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Philadelphia. A few months afterward she vas
sold to the Galena Road. She is still on duty,
the survivor Of much travel and rough usage.
roads have been subjected to severe accidents,
and, 80 far as can be ascertained, they are all II
service in some capacity or other. The engineers
Of these engines have not Jared 80 well. Mr.
John Ebert, the first engineer of q locomotive in
Sas chesgq s Esi IN tie aaS sS Natter hss bag Sssbpg
of the Galena Road, which position be held
twalve years. He was afterward Assistant Super
intendent for two years. He then retired from
failfoadlng, and is now superintendent OF the
Ebert was alao the first engineer, to
run an engine out from Detroit, which
he did in the winter Of 1883, on the
Michigan Central He is now in his 57th year, is
energy, and surrounded BY a happy family. Mr.
Ebert has played no unimportant part in the
history Of railroads in the West. We are in
debted to linn for much Of the matter herein
contained regarding the old engines Of the city
Mr Dan. McManman was the second engineer
in Chicago, he having succeeded Mr. Ebert on
tbs Pioneer. He is still O resident OF the city,
and iB tue engineer in one Of the Bridgeport
blast furnaces. Mr. Peter Ebert and Nate Nor
ton we're the next engineers both are dead
now living at Pixies Peak. He ran one engine
five years without an accident Of any kind WHAT
ever. NIr: Cooley, foreman at the round houses
Of the c., B: 9. r. r., was one Of the pioneer
first engine on the Aurora Road, now merged
into the G., B. d Q. This gentleman ran the
WestWind six years, without the alightest acci-
dent, and he ran fourteen years himself, without
accident. Did our space permit, re would make
mention Of many other engineers, whose honor
able records in running for long period Of
time, without accident. make them worthy OF
public mention.
We shall close this article with few general
statements regarding the number Of " Iron
value, and other matters Of general interest.
There arc now on the roads in this city, 1889
engines, valued on an average Of $12, 600 apiece.
This would make their total value $22, ,7S8, 900.
These engines are distributed as follows: Chi
cago & Northwestern, go; Pittsburgh. Fort
IA; Illinois Central, 1877 !; Chicago Danville d
vincennes, q Michigan Central 2o5 Chicago,
Barlingto9 3! d Quincy, 2ol; Lake Shore and an
1872. The number Of regular daily trains the
tIron Horse pulls out Of the city is 178; and
tho number in, 169, making total Of a97 regu-
lar trains. II ne add to these the average num-
OF isSaE dy s fan Ths have fdonns ana s0fs x
show at glance something Of the
work "the Iron Horse in Chicago" performs
in year: He takes out, md brings ~, 1856 05o
trains year. He earns about 983 100000. He
DI4uEB Ill y pI0ub u CdJ,4tV.445. 00 kIs446POIL5
over the various roads be travels upwards OF
6,0oD,o0o passengers. or about one-seventh Of
the population OF the world. He represents
9400, 200, 600 Of capital.
Surely the Iron Horse in Chicago. is q
power that shall build up city, to which no
limit may now be put. And this railroad inter
est is yet in it's infancy. When the "great
West " shall be settled up, and her vast resour-
ces freely developed this railroad interest in Chi
cago will be greater than the mind Of man can
now comprehend.
RAILROAD GROWTH.
The following extracts are taken from q con-
tribution to the Philadelphia North american:
s e TO TO
Of the locomotive and power OF steam travelling Few
Of tts day arc aware that e carly az 1892 twenty
Railway, Oliver Evans endeavored to establish rail-
wny between New York and Philadelphia, offering to
Yet @ such is the fact ~ Theze being no railways in
america, Mr.. Evans In 1857, sent draughts and spec
Of h9 Plsns England h By Captain M Masters
Mass and set again in 1888 he sent thither bis plan
Richard Trevithic, who in 1904 patentcd in England
the hgh-pressu1e locomotive, introduced into Corn
wall the eyl%ipdEical-aue % boiler invented t BY Oliver
knowledgment the inventions OF MI. Evans.
Oliver Evans' plan for railway was thatit " be laid
nearly level not to deyiste IN any place than
two degrees from horizontal uue made Of wood or
iron on aooth parks OF broken stone or gravel With
rail to guide the carriages that they may pass each
other In differerent directions aud travel by night
well by day" The sole reason why the locomotive
was not used on rails in America years before It in
Great Britain was because It's inventor {0ve1 Evans)
had not Of his own eans Buclent to build railway,
and ho could not induce Americans Of his day to sab
scribe dollar. Hence 1t WIS that he aimed to run
his device on turnpkes, md invited cooperation,
pointing at the time to the eminent success Of his e1e
vator the hopperboy, and his other inventions, which
had revo1utonized the manufacture Of flour also, to
his invention for making machine cards, o. evidences
OF the general correctness Of his views, but he
failed to obtain cooperation, and, unlike the
more fortunate Watt {who had enlisted for the low
pressure engine men Of captaD, Nj. Evans WIS COM
PEELED to furnish himself both the mental and pecuni-
ary Tor those practical demonstrations which
he from time to time conducted and referring back to
which, sone thirty years afterwnrd, Elijah Galloway,
the British writer steau declared proved Oliver
Evans to be not only the first inventor Of the ocoo
tive, but also Of the first practical steamboat.
Unable to move his countrynen, Mr. Evnns Een.
dered the following remarkable prophecy: "The pres.
ent generation will uae canals, the next generation will
prefer railroads. with horses but their enIght
ened successors wi employ my steam carriage on rail-
ways, the perfection OF the art Of conveyance In
the meantime the steam carriage may be tested,
on the present turupikes.n As Oliver Evnns died in
1919, and tho shove prediction rendered several
years prior to hts DEATH none with the events Of to-
day in Vew, fail to remark its perfect fula1ment.