John Tarleton College - Grassburr Yearbook (Stephenville, TX)

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Board of Directors E M. LAW .................................. President BYRD E. an-z ....................... Vice-President S. G. BAILEY ................................ Secretary TERMS EXPIRE 1931 HENRY F. SmurMACHER ....................... Houston W. T. MONTGOMERY ....................... San Antonio W. A. Wt'kzmcn ......................... Saw Antonio TERMS EXPIRE 1933 l. R. WHITE .................................. Brady E. .1 Kncwr .................................... Dallas P. L. DOWNS, JR ............................... Temple TERMS EXPIRE 1935 F. M LAW ................................... Houston ann E. WHITE ............................. Lancaster WALTER G. LACY ................................ Waco

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0 John Fitch of Connecticut must be given the credit for the first steamship in the United States, imper- fect as it was. He made his first trial on August 22, 1787, but was not able to attain more than three miles an hour. Then in 1789 another boat was built that was fitted with more power. It developed on trial a rate of speed of eight miles an hour. In 1807 the ttClermont , constructed by Robert Ful- ton, began to ply 0n the Hudson River between New York and Albany, and in 1819 the .1Savaitiiah'1, a sailing vessel with auxiliary steam and ronmvahle paddles, crossed the Atlantic from Savannah to Liverpool in twellty-fivo days. Steam navigation on the Great Lakes dates from the year 1818 when the ttWalk-in-thc-Vtr'atoriy was built to run on Lake Erie. The most radical departure in steamboat design and construction on the Lakes was in the building of the ttGront Western in 1838, by the adding of the upper cabin with stuterumns, and converting the lower cabins into steel'nge quarters and freight compartments. In 1871 the American Line was organized to run a line of steamships from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. to Liver- pool. The present American line is the result of an Act of Congress 01' 1892 providing that certain fm'eign-huilt steamships shuuld receive American register on condition that stoalnships ut' mrmspondiug tonnage were built in the United States.

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