The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-05-27
NEW YORK and ERIE RAILROAD co.

NEW YORK and ERIE RAILROAD co.
Non fl mum * su'gore sci er famo dare lueem -Iior
What think utter and cad my malc. in breath -
WIN. g. BoGGs, PRINTER, ''"'"
Nos % and 20 Pine Street, Evening Post Buildings
"ERrE RAN. RoAD.-How the subscription to
the Erie Rail Road This is the inquiry made various
quarters. How much has stephen Whitney, William
s. Astor any oi the other wealthy OF this city
subscribed This question Is asked every Is
it be supposed that the people OF this city will freely
pour out their money and subscribe to this road-which
we admit would be great source OF advantage to this
city, if speedily competeduness the capitalists and
wealthy show how anxious they TO have 1t fla.
ished, and to what extent they will go?
" Let us have talk about the Erie Rail Road.
Come up to the rack gentlemen fodder oader,
Davy Crockett used to say. Put down your money ye
ricn men, whose property will be benetted-down with
CHAPTER
Opens rch--Squire Bose's ideas about Gentleman
(" IVh.n .ddGm detced and Zee span,
Who was then gentleman I"
Squire Boegs gets evdte and qttotes the Latin Grammar.
This precious Of insolence and vuleary is
TO the notice 81 the public for the purpose OF
exhibiting the utter degradation at least the des
perate condition to which bad management has length
brought this most important and well conceived udera
king.
Bad indeed must the affairs Of any company be that the
advocacy Of such a champion will not, matter OF
course render wose-and lost indeed to all gentlemanly
feeling and pride must those be who can under any
cumstances, court such ally For ora,io Allen, Esq
the President and Tor James Brown ESQ the Vice Pres
dent 10 commit plumbers may be their misfortune and
their aulbut for these Eqres to apply TO James Cor
don Bennett Esq -! to assist them in traducng two Of
the most respectable gentlemen in this city, whom this
man chooses to address, with his customary msolence
Stephen Whitney and VIM. b. Aston !! is an act which
both In Itself and III its possible consequences demands
the most distinct and unqualified apprehension What ex
cuse can be offered for such unjustiable outrage
None Can 1t be denied Oh, no. James Gordon Ben
nett Esq, tells you his system is the cash system, and
that oNLand he prores too by making this the single
exception to the truth OF all his other assertions Excep
ito probat reguum or has not James Cor
don Bennett ESQ., been paid for the abomnabe SANDER by
his friends Horato Allen Esq, and James Brown, Esq
the President and Vice President OF the New York and
Erie Railroad Will James Gordon Bennett, Esq deny
this lcela dependif more cash be had by the de-
NAL than by conceaing or admitting the FACT then he
will OF course denybut friend woud whisper to his
silly and unsuspectng dupes, first that nobody would be-
lieve him either caseand secondly but toe many
such foolish attempts already testify, would not be very
satisfy the fair demands OF such ally for assist
those whose folly, whose fears, have once placed
them in his admits OF little doubt
in the minds oil any the extract given at the gin.
ming OF this letter inserted instgson request
Of Horatio Allen Esq, and James Brown, Esg,-and ii
further proof be required will not be very difficult to
produce it, without troubling either of the three worthy
citizens here mentioned. by whose joint "eors" "a av0.
rite word Of MIR Aliens and peculiarly applicable to all
his pertorances this friendly and generous attack upon
two OF their neignbors, has been published.
CRATER H.
Squire Bogss becomes afflicted with diarrhoa Of VII
lie then gets quite sardge, and talks about Beisebi6
must not be supposed, however, for instant that
all the plumbers OF this new firm OF Messrs Allen Brown
and Bennett "a limited partnership wherein Bennett
tributes brassBrown, g0ldand Allen, ieadD it must
be supposed that either Mr.. Stephen Whitney Mr. VIM
B. be affected in the by charges
such those contained i'll the article herein alluded
still less it possible Coming from heavy
gentlemen require any other retaton or
ply than III the and ordinary intercourse it'll
their fellow citizens they themselves will find ample OPP
portunity to ofer-the mere attempt at deence-he
slightest notice. even by any one who knows their char
acter, requires this disclaimer When Mr. Whitney and
Mr. Asor lind necessary notice the remarks OF James
Gordon Bennett Esq., those Of hif friends Nessrs Allen
and Brown, so long as they remain so, then indeed will
they be no longer the same stephen Whitney and VIM.
