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    History of Steam on the Erie Canal
    History of Steam on the Erie Canal
    History of Steam on the Erie Canal
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      History of Steam on the Erie Canal - Archive Classics

      Project Gutenberg's History of Steam on the Erie Canal, by Anonymous

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      Title: History of Steam on the Erie Canal

      Author: Anonymous

      Release Date: December 28, 2006 [EBook #20209]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF STEAM ON THE ERIE CANAL ***

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      project.)

      HISTORY OF STEAM

      ON THE

      ERIE CANAL.

      Appeal for the Extension of the Act

      of April, 1871, "to Foster and

      Develop the Inland Commerce

      of the State,"

      FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CANALS

      AND THE

      COMMERCIAL COMMUNITY.

      NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1873.

      NEW YORK:

      EVENING POST STEAM PRESSES, 41 NASSAU STREET, COR. LIBERTY.

      1873.

      With Respects of the Author,

      155 Broadway, N. Y.

      HISTORY OF STEAM

      ON THE

      ERIE CANAL.

      Screw Propellers from 1858 to 1862.

      During the maple sugar season of the spring of 1858, a well-to-do farmer, of western New York, whittled out a spiral or augur-like screw-propeller, in miniature, which he thought admirably adapted to the canal. He soon after went to Buffalo, and contracted for a boat to be built, with two of his Archimedean screws for propulsion by steam.

      Although advised by his builders to substitute the common four-bladed propellers, he adhered to his original design, and with one propeller at either side of the rudder—called twin-propellers—she was soon ready for duty. She is the vessel known to history as the Charles Wack.

      She carried three-fourths cargo and towed another boat with full cargo, and made the trip from Buffalo to West Troy in seven days, total time, averaging two miles per hour. But she returned from Troy to Buffalo, with half freight, in four days and sixteen hours, net time; averaging three and one-twelfth miles per hour, without tow.

      This initiated the series of steamers from 1858 to 1862, and, with others that soon followed, created a general enthusiasm in behalf of steam transportation, which led to a trip through the canal that fall, on a chartered steam-tug, by the Governor of the State, the Canal Board, and other notables, and with public receptions, speeches, &c., at different cities along the route.

      That boat was soon followed by the S. B. Ruggles, a first-class steam canal-boat, built by the Hon. E. S. Prosser, of Buffalo, with a first-class modern propeller, and with double the engine capacity of the former.

      The P. L. Sternburg soon followed, and was a first-class boat, with modern twin-propellers, but with less engine capacity than the Wack.

      The same season there were some local steamers built to run regularly between different cities on the line of the canal.

      The following season of 1859 was the most active year the Erie Canal has ever known in regard to steam.

      The C. Wack was sold to Mr. Prosser, who took out her Archimedean propellers, and substituted a modern propeller, and doubled her engine capacity, and reproduced her as the City of Buffalo.

      The Gold Hunter was produced by the Western Transportation Company, of Buffalo. She was a short, oblong tub, with a square, box-like bow, and rounded stern, designed only to carry machinery

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