New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-12-31

va extract the following communication from yester.
day Bulletin Our readers will find IL to contain too,
ably thorough review Of the argument upon tho question
Of the proprety Of establiehtng City Railroad
the sutset daily acquirng and more interest," VIZ
copimend this Communication to the attention 81 ou,
rsadersi s 4 i s8ssB
The City Railroads. sa4
Mn. EnsroR-The question whether Railroad should
ba established In the streets OF the city extending frc
tbs upper line IF Laayette city the tobacco warehouse
below cannot be too closely Investigated before Anal
cision takes place Y s question Of great Importance
Affecting multitude Of private nterests while, AZ the
First d Iii It il essential that e Investigation should
be honest and all attempts at Misrepresentation hum
bug should be exposed and put down And In this con-
Of the Railroad using all sorts Of exsggeration and
claprap to de the public into basty decision in
It's favor For instance IN their arguments they assume
and lower down. than the present lines Of
nbuses are in fact running at present Nothing be
more untrue the Omnbuses at present to Freepnrt
several above Plasanee street which Ii designated
as the upper terminus Of the Railroad and they 60 as
far down ms government wharf the lowest point at which
there ia at present any necessity for such conyeyance
Thus then 1T that enjoying already tho very
thing which the Railroad projectors hold out in promise
and represent as e great desideratunl viz; easy
prompt and agreeable Of travel from one end 81
the city to the other This promise however, the railroad
protectors hold only on condition OF obtaining monopo-
the very thing which the public has already Obtained
and Is enjoying by the simple effects Of ordinary enter
prise and competition. But Of this anon. =. (,
The next thing we are told is that the Railroad Com
pany promises to give us cheaper conveyance They
are to chnrge only five cents and to make this lock al
avoraby possible, the omnbuses are represented as
charging ten cents for the TIP from to Canal street
be false general thing, and that for chose who arc
IN the habit Of travelling in omnibuses S cents is the
cents for every person who intelligence
enough to know that sixty cents isess than dollar
that by taking advantage Of the eonvenienees afforded by
the purchase Of package of tickets forty cents are
ntruI.s
FIRST started the price ten cents for tile run but all
powerful and wonderworking competition has brought
me price down to six cents Now IT to be
utm0s Certainly not and they let alone it eau
be easily foreseen that the prices will at no distant day
be reduced to the very lowest possible this side
of ruin to tho proprietor We have too many examples
OIL this effect of untraneled competition, in every
branch Of enterprise to suppose for moment that onn
buses In New Orleans will hereafter constitute an excep
ton 70 the universal ruthe rule the unerrng effects
Of which they have in fact already experienced in this
The third thing which is advanced ON behalf of the rail-
road is its smoothness Oh how agreeable il ID to travel
without shocks and shangs. This, too is not only an
exaggeration but the Argument IS based upon misun-
dersanding of the real state Of things The omnbuses
in themselves are much agreeable vehicles than rail
road cars II they have. in this city, been liable to any
objection has been on account Of the roughness Of the
streets defect Of the vehicles themselves The bad
payements for long time were the cause Of slow and
gea progress and ALSO even made 1t necessary to use
extra mule or horse in pulling the omnibus through rus
and holes which existed every where along their paths
but now the Of streets gradually changing
and those who ride III omnbuses already feel the bene
cia effects Of Who has not experienced
The pleasant sensation Of ride In spring carriage over
me square block pavement and do not all know that
ms pavement fast taking the place Of the old round
stone and that i'll couple of years we will have one or
more smooth and level horoughfares from one end Of the
parish to TIE other This will be done before the railroad
IAN be finished and then will not only be in full pos
session Of every facility and comfort by means Of the ON
but at the time the propretors of the lines
will find their expenses sensbly diminished while the
lulcKucSS OF Ln61r if
NO more broken wheels and shafts no more horses and
amed less number of animals to be used and the
PRIMARY wear and tear Of the vehicles sensbly diminished
g IT not evident that this by the aid of competition will
gain bring down the prices! 5T91E
But have the citizens in general carefully studied the
advantages and disadvantages Of the proposed
abroad II they have they cannot hesitate to dscardit
the city had been built to offer thorouhfare for
UGH mode Of conveyance still its advantages would he
but with present narrow streets ii
annot for moment be admitted. Does any one believe
nat such project would have been conceived or
IN the city OF New York. had it not been for the
reat facilities afforded by Broadway street. which is 40
ride and runs in SO direct ne from one end Of New
he city railroad in New York would have been nniyer
ally laughed at; and even with Broadway see what on
oston they encountered and finally let 1t not be for
otten when the example Of New York is cited that the
layer OF that city on many and rrefutable grounds
onsidered himself in duty bound to reto the road
nave no such thoroughfares as Broadway to offer
ne road In our narrow streets the space occuped nv
me o. railroad cars, deducted from the width would
leave sufficient room for other vehicles engaged in the
VI uttrCHauulSe ETC.. % must a
Ike this imagine the meeting Of trains of drays carts
mnipuses carriages wagons and cars all loaded with
and passengers as moving all in the same
irection and regulated the movements of an army
Ut we must see them they are some backing IN To
stores loading and unloading some going up While
three trains going down. and Others are turn.
