The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-11
TODAY IN HISTORY
The First Steam Ferry.
TUESDAY. OCTOBER II. 1910.

on October ii. 1911, John Stevens
the Inventor, established the ilrst steam
Terry in the world between Hoboker
| ana New York City. and two years
later operated the first double hull fer
ryboat carrying paddle wheel driven by
cncling horses
John Stevens was one OF the most
productive inventors TINS country has
] ever produced AS early as 1850 he pc
! titioncd congress for Il bill that would
protect American inventors. and through
| ills efforts tnls bill became a law on
April 10 oil that year. thus introducing
The present patent system OF the coun-
| try In 1i3S he completed his FIRST boat
successfully operating 1t on the Hudson
river. His first steamboat contained the
nrSt condcnslne, double c-actlng engine
ever made In America.
In 1897 Stevens built the side wheel
steamboat Phoenix. which was a few
days behind Fulton's vessel in attaining
the legal speed, and was thus shut out
from the hudson river, but he boldly
steamed her around TO the Delaware by
sea In 1908. being the first to navigate
the ocean with the new motive power.
John Stevens and his partner. Robert
Livingston, secured the first patent fol
United states In 1915. Besides an in
Nentor, he was man OF varied tastes.
He was an enthusiastic botanist and cul-
nnI,nS rnwated new new plants which he had Inn,
scholar. close student OF philosophy
and fond OF metaphysical speculations,
leaving. at his death. several philcsoph-
cal treatises never never publishes.
institution OF the Order of the Bat
This is the name OF the largest oi
the English orders oil knighthood, and
the highest TO which commouer can
obtain. Its name was evidently derived
from the initiatory ceremony of bathing,
which used to be practiced at the in
stallation OF a knight as an emblem
OF the purity henceforth required Of him
by the laws OF chivalry. 1t is asserted
BY Froissart that on the date named
Henry l. made Geoffrey OF Anjou and liye
other Knights Of the Bath, and Burke
relates that Lord Willoughby received
knighthood by bathing" from Edward
The last creation of knight of the
coronation OF Charles II, in 1861 From
that period until the accession OF the
house OF Hanover the order fell into OBJ
livion. 1t was revived by George 1. In
rank In England. the first being the
Garter The order was military until
lSiI; when 1t was placed on It's present
footing by the admission OF civil knights.
there were III knights OF the first class.
3o2 OF the second class, and 1lo6 OF
the third class.
When the Order of the Bath was re-
si9t of the sovereign, grand master and
thirty-siX knights companions. Shortly
afterwards the grand mastership merged
in the crown on the death of John Duke
of Montague, the first tenant of the Of
flee In lT49 and in 1916 and again In
lSiI the constitution OF order was re-
modelled.
Exclusive Of the sovereign, royal
princes and distinguished foreigners. it
Is limited to fifty military and twenty
five civil knights grand crosses, one hun
dred and twenty-three military and
eighty civil knights commanders, and six
hundred and ninety military and two
hundred and fifty civil companions.
On October II. .1776. was fought the
naval battle on Lake Champlain and on
that date the battle OF Camperdown was
fought in 1877. II is the date OF the
granting Of the New Netherand charter
In 1914. Today is the birthday OF Sam
uel &C. Drake author and antiquarian
G7oS); Henry Howe, American historian
GSl5), and Theodore Thomas. musician
GS35). 1t is the date Of the death Of
Louis V. emperor OF Germany G54I), and
Ulrich Zwlngli. the Swiss reformer
G53D. On October II, 1853, the New
York clearing house was opened, the first