The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-08


the high handed measure Of monopoiizpg Broadway
for any public good not for any bsaeat 70 the c
81 ss & po.S %.
mms aiatsIy flooded With sod though
peoners had secured the 'land from ths Battery to
Manhattanviue, they had only procured dozen q
ssEatures and th.re he understood tenants from
year 20 year The fact was that ~ to b. carried
through lt conceived and designed long before thas
petition saw the light OF day they told us boastfully
10 the report that out Of ten hearings eight aud ha
hd heen devoted TO b arguments he opponr and
only one and half To tho petitioners. There
occason TO go into the Of the petisio erth.t
Pre- determiued- and they had but to proceed With the
COMMITTEES sne come the conclusion In tho report
81 we con mttee OF the Board OF Alderuen. there u
strsDts; but &c h drawn TO misiead In enticing and
aiurins iangunge more like the arguments III COUNSEL
than The i'm partial decision Of adqes and arbitrator II
vas he said deceptive and utterly Variance With tho
facts We were toa at the very outset of this report
that all the principal paries hsd at last met friendly
lively denied Did IL appear that the omnibus prcpris-
tors b;e !, becsms willing app,ssn:,, No; there was
meIt, he would like to ask Was 1t the petiticn-
err, the commistee' What arrangements had
himself heard IL from four different propretors OF
omnibus lines, with whom no arrangement had been
made and who had mover been consulted These
Marshall O. Townsends, aiaton s. Andrews Murphy aad
others ownieg 25 or $50 omuibusos therefore lac de-
MED that the omnibus interest had been brought In and
" did not appear that these names were In the grant s
though. there was much consider due to them
they having hitherto had the providing for the rpnport
Of passengers and been mainly instrumental IN building
up the upper part Of the city lie ruin stsrog the
In the face and he could not but feel for hr
FL uston And 10 protect them be thought IL should
SO nominated in the bond and has in tb !. bond.
The connitiee having gene Though uinoe objsc-
bobs reported that the grant houd be given Jacob
Sharpe and his associates why TO him H-i he per-
formed any service to the city to en,s him to this
He (Nr Bsrber) unable say any thing in hs ia
yor and not inclined 10 say anything against him.
He knew he had been copstAbt attendant at tnst Hoard
and had secured the WAL street orry for $50 goo for
which Others had offered $4,000 And 10 was now aboat
to be rewarded by grant OF The grlrst monopoly
preented by the Board
He bad m what by thst Of t,e
pert in speskrg OF him of his excellent gooi
terssnd the money he had expended. rhy represented
them a. mart,rs for tbs public good tLaug oter It
VA mnrtyrdcm for the sake Of money uow had IL
Ltn sxpeI died. Though ne was quite ready to believe
might perhaps better explain how He then passed to
consideration Of the fections which he could safely say
to DO all drawn With q viev OF fsvorDg thoee pa
titene one important had been carefully loft out
which had been inserted, the sixth ard Eighth
TO repurcbase road at boaus or prsmam OF Ten peg
cent VIII. they all kuo 1t would be well for the city Tn
DO 30 at hftybn this was no part Of the plan They
did not want that The minority report presented the
startling fact, that of tho Thousands
had joined in the application twelve who aid SO be-
Ing mere tenants Ought they not to hesitate and respect
the ghts Of tho citizens before they did such injury
to their property On other fact they first g,vs tina
breadth Of broadway sixty feet but in ths report
word appeared about IT, and it clearly sho.n that
tie average was but forty feet and below Rector 1t
scarcely thirty two This omission in ths majority
report base deception He denied that the esls
braed case Of the Hudson River road was alleged
in pointthe moment they gave tho road for tia
purpose Of laying rails they tho right taxa
the street from the public They merely held 1t In trust
the benefit OF the parties but here they wors
going TO drive the public out OF the street. which must
necessarily 30 the case in laying double track And he
persons who wanted to the streets with onrts
other vehicles, BY any Of the sixty o.: seventy cross
thus address you against this project, because op
posed TO it personally because opposed to IL -
being interested the amount Of miionsAnd entraat
you TO hesitate look upon II Of oppression
tate another view which he would tsss Of il vas
they were determined that the road should bs laid them
let not these gentlemen demapd tho right OF exaatnR
such great fare while they pay only simple disease.
In conclusion, would they, members Of ths Common
Council give away what they bad been offered million
for and what would be revenue to the city II they
could not exact bonus reduce the fare to three cents
and let the citizens at large have the advantage Of this
But he commended the license should be thousand dol
Lars, and there haste, even the law was q
they said application should DO made to the LegLaturs
the Common Council power why should they give il 70
Jacob Sharp his associates Was it for service
rendered the city or the Common Council Tie would
ssy but ask the board when they3rered from
the great excitement which prevailed this subject to
consider anxiousy they we'd this to be forced from
Mr. RoDsAN replied Hshsi as yet
shown against the proposal It was from tho fact that
damnabs Bedsm that he wanted far famed rA 4 Dad In
it-ihe ar-fsmsd street OF tho ar.fGmed city Of thi,
the papers had teened with otJectons; bu
| their minds soon began to change, not the mind
Oh one alone, out OF tnOusand5 OF people. me re-
port wa an excellent one and every paper spoke Of -
such. IL WAS complained they hal left Gus certain
nnbus lines and he certainly would have obectos
to their participating il il not from the risk VI be-
log unable to amend during the political year. 1t
objected that the petitioners obem had already
got ferry at $40 goo bnt no would venture to ray tia
there not gentleman there who would 1t at
that lie admired the consistency OF the gsatlsman
requiring clause to enable the Comm Council
purchase and APPARENTLY forgetting he had that evening
voted fer the Third line without any such agree
mspt. Other citizens had applied for this line and
he uknf
the gentle ON the Fifteenth would give hundred
tbouand dollars year to destroy their property MAS
there ever anything so absurd Again t. driving
the public out Of broadway he Imagined 1t would have
the effect of driving considerable numbers in-witnss
West Broadway and Va,ick street where the
now only objected to by contsinptible minority OBJ
econs were always raised ut frst against great under
not stop a. objections formed antg aatsd ideas The
conditions, too, upon which the grant ma ,e
very beneficial to the public ana expensive to the pst
ticners causing the street to be swept which sas
never done before by eight clock staonng police So
&c which would indirectly amouat to tax of 81 900
per car The fact that the gentlena3 Is personally
posed TO the road can promise him shall OF
the track. (Laughtsr) He believed hs bad said a-his
constituents favor Of H. o. he believed ali would
be when properly laid down and that ~ those streets
where they established they w3uld no mora
baye them taken up again tn an thsy would tbs Croton
water pipes. ssd go back to old fashioned pumps.
Nr. TaoTTEs moved that The nanss OF Jsmss Murphy
and Hugh smith be added to the list OF associates
lest. by vote Of IL TOT
Mr. BAsxrR then moved that those Of Bolster and An
dfeSs De Sdded-ost IL 20 az on the 6st division.
Several amendments afe- wards proposed in a.
cordance with the suggestions ia Mr Ds speech in
creasipg the license reducing the fare 60. sc which
occupied considerable time, but all met With dstar mined
opposition the division each being exscy tbs same:
and ultimately at past eleven O'Clock the resolutions
and all adopted precisely they from the
other board and adjournment I'LL this "wednesday
evening was moved and carried.
Court OF Common Pleas--Part Second.
Before Hcn Judge DAILY
RIGHTS OF RAIL ROAD PASsErG 8H3-LOSS on
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