The history of the first locomotives in America. From original ...

FIRST BRIGADE OP CARS. 99
and the passengers, an entire load of thirty tons. The
train was drawn, from Ellicott's Mills to the Eelay
House, six and a half miles in forty-six minutes. The
horse was then changed, and the train, having again
started, reached the depot on Pratt Street in sixty-nine
minutes, thus accomplishing the thirteen miles in one
hour and fifty-four minutes, or at the rate of six and
three-fourths of a mile an hour.
We will close these extracts with the following
copy of an advertisement, made forty years ago, for the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
" Railkoad Notice.—^A sufficient number of cars being now
provided for the accommodation of passengers, notice is hereby
given that the following arrangements for the arrival and departure
of carriages have been adopted, and will take effect on and after
Monday morning, the 5th inst., viz. : A brigade of cars will leave
the depot in Pratt Street at 6 and 10 o'clock a. m. and at 3 to 4
o'clock p. M., and will leave the depot at Ellicott's Mills at 6 and
at 8^ o'clock A. M., and at 12-|- and 6 o'clock p. m.
" Way-passengers will provide themselves with tickets at the
office of the company in Baltimore, or at the depot at Pratt Street
or Ellicott's Mills, or at the Relay House, near Elk Ridge
Landing. '
"The evening way-car for Ellicott's Mills will continue to
leave the depot, Pratt Street, at 6 o'clock p. m. as usual.
" N". B.— ^Positive orders have been issued to the drivers to
receive no passengers into any of the cars without tickets. P. S.
— ^Parties desirous to engage a car for the day, can be accommo-
dated after July 5th,"
When we compare our present mode of travelling
from one city to another, over hundreds and thousands of
miles by raUroads, being comfortably seated in the most
magnificent cars by day, and snugly resting by night in
commodious sleeping-cars, we cannot refrain from won-
der in attempting to conceive how our forefathers, forty
years ago, could content themselves to make a journey
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