New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-03
THE ETRoPOLIs.. No, i'll.
OMNIBUS BUSINESS in NEW YORK
City of New York. Proprietor. U.s. SO IN me
crease Of Business on the Cheap system. oh
Routes Changes, &c - S'V ola

or even year in which the Z" frst omnibusr was
started N this City The chsnge from old mail
cosches TO the sidesessed stage was gradual and
.ow ard little certainty exists prior to 1892 as to
the movement But the original OF the eG-
tAbishmens of City Accommodation Coaches la
found in the sudden migration OF the headquarters
OF businets from Wal st and the First Ward gem
orally to the village OF Greenwich, caused bytha
Yellow Fever pestiIence OF 1919 and 1922. In the
after ear lhe plague appeared in July in Rector
ST. near Greenwich. Noninsercoarse vas the
method then in vogue for treating epide m!cs, and
early in Aggust the Board Of Health ordered re-
moval Of the population Of the infected dissrot and
all that part Of the City from Carisla and Thsmea
sits. to tbs Battery west of Broadway, was fenced
in and declared dangerous" The North Riyer
beats landed their passengers az tho North Bat
terry" foot Of Beach at the PoSt Ofice and Cua-
tom House were removed to Asylum st. tnear the
junction of Christopher and Fourth sts MAORI
ty of TIE Banks and Insurance Companies fed sa
Greenwich, and others went up Broadway above
Grand st The principal traders went with tha
Banks and Custom House, aud in brief period
Greenwich became in fact New, York The effect
of this sudden settlement was OF course fayorsba
TO p6fmAneDs IOCHstou huo(SB eAo ieASo POPN'as
lion accumulated The beauty and salubrisy of thG
place were sufficient to induce thousands OF cit5i
zens 10 fix their residences there land this by the
way ia the reason why the streets in that vicinity
are at all sorts Of relations with the regular sayeyD
Between Greenwich and " down town." as we caR
it, thsre was then mile or more which was litsla
short of bowling wilderness" The site Oh
Canalst was occupied By lazy stream OF walk
from the fresh pond at the now Five Points, and ID
the junction Of Cenal-st and Broadway was bridges
For considerable period the Greenwich staged
CHARGED fare Of IS cents they started hourly
and then half hourly from the corner Of Broad and
Wall ats. After the fever had gone, and business
resumed it's old ssstiOn they had plenty OF cussom'
The erst Broadway " Omnibus proper, we bs-
lieve was started by William Nblo, who Kept ina
Bank Coffee House. corner OF William aad Find
streets Mr.. Niblo had place above Ktpp'a baya
near the Shot Tower, where no kept summer
bosrders and for their convenience he atafted tha
coach 1t was called the Lady Clinton waa
built more like an Omnibus than any which had
then appeared the doera, of which there We're two
were on the aides, between the wheels, and sha
wheels were covered with broad dashboarda, ga
that ladies' dresses might be secure from mud iR
getting in and ous This stage suggested me lde&
of another, and In abort time Thos. WintflnshamR
Henry Kipp and Asa Hall introduced the new atyla
ofcoaohes on the Greenwich route; Abram BroWe
started the idea OF regular line through Broad
vsv; the fare was fixed at shilling; people found
thew could live in the open and healthy diatrofa
near the head of Broadway, and at the same time
do business in w all at and thus the Omnibus sysa
tenn was established al regular matter Of buai-
nesa, about the year 1926 or 81
From tho records in the Archives Of the Cor,
ooration an far back as 1882, and from SOURCES Oh
the frat authority we gather some Interesting
items, many Of which will be now to the pfesens
| generation.
In 1928 Hiram Kipp, an old veteran in the
stage BUSINESS took out licenses for nine stages to
run from the corner Of Charles and HadSon-ak'
through Hudson and Canalst and Broadway 10
the corner OF Wall and Nasssu-the presens
Custom House. II was then the fashion to desige
nate each stage by Kpp had the Din.
deralia," "Pbmnix." White Lady Relief
New. York. Venus" Stranger" White
Eagle" &c.
Asa Hall in this year ran ten utages over the
same route. They all bore the names of states"
men or warriors, viz; :" D D. Tompklns," "Gen'
Jaoh son." Marquis La Fayette,7 I" Commodore
Porter" "Com Perry" "Gen. MoComb," "Gon.
Warrington" Com. Decatur" Z" aron 5teuoen,~
"James Madison" There were some iourhorse
stages, but not many
James Dickinson had five s!ages on the same
Greenwich route, Napoleon, independence"
I" L ant OF the Mohicans," &c.
1t was usual in these days to employ "oads,''
boys who rode on the step, called to passengers
and collected fare. We are assured that more thar
one of our present wealthy Omnibus proprietorg
was employed in this capacity. The Cad" syg.
tenn went cut of use about twelve years ago. Isig
still in use throughout Germany, France and
England
In the year which We are considering, Abrana
Brewer and Evan Jones mot in company, we be.
leve employed line of Stages from the corner Of
Broadway aud Blocker ct. to corner of Wall and
William (the Ezchange They had the bon
franklin" Minerva broadway Omnibus"
Forget Me-Not,' "Lady of the Lake" "Lady
Warrington" "Gsn Morton Good Intent.
ode Witt Clinton "La Fayeste," Gen Van
Reusseaer.'
Andrew Coyin had atage, the " Lady Gin.
ton," on the same route.
On the East aide, stages had begun to visit sha
Dry Dock William Merritt and saml. Andrews
were the principal owners. They ran she True
Blae," Comet" Manhattan" "Ratnam," DO.
&c from Dry Dock through Houston, Columbia
Grand, Bowery, Chatham, Broadway and WaiLss.
to 1913 W alter st-the Auction Hotel.
John A. Carr, Joseph Curtis, and Michael Cor
man had several stages on this Dry Dock line.
Lewis Beach ran two stages from corner Of
Third. It, and Bowery to the Exchange in Wal!-st'
They were the Paragon" and the Tom Thumb:
JOB Griffin yentured the furthest from civiize
ton; he ran four horse ssags-the "Henry Eek