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March Term A I) IS27.

Izabeth S^elmire, Administratrix on [he the estate of Jesse Shelmire de :eased, Complainant .iGJLYST

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Fellow, Frederick Sholts, John \leriam, Gordon Newell, and diaries javage, Charles Brown, and "ahhM Prentiss, Administrators on [he estate of John Prentiss cee'd Ind harles Brown, the surviving administrator on the estate of bomIs Prentiss dee'd. and John Allen bdministrator on the estate of Na-

hauiel Gardner dee'd detendants. IN CHAN* EllY ""[And now, at I'm* ria'j came the complainant by Amr\ Ki.nney her solicitor, and filed her bill of Ciplaint, and it appearing to the sat iction of the Court, that CaJfb Feliv Gordon Newell, Charles Savage 1 Sarah M. Prentiss dpfdt's. as aesaid, are not inhabitants of this

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From the Indiana Journal... ON RAIL ROADS

EXTRACTfrom

an essay by

YEN,

Esq.

Iron

the carriage These plates rest at each end on stone sleepers of three or four hundred weight, sunk into the earth, and they are joined to each oth er so as to form a continuous horizontal path-way

I

hey are,

rail is generally

A

shape and

John Grieve for

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Weiahtofload Weight

Janelly tram-road,4,602

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1827

7—3\y

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4 1

Railways are

of

3

edge on the inside to guide

of course

double, and the distance between the opposite rails,is from three to four ant a haiffeet, according to the breadth o' the car oi wagon to be employed The edge rail, which

is found

OR

copy ol

that they send in their names

to be superior

to the tram rail, is made either of wrought or cast iron- If the laitsr is used the rails are about tR ree feet long three

four inches broad and from one

to two inches thick and they are joinei at their ends by cast metaj sockets at tached to the sleepers.

made

the car is ad ipted, by a groove made somewhat wider. When wrought iron is used, which is found almost equally cheap with cast metal, and greatly preferable in many respects, the bars are made of

smaller size, of a wedge

12

or

18

feet long

are supported by sleepers at the distance of

every

to the

CAS

three feet

erally used, run on four wheels of from two to three feet diameter, and carry ing from

40

to

50

these

A:

dead

cu Four or five of

SI)

five loaded

cwt. of

15

the month

of

paper to be called the

LITERARY PALLADIUM,

to be

tiie

pres­

years

the

PRANCE

of Literature

John Hope, near

Musselburgh, which is one o' the most perfect in Britain, a single

horse draws

wagons, each containing

coals,

hour—in all seven and a half tons,

elusive

tons including the wagons.

of

drawn, in lbs.

I

Penryu edge rail, 10,084

14,079

V,£I,900

Edge vv. N. ... ., Cast 17,773 25,500

This table shows th« great superioriority of the edge rail.

observes too, that the vehicles are made in a very rude manner, and that were more care employed in their construction,

the load

might

Railways are generally made double, one for going and the other for returning. The breadth of ground required for a single railway is, trom

phenson says,

1327.

Carlisle, Pa. March

14,

CONDITIONS.

IT E II A A A I

published week y, at

will be

$-L

per annum

if

9

feet for a double one, from

to

feet The expense ol a double road, including the price of the ground, may be estimated, generally, at Irom one half to one third of a canal.

"the

canal will be found to be double

,o.f

We speak here

required for

V~

Sorrel Horse,

marked

A&

as

follows, to wit: with star

of

•JT

miles may

two descriptions

the flat rail or tram-road, consists ot cast-iron plates above

feet long, four

in hes broad, and half an inch or an inch thick, witn A

flaunch

©r

turned up

the

\V#ii

fVOL IY. NO XI

or

15

Macla^

be taken as

for the

dead pull may be taken at

100

64

eight miles

an hour to be 15T pounds,

with

a convex surface, to which the whee

Leslie's formula will bccome

miles, with

but

they

30

at the rate of

4

miles an

ex

of the wagon*which weigh three

tons more- Reducing the velocity

two miles an hour, by Professor Leslie's rule, the hor?e should drag

to

12

tons, or

Mr

way on a level line of draught,

Ste­

phenson observes that, an ordinary horse,

on a well constructed

edge rail­

will

work with about ten t®ns of goods Mr. Palmer, an English Engineer, gives the following as the e/Te.ct of a sjng!e horse: Druugbt on different Railways at 2$ miles an hour.

pounds, but this is to

load

*&• :on,

iu lbs.

"WAJ,

8,850

6,750 9,000

13,050

8 679 15,500

11,765 .18,S0

12

railways

of the ordinary kind for the transporta,:ipn ofgop*J9» *S P*"°BA^E one destined to serve the pnrppse ota S,reat

national thoroughfare tor

cles

of all

KINDS,

VEHI*

quick and

cost at lea^t t\yice

SL°W»

would

as

much. £V£TI in

this case however, the original expense would certainly not amount to more than a half or a third of what would

a canal of such magnitude

to afford the

same amount ot coip-

marcial accommodation. In calculations respecting the power of

a horse exerted

in

errors often arise, from considering this

pQWFIJR

as a constant quantity which it is

not At a dead pull, an ordinary horse exerts a force of traction equal to 150 pounds, this is reduced to less than one half when he Jrayels

four

to one ninth part when he travels eight miles an hour and at

12

power of traction

J« p.

