True American. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1835-18??, 1839-04-11

We learn that each of the two Greenwich steam
packet companies carried. last year, about ~ 900 pas.
carried more than l00,OOO Greenwich pas
sengers, besides $4,000 to Wooiwic.,. and the new
W ool~sc9 company carried nearly 100000 passengers
netwsen Woolwicls Blackwell, and London Bridge.
!. thesc are to te added the many thousands who pass
NOSE places t. Gravesend, Margate, Ramsgatr, South
end, Dover, Herne BAY, &c. &C.; and above all, the
m'l!itudes, greatly exceeded one million, who, during
the last year, passed by the railway to Greenwich, willie
the public conveyances on the high road scarcely ap.
Greared diminished in number or in the frequency Of
their journeys.
we believe it to he a fact that thirty years back, the
only public mode Of conveyance between WOolwich
ana London was by coach; and two cOaches, each leav.
'ng. and returning twice in the day, were then deemed
sufficient for the whole passenger traffic Of that place.
There are now omnibusses leaving twenty-iour times,
and returning as often, in the day; and a still greater
number Of vans and single horse coaches, running, as
they fill, to Greenwich only, whence most Of the pas
ssengers proceed by railway, steamboat, or omnibus, 10
I'obdon. '-p. &c.
Respecting our northern and western railroads, the
Commissioners state -
On tho Stockton and Darlington line, the passenger
traffic, prior to the establishment of the railway, am.
otnied to only 1000 persons in the year, it now exceeds
'o''oO' I'm line Bolton line the average weekly number
journeys out and in per week, which the railway has
superseded, amounted only TO 90, carrying, perhaps, on
a weekly average, about $50 or 800 persons.
.on the Newcastle and Carlisle road, prior to the
nc "hoIe ntlihDero f persons the pubic COACH
es we're licensed to carry in Il week, was 343, or both
ways, 687; now the average daily number Of passengers
by the railway. far the whole length-viz. Az niles-
Is 228. or 1896 in the week.
'lhe number Of passengers on the Dundee and New
lyle line exceeds, at this time, 5O,NIU a%undalIy: the es-
tima'ed number Of persons who performed the same
Journey, previous to the opening Of the railway, having
been 1000.
Previous I" the opening Of the railway between Liv.
crpoOl and Mnnt hester, there we're apout 4OD passen-
gers her nav. or I1fUuD n vNAr fruynIIinn In f~yonI, s1,nso
p'nces ny coaches; whereas the prese.t number by
railway alone, exceeds 5OO,OO0-p 81.
" 1t appears by Il letter received from Peter Sinclair
Esq. Treasurer and engineer, that on tho Bolton, Leigh,
and Kenyon lines the number of passengers Carried IN
six months, ending October 10th, 1886, amounted to be-.
tween $4,000 and 10000, or utout l0,0OO per ,non,l,
coach, wlicl, run daily out and in, and in four Others
winch ran each one day in the week only. The traffic
IN goods has been Notwithstanding in merchan'
.i%e 70 ABOUT IW tons, and coal between 200 and 3O0
The "nlo existing railroad in Iceland is but six
miles IN length. The Commissioners report Of it ne
: The Dublin aud Kingston RAILWAY has been in one.
ton for three years only. The prices are not lowe,
than those OF the ordinary road conveyances and the
nme oei"s II very short one, no considerable saving is
snected N point OF tins yet It has more traffic than
ever was known to be on the high road, While the latte,
Is still ircquented to a great extent, with carria ses, lur
ses and foot passengers. The owners Of hackney cars
who had derived all their support from the intercourse
-" ' ''h''ilu anu NlusStn"n, anu feared tnHf they
would be thrown ont Of bread by the railway, have nc
t"a'lv experienced an improvement in their business
not "l'' indeed, being employed upon the same line al
oe.ote-hnt finding the deficit amply made up by call.
I" places not directly in the line. Of railway, mud in Jour
p. 80.
!" From the opening of the railway, on the 9Th O.
december, 1894, To the lat of March. jS35-a p.riod q
one Nenr and scvcnty,tI,rec davs-tlmre were 81, 8sf
single journeys by trains, each trip 5 % miles. Th,
p 1903.
The commissioners give the following account, "ftlt
success OF the great Belgian railway
"Ihe number of person. who usually passed lv thu
road between Bv,sscls and Antwerp was rs, DOG in III.
year; but since the railroad has been opened from thu
l'',ier place to M"lines, it has increased to 5OO,O 900
and s''lce it was carried all through to Antwerp, III.
number has exceeded IL million. The opening of q
branch from Mslnncs to Ter,nunde nppenfs tn have ad.
'ed s0m."o to the latter nunibe' So that the passeu.
ger traffic OF that rail road, supe'seding d traffic o.
p&.
In France. the railway from Paris to St ,;erma;ne
ana a snail portion Of that which runs from Lyons to
81. Etlenn", are the only roads on which locomotive en-.
g'nes have been established. Respecting the latter. we
possess no account of its traffic; but as regards the for
',ef' II nus been stated that the number Of passengers
VINO lately went on u Sunday by the railroad from Pa.
ms to 81 Cloud, according to the return of the octroi
officers amounted to 1858, and of those to ST German
?o3". Those who stopped at the intermediate stations
beng added, it appears that the total number Of persons
$4,000 within 81 hours! "'
In confederation Of the above, so far as the experience
OF our own country is CONCERNED, and to show that sim
liar results wait similar causes wherever ,lley NAV on
erate, we give the following from the Harrisburg Re.
porter OF tuesday, from which il appears that the daily
travel on the Pennsy lvania Canals and Railroads., which
have Just been opened, amounts to 1900 passengers
each way; What might we not expect if our grea,
western Railroad wos finished, when the slowness and
monotony Of iourney,ng on canals are taken into NJ.
count! With the speed and freedom from risk TINT
would attend the railway, which would be passable
throughout the yenr, it is but fair to estimate an Increase
o. o' per cent. or sou passengers daily each WY, be-
tween Baltimore and the Ohio river:
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