RE: (erielack) Walking as the mode of transport

["Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>]

Early on, he had no choice, because he had no $$$$.  IIRC, the work on the Erie Canal began when he
was on the order of 15 or so.

SGL 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Shultz [mailto:wshultz1_@_twcny.rr.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:01 PM
> To: Schuyler Larrabee
> Cc: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Walking as the mode of transport
> 
> Well almost no choice, he could have ridden a horse, donkey 
> or mule had he had one available. Was there maybe more to the 
> story about why he had to walk? Like to survey work he was 
> doing? In the 1820's riding horses wasn't new technology, 
> just ask Ghengis Kahn.
> 
> FYI Jay Gould also did a lot of walking from Roxbury, NY to 
> and including the Albany area. Early in his career he was a 
> surveyor and cartographer.
> 
> Will
> 
> Schuyler Larrabee wrote:
> > Randy observed: 
> >> To the contrary, Will, before the advent of the railroad, freight 
> >> went by cart or wagon and people walked.
> > 
> > Read the bio of John B Jervis.  He walked from Oswego to 
> Albany while working on the Erie Canal.
> > Harrowing story about making the decision to walk through a wooded 
> > area as it was getting dark, an area where it was known 
> that there was 
> > a bear.  JBJ encountered said bear.  JBJ won the footrace, 
> and lived to tell the tale.
> > 
> > But the point is that JBJ indeed did walk, probably 
> thousands of miles 
> > in his life.  He had no choice.
> > 
> > SGL
> > 
> 


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