The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-05-02

tion of the road with any railroad leading into New
Jersey or Pennsylvania, on pain Of forfeitins the
privileges granted in the act.
A survey of the route being considered indispen-
sable before subscriptions to any considerable
| amount could be obtained, the commissioners
named in the charter, through their chairman, MIR.
| Lord, applied to Congress for survey at the ex
pense of the general government 1t being too near
the close of the session, May 1892 for the passage
of law making special appropriation, an order
for the survey, on the application OF about forty
| Senator'S and Representatives from New York and
adjacent States, was granted by the Secretary OF
| War, General Cass, with the appreciation OF the
President, General Jackson. Funds out OF the ge-
neral appropriation for such objects placed in
the then branch of the United States Bank, in this
| city, and party of engineers from the Topographic
cal corps, was detailed from the service, who ar
rived here the close of June, 1882 and were
/ the point of commencing their labors, when the
order was so far countermanded as to restrict the
public expense to the and repair of the instru-
| ments ard the pay of the Engineer-in-C Chief,
| Dewitt Clinton, Jr. This gentleman, it will be re-
collected, a of the late Governor Clinton;
and during his civil engineer, which was
| terminated by his early death, had the honor of
suggesting the plan of supplying the city of New
ork with water from the Croton river, and of sur
veying the route for the aqueduct afterwards con-
stucted; thus perpetuating the title of public bene
! factor in the family of Clinton.
| Under the government order, as modified the
| inhabitants OF Rockand, Orange and sullivan
counties, rendered such aid as to procure q survey
| OF a route through those countes of which MIR.
| Clinton IN lde his report to the Typographical
Bureau at Washington, where maps were exc
cuted, of which copies were forwarded to the COM
/ pany, in November, 1853.
4 At the next session of the Iegslat ure, appica-
ton made in behalf Of the commissioners, for
an alteration of the charter so as to allow an or
ganzat on of the company, on half a million being
subscribed to the capital. An amend ens to
! thn bar Tor tnpIl n
/ preliminary subscription Of one million Of dollars,
before the organization of the company. This
amendatory act provides that the whole route of
said road shall be surveyed before the construction
of any section thereof shall be undertaken; and the
i said commissioners shall not issue certificates for
any stock than shall have been subscribed for,
and on which ten per cent shall have been paid
according to the provisions 0. the bill hereby
amended q"
The twelfth section Of the original act, passed
April "a, 1882, is follows:-.'Ihe said corpora
ton shall not at any point connee. the said single,
double, treble railroad way, with any railroad
/ either of the state Of Pennsylvania or Ne Jersey,
or leading into either of the said States, without
the consent of the Legislature Of this state, on
pain of forteiting the powers and privileges con-
/ ierred by this act"
BY the act of Incorporation in 1892, seventy per-
sons residing in this ,ity and the southern tier of
counties are named, who with their associates
4 Samuel Swartwout, stephen Whitney, Robert
White, Cornelius Hrsen, Eleazag Lord, Daniel
Il Lord, w 1lafl y. Reuhcld, Cornelius j. BlauNelt,
| jeremiah Ii. Pierson, J )hn r. Jones, George ID.
Wickham, Joshua Whitney, James Pumpelly,
| Charles Pumpelly, John X. Drake, Francis A.
| Boodgood, Jeremiah :. Becbe. Ebenezer Mack,
! Philip Church, William :. Iubbell, and others.
| Thus constituted body corporate and
polite by the name Of 1.-THE New York and
| Erie Railroad Company" with power to
struet single, double, or treble railroad
or way, from the city of New York TO Lake Erie;
commencing at the city of New York, ut such
\ point in its vicinity shall be most eligible and
convenient therefor and continue said railroad
\ through the southern tier of counties, by way of
: Owego, in the county Of IiOga, to the shore of
j Lake Erie, at some eligible point between the Ca
/ taraugus creek and the Pennsylvania line with
power TO transport property and persons by the
4 power and force of steam, of animals, of any
mechanical other power, or cf any combina
tion Of them, for the term of fifty years from the
passage Of this act.
| Eighty commissioners are named in the act, re-
siding in New York, Rockland. Orange, Sullivan,
| Ulster Greene, Delaware, Otsego, Chenango,
Broome, Tioga, Steuben, Allegany, Caaarau-
gus and Chautauque eounties, any five Of
scriptions Among the commissioners named are
Walter Bovine, Morgan Lewis, William Pauld-
ing, John Steward, Jr., Nathaniel Weed, Sam
Good Hoyt, Peter |. Neyius, Elisha Rigg-,
Charles Henry Hall, Robert W bite, Stephen WHIT
ney, Eleazar Lord, Saul Alley, Gideon Lee, and
Cornelius Hals,n, Of New York jeremiah IL. Pier
son, Cornelius j. Blauyelt, of Rockand; George
| ID. Wickham, Samuel ;. Seward, and John Hal
lock, Jun, of Orange; Erastus Root, Of Delaware;
John {. Clarke, of CheHango; Joshua W hitney, of
| BroOme James Pumpcy, w lillian Maxwell, of
| Tioga: John Magee William :. Hubbel, Of Steu.
| benz Luther Gere, Francis A. Bloodgood, of Temp
klns; Philip Church, of Allegheny; Timothy II.
| Porter, Henry Saxton, of Cattaraugus; Thomas
Campbell, Elias I. Foote, Daniel q. Garnsey, Oil
| yer Lee, of Chautauque. We have enume ated
part of the list, that it may be who were the
prominent men at the time, that were expected to
exercise their influence IN favor Of the measure.
4 Sat IF hose nd her pF fba orf-
ginal friends of the road, are now numbered with
| the dead, and some the list, who men of
influence in moneyed circles when the project
startei 4, would not cut a very prominent figure
on 1.-THE Ralto," eitSer as hnanciers politicians.
| The commissioners met in July, 1888, under the
act MS amended, and received subscriptions for the
amount required, namely, one million OF dollars.
| No part OF the moneys, however, which were re-
| eeiyed on these subscriptions, was expended till
active operations commenced, after the books
/ again opened. in April, 1885.
Early in August, 1893. the company was orga-
nized by election Of directors and officers Eeazar
| Lord was appointed President, at meeting Of the
| Directors, the 10th September, 1853, and
continued in that Office until the 9Th February,
| ls:5. Goold lioyt was chosen ice President, and
| William l.. Bucknor Treasurer. There was no
regularly appointed Secretary until the 18th Of
| September, 1885, when Talinan ]. Waters was
chosen by the directors to that office, and held it
until his resignation, in October, $50.
As Mr. Eleazar Lord j. a prominent character
in the history Of the Erie Railroad 1t is appropriate
here briefly to notice his lie is one of four
brothers, all well known in mercantile liie and for
their commercial enterprise in this city, namely
/ Elcazar, Rufus h., Thomas, and David y. Lord,
and three Of them active promoters Of the
great public work, Of which the first named was
the head and one OF the projectors. hese gentle
mcn are natives Of Franklin, in New London
county, Connecticut, the same town whence the
family Of the President Of the United States, Mr..
Fillmore, orig mated. The Messrs Lord have been
residents Of the State Of New York from early life,
aud been identified with is interests o. merchants
and public men. Mr.. Elcazar Lord has been ia
vorably known the author Of several literary pro-
larry internal Improvements, the tariff aud the eur
reucy in lc20, he edited paper in this city called
The PafrOno Industry. devoted 70 the interests Of
American manufactures, and wac active at Wash
ington. and in various conventions in promoting
the subject of q protective tare. About the year
1921, the Manhattan Insurance Company was IN
corpoated, ostensib y Tor the purpose Of enabling