Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1913 — Statue to Locomotive Pioneer. [ARTICLE]

Statue to Locomotive Pioneer.

Curiously enough, the memory of a great railway pioneer is also being honored in England after about a century of neglect A statue is being erected in Cornwall to Richard Trevithick, who was the constructor of the first practical.,locomotive. In addition to the statue, it is proposed to compile an official life of the inventor, and to institute a course of engineering classes.