The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-08-22

and in 1888 Thos. Paine proposed its
application in America. In ISL the
Marquis Jouffroy constructed one on
the Sodne. But whoever originated
the idea of steam navigation, the honor
of producing the Unsuccessful steam
boat belongs to the United States
Rumsey and Fitch are said to have
been cotemporaneous in their researches,
both having attempted to construct
steamboats, as carly as the year lNS3,,z
4 models of which were exhibited i'll i7o4
pto Genaral Washington. Fitch weft-
to England to- obtain a patent, but was
unsuccessful. Ru@sey, who visited it
for the same purpose, built a vessel on
the Thames, which, however, was not
set In MOTION until after his death in
1893 This beat proved unsuccessful.
In 1888 Fitch placed his steamboat, the
Perseverance,, on the Delaware, and by
accurate measurement she proceeded at
the rate of twenty miles an hour. On
i Slae 10Th October, IN thai ysar, she as-1
cended the river to Bai gfensa dis
'as4e of 7twenty miles;ssSi es. hours
s'no '"-~+u minutes, eaTf thirty
mada @l-' 'aany other trlpS We've
LII iSoI Souil koIeSSiIS,r al, any,
commenced his experiments on strallsss
navigation. He succeeded in lnpel linaz1
boats at the rate of five or six miles per
hour. About the year 1890 an peri-
ment in steam navigation in drawing
boats was made under the patronage Of
Lord Dundas, upon the Forth and Clydesl
Canal; but three and half miles was
the highest rate attained, and the att
4o,>, E,,l+ >J,y. Il
was formed in 1895. He constructed
a vessel in Paris, which was launched
upon the Seine in 1903, and proved |
successful. lie then constructed IA
vessel il the United States, which was |
sct~in motion on the Hudson in 1907. i
In 1912, five years afterward, steam- 4
boats were introduced in Great Britain. |
In March, 1916, the first steamboat I
crossed the channel from Brighton TO |
Iuyrc. But the Hudson River was then
theatre of the first permanent triumph, h
and it is thcrc that the greatest achieves /
mrnt in steam navigation, the Great
Eastern, )o'r stretches her huge length
along til" wharVcs where FultOn's first
little steamboat spccded her doubtful |,
way ,jp the river. Who that witnessedd
that experiment would have beliayed1
that it could ever reach such devE1op-
Wrnt as Witnessed in the Great East-
EN- :
A connitteeaof the New Y ork Legis-
latlrc, which examined the conflicting b
claims Of Fitch and Fulton, made an
official statement that the boat built by
Fulton was in substance the invention
patented to Ohm Fitch in 1871, and the
latter, during the time of his patentI /
had the exclusive right to use the same
in the United States. Fulton, however, T.
was fortunate in the time and place
when his experiments were made he
was backed by heavy capitalists; the
trade and travel of the Hudsons ey en-
in 1902 were important, while the land Il
Journey on both sides of the river was
rockcy and tedius. He made the fisrt
actual beginning of steamboat naviga-
ton. His boat, the Ciermont, ran from
from New York to Albany, distance
Of one hundred and fifty miles, in thirty
svo hours, and returned in thirty hours.
This was thought great travelling at that
simc, and. many people wondered what /,
he world was coming to.
THE last Of The Atlantic Ca6te.-