% OIL or coming ill., with various degrees of velocity tn
nd from the cross streets. 'z ss5-
with the streets as free they they
equeny SO crowded and blocked that it ia
Ior horseman or foot passenger to traverse them
TO THESE embarrassment add the necessif of allow.
lg railroad car twelve feet wide to pass on straight
ne along the centre OF the street. the difficulties and
onyenences will at become SO great as to be nsur
ountabie Commerce will be seriously impeded for it
i'll be out of the question for draws etc to back I'm
ruer 10 load ana unload and accidents will constantly
appen for drayf, etc. passing the cars will be Obliged
to Craze them that tho least sheer of the teams
Ill pc the cause Of serious collision. Indeed the exs-
nce OF the railroad must at once destroy Magazine and
streets as commercial horoughfares for if the cara
ow eaeh other at short distances apart they do
tney 40 expect to convey many passengers they will be
instantly driving away all other vehicles which might he
Jured by collision with them Property on these
reefs Will at once greatly diminished In value for The
ungs VIII no longer be tit for the for which they
ere erected and the thousands each proprietor has in
upon the expectation that the streets would be de-
'ced TO stores and warehouses would be lost The er
ants will be forced to remove to streets where thew can
ceye and forward their merchandise and on them too
y oherous expense OF displacement will be entailed
~ ZOE What merely for the difference of riding on
ilroad instead of an omnibus 77 --e -
Ihe railroad orignators do not deny these inconye
ences; they content themselves with an endcayor to
ia,e them Ihey say some remedy may be found but
icy 10 not even suggest what that remedy would be-
d our share, We can imagine only one corrective-a
IRE, worse than the evil itself, viz tearing down the
fuses to make the streets wide enough along the whole
he from Freeport to the tobacco warehouses If the pno
=, Notwithstanding the present heavy city debt which
pe TO pave our unpaved streets are ready
incur the expense Of opening broadway from Free.
~ 10 the tobacco warehouses; merely for the difference
s railroad car and an omnibus ride let them de-
are but Until they vote the their
gu 0uld refuse the road privilege asked of them
inconvenience above suggested are still more an
min nd in,
opposed road Is expected to follow through the Third
strict Love and Craps streets are still narrower than
and Camp and besides this the streets in the
ird district have several short turns and brakes which
IL prove great obstacles to the progress of RAILROAD
fact we do not believe that the protectors Of the road
naa me opinion OF any experienced engineers, on
Possloty OF making such sudden curves as would be
cessary few yards below Espanade street and parti
Larry at tho crossing of Enghein street Gssl
s noweVer as Il may certain it is that this great
,y ibis agreeable riding this rapid intercourse Bellies
anticipatons of its friends by the very route ID is
npeea % follow It admits the impossibty of pass
It line Of travel and to take long circuit down Ram
II and along the back parts the Third District
come PACE upon the Leyee the tobacco
route - at least mile longer than the one followed
the omnbuses and thus precious time would he lost in
lyelng upon it. But this is not all it offers no con-
nence 10 the thousands who the omnbuses to COM
ahicate with the shipping either above or below Canal
eet The business the commerce of the CITY is what
~ support to enterprises like these and vet we find
az the necessities of this commerce is the first thing for
Lten by our wouldbe innovators
suppose the plan In full operation and that by the
eiusiye privilege promised the omnibuses driven off
route then we will have suffer from all the inter
ptions which must befall railroad in citv like this
w Will the cars pass when twill BE- necessary to repair
aown or lake up the pipes of the gas waterworks
npany! The cars cannot turn off and 70 round tbe
lare as omnibuses do What will be done if an acct
ut happens to one of the cars The road must either
one 81 considerable travel not. II it is not much
Netu There Is no use to make it, but lift is numerousy
quented the cars must follow each other five minutes
~ e may any Interruption will bring them all