THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



67 



THE PAST AND THE PRESENT. 



PiMliaps ill 110 icspi'ct is tlie giout distiiii'- 

 tioii lietwccii tin' iKlst and lUe incsi'iit, within 

 the first historic fiMituiy of America's iiro- 

 grt'ss. more slrikiiif,'ly C'Xhibilcd Mian it is in 

 tlic dilVi'icnt modes lif travel and conveyance 

 over Uinil and water in eomlort, in conve- 

 nience and ill speed. AlllioiiLrli the lollowin^i 

 ilhistration rei)ri'sents a pericxl anterior to tlie 

 dale attaclied to the advertisement, yet it also 

 represents tluil and a many years' siiliseciiient 

 period, as we approached the outer vert;es of 

 civilization and iiiiproveiiu'tit. Indeed, we 

 are onrselves coi;ni/.aiit of astai^e-Iine hetween 

 Lower .\lton, on tlie Mississippi, near the 

 conthienee of the Illinois river, and the then 

 village of Chicago, on the southern end of 

 Lake Miehii;an, Illinois, in the antnmii of 

 18:5t'), and we eniiatred a ]iassa;,'e for the latter 

 place in one of the stages, and only failed to 

 consummate our intention by heiiif; "crowdetl 

 out," an<l before the next tril) occurred we 

 had chanu'cd our iniii<l and left for St. Louis. 

 The stajie, as it was calle<l, ditTcred in no very 

 essential jioint from our picture — the same 

 three-horse team, gray canvass bowed-top and 

 common wairon box. It is true, that between 

 Columbia and Pit tsbiirs we had canal navi- 

 gation, and the Portage Hailroail, with its 

 ten inclined planes, for summer travel ; but in 

 Avinter resort wa.s had to stages, although of a 



on the present site of Woodward's music 



store, in EastKingst. At:Jo'clock .V. M., 



next day, we took passage in a stage for 



■J- 1 r-i 1 • 1 New Castle, in the State of IJelaware, 



Lancaster and b rederiCktOWn taking our breakfast at Strasburg, and 



CI"' \ r>Y7 arriving at the former place at 1 P. M., 



b 1 A.\jJlL, where we dined. 



THE Subscriber once more informs his Friends, ,, ^^:\ 'J'"'"''", "'« ^""\ P;\fi!S« "" .a 

 J , D Li- • I ^u . u X- Steamboat, and reached Philadcdphia 



and the Public in general, that he continues just as the .sun was .setting, and -put up" 

 to run this Line, as usual. He starts from the house at the Indhtii Quren. where, in discussing 

 of Mrs. Kimlwl, in Fredricktown, every Saturciay tlu^ subject, it was concluded that we had 

 morning, at six o'clock, and arrives at Lancaster on made "e.xtragood time," although we 

 Sunday evening: sets outs again on Tuesday morn ''i.i'1 occupied one whole day and part 

 ing, at 5 o'clock, from Mr. Ft-rrce s, sign of Gen- 

 eral Washington, King sir jet, Lancaster; and 

 arrives at Frederick on Wednesday evening. This 

 line is calculated to suit the York and Balitimore 



the Wecklji Mrrrurii in 17.^8 — eighteen years 

 before tlu^ Declaration of Independence. 



Perhaps, among the great stage proprietoi-s 

 previous ti> the building of the Pi'imsylvania 

 Kailroa<l and canals, none were more promi- 

 nent than the Hkksidks ; lint, without know- 

 ing exactly how far they were interested in 

 tlu' stage lines between Philadelphia and 

 Pittsburg, it may be safely stated that 

 these lines were the most comiilete and 

 expeditious of any on the (umtinent 

 of North America, and wh"u they ad- 

 vertised that they made th(^ trip brtwecn 

 the.sc two proiiiineiil i>oints, through 

 Lancaster and llariisburg. in 7'J, and 

 afterwards in M hours, llu^ event was 

 regarded as a wonderful achievement. 



