The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-11
washington and New York route.

rom an advertisement In our impression of
yesterday it seems that the several railroad
companies between Washington and New
York have determined to furnish the travelling
public with a continuous and connecting line
between those two cities. These companies
have the fear of the air line post-route before
their eyes, and we have no doubt will study
some sort of good behavior during the session
of Congress. Then they will relapse into the
abuses with which they have annoyed travel
lers ever since they were built. But let us be
grateful for favors so very small even as prom
ises and advertisements of reform. We do not
anticipate much realization from them of com
fort or convenience.
The existing railroad contrivances for trans.
portation between this city and New York are
liable to objections which cannot be remedied
hour or more at Baltimore, as long as we are
compelled to GO through the city instead of go
ing round it. Then the impositions that are
practiced on this Baltimore and Washington
road, both in respect to freight and passengers,
are outrageous. A road that can afford to run
foul. trains day, so large. is its business,
charges passenger one dollar and eighty cents
for a transportation of about six and thirty
miles. There is nothing that ought to render
the road expensive. The cars are old and
wretched enough. They take their own time,
two or three hours if they please, to make the
trip, and as many more as may be necessary to
dodge the freight trains that are about, which
a b
requires constant vigilance on the part of the
conductors, and subjects passengers TO a very
tlresome experience. Coming over from Bal
timore the other evening, it seemed, for con-
siderable portion of the first ten miles, we went
half mile back for every mile that we went
forward. As far as the riding went, we had
our moneys worth, but it was not all in the
right direction. seq a}eca
3 With regard to the road between Baltimore
and Philadelphia, we believe it has been salts
factorIly managed of late, and has made pretty
uniformly good time. The long bridges, how
ever, are very Objectionable parts Of this route,
and the present steamboat passage of the Sus-
quehanna is disgrace to the State that COM
pels travellers to submit to it, But from Phila
delphia to New York-here are the grievances |
OF the route! We are not prepared to renew
the inexpressible tedium and useless indigna- |
ton which have attended us on our very nu-
merous transits of the State of New JERSEY. |
A pamphlet lying before US, entitled can ex-
position of the character and management of |
the New Jersey joint monopoies, y by GEoReE
n. LATHAM, and recently published in Phila
delphIa, may enlighten.t the uninitiated as to the
Camden and Amboy Railroad, but no one who
has ever travelled on it needs any such remind
eT There is always something to cause DELAY. I
Fhere IS fog in the river, or an engine has
given out. or they must travel slow because
laborers are repairing the road; by some cause
or other We have usually been at least six
hours on this route, and in one instance recent
ly ten hours. One other topic in connexion
with this route. The ferry-boats with which
they cross the Delaware from Camden to Phi
adeiphla are entirely too small to accommo-
date the travel. We crossed the other evening
u one ct them with several hundred passen-
gers standing packed as thick as behring's in
1o1, or f1gs in drum. II any accident had oc-
CURED, or there had been any alarm to cause
movement, the confusion and loss of life that
must have ensued would have been frightful.
The New York ferries, and the Boston ferries.
nave large and capacious boats, with plenty of
slbowroom, but the Camden and Philadelphia