Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-07

The Father Of Railways.
From the London Society.
In 1917 Edward Pease, in the face of strong
opposition, appealed to the public to assist him
LII FORMING company for the promotion of a
railway between Stockton and the West Auck-
land coal field; but the public fought shy of the
project, and if it had not been that Mr.. Pease's
own famiiy-and immediate friends embarked in
the enterprise with him, the title of 1.-THE father
Oh railways, which was subsequently given to
"a, Mr: fease. would in all probability have had to
NC snnted on TO some later protector But Ed
ward Pease, when once he had taken thing in
nahd, and made up his mind that it was
eApedient and practicable. was not given to
WHhdraWlng from it: SO. before he had ever seen
ue0rge stephenson, he had made his application
10 Parliament for sanction to his scheme and
would have had his railway in course of lorna
tioh out Tor the Duke of Cleveland's powerful
objection that the proposed line would pass too
near one OF his fox covers. Parliament i'm those
uays was stronger on the side of the fox hun
.ers thaii on that of the railway promoters; and
ho wonder. remembering the apathy, il not
open hostility, of the commercial classes-the
people who were destined to derive the greatest
benefit from the project. The Duke Of Cleye-
land. therefore. succeeded i'm getting his brother
peers to throw out the railway bill in 1918; but
In the following year, when Mr.. Pease had
cnalked out new route for his line between
stockton and Darlington. steering clear OF the
dukes cover, Parliament was induced to ac-
cept the scheme. In 1891. when the royai
assent had made the bill law, the work
OF construction was proceeded with 1t
was at this stage that George Stephenson
came over from KillingwOrth to Darlington and
tried to interest the good Quaker in his new ma
chine, the steam horse. Up to this point the
protector of the first railway had had no idea of
providing any motive power other than horses;
the rails were his leading feature: the locomO-
tive had not even been thought of in connec-
ton with the Stockton and Darlington
scheme. When Stephenson waited upon
MI Pease, however: and in that North
umbrian dialect which never left him
sought Mr.. Pease's adoption of the new en-
gine Tor the new line, and when Mr.. Pease
promised to run over to Kilingworth to see
Georges locomotive for himself, the first link
IN the mighty railway chain which was
the world was forged. Mr.. Pease went. saw the
engine, approved of it. and from that time the
Stockton Darlington railway project began
to assume. in the eyes of onlookers. a more
numerical aspect than ever. Edward Pease be-
came a convert to the locomotive and an
amended act OF Parliament was obtained IN 1928,
empowering the company to employ lOcOmO-
tives on their lines, under certain restriction.
From that time the interests Of Edward Pease
and George Stephenson were in great measure
identical. Mr.. Pease assisted Stephenson-now
appointed the engineer of the new line at
salary OF ESOO a year-tO found his locomotive
factory at Newcastle and in many other WAYS
helped on the mighty movement which both
lived to see extended, with SO much benefit to
human progress. into every centre of industry
throughout the kingdom.
Almost Nickel-PIated to Death.
swell, we came pretty near losing another
old settler yesterday" said Mr.. Jacob Stouten-
berg to friend who called at his place of bust
ness, No. SIS Market street, yesterday fore
noon.
"Ah! who was it?'
at was l." said ''Stout." as with profound
impressiveness he pointed to his own manly
bosom.
"Indeed! How did it happen?"
"Well you know I've been kind Of under the
weather for good while. Yesterday / went to
take some medicine. The bottle was sitting on
q table in my room along with some other
Instead Of getting the right one got the wrong
one. l took the dose-a big tablespoonful
and the first thing knew there was q COM
motion just beneath my vest buttons that
fairly made me yell. What do you think had
taken3 1t was some nickel-plating stuff pretty
near as strong as nitrate of silver Good gra-
cious, didn't it burn. though! Well, my boy
came. and told him to get me some sweet
milk double quick. He got it. and drank about
quart without stopping to breathe. In a cou-
pie OF minutes felt relieved. am able to be
around to-day, but tell you 1 came mighty
close to having my bread basket nickel-plated
INSIDE, and the experien ce wasn't at all agree
e."-&. Louis Globe.
Pleasures of English Railway Travel.
The experience recorded by a Brighton season
ticket holder is unfortunately by no means sim
gular The iawless selfshness of certain speci-
mems of the daily railway traveller is one of
the things that show how thin is the
veneer Of civilization even in the classes
that would be most offended if they
were called barbarous. The correspondent
where there were vacant seats. but they
were all kept" by newspaper or an UNI
brelia, and he was politely turned out. "No-
tlcing number of other gentlemen coming
down the platform In the same predcament
looking in vain for Seats" continued the writer.
81 returned and resolved to take the first
unOccupied seat / found. / entered car
rage in which there were three empty seats.
but was Immediately assailed by vollev of
abuse from the three gentlemen already seated.
had no right to force myself; that was mo
gentleman. and must turn out. l mildly re-
monstrated. explaining that had entered the
compartment without noticing the small card
placed In the window and stated that there was
no more room in the train, upon which I was
told 1t was downright falsehOod' by one
gentleman. and by another - lie'" These
selfish gentlemen-roughs are only acting accord
ing to the law of their kind but one asks.
Where was the station-master, where the inspec-
tors? 1t is they who are responsible, and they
ought to be made to feel that they are So A daily
railway journey is now the fate Of many thou
sands of people who pour into London to their
business every morning, and yet there is no
class for whose comfort 80 little is DONE If any
one wishes to see the abject confusion into
which our practical " English race is capable
OF falling. we commend him to pay visit any
afternoon from to half-past to the dismal shed
whence the Southwestern Railway Company
dispatches its passengers along the Loop line
As aspectacle of official helplessness uncertainty
decentralization. and general disOrganizatiOn
1t is cOmplete.-PdU Mall Gazette
Baroness Burdett COuttS.
correspondent Of the Hartford Ere7,ino
Post was not long ago present at garden party
given by the Baroness Burdett- COutts. She
says:
Down the pathway walked a tall, graceful
lady, dressed in soft, twilled silk, with deli
cately shaded flowers sprinkled over it's white
ground. On her shoulders she wore white
Canton Grape shawl. folded square like a fichu.