that, make a railroad or open a
canal " here YOU Will, It must seek a connection
with Us, As the root Of the plant viii seek aud
find the water, Ia whatever direction and al what
ever distance. The number OF passengers and
the weight and value OF merchandise and pro-
duce now poured daily into our streets by the
railroads from the North and the South, the
East and the West, which terminate directly
here, are nostlmabe, and every pursuit AMI call
ing is interested IN their success Who, BET Jre
the Erie Railroad became q reality, ever heard Of
i,rls Of strawberries. the daily measure OF she
quantity OF that delicate run thus brought IN
the season 10 our market or gallons OF mia
recAoucd by the ten thousand the daily produce
of hundreds Of farms and tens OF hundreds Of
cows almost warm from the milking, and limo.
cent IN q great degree o. the purllng brook '
And 30 OF butter, vegetables, poultry, eggs and
al the riches Of the dairy and the farm yard, and
the orchard and the garden. Think OF slch an
Incident which only steamboats, and railroads
could bring about by bringing distant parts INTO
connection with the metropolis, as that which
occurred IN our bay the summer before last,
when the AmbOy steamboat, laden Oh her decks
anu EtalNH WIN pdrN'tS VI fNiNtiN'f -ti'ii .''t
drug from their abundance, passed alongside
Of an euigrant ship from Norway loaded with
passengers As the vessels kept side uy side Tor
a while, and the numerous women and children
looked forth wiShiully upon these baskets laden
with what might seem 70 them the golden t-uL
Of the Hesperldes-fruit which no one ofthem
possibly had ever tasted, for hey were from A
region too cold for It's growsh-some kind-hearei
person on the steamboat began 20 toss peaches
on board the emIgrant ship, and The delight with
which they were caught ana eaten by the emil
grants was SO genuine. that some dozens OF hands
were soon occupied in Ike manner OF board the
steamboat and for the bricl time that me
vessels were abreast, q steady shower Of
peaches fell upon tue emigrant deck What
notion must such an accidental reception have
! impaired to them OF the country that was % be
their future home.