The following advertisement, which 

 apiieared in the ]\'(W Yarh- (uizdlc in 1771, 

 and wiiicli is n fm- siiiille of tin 



exhibits a specimen of the " bl(. ,.■■■- "• m. , . ,, l >.. n. • c - r 



,,,,,,.■] ,,,.,.,. 1 ■ Til i lonn Mcrccrcau, at the Ncw-DlJiing-Star Ferry, 



that period, overall achievement that x--* v. i r . ir e r>„ i. ij„„i, .„._ Ki^i. 



, ,' , ., .... , . near New-York, icrs oft irom rowles Hook, every Mon* 



would now only excite ridicule ; and is . WednefJ.y, and Friday Mornings, for Philadelphia, 



very much aklU to that kind ol " llyillg" .nj perlorttu the Journey ;n a Day and a Half, for the 

 which .lohll was doing when reproaclu'd Summer Scafjn, till the ift of November, from that Time 

 by his employer for occupying two hours to go twice a Week till the firft of May, when they 



again pcrt'orm it three Times a Week. When the Sogct 



go only twice a Week, they fet ofl" Mondays and Thurf- 



days. ■ The Waggons in Philadelphia fet out from the 



Sign of the George, in Second-ftreet, the fame Morning. 



The PaflTcngers arc defircd to crofs the Ferry the Eveiiing 



before, as the Stages muft fet off early the next Morning. 



trip to Philadelphia. AVe lleparted The Price for each PaflTengcr is Ttvrntj SAiiiiip, Proc. and 



from our residence in a rural dis- Goods as ufual. PalTcngcn going Part of the Way to pay 



trict at H o'clock P. M., and by a in Proportion. 



'•gjir" convej'anee leached Lan- -A' ^^' Proprietor has made fuch Improvement upoa 

 caster about "dusk" in the even- *•"= Machines, one of which is In Imitation of « Co>.ch, 



ing. Here we took lo(lging at ^'-^"P" '^ ™"' ^' f"°" °'" '^' ^"^';''^;^ ..r^cFREA 

 Sheriff Miller\s Hotel, located ^^"^ MERt.tRtAU. 



nent of North .Vmerica. in much less time, by 



e ail- 



ter, and extraordinary freshets in spring and 

 tiill. 



Ill September, lK:ifl, it took us eleven days 

 to pass belween a point in Lancaster county 

 and the city of Louisville, by (-anal and steam- 

 boat ; but now we could reach .San Francisco, 

 in California, passing over the entire conti- 



To the PUBLIC. 

 "■ "'•'^'':',"'' THE FLYING MACHINE, kept by 



owing ol X ,„■._ Ki k. ».• ni..:....c... p.r,« 



ill eating his dinner. 



Apriijina of stage traveling in Penii- 

 ■sylvania under the old mode of transpor- 

 tation of passengers, near its close : 



In November, is;{:i, we made our first 



.iii'- 



uilii liJiJi' — ^^iLdp • • • ■i>'^- • i 



of another. A^ow we could travel to 

 New York and return in much less time. 

 Perhaps nothing can more strikingly 

 illustrate the great advance made in the 

 speed and comfort attained in public 

 Stages; likewise, the Frederick and Georgetown convey;inces than that e.x- 

 line, so that passengers, bv taking this stage, can be hiljited in our locomotives 

 accommodated with a passage, either to Baltimore or ■i'"'l palace car.s on thedif- 

 Georgetown, without being detiined longe.' than the 'i'''''"t railroads of the 

 ukial time of lodging, or feeding and changing horses, ''"""'''"y ; i>"J, especially 

 rr, ,■ r p J • 1 1 ^r- ■ where comfort and free 



The tare, from Frederick to Faneytown, is i 1.3 ; ^^.^.^.^.j^^ .^,.^ ,,^.^.,^, ^.^_ 



from 1 aneytown to Hanover, 7.f6 ; from Hanover to (jiirdcd in the "modern 



York, 7J-6; from York to Lancaster, I ij-j ; with the Hoatiiig palaces" which 



usual allowance of I4lbs. baggage, gratis; 1 jolbs. ply upon our rivers and 



paving the same :s a passenger. upon the ocean. And yet 



The Public Houses on this route are allowed as ""'' '""^ "'" '''ese .advances 



good and as reasonable as anv on the Continent; '"'** 1«'P1' ni;"lP. f|"ii\ the " ■■ 



