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148 HISTOET OP THE FIEST LOCOMOTITES IN AMERICA. and anxious about the result of our experiment as any one interested. But I had read and heard a good deal on the suhject, and did not hesitate to recommend the prompt acceptance of the engine from the contractor, and to congratulate my fellow-direc- tors upon its promise of decided utility and advantage to our great enterprise. " Mr. Miller named it, I think, ' The Best Friend,' and it was forwarded to Charleston late that fall or early in the winter, when it was at once put upon the road. It did not disappoint our hopes, but proved in capacity and serviceable qualities all that we had expected. It was run long and successfully, under the charge of . Mr. Darrell, one of our young native machinists. I am under the impression that it was one day blown up through the carelessness of a negro fireman, that it was soon repaired and replaced upon the road. Of its ultimate fate I am not certain, but believe that, after having attained a ripe old age, in process of time it finally wore out, and was thrown aside, the common destiny of man and all his works. " I am glad to hear of the gratifying progress of your book, and know that its publication will not long be delayed. Wishing you the large and profitable success, as an author, which your energy and perseverance so richly deserve, and all other forms of happiness and prosperity, " I remain, very truly, " Your friend and obedient servant, "Samuel Henbt Dickson'." The atitlior examined tlie order-"book recently at the West Point Company's Foundery, at Cold Spring, Putnam County, on tlie Hudson Eiver, for some reminis- cences of the old " Best Friend," but all lie could find (the old books having been lost or mislaid) was the following order from the New-York office, dated April 6, 1830, as follows: "Two cylinders, see pattern locomotive-engine, nozzles for exhaust cast right and left." The above shows that the engine was commenced, as Mr. Matthew states, in the spring of 1830. The following paragraph appeared in the Cliarles- ton Courier, October 23, 1830: Digitized by Microsoft®
FURTHER TRIALS. I49 "Locomotive Steam-Engine.—"We understand that the steam-engine intended for our road is on board the ship Magara, vrhich arrived in the offing last night." As no macliinist came out with the locomotive, the superintendent of the railroad applied to Mr. Thomas Dotterer, of the firm of Dotterer & Eason, machinists and engineers, to put the machine together and prepare her for the road. These gentlemen appointed Mr. Julius D. Petsch, who was foreman in their workshops, to discharge this duty. Mr. Petsch, at their request, undertook the task, and selected as an assistant Mr, Nicholas W. Darrell, a young man just out of his time in their workshops. These gentlemen (Mr. Petsch and his assistant Mr, Darrell) immediately set ahout fitting up the " Best Friend " for the road, and so energetically did they work that in a few days all was ready. Before the 1st of November, several experimental trials, at short distances, were made to see that all was right; and on the 2d of November, with Mr, Darrell in charge, M-r, Miller, accompanied by several gentlemen in a car, made a trial-trip. The result of this trial-trip we learn from the following letter from the chief engineer, Horatio Allen, in the Charleston Qov/rier^ November 3, 1830 " The public will regret to learn that an accident has happened to a pair of the wheels of the locomotive-engine lately put upon the railroad. To prevent any misunderstanding or exaggeration, it is proper to communicate the facts. The change of direction which takes place when a carriage enters a curved part of a road is effected by the action of the flange which is attached to the rim against the iron rail. A lateral strain is then brought to act on the spokes of the wheel, and in this present instance they have proved too weak to resist it, and from this circumstance the accident has originated. The spokes were discovered to spring, and fears were entertained by Mr. Miller, shortly after he commenced Digitized by Microsoft® :
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