New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-03

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avenue and Twenty-oursh ct. (Bulls Headl and
each stage seemod TO have separate o~ner-
WIN. w Creemer, George Simpson, Nathaniel
Weeks, Joseph g. K czech, Joseph Il ask OF, JACOB
Vincens, and P. z. Chamberlain appear AZ pro-
prietors.
The aKniokerbocker line was row fairly S'afssd
by Z. N. b. Renville, vino run SIX ssasss ~,
sast name from the corner OF Cefmine ana oi0''@NN
90 Wall and William ste. ,n
Wm. D. Bradshaw and Lewis Wn's''y'
xs,rea stages to Harlem. Thomas Sisnsr ,Nn
so yorhvi)le All started from Pei Of sla o0".,y
vyyhi.nax, .l,o ,.arted stsge to Manufacturing,
but Renvile bought Ii ana 0uA'o
%Knickerbooker. s,-,.oo a.. ,oo,la
- ~e-'a s,onige oar magnificent omnbQssss to
snter one of the Gsageu Of 1929 even !! one o.
sbem oould be dragged from oblivion. They ware
moor apologies for pig pens, in comparison with
swbst we now have yet they were pretty vel! up
m the age and were then thought something very
smart If passenger CHANGED to be over SIX fee'
high, he could not cit upright, nor stow away Dis
legswithout taking up two seats, Dingy and dirty,
rolling and pitching over country roads, with d
screaming "cad" Awinging behind like an ent@ged
parrot, they would present singular contrast TO
cha stste carriages which now roll over the Rass
pavement of Broadway.
In the lat for 1876 We find liz steges' Ihe
lanes of drivers are now recorded. Tbeioiio"ihg
extract will show the original Of our Frank Palmer
now President OF she Broadway Bank and lew
esava aimee owner of the Knickerbocker Line OF
Al stages:
agept a. 1884. Francis Palmer, license for
shorse stage, Manhattan" No. 20. torun from Dry
Dock TO First Ward. He drives this stage himself
~ va rnistake not Palmer had boon previously
a,"csd;" now he had raised stage of his own,
and cracked his whip as proudly as if he had been
az wealthy as he has since become. He is themes
brward prominent manager OF stage AFFAIR.",
sldranks with Kipp & Brown, B-ower, 6 m. A.
Fswa, and Murphy
jeremiah Keeler tried few stages this year
hown Eighth av Fourth at Sixth. az. Amity-st. and
Broadway. The Knickerbocker Line passed into
she hands of Henry Weld. Andrew Co!yin waH
ponoerned In Broadway Line. murphy started
Sour Bowery Stages, driving one-the Albion
hmself During the year Palmer got ont three
more stages; one of them-the "Presdent'
driven by Hatfield. Brewer enlarged and improved
ahe Broadway line. j, @. Gardner in September
started Merchants Line" Of five stages down
she Bewery. During the came month Albert r.
Domaine atarted the Clinton Line down Hud.
non, Chambers, and Broadway to Wall opposite
ane Globe Insurance Office.
In 1888 the owners and routes were as follows /:
Hiram Kipp and asa HaA-From 442 Hudson.
st down Hudson, Canal, Broadway, Cedar or
n ~ in aid of
20 asages.
AbYoQ1 Bro,ces, EU0a Jones' Jere Keller, 7A0S.
N. Dick and Andre,o Coloin From Broadway
about Fourth at, to Wal, between Broad and Viii
SIAM 10 asageH
Henry Weld-From 229 Bleeker.st. near Down
Ing, through Blocker and Broadway to Wall, cor
ner OF William, stages.
Robert Steuart and w. c. McRoderts,--From
Bixth.av. through Fourth.at and Broadway to cor
nsr Of Broad and Wall. stages.
VIM. Merit, Scan. Andrews, FRAME Palmer
Richard McCormick and J. NJ. Cooper.-Erom cor.
ner Avenue and Tenth at. through Avenue D,
Houston, Lewis or Columbia, Grand. Bowery,
Chatham, Broadway and Wall, to Coffee House
aipbetween Front and South sta 90 stages.
r. g. Chamberlain, Jokn NickinSon, Peter
w. Loagley. CAas. Knosse J. Ma'phy, and j.
G. Gardmer,- From Bulls Head, down Sd avenue
Bowery, Chatham, Broadway Wall and William
Do Hanover square-l9 stages
Albert r. Romaine. Clinton Line, from corner Of
Bank and Hudson, down Hudson, Chambers, Broad
ssay and w all sts,-l0 stages,
There were some irregulsrs R. w. Horne ran
hires stages from the Buckhorn Tavern down road
may, Joseph KeecA ran stage from Bulls Head
10 PeLas and Bowery. And1ep Moreny, one from
9Th avenue over the Kniokerbooker route,
There were III stages licensed this year; names
Rere still in vogue, though come proprietors had
discarded them.
July H. 1885, Abraham Brown purchased Hiram
Kipps line, and March IA, next year, Elias L,
Kip bought out Hall, In 1895, Isaac Carpenter
snd John B all appeared as proprictors in the Dry
Dock Hue.
In 1886 there were lSl licenses recorded
Frank Palmer had dipped heavily into the Dry
Dook line, and the number Of proprietors was de-
creased. Palmer named his stages" MON Line"
ghs Broadway stages were named Brewers
Line" and ran as far up IS Tenth at, opposite she
2arge nursery and garden then on the site of Grace
Church. When this line was first started, Broad
Ray was not opened, Tor at least not regulated Or
paved| above Artat. (Astor place.
In July Robert Stewart started few stages
shrOush Fourth at, and Broadway, calling it the
eWashingson Line"
July Ia this year, Thomas w Dick started the
"Wavosly Line Of FIVE stages, running from the
po.uer OF Barrow at, and Sixth av. up to Eighth.
pt through Eighth 30 Broadway, and Down to
Raa-ss
slss gitou this year purchased w eld's Bleeok'
m.st Liue. Murphy named his the Bowsry Ao-
pmmodaslon Liae." Stephan Wesrt, (ainoe Of
1heGrra of Rey nolds * Wesrtl first appears in the
stage business, in the Dry Dock Line.
In 1887 there seemed to be little or no increase