Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-07-26
JOHN BULL ON IFS WAY WEST.
The Triumphant Passage of an old Engine
 Through New dorsey.


 The Triumphant Passage of an old Engine
 Through New Jersey.
 The first locomotive that ever drew
 a railroad train in America. the John
 Bull, left the Jersey City station of
 the Pennsylvania railroad at l0:16
 Monday morning bound for Chicago.
 Behind It were two passenger coaches
 having on board a party of guests.
 The crew that handled the train
 had been selected from the veterans
 of the service. It consisted of W. T.
 Bailey. who has been on the road
 since 1859; "Gigtop" Brakeman Jonas
 Hager. who was appointed in lSi9;
 Rear Brakeman Thomas Gallagher,
 who first served in the Eamc capaci-
 ty in 1879; Fireman John " San.
 ford, who began his railroad career tn 1855, and Engineer A. l. Herbert, who held the same place on old Johl Bull early in the fifties.
 The engine John Bull was brought to this country by Robert |. Stevens ln 1851, and in 1883 1t began to run regularly on the Camden and Am boy railroad In the sixties the old engine was sido tracked at Borden. town. N. J 1t renamed there un- til placed on exhibition al the cen. tennial exposition at Philadelphia, after which 1t was returned to Bor- dentown, where it remained until 1883, when the Pennsylvania rail road company secured it and gave it to the United States to bc placed on exhibition in the National museum at Washington.
 One of the passenger coaches was used as q chicken coop by farmer near South AmbOy, and the other was found several years ago covered with rubbish in New Jersey lum- Der yard
 The queer train was an object of interest to thousands of people who lined the tracks from Jersey City to Philadelphia In every town it passed l through the houses were decorated l with bunting and flags. and nearly l every inhabitant was at the station.
 Thousands of school children, to | whom a holiday was given in order that they might see the train. were massed along the tracks in the dif- ferent towns on the route, and the cheers of the shril young voices could be plainly heard above the rum ble of the train.
 At Princeton about 800 students took possession of the train for about l6 minutes. making the old cars ring with their college cry. When the train was released by them, thcy covered the track so thickly with money to be mashed by the wheels for souvenirs that the engine could hardly move the train over 1t. This was kept up by the people all along the line.
 From Jersey City to Trenton, the sntire width of the state, the train ran more or less on coins. These 'oins ranged from pennies to G. 50 md s5 gold pieces At Trenton the -ails were covered with all sorts If coins for a distance of nearly 300 Tar(ls. As the train ran slowly dong a crowd of men and boys fol owed it on a run, and reaped a good harvest by snatching up the more coins before their owners 'ould reach them. Three young Princeton students, who had three 'retty mRidens with them, only sue eeded in finding two out of the SIX 5 gold pieces they had carefully laid n the rail near their feet. In half n hour battered pennies, nickels nd i0-cent pieces were selling on be streets of Trenton at from 30 ents to Sl each. ! Owing to various delays it was 6:55 . m. when the train entered the iroad street station in Philadelphia. hour and 15 minutes behind the chedule time
 The coming of John Bull and the NO antique green cars which had at -acted so much attention on the Oute had been announced in the vening papers, and by the time the -ain arrived in the station there ere 10000 men, women and chil- ren struggling to see it.
 The entire time occupied by the Tn from Jersey City to Philadelphia as 2 hours and S5 minutes-New ork Sun.