The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-13
IN THE "GooD OLD TIMES. .
When Many Modern Necessities Were
Unknown.
(PhiladelpLia Ledger.)

philadelphia Ledger.)
Not until February of 1872 did the
people OF Kentucky know that Madison
was elected president In the previous
November, says Success.
In 1884 one of the leading railroads of
the United States printed on its time
table, The locomotive viii leave the
depot every day at 1e o'clock if the
weather IS fair
The first typewriter was received by
the public with suspicion. 1t seemed
subversive of existing conditions. A
reporter who took one into a court
room first proved its real worth.
IN England some centuries ago, if an
ordinary workman, without permission
moved from one parish to another in
search OF work or better wages, he was
branded with 81 hot iron
When Benjamin Franklin first
thought of starting a newspaper in
Philadelphia. many of his friends ad-
Flsed against il because there WAS a
paper published in Boston. Some of
them doubted that the country would
be able to support two newspapers.
one hundred years ago the fastest
land travel in the world was on the
Great North road in England, after it
had been put into best condition. There
the York mail coach tore along at the
rate of ninety miles a day, and many
persons confidently predicted divine
NSiASCcLAICe on SuCn unSeeTnlY haste.
When Thomas Jefferson was elected
president Of the United States on Feb.
L. 1901, after one of the most exciting
poHticaI campaigns in our history the
gratifying news did not reach the sue
cessful candidate for as many DAYS as
1t now takes hours to transmit the re-
suit of a presidential election to the
whole civilized world.
When, in 1909, Richard TreVithick ut
tered the following words there were
many who considered him an insane.
dangerous person: The present gen
Grafton Will use canals, the next will
prefer railroads with horses but their
more enlightened successors viii en-
pIOy steam carriages on railways as
the perfection of the art of convey
ance.
When Benjamin Franklin first took
the coach from Philadelphia TO New
York he spent four days on the Jour
ney. He tells us that. as the old driver
logged along. he spent his time knit
ting stockings Two stage coaches and
eight horses sufficed for all the COM
merce that was carried on between
Boston and New York, and in winter
the journey occupied a week.
fSapcleon. at the height of his power.
could not command our everyday con-
venieLces, such as steam heat running
water, bath, sanitary plumbing. gas
electric light, railroads, steamboats,.
the telegraph, the telephone, the phon-
ograph, daily newspapers. magazines
and thousand other blessings which
are now part of the daily necessities Of
even manual laborerS.
When the first two tons of anthra-
cite coal were brought into Philadelphia
in 1903, the good people of that city so
the records state. tried to burn the
stuff; but, at length Disguised, they
broke 1t up and made walk of it"
Fourteen years later Colonel George
Shoemaker sold eight or ten wagon
loads of it in the same city, but war
rants were soon issued for his arrest
for taking money under false pretenSes
DR.. Hanchett's office removed TO 401
Mccormick Block.