The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-05-23

| lay the foundation OF states Some
times. too, they do their work so well
that the people are insured peace and
liberty and undisturbed persuit OF
happiness.
But after that work Is done still
progress Is very slow unless the peo
pie are given the needed implements
to pursue their work.
The man who invented the bow
and arrow doubled the hunter pro.
| duction in day.
The man who invented tho first
pillow, rude as 1t was, enlarged mans
vision of his own capacity enc hun.
dred fold. He saw that instead Of
imperfectly filling an acre OF soil 1t
would be possible to cultivate with
better results one hundred acres,
When the revolutionary war was
over and the little nucleus of nation
that had been created started out
to develop the slumbering resources
OF the country before them, there
were no means OF communication. ex.
cept by horses and wagons. There
were no roads worth the name, no
markets from which money could be
obtained for their products, save at
the sea shore. Then north OF Mas
sachusetts were two states covered
with rugged mountains, back from
the coast with the little exception Of
the pass made by the Mohaws, there
were almost continuous ranges Of
mountains under different names.
from the far north to the middle Of
Georgia. The great Mississippi val
ley lay UNEMPLOYED except where bar
ges and fatboats could navigate the
rivers.
The outside world admitted that it
was h great country. but add ID, 1T
will take as long to subdue 1t as 1t
did to reclaim Europe from barhar-
ISM"
That was only an hundred years
ago. Behold the miracles thsc haze
been performed since!
Watt had invented the steam en-
CINE, Crompton and Arkwright their
spinning jenny. Stephenson was work.
ing upon his locomotive, but had not
perfected it sufficiently to be ii any
use, when Robert Fulton came for,
ward and announced the beiief that
the steam engine might be made to
run boats on the water. A queer.
genius was he. He was born in Lam
caster county, Pennsylvania in 1853.
His parents were immigrants to this
country from Kilkenny, Ireland. Ex-
cept that he could draw anything with
a pencil. Robert was a dull boy in
school. He told his teacher that
His head was so full Of new ideas.
that there was no room for the stor-
age OF dusty books. That was when
he was twelve years old. His ruling
trait shone out when he furnished a
gunmaker with fine drawings of the
lock, stock and barrel of gun.
At fourteen he invented an air gun
At eighteen he removed to Philadel-
phia and began to paint portraits and
landscapes and revealed himself a
first class mechanical draughtsman.
At the age of twenty-four he had
saved enough money to buy a little
farm which he decided to his mother.
In Philadelphia he knew Benjamin
Franklin and all the other strong
men of that city. In 1875 he sailed
for England and was there received
joyfully by the American painter,
BENJAMIN West, who had made a
great name.
Fulton lived with West several
years, receiving much instruction
from him. Then he opened a studio
Of his own, but he quickly drifted
from art to mechanics. He became
engaged for the Duke Of Bridgewater
in canal project. He invented a
system OF inclined planes to be used