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133 HISTORY OF THE FIKST LOCOMOTIVES IN AMEEICA. From this point it was determined to have a race home ; and, the start being even, away went horse and engine, the snort of the one and the puff of the other keeping time and time. " At first the gray had the best of it, for his steam would be applied to the greatest advantage on the instant, while the engine had to wait until the rotation of the wheels set the blower to work. The horse was perhaps a quarter of a mile ahead, when the safety-valve of the engine lifted, and the thin blue vapor issu- ing from it showed an excess of steam. The blower whistled, the steam blew off in vapory clouds, the pace increased, the passengers shouted, the engine gained on the horse, soon it lapped him the silk was placed-:—the race was neck and neck, nose and nose then the engine passed the horse, and a great hurrah hailed the victory. But it was not repeated, for just at this time, when the gray master was about giving up, the band which drove the pulley, which moved the blower, slipped from the drum, the safety-valve ceased to scream, and the engine, for want of breath, began to wheeze and pant. In vain Mr. Cooper, who was his own en- giiieer and fireman, lacerated his hands in attempting to replace the band upon the wheel ; in vain he tried to urge the fire with light wood : the horse gained on the machine and passed it, and, although the band was presently replaced, and steam again did its best, the horse was too far ahead to be overtaken, and came in the winner of the race. But the real victory was with Mr. Cooper, notwithstanding. He had held fast to the faith that was in hira, and had demonstrated its truth beyond peradventure. All honor to his name ! In a patent-case, tried many years afterward, the boiler of Mr. Cooper's engine became, in some connection which has been forgotten, important as a piece of evidence. It was hunted for and found among some old rubbish at Mount Clair. . It was difficult to imagine that it had ever generated steam enough to drive a coffee-mill, much less that it had performed the feats here narra,ted. In the Mus&e cTArtillerie at Paris there are pre- served old cannon, contemporary, almost, with Crecy and Poictiers. In some great museum of internal improvement, and some such will at a future day be gotten up, Mr. Peter Cooper's boiler should hold an equally prominent and far more honored place ; for while the old weapons of destruction were ministers of man's wrath, the contrivance we have desci-ibed was one of the most potential instruments in making available, in America, that vast system which unites remote people, and promotes that peace on earth and good-will to men which angels have proclaimed." Digitized by Microsoft® —
Exciting Trial of Speed between Mi*. I'eter Coopei*'s Locomotive, •' Tom Tliiimb" and one of Stoclvton & Stolvcs' Horse-Cars. The trial took place on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-Road, on the 28th August, 1830. The sketch represents the moment the Engine overtook and passed the Horse-Car. the passengers filled with excitement. See Mr. Latrobe's description, page 119. Digitized by IVIicrosoft®
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