Note 47 — Chapter III · WATER WAYS AND CANALS
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“American Nation,” Vol. XIV, p. 32.
[48] McMaster, “United States,” Vol. V.
[49]
Length of Miami and Erie Canal 301 .49 miles
„ „ Ohio Canal 512 .26
„ „ Penn. and Ohio Canal 76
„ „ Sandy and Beaver Canal 79
„ „ Whitewater Canal 32
Total 1000 .75 miles
—Dunbar’s “History of Travel in America”.
[50]
Total mileage of boats clearing from
Fort Wayne in 1849 209,982
LaFayette 162,297
Total mileage by passengers from and to
Fort Wayne in 1849 519,336
LaFayette 505,397
“Annual Report of the Trustees of the Wabash and Erie Canal,” 1849.
[51] U. S. Census review of “Agencies of Transportation,” 1880.
[52] Johnson’s Cyclopaedia.
[53] “Recollections of a Busy Life,” by Horace Greeley.
[54] “A History of Travel in America,” Dunbar.
[55] Smith: “Parties and Slavery,” (“American Nation,” Vol. XVIII).
[56] Democratic Platform, 1856.
[57] North American Review, Vol. CXXXII, p. 107.
[58] “American Nation,” Vol. XXIII.
[59] “Theodore Roosevelt,” by W. R. Thayer, 180. “John Hay,” by W. R. Thayer, II, 339-41.
[60] Isthmian Canal Commission Report, Sen. Doc. 57th Congress., 1st session, No. 54.
[61] Message of January 4, 1904, Sen. Doc., 58th Cong. 2nd Sess. No. 53, pp. 5-26.
[62] “Theodore Roosevelt,” by William Roscoe Thayer, p. 184 et seq.
[63] Letter to Albert Shaw by President Theodore Roosevelt. Literary Digest, October 29, 1904.
[64] “Theodore Roosevelt,” by W. R. Thayer, p. 190.
[65] “Theodore Roosevelt,” by W. R. Thayer, p. 186.
[66] “The American Year Book,” 1919. Appleton, N. Y.
[67] Panama Canal Record.
[68] For a long list of steamboats built in America, and operated under their own power prior to Fulton’s Clermont, see “A History of Travel in America,” by Seymour Dunbar.
[69] “American Nation,” Vol. XIV.
[70] “American Nation,” Vol. XIV, p. 105.
[71] Henry Howe, “Historical Sketch of the West.”
[72] Statistical Atlas 1900. 12th Census of the U. S.
[73] Charles Barnard in The Century Magazine, Vol. XXXVIII, from which also is derived information relative to dimensions and decorations of steam vessels, pp. 353-372.
[74] See “Life on the Mississippi,” by Mark Twain, p. 117.
[75] “Life on the Mississippi,” by Mark Twain, Chapter XX.
[76] Dunbar, “A History of Travel in America.”
[77] Warner’s “Immigrant’s Guide and Citizen’s Manual.”
[78] March 18, 1786, John Fitch was granted by New Jersey “the sole and exclusive right of constructing making using and employing or navigating, all and every species or kind of boats, impelled by the force of fire or steam” within the limits of that state. Delaware gave him similar rights in 1787 and New York, likewise, the same year. In 1798 Fitch’s grant in New York, which was to have run fourteen years, was canceled and Livingston given a monopoly for twenty years providing within a year he run a steamboat at four miles an hour. This he failed to do, but got his grant renewed in 1803, and again extended until the successful operation of the Clermont in 1807.
[79] “Messages and Papers,” Richardson, I, 584.
[80] Calhoun: “Works II,” 190. “American Nation” XIII, 253.
[81] “American Nation,” XIV, 231.
[82] “Laws of the United States,” VI., 120.
[83] MacDonald, “American Nation” Vol. XV, 134.
[84] “American Nation,” Vol. XV, pp. 136-137.
[85] Richardson, “Messages and Papers,” VIII, 120-122.
[86] “The American Year Book,” 208.