New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-07-19
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FARMERS CLUI

No. 357 BROADWAY, July la.-Mr. R,PgLYEA IN the
Chair. The Hon IIryRY MyiGs Secretary.
RAID RAILWAY TRAVELLING.
Judge MEIo, read paper upon this subject, Sl-
lows
In oe the writer fr-t noticed the principle of substitu-
ton OF solid rails Of wood iron for the wheelracks OF
roads. Led by the then question Of canal
from the Lakes to the Ocean / studied the history of
roads.he Tram road being the first grand improvement
after the Appan way. the common paved road and the
McAdanizel Toads More than 100 wears had passed
away since man first saw good iron way, but not the
first steam carriage.
In the Legislature of New York in las frs, publicly
asserted the reality Of steam drver Of long iron
railroad with 0rerdge reiOcHg Ot fH,e miles h0uri
cuves rende ring Il necessary move .low then In %
the average velocity on the railroad between NcwYork
end Philadelphia owing 10 curves, &C. has no: exceeded
stttr nues a. h0rr that my theoretical velocity.
declared in the Assembly Chamber in 1919, right
within eSie nth part Of the real practical velocity
the distance ftrtyro year' The same had been writ
ton by and published in The National Al ocate in isis
when NJ. II. Noah Editor He prefaced my article
which signed NJ by saying that there might be somo.
thing in il, but 10 him the author seemed 20 be Don
QuAo.e. such was the opinion upon railroads 3 wears
ago.
have. With others admired the progress made in veo.
city railroads up huRdyj miles an hos'r on
straight r0.t, which has been done In England. But
entertain views OF railroad velocity beyond any yet
yenur,d 10 be expressed. The Emperor OF Russia has
taken the hTs great step toward what deem the ultima
tum Of railroad travel
Instead OF cutting alley through the country
going around everything in the way Of straight line
ne lfDin Hctcf5Dlrg 70 Mos
cow-he has made ii all the way tc0 ava3red teet wide
so that the engineer sees every thing that the
road
Such ! part Of the future the railroad from point 10
point mathematical line the raids ten times stronger than
any used the locomotives wheels of far greater
aeteray Twelve or fifteen feet the gauge relative
breadth the signals and times perfectly settled the road
walled on both sides during the transit of trains having
the gates Of the walls all closed Then instead of one
tahdreg iateS A0ur shall more safely travel hres
hAEdT-s miles IN hONT will no. pretend 10 say more
one hundred miss seems fast enough-so did twenty few
years ago, and nov, very vnsafe rails or s,. strait
runs We &C tray eel safely sixty miles an hour in ,s state
and ia England one hundred miles have been accom-.
plisEed.
ulpoDlem-a passage rom kegl ork to san Francisco
III zen AcHTs.
SoLOS RoBSsoS-I have no doubt upon Dsrf.ct layel
sralght line, made sufficiently strong and smooth this
Hghinng speed may be attained bur what am thinking
Of this; how will YOU stop
JIDCE MLIGs-We must BEGIN a hundred miles this side
Oh ie station 10 shut on steam. There would be no need
81 'he proposed exhausted air tubes send expresses
through we had perfect rails. IL does not seem any
more uxotc TO talk OF those hundred miles an hour
than did forty years ago TO talk of fifteen miles.
DO KING BIRDS Eat BEES
Judge MICS reed the following coamun eaton from
Mr. JOHN HOOPER OF Brooklyn Institute the gentleman
VINO nrst introduced this subject the notice Of the Club
ahu through our reports, to world OF dsputans upon
saws:
l. may be remembered thai about two months ayo
made report upon various common uraiudec.
itesalsn: among farae7s generally. respec'n. many o.
mo most sm iar tnsa Whch every day surround chem
IN DONG this aIggo,tef tho necssai.Y ~ looking .ntc
these simple mSters instead 90 hong content viii -
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