770 CHARLES STORER STORROW. 



from Boston to Lowell and back at the rate of twenty miles an hour. 

 Soon after the road was opened to the public, and in 1836 Mr. Storrow was 

 made the chief official of the road under the title of agent, and managed 

 its affiiirs for the next nine years. 



He had a keen appreciation of justness, and while he insisted that 

 others should be just to the company which he controlled, he was careful 

 that his company should be just to others. Soon after tlie road was 

 opened to travel, a passenger entered a car after the seats were all 

 occupied. He demanded of the conductor a seat, saying that his ticket 

 entitled him to a seat and he must have one. The conductor told him 

 there would probably be an empty seat a short distance out, but that he 

 could not ask any one to get up and give him a seat; not satisfied, he 

 rushed out of the car as it started, and complained to the depot master 

 that the conductor would not give him the seat to which his ticket 

 entitled him. The depot master took him to Mr. Storrow. The pas- 

 senger complained excitedly of his treatment by the railroad. Mr. 

 Storrow quietly heard him through, then, turning to the depot master, 

 said, " This railroad was built for the accommodation of the public ; this 

 gentleman is entitled to a seat ; you may heat up the other engine and 

 take him to Lowell." In this spirit of regarding the rights of others did 

 he begin the railroad business of New England. 



While eno-aged upon the construction of the railroad, his leisure time 

 was devoted to the improvement of his profession in America by prepar- 

 ino- a " Treatise on Water Works for Conveying and Distributing Supplies 

 of Water," published in 1835 ; first giving to English-speaking engineers 

 the results of experiments made by the F'rench engineers and their 

 methods of solving problems on the flow of water in canals and in pipes, 

 and includino- tl.e discussion, in a very clear and complete manner, of the 

 various problems arising in constructing water works supplied by gravity 

 or by pumping. 



On October 3, 1836, Mr. Storrow was married to Miss Lydia Cabot 

 Jackson, daughter of Dr. James Jackson of Boston, and their home for 

 nine years was in Boston. 



On March 20, 184.5, at the request of Mr. Abbott Lawrence, Mr. 

 Storrow gave up the management of the Boston and Lowell Railroad 

 and took charge of the alfairs of the Essex Company, a land and water- 

 power company organized to develop tlie water power of the INIerrimack 

 River for manufacturing jMirposes, and to lay out and begin the building 

 of a city, which has become the city of Lawrence, with its seventy 

 thousand inhabitants. 



