The Washington herald., 1919-06-29

North America the great prae schooners the town on
wheels the colonial AHeshen the sinister
the pulse and red of nspoaOn the new one
of the worlds
Did ride the cab of locomoivep Arm out in the
rain and cnsg along the side of that open window trying 10
keep the punges his bulk the backne of night
Following the shining raifor all the pounding Of his mighty
thews still but the slave of those rails stretching
emnaby into the distance? The weight of the hills annually trans
ported endessy and fro the Dsgorged-reoadd
-endlessy the burden and the going
But when that first road talked over the old Baltimore and
Ohio back 1926, for transportation facilities going be-
tween places took gain Vgns The heydey of
railroad rOmanceegatue fighting against yielding permit to
right of way.
The utmost locomotive speed miles hour Locomotives
almost fabulous. Horses and mules pulled the wagons as
called sails propelled them. hen 1884, The roed
offered S4OOO tor that would fifteen hours
day and night and that would be capable pulling fifteen tons IN
elusive Of the wagons weight The engine weiS more than
three and onehalf tons. masne-hree and Onehs ons'
And in 1853 the first through train Wheelnp
When the first locomotive for end of the Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad about 1882 Aoated down the liver
Lawencebug ld all the dressed itself and wen, ou to see
the marvel Cincinnati had been of commercial isolation:
St Louis Travelled New York by way of the lakes By sections the
track reached toward St Louis from Cincinnati The Ohio and
Mississippi under three charer-Ohio Indiana and Illinois, and
but the other day, June of 1857 that the line was
openedhe realization of that dream Of dreams transportation
direct line from the Atlantic the srsnares the West!
And too of of these things material and
the first of that old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by
Revolutionary sodethe terminal portion leading Louis
engineered by Mcclellan. buecoat idol of Civil War
Too. you know, for the magic Of real
things of down the bayous of Louisiana the royal
lilies Of France rooted and Fnchmen founded ST. Louis Then
Virginia boy mastered the of the French,
peria Northwest; that boy Clark puckns the of King
Georges American jewels
That's the beaen-ack part of it.
But the lure of the road that goes where wills the roadoveri
The very rhapsody of all when the automobile picks u
and pung you speeds. making you of
the earth and the fun thereof And does whether
it's the seaboded truck that thousands the truck Of few
hundred-s all the gets herel makes you your
geni master of the road that ends.
The epic Of transportation has reached elimination in the
mighty. steel muced truck of todayl Tee goes the
ackess where beast would speedily succumb were
they rely upon their unaided strength knows limitation
of beaten ak ccumscrbed and held slavery by twin
ribbons of shining steel Swift the doing of appointed
the Arabian eedIh the rugged strength of Asac elephant
to work for youhe modern truck truly the umatel
Perhaps the last chapter Of transportation Romance YET
be wnp Who knows what forces the future will dscose-st
mighty Developments will take place transport Now there
lis better command for the interstate commerce
rapidly becoming factor dyeopmenfor the speens
of busnesfo the relief of the freight the bring
closer relations the city and the counyhsn the efficient
lsturdy. economical Motor Truck