New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-01

REDUCTION OF CITY RAILROAD FARE.
The procet dngs yesterday afternoon, before the Com
tbete ofhe Board Of Councilmen, reducing fare on
NIT City Railroads. were not interesting IS vas au-
ticipsted. 1t quite evident that people generally
did not know that q question which 90 intimately
concerns tbem was under discussion The Board Of
Councilmen have the power to reduce the fare the
City Railroads to three cents. On the Third-sv.
Road, this is the case only below Twenty third-t.
Mr.. VANCE complained of the management Of the
Tbrdsv. Road and Of roads generally, and said that
q great many families were about moving OF the
IslsDd on sccount Of the Encouragement Of the Rail
roads. They could commute on the Ferries for - or
tl0 year.
Venice.
Mr. VANCE continued: He said that if the rarosds
could not afford to carry passengers for two cents,
they were of very doubtful utility. 1t was q very
heavy tax on a workDgman who received only from
81 to O. day to pay SIS yesr TO the rsilrosd. He
wxs satisfied from his calculations that the rhrdsv.
road could make a large profit at three cents The
Mayor bad suggested to the Council that the cars
should be taxed. He thought it would be mora judi
cious to reduce the fare.
MIR. FaSsHAw suggested that the omnibus
almost a,~ays got rich and CONS Of them immensely
rich. v her the Fourth av. Company WAS OrganiSef
three other Companies offered to take the grant and
carry people the whole length Of the rosd for three
cents But the Corporation was 50 consiierate and
so fearful that they would lose money by the opsra-
tlOn, that tney WOula mol give VI LOO
Companies the grant.
Mr.. WATSON, an engineer, talked about widows
ard orphans being cheated by such men as Schuyler,
whom il would be libel to name. Three classes we're
concerned 10 this reduction-the speculstcrs for
whom he had nothing TO say the innocent stock
holders, and the people. The question lay between
the two last He bad been driven from the lover
psrt of the City; they had filed that up with Ger
man and Irish emigrants. And now it was pitiful to
see poor girls walk up to the upper end Of the town,
from the down town factories.
A gentleman. who began by saying that he did not
own share of City rairos I'D stock spoke Of thu
Sixth av. Railroad as We" began plea against
the reduction, and talked about the immense eI.
penses Of carrying on the business Of the road. He
also spoke Of widows and orphans who hsd received
but 81 per cent. on their Sixth sv. Railroad stock for
the last thirteen months. The salaries OF their en-
poy es was reduced to miai nun and still their
running expenses from 8 TO 81 cents for every
pssstrger.
MIR. VANCE ssid that they were ready to meet them
on fcurea. and if they could not show that large
proit could be ct three cents they would give
up the controversy. He then went into an expose OF
the halfcent swinde in making change by the con-
ductors He said that friend Of bis was offered Q
situation, and Directing to the pricetlo per week
az being sl be told thar he could make % or
o. more on change.
Mr. HOW'LL one Of the Directors Of the Sixth Az.
Railroad yindca'ed that road II other roads hsd
L orig mated in corruption, that one had not
The Committee sojourned to the second ednesds ~
in March, when statistics viii be presented on both
aides.