New Jersey As a Colony And As a State One of the Original Thirteen volume 6
New Jersey As a Colony And As a State One of the Original Thirteen volume 6
Francis Bazley Lee
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The fame of Pitch and of his inven- tion spread throughout America. Scarce a year had passed before a new steam- boat appeared upon the Delaware River. The 12th of July, 1788, marked the trip of tfiis " won- der worker, " with its tubular boiler and its three paddles on the stern. Welcomed by admiring throngs, the steamboat churned its way between Burlington and Philadelphia, saluted by a dis- charge of cannon at Dunk's Ferry and shouts from the crowd gathered along Green Bank and the wharves o...f Burlington City. But as the steam- boat was about thirty perches from the point of landing at Burlington a boiler pipe burst, and the boat, abandoned by those who had promoted the project, drifted toward Philadelphia. Some after this accident withdrew, terrified, from the com- pany, while others, having supplied funds for re- pairs, sustained the boat in her trips between the old capital of West Jersey and Philadelphia. Stock was issued to the amount of four hundred [Vol. 3] MOBILITATE VIGET. T.
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