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companied by Mr. Cambreling, the president of the com- 

 pany. These vehicles were usually drawn by two horses, 

 driven tandem. 



On the 8th of September, the De Witt Clinton was 

 again upon the rail, but there was now difficulty with the 

 feed pipe, and the train did not return. On the following 

 day the train came over the road in forty-five minutes, but 

 there was still trouble with the feed pipe. They had 

 gone back to first principles and adopted wood for fuel. 



On the 17th of September, the English locomotive was 

 on the road. Its power and weight being double that of 

 the American engine (12,742 lbs.), great expectations were 

 entertained of its efficiency. A delegation from New 

 York arrived, for the purpose of examining the road pre- 

 paratory to a decision upon the application of the Harlem 

 company, to lay their rails on the Fourth avenue of that 

 city. 



Active measures were also in progress to begin the 

 Schenectady and Saratoga road, and a survey was being 

 made by the Troy and Vermont company. The trustees 

 of the Schenectady turnpike also had got an inkling that 

 something new had turned up, which they had been slow 

 to perceive. A survey was begun by Mr. Cushman with a 

 view to laying down rails, it being claimed that they were 

 invested with rail road privileges. The project was 

 quashed, I am told, by a division of $100,000 of Mohawk 

 and Hudson stock, at par, among the stockholders of the 

 turn pike. 



Although the locomotive De Witt Clinton had been 

 placed on the road in July, and the city officials and other 

 dignitaries had passed over it both by horse and steam 

 power early in August, it was so late as the 22d of Septem- 

 ber, when the locomotive was advertised to take pas- 

 senger trains. The road was still uncompleted, and used 

 only from the junction, as it was called, two miles 

 from the foot of State street, from whence passengers 



