The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-04-15
Ill.


The o,t.at 10 which tho Erie Cans! promoted
the commcrre Of New Yo-k a. the eIper-e o.
,trde.pha = forc'bly brought out In the
'rrty-fu4rth chapter o. this volume To the
F.rD- samelt Of tho most eager advocate g..
.-l1nd navigation. the tolls began 70 exceed
The interest charges lsi:s. rrD before TIE canal
w. finished In $50 s-65. 90 VA aid in t"..>
F"tv boats starting from AI'anv d.y alter
Gav was no uncommon SIGHT During the r~'-
.ast named. 300 holts and rn!ts passed Ncs'
Troy on The Enc and CAcmp.Nn ceDaIs Eror-
,.ovs W. 'ha new business created 'y i''
g,1we1ec movement u freight b"'ore lhs
,hamp.aIn Cans wss opeuec. there we've h.'
twenty vessels On the lake r. 1899. there Va--
.is h-ns!uc timber slaves, sh.ngIes boards
yura-hes and givirc eInp!ovment 10 thousands
~ neu IL navigation, shipou!tG!ns and .um-
herring Rochester became q rour-riIItng c@n-
ire and turned out 5000 barreIs year Even
Ohio felt the trrAtus and boats loaded with
pc-iron from Madison county were seen in the
basin At Albany Orders for cherry boards
and dressed lumber were received az Bufho
from Hartford. and from dealers IN Rhode
Island The warehouses GIonS the cana bank
NJ Rura!o were filed with the products az the
Eas, AID the West with wheat grain. lumber.
posts and rails, whiskev, fur and peltry, bound
for the markets OF the Atlantic, and with sat.
furniture, ard merchlndise bound for the West
To the reopa ot the West. indeed the o~Ienins
o., The cam. va. Of vast benefit 4 news
paper in Columbus, Ohio, pointed OUT
II takes thirty days. ard costs . . hundred
hounds to transport goods from Phllhde. pf.6
10 this city nut the same articles may be brought
IN twenty aays from New York by the Hud-
-on River and Fre Cana, 81 8 cost n 5? 50 a
hundred n We suppose our merchants IN
import on ar average FIVE tons twice a vear.
this means a SAVING 10 each Of $50 II il ev-
dent that Philadelphia's Western trade was ssr-
ousv threatened The day seemed % hand
when articles Of her cvr manufacture would
he sent by sioops 70 Albany, and nv cana 70 the
West vhsr -he would be outstr.pped ny cities
on the shore ~ Lake Erie. and would find her
Saf surpassed in trade and manufacture ny
Fttsburg l. the Cre.,western carrying trade.
M industry n which the intenor Of pennsvl-
vanla owed no srnAI! part q! is prosperity,
w1s not 70 be entirely subtracted by New York.
o short and cheap route e the Ohio River must
De opened quickly
Thus Z came ~ pas. that The completion
.! the National Pike was In is day a matter ~
much importance. II began al Cumberland
On the banks ~ the Potomac passed through
Haserstovn IN Maryland and JnIontown,
Brownsville and Washington N PENNSYLVANIA,
and across Virginia n Wheeling m the Ohio
With the, pike from Baltimore N Cumberland,
u made a great through Inc ~ conmGnica-
ton between the East and the West and was
already the !avorlte highway with travellers
bound fer the Ohio Valley Such a journey
was usually begun by taking a boa; al PhIa-
delpha. going down the alaware TO New
Castle. crossing By stage TO Frenohtovn on
the Elk River, a tributary o. Chesapeake Bay.
and then boarding another steamboat fos