New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-14

for you to think Of and perhaps one OF your pas
seneers con help you. In the hrst place, what IL
the necessity Of placing your smoky dirty lamp
black making locomotive ahead OF your passen-
gersi Have you ever thought ltis to dra1 the
train is il Can't you push IL just as well hen
all your smoke, ashes and laInPblaek would faii
behind But, YOU say, what in case OF ocstruc-
tionsI You would save your costly engine and its
most ridiculous cow-catcher," which seems con
triyed BY its convex form, not 10 catch up and
carry the cow but TO roll her over and arc lnd
under your wheels and throw them of, and IN lts
place YOU would have a battering-rsm, made irst
Of tmbers, backed by great India rubber springs,
forward of car filed with hay, cotton, wool, or
some other elastic substance that would bear
tremendous blow without breaking On this would
ride your conductor, always on the lookout, and
absolutely controlling every movement OF the
train, and always holding in bis hand cord that
by single pull would stop the engine aud whistle
the brakes down.
II you are afraid that by any accident the loco
motive would run into the hind end of the train,
you may intervene safety valve in the shape Of
one Of these elastic battering rams between your
passengers and the engine.
If you can give no good reason why you should
not adopt this improvement try it and until you
do, every body on the road will wonder why you
do not, every time they are covered with locomO-
two day in which there was other dust, and but
for that blown back from the engine the travellers
might have remained as clean as though at home
and escaped the torment of cnders in the eyes, one
of which, among the many on this trip, was nearly
or perhaps quite ruined.
think of it, Messrs. Railroad men, and not cry
pooh pooh think whether this nuisance can
not be abated.
There is no lack of routes now from Newly
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direct one, the one came over, by the Erie road
to Elmira, and theDceby Canandaigua, the traveller
may for variety's sake take boat up TO Piermont
or Newburgh and then over that road or he may
branch off from BinghamtOn to Syracuse; from
Owego to Ithaca and Cayuga Lake; or from Horn
elsville to Buffalo; or he may go up the river by
cars or boat to Albany or Troy and thence west
ward to Buffalo, or bearing of direct to the Falls,
from Canandaigua or ROchester-the New York
Central road being branch direct from the latter
place BY LOckport to Suspension Bridge and the
Falls The Buffalo and Niagara Falls, the New
York Central, and the Canandaigua roads all have
built large stone station. houses and shops and
houses in the outskirts Of the Falls village. The
Buffalo and Central passenger rooms join, the trains
coming in at right angles, the one from up the
other from down the Niagara River. The old
Lockport road is among the things that were.
BY the great suspension bridge, two miles be-
low the Fails, railroad connection with Canada is
now perfect and it il a sight as well worth seeing
as the great cataract, to see train Of cars pass
ing over that bridge, $50 feet above the roaring
food that pours down through the narrow channel
over which the whole structure is suspended from
four wire cables At the same time that the en-
CINE and cars were passing over the roof there
were numerous carriages and country wagons and
foOtmen on the roadway, eighteen feet below the
cars. With the heaviest load there is not the
slightest oscillation visible, and the whole struc-
ture looks as much thing of the future as the
present time
The distance between the towers is 500 feet, but
the length of the elevated rails is much greater be-
cause they are extended back to meet the natural
level of the earth, while the wagon road is on 4
level with the top of the rocks Just where the
track leaves the bridge it is crossed by the road
from the Falls to Lewiston. Passengers coming in
from the east who are bound west, are carried
across the bridge and delivered on the Canada side
to the Great Western road that runs to Detroit.
This n becoming fayoTite route, and if the suci-
dal fools at Erie persist in their regular Winters
work of destruction, they will give the current
set this way so strong that no act of Pennsylya-
MIA Legislature will ever be strong enough to turn
il back again into its old channel If the villains
who destroy the road at Erie and Harbor Creek
were hired by the Canada road to promote the in
terests Of Canada at the expense of Pennsylvanla,
they could not do their work more faithfully.
Verify, the laborer is worthy of his hire His pay
in this case is to be hated by those he Injuries and
1espised by those whose interests he promotes.
His own children, who inherit the land made desc
late by the wicked folly of their sres, will curse
them, and all the world will say amen. We advise
The people of Erie to think; think what would be
the effect of tunnel under the Niagara at Buffalo,
OpeniDga route for all the Winter travel by the
New.York and Erie road, direct through Canada.
That tunnel will be undertaken if these landprates
Obstruct the road again next Winter. Then the
Ohio travel will 90 by Baltimore and then North
ern PENNSYLVANIA, with her boast that she holds
the key of the Western gate, will beg for somebody
to come and pass through it. Her boast is an
empty one this is proved by the successful cross
ing of railroad over the Niagara River. 5. r.
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