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143 HISTOET OP THE FIEST LOCOMOTIVES IN AMERICA. meeting was called in the (Jhwrleston Courier^ January 7, 1828, as follows : " A meeting of the citizens is requested at the City Hall, this day, at 1 o'clock, to take into consideration the report of the committee on the subject of the railroad from this city to Hamburg. At a previous meeting on January 4th, the sub-committee had reported unfavorably. This committee pointed out many parts of the General Act of the Legislature for incorporating companies for constructing turnpike-roads, bridges, and ferries, that were inapplicable to a railroad company, as the bill now befdre the Legislature." On the reassembling of the Legislature, January 21, 1828, after the usual Christmas recess, Mr. Black pre- sented a memorial praying amendments to the act of the last session, and a new bill was reported on the 22d. January 29, 1828, the present charter of the South Carolina Eailroad was granted. A motion had been made to strike out the provision exempting the property of the road from taxation. The yeas and nays were taken— ^yeas 13, nays 22—and the bill passed. The stockholders organized as a company on the 12th of May, 1828, being the second railroad company formed in the United States for commercial purposes and the transportation of passengers and freight. At one of the earliest meetings of the projectors, Horatio Allen, Esq. (before mentioned), well knovra. as an experienced engineer, had been invited by them to fill the position of chief engineer of the contemplated work. In compliance with their request, Mr. Allen made a report at the first meeting, five days after their organ- ization, recommending the kind of road to be con- structed and the kind of power best calculated to be used upon the road. Having visited England to ex- amine the progress so far made in railroads and locomo- Digitized by Microsoft®
FIEST AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE. 143 tive power, and having been requested, while in Eng- land, by Jolin B. Jervis, Esq., cMef engineer of the Delaware and Hudson Eailroad, to contract for tlie iron for that road, and procure for it three first-class locomotives, the Charleston Eailroad directors had confidence in his skill and judgment. In his report at this first meeting, Mr. Allen used all the arguments at his command to recommend the construction of the road for locomotive- power, and with such success that at the meeting on January 14, 1830, when the report was acted upon, the Hon. Thomas Bennett offered a resolution to the effect that the locomotive alone should be used upon the road, and in selecting that power for its application to railroads, the maturity of which will be reached within the time of constructing the road, would render the application of animal power a great abuse of the gifts of genius and science. The resolution was unanimously carried. At the celebration in Dunkirk, !N'ew York, in 1852, in commemoration of the completion of the New York and Erie Railway, Mr. Allen, alluding to this subject in his address, makes use of the following language " At the same period, that is, prior to the great locomotive trial in England, and when the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company were so strongly impressed in favor of horse-power, it became necessary for me, as engineer of the South Carolina Railroad Company, to decide for what' power that road should be built. The road was one hundred and thirty-six miles long. From the character of the country, the plan of the road Avould be naturally influenced by the kind of power adopted. Stationary power was out of the question, but the opinion was held, by many of great intelligence, that horae-power should at least be commenced with. In the report I made on this important question, I submitted such comparative estimate of the results of horse-power and locomotive-power as the information then to be had appeared to me to sustain. That estimate was in Digitized by Microsoft® :
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