The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-06-20
LOCOMOTION.
what Our Ancestors knew About
Travelling.

what Our Ancestors knew About
Travelling.
The Boston Transcript, in an article
on locOmOtioD, remarks that the canal,
! turnpike, plankroad, steamboat, rail
way, river and mountain tunnel and
electric telegraph, are of comparatively
recent production in the western hem
lsphere. julius Caesar (B. G. % occu-
pied eight days in journeying from the
river Rhone to Rome, $50 miles. At
the commencement of tEe Christian era,
tifty-six miles was considered a good
twelve hours journey by the cisium, or
pOstchaise. The news of the fall of
Maximin CA. ID. 244) was carried TO
Rome from Aquileia, 800 miles, in four
days.
Postchaises were introduced by Ira
jan, a. ID. 100 Carriages were known
in France in 1900, when but two existed
in Paris in 1850, there we're but three
IN that city, and those were of rude con-
struction. Henry ". had one, but it
was without straps or springs. A strong
c9sl-horse-t titaqueRee) y2c let for Hhort
Journeys later, these were aIsarIaassesl
to a vehicle called cOche-d-hdqlteRee
hence the n me hackney-coach. These
were let for hire in Paris in 1850. at the
Hotel Fiacre. They were known in
England in 1866, but not the art of
making them. When first made in
England, during the reign of Elizabeth,
they were called whirlicotes. Omni-
buses were invented at Nantes in 1926,
ana were introduced into London in the
year following by an enterprising coach
proprietor named Shillaber. They
we're introduced into New York in 1873.
John Winthrop, the founder of New
England in 1880, and who died in 1910,
never saw a stage-coach. In 1860 there
we're but six in England. Two days
were occupied In passing from London
to Oxford tifty-fOur miles. In 1869 it
was announced that a vehicle called the
flying would perform the
journey between sunrise and sunset. It
excited as much interest as the opening
of new railway a generation ago. In
1877 the mail from London arrived at
Edinburgh with only one letter in it.
Even as late as 1850, it took four days
to pass from London to Liverpool, two
hundred and ten miles. 1t was not
until 1925 that the daily line of coaches,
established between the two cities, &c
cOmplished the distance in forty-six
hours. And even as late as 1885 there
were only seven coaches which ran
daily between the two cities.
In i 1 Sir Roger Saltonstall was six
weeks upon a journey from Salem 10
jamestown. In 1896 Rev. Mr.. Rogers,
the second minister of Ipswich, was
twenty-four weeks on a voyage from
GraEesend to Boston. The first stage
coacAin America started from the site
Of ~ 80, North street, Boston, for
Portsmouth, IN 1861. The first line Of
stage coaches between Boston and New
York was established in 1872, q coach
leaving each city once q month four
teen days were required to complete the
journey. The first line of stage coaches
from New York for Boston started from
the Fresh Water, now the site of the
Tombs, in 1772.
In 1776 the news of the repeal of the
stamp act was eight weeks crossing the
ocean. The first express agent from
Boston 10 New York carried an account
OF the destruction of the tea in Boston
harbor. He left Boston on Friday af
ternoon and arrived In New York on
SylIIIlcy; rasisor ana tyranSIIH1iIer "a siis
mayors of that name Of Boston, spent
thirty-three days upon journey from
Georgetown, S. c., to Philadelphia.
In 1775 Gen. Washington was eleven
days IN going from Philadelphia TO BOs-
LOL# = tJOA4 LIS aAA4fa al az " dLEA ~ ~ Il 4AN
was met by a committee of citizens and
congratulated upon the speed OF his
journey.
The first regular communication
tween Boston and Gloucester was es-e
tablished in 17SS by Jonathan Lowe,
who ran two-hOrse open carriage be-
tween the two places twice a week each
way. Besides the Gloucester coach,
,,,i r, forrr sforac RON into ROetOD at that
time.H N In 1902 the mailstage started
from8oston for New York on Monday
morning at o'clock and was due in
New York at noon on Friday. The
news of the battle of New Orleans, Jan
uary s, 1915, was twenty-nine days
reaching Philadelphia. Sixty years ago
the reZular mail-time between New
York and Albany was eighty days. As
late as 1924 the United States mail was
thirty-two days in going from Portland
to New Orleans.
The news of the death of Napoleon
Bonaparte at st. Helena, May ., 1921,
reached New York on the 18th of Au-
gust. The news of the death of Gen.
/ Washington at Mount Vernon, Deem
Der Il, 1899, reached Boston on the
! tenth day after its occurrence. The
news of the death of Thomas Jefferson
at Monticello, July q, 1926, reached
/ Boston on the fourth day afterwards.
/ The news of the death of President
Harrison, on the 4th of April, 1874
reached Boston on the third day after
ward. The news of the death of Presi
dent TAYLOR, on the 9th of July, 1850
was known in all the principal cities o
the Union within one hour after It's oc
! currence