gers. It expedites the progress of mail about one hour each
trip."

Time was become a matter to be reckoned with you see.

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And in the same paper appeared the following modest announcement for
which I had searched for days:

"We are happy to learn that the steam locomotive constructed by our
ingenious townsmen, Mr. Bruen, is hereafter to make regular trips on
this road."

The car driver was allowed a salary of $22.50 a month. He and his
assistant were to handle the car and the horses, take up fares, handle
baggage and carry the United States mail.

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There is a quaint epitaph in an old Scotch graveyard which says "Good
times and bad times and all times, get over"; and so it was with our
great little railroad. Its Charter had boldly set the Ohio River as
its destination. On October 21st, 1831, it timidly started "towards
Frankfort," and on January 31st, 1834, it reached that fair city with a
sigh of relief after many hardships had been endured and many obstacles
overcome. The cholera scourge of 1833 had halted its progress,
difficulties had arisen through bad calculations of its engineers, and
money was often sorely needed. Louisville seemed indifferent to its
construction, being comfortably "seated" on the much coveted "water
course." So the railroad stopped to rest at Frankfort and stopped
so long it became known as the "Lexington and Frankfort Rail Road."
Its arrival in Frankfort was celebrated by a grand ball at Brennan's
(or Postlethwaite's) which is glitteringly described in the Gazette on
January 31st, 1834, as follows:

"The fete given last night at Brennan's Hotel to the members of the
Legislature and to celebrate the opening of the Rail Road from here to
Frankfort was truly a most brilliant affair. The company bestowed just
praises on the taste and munificence of Mr. Brennan, for the splendor
and profusion of the supper and refreshments, which appeared as if
"earth and sky and sea" had been plundered of their sweets. The company
must have numbered from four to five hundred persons who were
distributed in the various rooms of the basement story where dancing
parties were kept up till two o'clock. Like the Brussells Ball, we too
had gathered from the Capital--

'Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright
The lamps shone over fair women and brave men,
A thousand hearts beat happily; and when
Music arose with its volu