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meagre means could command. Watt, as has hitherto been stated, declared the Corhishman should bo hung for persisting in bringing high pressure into use and in the end drove him into an unmarked grave in Potter's Field. Evans, irrepressible, and unfortunately for him, living deoades ahead of his time, proposed in 1809 a railway from Philadelphia to New York and in his advocacy of it foreshadowed all that has since come to pass. Not only as to the railroad itself, but its luxuries - sleeping and parlor cars, dining and oafe cars. The man had visions startling in their substantiality as we look back a hundred years to his period and its environment. He dreamed dreams which proved veritable prophecies. But he died unwept of the world; simply another visionary gone. Adhesion, traotive power, the seouring and mainlining of it so that the locomotive should be a praciical reposition, was the most formidable obstacle encountered y the forerunners in its evolution. Steam formulation prlicable of support upon wheels and so contrived as to kke the wheels go round was proven other than the stuff f which dreams are made, but how to make the wheels old and pull anything - that was the rub. Trevithic roposed making the tires rough and uneven by project eads of nails or bolts, or, to resort to cross groo\ ke had
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