The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-25
LOCOMOTION.
what Our Ancestors Knew About
Travelling.

/ what Our Ancestors Knew About
Travelling,
The Boston Transcript. In e. aftiele
on locomotion, remarks that the canal,
turnpike, plankroad, steamboat, rail
way, river and mountain tunnel, and
| electric telegraph, are of comparatively v
recent production in the western hem
| isphere. Julius Caesar tB. @. 80 occu-
pied eight days in iourneying from the
river Rhone to Rome, $50 miles. At
| the commencement Of the Christian era,
| tifty-six miles was considered q good
twelve hours journey by the cisium, or
postchaise. The news of the fall of
Maximin "a. 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 1860, when bat two existed
IN Paris IN 1850, there we're but three
IN that city, and those were of rude con-
struetion. Henry ". had one, but it
was without straps or springs. A strong
cOb-horse (tdQatenee) was let for short
journeys later, these were harnessed
to a vehicle called coche- -10Quenee,
hence the ns me hacl1ney-coach. These
were let for hire in Paris in 1850, at the
Hotel Fiacre. They were known in
England in 1855, but not the art of
making them. When first made in
England, during the reign of Elizabeth,
they were called whirhcotes Omni-
buses were invented at Nantes in 1926,
and were introduced into London In the
year following by an enterprising coach
proprietor named Shillaber. They
ere introduced into New York in 1SzS
John Winthrop, the founder of New
E,uOlonH II, 1Go0 onI 9bo H5a.5 1GAn
never saw stage-coach. In 1860 there
were but six in England. Two days
were occupied In passing from London
to Oxford, ffty-four miles. In 1869 it
was announced that a vehicle called the
" flying would perform the
journey between sunrise and sunset. 1t
excited as much interest as the opening
of new railway a generation ago. In
1737 the mail from London arrived at
Edinburgh with only one letter in it.
Even as late as 1760, it took four days
to pass from London to Liverpool, two
hundred and ten miles. It 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 1881 Sir Roger Saltonstall was six
weeks upon q journey from Salem to
jamestown. In 1886 Rev. Mr.. Rogers,
the second minister of Ipswich, was
tWenty-four weeks on a voyage from
Gravesend to Boston. The first stage
coach in America started from the site
of No 80, North street, Boston, for
Portsmouth, in 1861. The first line of
stage coaches between Boston and New
York was established in 1872, coach
leaving each city once 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 I772.
In 1776 the news Of the repeal of the
stamp act was eight weeks crossing the
ocean. The first express agent from
Boston to 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
Tuesday afternoon. In 1773 Josiah
Quincy, father and grandfather of the
mayors of that name of Boston, spent
thirty-thr days upon journey from
s. c., to Philadelphia. |
In 1775 Gen. Washington was eleven
days in going from Philadelphia to Bos-
ton. Upon his arrival at Watertown he |
was met by a committee of citizens and |
upon the speed of his
journey.
The first regular communication be-
tween Boston and Gloucester was es-
tablished In 1888 by Jonathan Lowe, |
who ran a two-horse open carriage be- |
tween 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-stage started |
from Boston 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 8, 1915, was twenty-nine days |
Philadelphia. Sixty years ago
the regular 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 5, 1921, |
reached New York on the 18th of Au- |
gust. The news of the death of Gen.
Washington at Mount Vernon, Decem-
Der IA, 1893, reached Boston on the |
tenth day after its occurrence. The |
news of the death of Thomas Jefferson |
at Monticello, July "A, 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 of /
the Union within one hour after its oc-
ourrence.