128 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1892. 



the monument from the memorial volume issued at the time is given 

 below : 



The railroad monument at Bordentown, erected by the Pennsylvania Railroad 

 Company, was completed in 1891. It is composed of a cube of Baltimore granite, 5 

 feel square and 7 feet high, supported upon an octagonal foundation composed of the 

 stone blocks upon which the iron rails were originally laid in the tracks of the Cam- 

 den and Amboy Railroad. Around this cube is a circle composed of two of the 

 original rails with which the road was first laid. These rails are supported by stone 

 blocks according to the original practice, the spikes and joint fixtures also being 

 from the original tracks. This type of rails, which is now known throughout the 

 world as the "American rail," was designed by Robert L. Stevens in 1831. Sunk in 

 the south side of the granite block is a- bronze tablet, which contains a representa- 

 tion (carefully drawn to scale), in relief, of the locomotive ''John Bull," with 

 tender improvised from a freight truck, with tank consisting of a whisky hogshead, 

 and the two passenger cars that first did service in the State of New Jersey in 1831. 



The tablet (Plate ii) contains the following inscription in raised letters: 



"FIRST MOVEMENT BY STEAM ON A RAILROAD IN THE STATE OF NEW 

 JERSEY. NOVEMBER ll>, 1831, BY THE ORIGINAL LOCOMOTIVE 'JOHN 

 BULL, - NOW DEPOSITED IN THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 AT WASHINGTON. THE FIRST PIECE OF RAILROAD TRACK IN NEW JER- 

 SEY WAS LAID BY THE CAMDEN AND AMBOY RAILROAD COMPANY BE- 

 TWEEN THIS POINT AND THE STONE, THIRTY-FIVE HUNDRED FEET EAST- 

 WARD, IN 1831." 



Upon the east side of the block, cut into the granite are the words : 



"CAMDEN AND AMBOY RAILROAD, 1831," 



and on the reverse side is inscribed: 



"ERECTED BY THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY, 1891." 



The programme of the exercises at the celebration of the sixtieth 

 anniversary of the first movement by steam in the State of New Jersey, 

 which was held at Bordentown, November 12, 1891, was as follows: 



Address of presentation, by Joseph T. Richards, assistant chief engineer, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Railroad Company. 



Address of acceptance, by F. Wolcott Jackson, general superintendent. United 

 Railroads of New Jersey Division, Pennsylvania Railroad Company. 



Historical address: The Camden and Amboy Railroad — origin and early history — 

 by J. Elfreth Watkins, curator, section of transportation and engineering, V. S. 

 National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington. 



The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has since published the 

 addresses delivered at the celebration in a memorial volume, hand- 

 somely illustrated. 



Interest in the department of transportation at the World's Colum- 

 bian Exposition has led to frequent examinations of the collection dur- 

 ing the year, the objects both in the exhibition and study series being 

 studied by officials of the Exposition and of several railroad compa- 

 nies who propose to take part therein. The chief of the department 

 of transportation exhibits of the Columbian Exposition spent several 



