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strengthening the entire transportation system of the country, and for
the purpose of avoiding the waste incurred by running transport
vehicles empty, return-load bureaus are established
To increase the highways transport resources as one of the means of
strengthening the entire transportation system of the country, and for
the purpose of avoiding the waste incurred by running transport
vehicles empty, return-load bureaus are established. These bureaus are
a means of bringing together the shipper having goods to move and the
operator of an empty vehicle which is possibly running to the point
for which the goods to be shipped are destined.

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proved of great interest to Americans
Foreign travelers who have come to the United States have always
proved of great interest to Americans. From Brissot to Arnold
Bennett while in the country they have been fed and clothed and
transported wheresoever they would go–at the highest prevailing
prices. And after they have left, the records of their sojourn
that these travelers have published have made interesting reading
for Americans all over the land. Some of these trans-Atlantic
visitors have been jaundiced, disgruntled, and contemptuous;
others have shown themselves of an open nature, discreet,
conscientious, and fair-minded.

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‘Dutchmen’ whose horse boat had proved a failure
At Natchez, Baily organized a party which included the five
‘Dutchmen’ whose horse boat had proved a failure. For their
twenty-one days” journey to Nashville the party laid in the
following provisions: 15 pounds of biscuit, 6 pounds of flour, 12
pounds of bacon, 10 pounds of dried beef, 8 pounds of rice, 1 1/2
pounds of coffee, 4 pounds of sugar, and a quantity of pounded
corn, such as the Indians used on all their journeys. After
celebrating the Fourth of July, 1797, with ‘all the inhabitants
who were hostile to the Spanish Government,’ and bribing the
baker at the Spanish fort to bake them a quarter of a
hundredweight of bread, the party started on their northward
journey.

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preeminently American institution, the ridge road, came about
Even this necessarily brief survey shows plainly how that
preeminently American institution, the ridge road, came about.
East and west, it was the legitimate and natural successor to the
ancient trail. With the coming of the wagon, whose rattle was
heard among the hills as early as Braddock”s campaign, the
process of lowering these paths from the heights was inevitably
begun, and it was to the riverways that men first looked for a
solution of the difficult problems of inland commerce. Eventually
the paths of inland commerce constituted a vast network of
canals, roads, and railway lines in those very valleys to which
Washington had called the nation”s attention in 1784.

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obtained permission to export the necessary engine from Great
Britain and shipped it to New York, whither Fulton himself
proceeded to construct his steamboat
After considerable delay and difficulty, the two Americans
obtained permission to export the necessary engine from Great
Britain and shipped it to New York, whither Fulton himself
proceeded to construct his steamboat. The hull was built by
Charles Brown, a New York shipbuilder, and the Boulton and Watt
machinery, set in masonry, was finally installed.

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Union Canal, from Reading on the Schuylkill to Middletown on the
Susquehanna, was completed in 1827
The eastern division of the Pennsylvania Canal, known as the
Union Canal, from Reading on the Schuylkill to Middletown on the
Susquehanna, was completed in 1827. The Juniata section was then
driven on up to Hollidaysburg. Beyond the mountain barrier, the
Conemaugh, the Kiskiminitas, and the Allegheny were followed to
Pittsburgh. But the greatest feat in the whole enterprise was the
conquest of the mountain section, from Hollidaysburg to
Johnstown. This was accomplished by the building of five inclined
planes on each slope, each plane averaging about 2300 feet in
length and 200 feet in height. Up or down these slopes and along
the intermediate level sections cars and giant cradles (built to
be lowered into locks where they could take an entire canal boat
as a load) were to be hauled or lowered by horsepower, and later,
by steam. After the plans had been drawn up by Sylvester Welch
and Moncure Robinson, the Pennsylvania Legislature authorized the
work in 1831, and traffic over this aerial route was begun in
March, 1834. In autumn of that year, the stanch boat Hit or Miss,
from the Lackawanna country, owned by Jesse Crisman and captained
by Major Williams, made the journey across the whole length of
the canal. It rested for a night on the Alleghany summit ‘like
Noah”s Ark on Ararat,’ wrote Sherman Day, ‘descended the next
morning into the Valley of the Mississippi, and sailed for St.
Louis.’

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songs of the day was ‘The Hunters of Kentucky
In the early twenties of the last century one of the popular
songs of the day was ‘The Hunters of Kentucky.’ Written by Samuel
Woodworth, the author of ‘The Old Oaken Bucket,’ it had
originally been printed in the New York Mirror but had come into
the hands of an actor named Ludlow, who was playing in the old
French theater in New Orleans. The poem chants the praises of the
Kentucky riflemen who fought with Jackson at New Orleans and
indubitably proved

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but it is evident that the measure of success achieved was not
equaled elsewhere on similar improvements on a large scale
The total actual work done is not clearly shown by the documents,
but it is evident that the measure of success achieved was not
equaled elsewhere on similar improvements on a large scale. From
1796 to 1804 the tolls received at Rome amounted to over fifteen
thousand dollars, and at Little Falls to over fifty-eight
thousand dollars–a sum which exceeded the original cost of
construction. Dividends had crept up from three per cent in 1798
to five and a half per cent in 1817, the year in which work was
begun on the Erie Canal.

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chain, paddle wheel, and screw propeller and of his puzzling
earth-and-water creature that gives luster to his name
It is not alone Fitch”s development of the devices of the endless
chain, paddle wheel, and screw propeller and of his puzzling
earth-and-water creature that gives luster to his name. His
prophetic insight into the future national importance of the
steamboat and his conception, as an inventor, of his moral
obligations to the people at large were as original and striking
in the science of that age as were his models.

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from Lake Erie, is intended to indicate and commemorate the
navigable communication, which has been accomplished between our
Mediterranean Seas and the Atlantic Ocean, in about eight years,
to the extent of more than four hundred and twenty-five miles, by
the wisdom, public spirit, and energy of the people of the State
of New York; and may the God of the Heavens and the Earth smile
most propitiously on this work, and render it subservient to the
best interests of the human race
‘This solemnity, at this place, on the first arrival of vessels
from Lake Erie, is intended to indicate and commemorate the
navigable communication, which has been accomplished between our
Mediterranean Seas and the Atlantic Ocean, in about eight years,
to the extent of more than four hundred and twenty-five miles, by
the wisdom, public spirit, and energy of the people of the State
of New York; and may the God of the Heavens and the Earth smile
most propitiously on this work, and render it subservient to the
best interests of the human race.’

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