Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-10-27

There is n practical and serviceable on
CINE OF 1872 known as the ~"Blankensop,"
and the "Brunton" Of 1913. Next is the
Headly model of 1912, constructed to
demonstrate the fact that q smooth
wheel could be operated on a smooth
track, built to operate by a crank but
sufficient to demonstrate the principle
when the "Pufing Bilr' of 1913 was
built. The "Blucher," the first designed
and built by George Stephenson; also
Stephenson models Of 1928 and 1929 and
of the "Howard" of 1929, the first
patented engine. "The Rocket" and the
'Sans Parcel" of 1929 by Stephenson
are also shown, but of greatest interest
is "The strowbridge Lion," by Stephen
son in 1929, being the first locomotive
ever seen in America.
We find the "Tom Thumb" of 1829.3O
carrying water in a barrel and wood in a
box. said to be the first to draw an en-.
CINE on the American continent making
thirteen miles in an hour and IL minutes,
August %, 1880, between Baltimore
and Ellicot city. There are also models
of the "Mercury," 1.-The Best Friend,"
"The George W. Johnson" the "York,"
the "Costelli," the "Child," the "James,"
and the remodeled "York' of 183O.31.
The latter actually drew fourteen tons
five miles in n hour together with
four cars. Then there is the Atlantic,
of 1882, the first known ''grasshopper,"
which has seen sixty years service, the
"Old 1ronsides," and tue "South Caro-.
lina," of the same year, various other
engines of 1882, and other dates IN the
thirties and %forties, including the "La-
fayette," the "Hercules," the "San.
dusky," the Rocket" the "Sampson,"
the Campbell" the "Albion," the "Jef-
ferson," the Grader" the Buffalo,"
the "James," the Experiment" the
"Mount Clare" which wa the first de-
signed and built for the B. & o. The
Sampson, built in 1888 was in use for
forty-five years. The Camel of 1887 is
shown as the first type of the American
standard engine. The Trader of 1923
was used sixty years as a switching en-
CINE. The Mason of 1858 was the first
example Of the Mason and the pear sst
approach to the modern engine. The
Pepper Sauce was the first mountain
climbing engine in the world and was
built in 1868 and the same year the Per-
kins which was the first heavy ten wheel
engine. In 1876 the "6OO," being the
first mogul was shown at the centennial
by the B. e. o. and now is shown the
"Director General" the greatest triumph
in the art Of railroad building.
Ali of the engines mentioned are
either shown in their own proper
character or in full-sized working
models, ven the ideas of the early in
v%entors having been given expression.
They have been arranged so as to show
the evolution of %railroading in every
feature in it's strongest and best light,
and teach lessons we'll worth studying
or contemplating by anyone of q
thoughtful or mechanical turn of mind.
1t was fitting that this great road, the
first in railroad construction in America
should be permitted to so fully illus
trate the birth, growth aid mature life
Of "The Worlds Railway"
But the exhibit does not stop With
these models. Pho tographs and en-
cravings in an almost endless array, are
shown of early scenes on the B. O., or
illustrating points in connection with
railroad construction or operation.
They carry one back to the old times
and n recall the scenes of 1876 when
B. & O, rails were not %unfrequently
twisted around lamp posts or some
friendly tree after being heated on burn
ing ties by one or the other of the con.
tending armies. They recall scenes OF
conflict and times of danger as well
as illustrating the progress of the cen
fury.
In the near vicinity of the B. & o. ex-
hlbit we have the double decked street
car and many other unique and interest.
ing things in transportation, the Pull
man train, with its diners, drawing
rooms, smoking rooms, bath rooms,
barber shops and other convenience I'm.
thought of in connection with travel
twenty years ago, and our own Farmer
Wallace who tells $1,000 people daily OF
that unparalleled country through which
the Northern Pacific passes. G. A. L.
The Latest.
Attorney General Standish is distribu-
ting among the residents, and those
whom he wishes to convince Of the ras-
cality of the "gold bugs" printed copies
of the speech of Col. A. @. Fisk, of Den
yer, Colo, president of the Pan-Ameri-
can Bi-Metallic Association before the
American Bi-Metallio League, Washing.
ton, D. c., February o, 1893. The
speech is a pretty lengthy one, and is
onttan I'm IN lmDress. az NAV be evinced