New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-01-04
The City Railroad.

ANc SIty IedhAAooo'
Ma EpiroE-I see that the progressive advocates Of
city railroad are bravtly at work trmpeting the great
benefits be derived from the realization of their project
It's chcapness and convenience depicted in the most
glowing ccors and it is presented great public bes
sing, etc
On the other hand however that the projectors
have been made open their eyes and to some Of the
physical obstacles which oppose themselves to the eSecu-
ton of their plan They have been made to perceive that
our streets for their proposed improve
mcnt This once established, would naturally sup
pose that these would-be Cutons small scale would
at once abandon their eonce upon pcrcving its mpos
siblity But no since Columbus discovered America.
nothing is impracticabe-the word impossible has been
stricken from the dictionary and every lunatic who i'm
AGNES that he has discovered perpetual motion or the
quadrature of %. rrce invokes the shades Of all the
prosecuted gcnus who have benefited the world in spite
Of itself SOFT with the projectors of the city railroad
When they are told that street has beer measured and
that its width just many feet they answer that this
is an age of progress Of railroads Of magnetic
teeGraphs and of aerial navigation and conclude that
those who measure the width OF street behind the
age and want to the threeeornered hats of their
ancestry Well always thought that the great secret of
Yankee progress the knack the universal nation has
Of calculating of going ahend il is true but first Of all
Of knowing that they right before taking start 1t
this good system Of calculating which would like to
see brought into practice examining this great plan Of
city railroad Let not the railroad projectors imagine
that they alone awake to the progress of the age or
that foresight denied all who do not share their views
Among those who oppose the city railroad, who have
proved themselves equal to the times in which they
live aud who are found in the front rank whenever any
really useful practical work OF Improvement great or
small has been proposed
Nor are the advocates of the road in fact blind to
the defects of their plan at first they seemed to be
Their yery want Of candor shows that they conscious
that truth is too powerful for them meet it fairly Take
for instance their answer to Mayor hnsslands veto Of
the New York city railroad First they garble the
sage by leaving out important parts Of it. and then they
say Mayor kingsand objections only apply to Broadway
Indeed Well if his objections good applicable to
wide street Broadway is, are they not better when
applied to our narrow streets - Magazine Camp. s..
Charles or Carondele They admit that Mayor hipSs
land shows clearly enough that arairosd through Broad
way would stint the public for room By what logic.
then can narrower streets escape the objections
| are at loss to imagine,
If Camp and Nusaaue wilt not do We will take Carou
delet say they But have you not railroad already only
street further baela railroad which is allowed 20 re-
main there only because the street comparatively but
little frpquened by other vehicles But you take Ca
rondeet street where viii YOU g when you in
tact with the Carroton Railroad Are railroads
rcssary sidr by side in the back part Of the city And
what becomes Of this great convenience you term It
when IT is located 81 the dry.t Of travel and
makes SO many crooks and turns away from the centre Of
business and enghen the route, already too great from
one nd Of the city to the oher' VIII man who wishes
go from the Uppcr Cotton Press to the Custom-house
for instance mud any adyanagriu taking this route Ii
he did take the route IL would have &c foot it at both
ends for about a mile
# the great objects expected to be attained is TO
connect the two exremitic Of this great city And how
does this plan propose toaccompsh this object by the
shortest route Of course Oh, this is done by the
omrbuses in au old fashioned way. and out Of date in
th age Of progress The railroad will not initiate
tquated fashions hut will 60 away of mcanderipg about
the back parts of the city and after the circuit
the Loveel
Again the projectors of the road cannot bear the idea
its being subjected to cowpetao Mayor Kinglands dea
Of Opposing the privilege those who would offer the
most for IT, Is condemned unjust to the orginators Of
the project A great privilege Is granted the greatest
possible returns to the public should be secured Is not
this Just aud how else this greatest possible guam.
um of advantage be usccrtaincd otherwise than by
fcriug the privilege to the highest bidder
But on this point the orienators OF the project
risk whatever They will find rivals in their folly II
we had wide street running in toeraby direct
from end Of the city to the other, and at
DE distance from the river, and already grown into
great thorou.tare then crowds Of competitors would be
found but the idea of investing large capital in ziz-
gag track following the unrequeuted streets out of the
way travel involving greater distance and requiring
time than any other route and subject 10 all the
mishaps OF short turns and accidental
interruptions viii charm but few aud if the priyi
egei orel co the highest bidder the present postu.nts
will be left alone in their glory to take Ill for it will be
evident every business Of capital that such road
win have but a small share Of patronage,
The truth is this project did not arise out Of any clear
sighted intelligent or inventive spirit Of progress Il