Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 29
tarted with a train of five cars, contain-ing nineteen or twenty persons each, besides the tender, and never did Brother Jonathan as it was familiarly called, perform the trip in morebeautiful style. It came down with its train in thirty-eight minutes, beingat the rate of nineteen miles an hour,… … The De Witt Clinton. Ready to Run Under Its Own Steam, July 17, 1921.Photograph by Courtesy of N. Y. C. L. Magazine. Other than the letterfrom Mr. DavidMatthew as givenabove we have no rec-ord of the early opera-tions of the De WittClinton after Decem-ber first, 1831. Interestin it, however, does…
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