And, as the Subscriber has furnished himself wi-h very earl les to the latest, without en- been inaugurated, 

 j , . r Li o 1 1 1- countering the most strenuous oiiiiosition 



good horses and a comfortable Stage, he hopes his ^,,,1 ridicule from a cla.ss of "old fogies " 



long experience, and regular attention to the Business which seem destined never to die out in 



will merit the good will, and meet the encourage- our country. 



ment of a generous Public. Our illustration of a "modern lloat- 



WILLIAM SCOTT. i"S palace " represents one of the first- 



class steamboats as they are seen on the 

 eastern and western waters of our vast 

 country ; but they do not dilfer very ma- 

 terially from what they were forty years ago, 

 because, although canal and steamlioat navi- 

 gation may be better for the transportation 

 of heavy freight, and also cheaiier, yet as a 

 means of expeditious travel, they seem to lie 

 in a manner superseded by tlie railroads, 

 simply because the latter have the facility of 

 cutting through mountains, (lassing over val- 

 leys, and otherwise diminishing time and di.s- 

 tancc, while the former are still compelled to 

 pa.ss through the tortuous channels of our 

 inland streams, and are moreover subject to 



vaiice over tluMild mode of "doubling Cape 

 Horn," or crossing the isthmus fif Darieii, it 

 w.as long looked upon as wholly im])racticable, 

 and met with the usual opposition. \Vith all 

 these (•videiices of human ]iiogress, there arc 

 yet many who, with dismal forebodings, are 

 constantly harping upon the degeneracy of 

 these modern times, and predicting the ap- 

 proa<-biiig downfall of .Vmerica. 



Po/fcr'.s MiKinzinr. to which wc are indebted 

 for these quaint illustrations, contains several 

 fac. tint ill's of old stage advestisements, bearing 

 various dates from 171'.l to n.W. From one of 

 these (171!!,) we learn that the Philadelphia 

 Wceklfi Mirnn-ii changed its day of )Hibli<;a- 

 tioii to suit the Wcckhj post (stage) from Phil- 

 adelphia, a step in advance which had just 



. August 21, 1799. 



quality far superior to the style set forth in 

 our illustration, but .still incomparably in- 

 ferior to our present modes of conveyfince, 

 and the time occupied in transit. 



The foregoing advertisement appeared in the 

 LHwciMcr InlfUifjfiicer of Aug. '21, 17119, and also 

 in handbills, with tliecut, and exhibits I he speed 

 and usual accommodations which character- 

 ized the most improved stage travel of that 

 period, throughout the most thickly settled 

 jiortions of tjie country. But the cut also 

 embellished the advertisement of .lolin But- 

 ler, who ran a stage lietween Philadel- 

 phia and New York, which apiwared in 



P AI.Ari:. 



We subjoin the adver- 

 tisement of .loliii Butler (17.")**) referred to in 

 another part of this article : 



JOHN 

 J fels out I 



ciisualties of low water in summer, ice in win- 



Philadelphia STAGE-WAGGON, and New- 

 York STAGE BO.\T performs their 

 Stages twice a Week. 



N B U T L E R. with his waggon, 



on Mondays from his lloufc, at the Sign 

 7)f the Death of the Fox, in Stray»berry ally, and 

 (hives die fame d.ay to Trenton Kerry, when Francis 

 Ilolman meets hiin and proceeds on Tiief<lay to 

 Brunfwick, and llic paffengers and gooils being f hifled 

 into the waguon of Ifaac Fil/.ran(lol|ih he lakes ihem 

 to the New iJla/.int; Star to Jacob Filzrandolph's ihe 

 same day, where Rubin Fit/.ramlolph, with a boat 

 well fuled, will receive them, and lake ihem to New- 

 York thai ni};ht. John lluller returning to Philadel- 

 phia on Tuefilay with the pafTcngers and goods dc- 

 liv red to him by Francis Ilolman, will again fet out 

 for Trentt)n Ferry on Thurfday.and Francis Ilolman, 

 &c., will carry his paffengers and goods, with the 

 fame expedition as above to New-York. Tcctf. 



