New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-06
WINTER TRAVEL WEsTWARD
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Ilen New York Or Chicago direct on saturday mo'nns
9th nit and came the Eric Railroad 70 DdnkHk
which we reached little after midnigh-tbe Conductor
.on,ops ms for the being behind tins by the
st No train ps,sed Dnnkirk Westward bound that
,,Sbt AZ none had done By night at sny time since the
Rr;e brsak-sn assurance which experience sbundandy
verified Arrived in Duhkrk, found tbat not only bad
10 tain passed westward since O'Clock that day bat none
.os1 pass until Monday morning, thai we had ~
Aours unavoidable detention before Unpleasant tdngs
fpr me- as compelled to break an engagement
10 spesk in Adrian, Mich on Monday evening J had
calculated reaching this city on Sunday morning re-
naming through the day and reaching Adrian 40 niles
BY on Monday evening" but that could not now be- for
The Kingdom Of Erie forbade it However the Sabbath
sesi at the Loder House very welcome
On Monday morning at 9, the Lake Shore train came
along from Buffalo and reached HarbOr Creek in IL
shout H. and thence carried over the gap "a niles
in about one hour riding mainly in open seghs through
cutting storm Of wind and seet. At Erie were
detained more than hour while the baggage was IN
loaded transported and reloaded and il cheering TO
zee the unanimiiy with which the passengers with
ainty that they could get dinner elsewhere refused 10
eat here whsending the utmost perseverance in clamor
Gus bell ringing and the fullest that the resu
SAINT belonged the Railroad Company and did not sym
psthze with the rioters. presume that true; but
community which burns bridges and tears up Railroad
tracks in defiance Of injunction of the United States Su
irene Court and thus expOss infants 10 be frozen
have been by Of this break would not hesitate to
steal chickens 10 sell TO restaurant if chance az
Ided them and always safe to give such people
vide berth as possible So think nearly all whom hard
necessity compes to this inhospbe northern neck
Of Pennsylvania
Let me stop to eucdste this Erie barbarsm. have
read the manestoes Of Erie very carefully and know all
here Is TO be sad on that side Of the question The pre-
Ii for the Harbor Creek charge that the Rail
road inDges the public highway and 80 is nuisance,
and Erie likewise claims thattbe Railroad Obructs her
streets now that its track is less than fpe wide though
elicit d no complaint while ii was feet and would be
welcome 20 again if it only wdened narrowed
% o. to cause break gauge here and require constant
hudde of ears loading and unloading freight between
another The vital question shipped Of all dsguses and
verbinge is" Shall there be break OF gauge at Erie y
and all the preexts and operations of the last month hinge
upon this Erie constructed the twenty miles East her and
made SIX feet wide. while the roads east and ives.
Of are four feet inches and while this allowed to
continue compelling transfer of cattle swine and all other
freight al Erie and again al the New York State line all
was peace But the Stockholders and Directors of the Erie
and North East Railroad became convinced that their inter
esfs were sacrificed in this arrangement and have dc
cded change the gauge of their Road 80 that shall
agree with that at each end of it, and allow trains to pass
without obstruction transfer from Cincinnati Toledo
through Cleveland TO Buffalo; and this Erie resSs unto
East shall be restored making tO breaks as heretofore or
that the gauge eastward Erie shall be made six feet
four feet eight and half inches which that Of the New
York Central Road-in either subectng the entire
travel and anspoaon this line between the East and
Che Wet to very heavy both in time and expense for
NE sole benefit of Erie There is in the
e1acon than there would be in Harlem and Kingsbrdge
requiring that all the Railroads running into our City
should break gauge the Harlem River in order to make
business for the dweers thereby and increase the price
Of lots and rent of groceries thereat
But says Erie in her Manifesto we desire and expect
a Railroad to reach our borough from Philadelphia by
way of Sudbury and want break of gauge here to
give il business There must be break somewhere be
tween Cleveland and Buffalo, and may well be here
as any where else This will put the Erie and Central
'Roeds on an equality with Sunbury Road and with
each other
Suppose the Sunbury Road to be built to Erie and on
gauge different from that Of Ohio and suppose the State
Line Road to retain the Ohio gauge of four feet ten inches
throughout the freight and passengers East and West will
have to choose between bieak of guage at Erie at Dun
kirk and at Buffalo If Erie asserts the Sunbury Road
will afford the shortest easiest and most expeditions route
TO the seaboard then passengers and freghers will decline
10 pay for transportation ninety miles two Railroads
om Erie to Buffalo, but wlehange here into the Sunbury
ears for Philadelphia They must change soon sone'Are
a any rate; and why here well as at Dunkirk or
Buffalo, The rivalry perfectly fair and equal without
break at Erie and the shortest and best route must havethe
preercnce There not shadow of reason for any arb
tary ak of gauge Erie which is not good
for another break at Dunkrk
But let Erie have her way and all passengers and freight
must change before her pie shops and then those
coming TO New York must change again at Dunkrk Bufa
10 or Philadelphia The whole world is TO be taxed as in
the DAYS of Caesar Augustus in order that Erie may clutch
xpence for every dollar expense she imposes on others
Ia strange that ~ and selfish exacon should be
enforced by mobs arson devastation and osenatous def
ance Of Judicial mandates
But Erie has stopped me quite long enough and viii
try 10 move on
We loft the riotous borough at in snow storm which
threatened to keep us in Cleveland but the weather
mproved and we reached the Forest City at 81 p NJ in
fine TO enjoy the dinner we refused at Ereand take the
cars for Toledo at reaching Toledo at little past NJ
and taking cars thence over the Southern Michigan
and Northern Indiana Road Chicago which city in spite
of an hour and halls detention caused by breaking one
of the wheels Of our first engine reached at p NJ
CHICAGO had seen but once before when attending the
River and Harbor Convention held there in 1917 when cir
cumstances proptous to several thousands us
Cas- Six years and half have since elapsed ana
Chicago is not quite four times asarge as was then
believe its first civilians house built in 1889 and IN
1897 was still 20 insignificant that the President OF the
United States Mr Van Buren, did not know where to
locate IL but addressed letter to Chicago Michigan
Its rst Census taken in si0hrteen years ago-and
It's growth since that time has distsnoed al parallel
Census just compeedbut yet published enables me to
give the following bird eye view Of its rapid growth and
present importance
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