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sides," as this engine was called, in speed and management were 

 eminently successful. The writer and other friends, scientific and 

 mechanic, made short excursions on the road, realizing the sensations 

 that only occur once in a generation, under the novel circumstances 

 afforded by, as in this case, the flight through the air at the rate of 

 fifty or sixty miles an hour. 



Difficulties arose in the settlement of his account with the officers 

 of the Company, who appear to have expected that this engine would 

 do what their own restrictions had rendered impossible, and there 

 were other difficulties that had their origin in the grading and con- 

 struction of the road itself. 



These facts are amusingly illustrated by one of the advertisements 

 of the Company, which was in the following words : 



" Notice. — The engine (built by Mr. Baldwin) with a train of 

 cars, will run daily (commencing this day) when the weather is fair, 

 as follows," etc. ..." WJien the weather is not fair, the horses 

 will draw the cars the four trips." 



No one need be told now that when the rails are wet there is less 

 adhesion than at other times, and as the grades were steep, it is not 

 surprising that one of the lightest engines ever built, was unable to 

 draw all the cars, and all the crowd that panted for a trip by steam. 

 The parties who indulged such unreasonable desires, could not have 

 exercised common reason in expecting from the motive power more 

 than was witnessed by the writer, the slipping of the wheels under 

 a full head of steam. 



The sand-box, now an indispensable adjunct of every locomotive, 

 was then unknown; had it been, it would most likely have supplied 

 the means of adhesion, something better than the horses' feet, adver- 

 tised to guarantee the trip. 



This little engine was an undoubted success, and subsequently, 

 when fairly and skilfully run on the road properly adjusted and 

 secured, gave entire satisfaction to the public, and all parties con- 

 cerned. 



The removal to enlarged premises in Lodge Alley, gave facilities 

 that soon told upon his reputation, and augmented his business; in 

 this place his second engine was made, and successive numbers un- 

 dertaken. Further increase of business rendered another removal 

 necessary ; in 1835, the property at the corner of Broad and Hamilton 

 Streets was purchased, and here the regular manufacture of Locomo- 

 tives, on an enlarged scale, was established, and became the principal 

 occupation, although it did not exclude other business, as evidenced 



