The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-30

motion as the laid batteries that wero saluting her. Through the fleet of yes sels which occupied this part of the harbor were seen gliding in every direc- ton large steamlboats of the burden of 300 and 400 tons. These, with bands of music and crowds of gay and joyous company were winding through pas- sages left by anchored vessels as if they were moved by entertainment. The heart could not have been human that did not share in the general enthusi- asnn expressed by the loud shouts of the multitude. He could not have been q worthy citizen who did not then say to himself with pride and exultation. This Is my country. And when he look ed on the man whose single genius had created the most interesting objects of the scene. This is my countryman!"
 On the Fourth of July in the same year Fulton's steam frigate made passage from Hoboken down the bay to the ocean and back, and went the distance of flfty-three miles in eight hours and twenty minutes by the force of her engine. Thes trials suggested the correction of some errors and the supplying of some defects in the ma chinery. In September she made an- other passage to the sea, and having at this time the weight of her whole armament on board, she went at an averae of five and a half miles an hour with the tide When stemming the tide, which ran at the rate of three miles an hour she advanced at the rate of two and half miles an hour.
 This performance was not more than equal to Fulton's expectations, but it exceeded what he had promised the government which was that she should be propelled to steam at the rate of from three to four miles an hour.
 The committee of citizens, Samuel l.. Mitchell Thomas Morris and Henry Rutgers, make g very enthusiastic re- port concerning the wonderful ship, and their description of the trial on Sept il, 1874, is as follows,
 'tsuitable arrangements having been
 made. a third trial of her powers was attempted on the 11th day of Septem-
 Der, with the weight of twenty-six ot her long and ponderous guns, and considerable quantity of ammunition and stores on board Her draught of
 water was short of eleven feet She changed her course by inverting the
 motion of the wheels without the ne- cessity of putting about. She fired sa- lutes as she passed the forts, and she overcame the resistance of the wind and
 tide in her progress down the bay She performed beautiful maneuyers around the United States frigate Java, then at anchor near the lighthouse. She moved with remarkable celerity, and was per- fectly obedient to her double helm. It was observed that the explosion of powder produced very little concussion.
 The machinery was not affected by it in the smallest degree. Her progress during the firing was steady and unin- terrupted. On the most accurate cal culations derived from heaving the log, her average velocity was five and a half miles per hour. Notwithstanding the resistance of currents, she was found to make headway at the rate of two and ahlf miles an hour against | the ebb tide of East river, running
 three and a half knots. The days ex-
 ercise was satisfactory to the respec? table company who attended beyond their utmost expectations. It was un-
 iversally agreed that we now possess
 ed a new auxiliary against every mar litime invader The City of New York,
 exposed as 1t is, was considered as
 having the means of rendering itself linvulnerable. The Delaware, the Ches-
 apeake, Long Island Sound and every
 other bay and horbor in the nation
 may be protected by the same tremen- l dous power