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Atl8toantffcCCommon Roads*A common road locomotive, built by Mr 11 JUclmrd IJtpgpon, of Gocrck street, baa for j« %| several dajta been running in Grand street,,v *' broadway, arid other thoroughfares, and has ' h* made a trip to Ifdrlcm and back. Its speed! PI is about clt;JUai to the average speed of horns ftin stages *nu it. Rectum to bo controlled* with * , as much pnse, and \Vith much more certainty { *' (The popularijotfonif ^hat horses. would bo c-1, alarmed by such vehicles and* that they can* ’ «• I not ascend'hills, on nccdunt of their whdels * * {1 slipping, aro refuted: by the performance of( c1 this engine, which lias met with no case of dillkulty of this nature, although it has run j *, for a considerable part of several days In i *’ ‘ 1 * *1, fob.....1 boys.crowded streets, followed by crowds of noisy d vs. *1 Mr. Joseph Battin, of Newark, N. J has p j recently built a steam carriage, on a different j ® . I plan, winch he has ran successfully on saver-,al shorttrips. Tlw performance is such as to 1’11 corroborate the view that stoam may be used I with advantage, oven on a small scale, t f Mr. Stephen (fold has been for sometime' * building a steam carriage on his own plan, in. *-Bridgeport lie intends .to havo bis car-1vUridgcix Waco b;iago brought to the city.—[New York;?Post' 4 •* ' yT~ * rt?-rrr
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Henry Weekly Courier
Henry, Illinois, US
Fri, Oct 30, 1857
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