True stories of great American men : for young Americans (1898)
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 · Chicago ; Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.C. Winston · leaf 118
ndout that there was no danger, nearly all the fine people who ROBERT FULTON 119 » traveled beween the two cities paid a higher price to go bythe steamer Clermont, so Fulton and Mr. Livingstonmade money very fast. They got so much patronage that the Clermont could notcarry one-fourth of the people… … CHICAGO, ONE OF THE WHITE SQUADRON » WARSHIPS OF THE UNITED STATES. continued to labor to make more perfect machinery, and tohave his boats built in a better shape for fast running. I will tell you a story about the Clermonts first trip upthe Hudson. It is said as she was plowing along in the…