Astor impudenty mentioned in the extract under
view nor Will the repetition oil again produce the dis
gust which every now feels at its magnity Less
than its absurdy. 1t is the animust is the spirit OF the
remarks aud the object the ,iter that call
and rcprooet this be understood and then this first
Vi the foul and stupid remarks alluded to sufficiently
| answered.
But the devil cite Scrip for his purpose
this N Herald occasionally be useful to its
occasional readersths is the with the article
under considerationand it is the and the only
which is here intended to be pointed it, that
its republication at all excusabe very little reflection
will Immediately discover that the whole question issue
between the managers Of this i'll ted Company ard the
public is contained in the following query OF the Herald
ahd its friends to be supposed that the people this
city will freely out their money and subscribe this
roadwhich we admit would be great source OF advan-
tage to this city speedily compleedunless the capital
lists and wealthy men show how anxious they to have
1t finished, and TO what extent they will go!"
CHATTER ILL.,
Squire Boegs becomes metaphysical and ascertas the DE
renee befDeen tweedte dun and tpeeite-dee.
This is the gis of the whole busness-to answer this
correctly is in the elegant language of the Herald to
come up to the rack gentlemen, fodder fodder"
there is however great difference between tiger hunt.
ing and being yourself hunted by tgera there is also
between asking question merely for information, and
discovering, too late that has most unexpectedly but
clearly exposed in its answer both your ignorance
and your own guilt.
CHATTER w.
| alarming Spurs Boggs is in perfect woy1y
- " Who? why? Uha! oh
Miss Polly BADGE,
You bother me So
Oh! oh oh
Let this question then he answered. Why do not the rich
and the wealthy subscribe to this rilroad1 Or put the
question correctly, and its broadcast basis Why
should any subscribe under The es,nt circumstances
The Company TO this railroad Has thus far been well
naged or, has it not been shametuiy mismanaged
IL c managed now Are the at the head of its affairs
Of intelligence, accustomed to conduct large public
worksl Are they men OF standing in the community
Are the accounts " the Company kept correctly Do they
exhibit true and ntellg ble statement OF recepts
expenditure OF the Company IMe Company iabo,ing
der pee iay em5a,rassmenl Is the undertaking still in
rrogressi Is it involved in litigation and if So to wha,
extent, and whyi
CHAPTER V.
Sgdre Boggs thinks bie pill aud coIocyntt GOOD for e
jaund thinks good 10 take Of one's poor ra.
tions-He thinks The rainbop-he hnks-he doesn't know
what The deriI he thinks.
Now, then when all these questions can be answered
every honest and sensible would desire to have
them answered II the same questions put with refer
ence to his own business and his own rropertywhy,
them not only should the rich and the wealthy but epery
in The community according 10 has means, at
and uih accord subscribe TO this noble and
enterprise and they would do sobecause it neither
quire public meeting public speakers the reports
OF IIorato Allen, Esq, 10 prove - railroad connect.
ing, not the Jar West, but the great Vest! - city
by the shortest route, under proper management,--
greatest boonGs weH as the most important w0rk which
----- The enterprise, aud The common interest If
t,oo distant COM devised. All this is at moment
sell-eydsnt 1T does not ----- labored details of
Of this and gallons Of that, based upon hypothesis
prove ithere is need OF ypothess here at ALL the
broad and indsputable of itself sufficiently apparent
Why, them do the present managers constantly harp upon
the hackned theme Of the inevitable results Of this road
unless it he u expose their own ignorance, their
Jolly and perhdps to, something morse
But the miserable condition OF this Company is not yet
sufficiently told. Why is IIoraio Allen, Esq, President
of this Company Ia II because he is the relation Of James
Brown Esq, or of some member Of the fam,iyl Why is
James Brown Esq, the Vice President OF the Company
Is condition that his relative should be the President
with salary of $4,000 per annum will either of these