The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-06-13

The Boston Transcript, in an article on To-
comotion, remarks that the canal turnpike
plankroad, steamboat, railway, river and
mountain tunnel, and electric telegraph, are
of comparatively recent production in the
Western Hemisphere. julius Caesar (B. c.
26) occupied eight days in journeying from
the river Rhone to Rome, $50 miles. At the
commencement of the Christian era, fifty.six
miles was considered good twelve hours
journey by the cisium, or postchaise. The
news of the fall of Maximin CA. d. 244 was
carried to Rome from Aquleia, 800 miles, in
four days.
Postchaises were introduced by Trajan, A.
ID. 100. Carriages were known in France in
1900, when but two existed IN Paris; in 1850,
there were but three in that city, and those
were of rude construction. Henry ~. had
one, but il was without straps or springs. A
strong cob-hOrse (taquenee) was let for short
Journeys; later, these were harnessd to We
hiclc called c0che a-haquenee, hence the name
hackney coach. These were let for hire in
Paris in 1860, at the Hotel t'iacre. They
were known in England in 1856, but not the
art of making them. When first made in
England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth,
they were called whirlicotes. Omribuses
were invented at Nantes in 1896, and were
introduced into London in the year following
| by an enterprising coach proprietor named
Shillaber They were introduced into New
York III 1928.
John Winthrop, the founder of New Eng
land in 1880, and who died in 1910, never
saw stagc-coach. In 1860 there were but
six in England. Two days were occupied IN
passing from London to Oxford fiityfour
miles. In 1869 it was announced that n We
hicle called the "hyingcoach" would perform
the Journey between sunrise and sunset. II
aypitaR no p,ncb interest - tho i'm q
new railroad generation ago. In 1871 the
mail from London arrived at Edinburgh with
only one letter in il. Even rs late as 1860, it
took four days to pass from London TO Liver
pool, two hundred and ten miles. 1t was not
until 1895 that the daily line of coaches es-
tablishcd between the two cities, accomplish.
ed the distance in fory-siX hours. And even
as late as 1885 there were only seven coaches
which ran daily between the two cities.
In 1851 Sir Roger Saltonstall was six weeks
upon a journey from Salem to jamestown.
In 1886 Rev. Mr.. Rogers, the second minister
of Ipswich, was twenty four weeks on voy-
age from Gravesend to Boston. The first
siage-coach in America started from the site
of No. 30 North street, Boston, for Ports
mouth, in 1861. The first line of stage-coachcs
between Boston and New York was establish
cd in 1882, coach leaving each place once a
month; fourteen days were required to com
plete the journey. The first line of stage
coachas from New York for Boston started
from the Fresh Water, now the site of the
Tombs, in 1l,2.
In l176 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 Fri
day Afternoon and arrived in New York on
Tuesday afternoon. In 1913 Josiah Quincy,
father and grandfather of the Mayors of that
name of Boston, spent thirty-thrCc days upon
a Journey from Georgetown, :. c., to Phila-
dephia In 1910 Gen. Washington was Clcv-
en- DAYS in going from Philadelphia 10 Bos-
ton. Upon his arrival at Watcrtown he was
met by a committee of citizens and cOngratu-
lated upon the speed of his journey.
The first regular communication between
Boston and Gloucester was established in
1888 by Jonathan Lowe, who ran tYohorse
open carriage between the two places twice
a week each way. Besides the Gloucester
coach, only four stages ran into Boston at
that time In 1902 the mail-stagc started
from Boston for New York on Monday morn
ing at o'clock, and was due in New York
at noon OF Friday The news of the battle
of New Orleans Jan s, 1915, was twenty nine
days reaching Philadelphia Sixty years ago
the regular mail-time between New York and
Albany was eight days. As late as 1924 the
L. 5. mail was thiriy-two days IN going from
Portland 10 New Orleans.
The news of the deati Of Napoleon Bona