DLVKOIN,

sed

aer

short stages, he may exert a force con-« siderable greater,and his power .oftrueHON may perhaps cease only at a velocity of 14

•*e

miles, an hour: but ri

common cases, a velocity

of tweiv$

a maximum,aud'

convenience of calculation, the

'44

pounds.,

Adopting, then, Professor Leslie's for-, mula, the foree of traction at any degree of velocity, (v)

4

will

Thus, the force

wheels

be=(1

CI—V.).

exerted at

hour will be

two

miles

AN

pounds,at four miles*^

pounds,at six miles

36

16

pounds, at

pounds, and at ten les*"?.

only four pound-. But there is a veryV,*, great difference

in the natural

and speed of horses, and for those

strength,

ot

very heavy description, the force of, traction may probably be assumed AS one half greater at the low velocities^. «nd

the maximum speed as somewhat less. Mr. Stephenson found by the dynamometer, that a very heavy draught horse, weighing

10

He

The upper

A,

cwt.

boat exerted a force

in tracking ai

5

of £0

pounds.

unluckily does not mention the velocity, but this may be assumed as rather two miles an hour. Estima1 ting the force of traction at two

S.

MILT'S -,•

be

of the vesse in

friction

of the

of

The

Engineer

cases

be much increas­

*8

PROFESSOR

3-2 (12—.

v.) The horse mo.iug at one mile arv* hour, would

pull with a force of

pounds at two miles,with

at three miles, with

181

ICO

pounds

120

pounds at

96

pull he would exert a force of

pounds. It is proper to

dead pull here mentioned, isacontinued, not

a momentary effort It

fort

drawn by one horse. On the

level railway, constructed by

which the

Mr

action is continued only for a few mm-| utes. the horse may undoubtedly pull, with twice the force which the

la exhibits, or even more. The

1

to avoid

ever) thi/IG like

shall

to be equal

FOUPJVV

pounds and at a dead'*5

225

add

that the?

is the

last term in the series of descending vr. locities, in all

of

is supposed,

which, constant action

and

1

qneans properly the

ef­

horse could make, if re-

leased from the exertion required to car~ry forward his own body When

ttie

I

FORMN-*^

MAI.I«II-."

mum velocity for a.heavy horse, should. have been assumed a little lower, but* not to embarrass ourselves with multi-. plicity of formulae

have kept it uncban*V

ged On these grounds, therefore,

A'.»L

exageration,

consider the force of tr.ic'ion exerted by a horse moving at two inil^s, an hour, as equivalent to about 160' pounds, or one halt greater than Pro-, lessor Leslie'sformula

I

indicates Steam

engine makers assume a horse

to a weight

POWFR-.-.^^

of

150

or

200

considpredT

merely as an arbitrary and cenvention-.

al standard, adopted for a particular-*,* purpose The resistance to the motibn* of a vessel iu the sea or in a canal,

an extremely different kind from that which a

carriage

of

ces on a

a load of one ton and a cart weighing seven cwt at

the

iour.(Leslie's Elements,p

whole

15

to

25

in

pounds,

Mr

passing through a

well cultivated country, and especially of procuring a sufficient supply of water in the manufacturing districts, that our times the expense will, in most cases be nearer

the mark,?

(Memorial,

moves a weight of

the

first expense of a

IF

not

triple, the expense of a railway} such are the difficulties

of the load. Mr Wood, in his Practical Treatise on Railroads, published in Way,

182$,

mass of

miles an hour

his whole strength is expended in carrying forward

%is

own

body,

and his

ceases It is

-re.

Ji

suppo

that the horse performs pretty

long JOURNEYS. WHEN TRAVELING VERJR

-yjlliiiiS 3g''iteirtT*»'iwi-»rinit*i if

made

ches and that of thie

BE

a

boat

ducing the ton tQ

different modes,

,•

is

of*I

any kind experien-.

common road

or

rtilway In

tne former casc.it arises from the pres-. sure of the water on

the bow and sides

the latter

from

is resisted

this resistance, which is

generally

the

axle in the box, and

»hat

the rim of the wheel on the gravel or iron rail,/*

The

motion

both

of

the bodv in

also by the a r. but

smal:in amount

speaking,

IN

I -shall

tirely out of view in the

throw en-

first

instancy

order to simplify the calculations..,' On a well made road, a horse will

DRAW .'

rate oftwo

miles

AN*

strength of the horse is verted

overcoming the friction*

road therefore,aforce

1

253

The

On such^a

of

traction of

I 50

3,000

or the friction is lr2uth

Ste­

pounds

part

of the load,

cart included On a railway of the 3est construction it has been already shown, that

a

horse travelling at

THOI

rates of two miles an hour, draws li tons including the vehicles. In this case, then, a power of traction of

jounds, moves a weight of

l50f

38,60^

wunds. the fricion of course is l-2tt4tti iart, or in round numbers

1

200th part

.'J

-IF

gives the results of thir-

teei experiments

by himrfifv

irom which it appears, that the average amoujnt of the friction is

y-

1-204

part

the load. The rail was an edge rail, the diameter of the wheel was 34

t%

in­

&xle I-12th .of

weighing probably

the

wheel. On a canal, a horse travelling at two miles an hour tons,

1®

15

tons

Re­

2,000 poun^

sake of ro^nd numbers as

calcu'ation, we find here that

of traction of

for tho

in the last

a

1^0

poty^P

pound®

9(^,000

the

part

of

the load or

ted breadth

miles an hour,

one third

mov^s as

pounds, or the resis­

tance which the water opposes to the motion of

vessel, is equal to 1 OOOTTJ

eatire weight At

sea, where the water way is of

unlimi­

the resistance is probably

less: but as a cotepensatioii

for this,when steam pQwer is employed, there is probably a loss of one

that the effect produced by the

o£

A

single

third in

consequence of the disadvantageous mode of its application. We see

theij

draught

horse, is ten times as

T%