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BULLETIN 119, U. S. Is^ATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Jervis, president of the company, who commissioned Horatio Allen, 

 a prominent practical engineer, to arrange the details for this work. 



In February, 1829, the " Stourbridge Lion " was sent by canal to 

 Liverpool and consigned to William and James Brown, who were 

 bankers for the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co., and on April 8, 

 1829, it was shipped from Liverpool on the John Jay for New York. 

 The boat arrived in New York on May 14, and the parts of the loco- 

 motive were taken to the yard of the West Point Foundry Co., of 

 which W. Kimball was the manager. This foundry was at the foot 



FIG. 32. REPRODUCTION OF THE ORIGINAL " STOURBRIDGE LION " LOCOMOTIVE. 



of Beach Street, North River, New York City. The locomotive was 

 put together by David Matthew under the supervision of Horatio 

 Allen, and was blocked up with wheels clear of the ground and run 

 as an interesting exhibition to people who called to see it. It was later 

 shipped up the Hudson River to Rondout, New York, and forwarded 

 thence by the Delaware & Hudson Canal to Honesdale, Pennsyl- 

 vania, arriving at that place on July 23. It was there elevated from 

 the canal to the railroad track, which is said to have run on a trestle 

 some distance from the canal. On August 8, 1829, the trial trip was 

 made, and the locomotive, manned by Horatio Allen alone, ran out 

 on the track a distance of about 1 mile to Seeleyville. 



