The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-05-24

OPPOSITION TO THE MEMORIAL ASKING THE REPEAL
OF THE ORDINANCE REQUIRING THE HARLEM
RAILROAD COMPANY TO DISCONTINUE tbs USE OF
STEAM BELOW FORTY SECOND sTREEr.
The above committee met yesterday afternoon, pur-
suant to announcement Piesent-Messrs. Reed, Vain.
VIZ gst end Schenck. The memorial Of the Harlem Rail-
1900 es.-r~-r, -""r"~t'.~ Tho $780, Ssrou rofty-
second street, was conAicered
TX Alderman MORT the first speaker, and decaim.
ed Loudly against what he termed the de-
mands Of the Harlem Railroad Company. Their principal
argument, he said based the plea that as they
permitted locate at Thirty second street for the
TINE being IN one Of the most promising aad desirable
70 PTrtsn s Of the they have right to rsmn and
herited, and prevent many and substantial improve.
nents from taking place Mr Mott here READ Iesou-
railroad track from the southerly line of Thirty fourth
street to the rorheIly line of Thirty ninth street
orco Id be implied that If the company would do this il
should net be disturbed IN the quiet enjoyment Of IT'S
deIot end BUSINESS at Thirty second street The msno
rial st ted toat this compact the part of the
had been carried out IN good faith which is not the
cste. The resolution epjoips:-
That the wall at the top to be COPIED with sr git
sns by the iss Nay, ISL ish.sen handrsd
ssa sssss
in conformity to the established grade limo.
It II nearly four years since the limit of time spe
c;fed in the utop and the work has not been done
and the compact no. carried out in good faith by ths
In December of 1851, the Mayor and Common Coun
CT adopted resolution permitting the New York and
Harlem Railroad to reduce the gra 10 of the Fourth
fourth Streets to level with their track condition
that they, at their own expense, widen said
company awaited ths mselves only Of the privileges and
iromnpities nted by this rsseiuhon aud for this he
OF the city New York. wrote letter TO the pre,
Cent OF TIE company, in March last requiring the full
GIsnt Of I'll. on tue pat Of the Nes York
passed another resolution which approved By the
Ma, the 7th Of OCTOBER, 1851, appropriatng for
width and extending through the middle Of
nue. from Thirty fourth to Thirty eighth street. and thai
Il be carried into effect as soon as the Harlem Railroad
Co shall have pieted the srchinc of the F,urh ave.
nue. Bow could this te IL the per veutila
tor erected on the erosn of the tunnel permitted to
woul6 suffocate the peopleS
Br. EDWARD N IhcKERsoY, OF 60 East Thirty fourth
ordinance vh vas ON Ss statute book rpsa bsa
hall. year. requiring the Harlem Railroad Compsoy TO
discontinue the use Of steam beox Fo;ty second sree
eighteen months from the date thereof In reading
c'er the memorial of the Harlem Railroad Company he
found that the whole OF IL grounded on two single
points. These were first tina. it would take time
New YORK; ard secondly, that IT would put them 20
great deal more exIenae. These objections had been
therefore not exactly just fair that they should
nov be laid before the Committee Railroads. They
TO he loss Of time the speaker here explained that in
coming In the grade descending and the steam cut or
sno the Gel allowed TO run merely by their
w. 1he tunnel he said, was half mile 10 length,
and the going out passed through IN the
period OF SIX minutes, which any horse couli acc,m-
pisb just ~ well. Even the ssed through at
the rate Of mile minute che greatest loss vo 1d not
he more than five minutes and half Public patience
Is not like Jobst will not bear with ever yhug. The
must their steam out as fast and AZ often al
public convenience Demands IT, The Harlem Railroad
Company faye not right to remain in their present
location as regards the cutting of of steam simply bs
caufe they occupied 1t when Murray Hill was al open
COMMON and was not possessed by the present snants
That was no reason ny improvements should be ore
vented property injured and injurious influences and
dangers spread around those who have temeriy to
so Who carried by the slow but steady growth OF
the city into their neighborbood As well might the
right TO remain in whatever part of the city suited
their purpoies. No: public convenience was the great
ruler, and public convenience rnow requires the stssm
of the Harlem Railroad Company TO be cut of at Forty
second street. 1t is nuisance; IL is almost impossi
sible to drive with mpunity through the
Fourth avenue, in consequence Of the msnner
in which IL il bockaded. As TO the expense tae com
pepy state in their memoirs that they would be at the
ioss Of 100000 This Ia to be presumed will be rep
resented by the buildings and improvements they win
Thrtyfourth street which they occupy for woodyards
and which they could sell With profit. The change
would bring noney to their pockets, which be sbun
dainty proved They speak Of taking up their track be-
low Twenty sixth street but ths has limited
at by the property holders All they ask Is that their
own rights should be preserved well as those Of the
Ba,iem Railroad Company.
Mr.. NATHAN JACKSON brought out some "startliuyn
arguments egainst the company His great obi seton
med to be to the "funnei" which, he stated had
negbborhood, by Of the smoke issuing from the
ventilAtors rhsse were facts which he experienced
Seriously
The gcmuittss then adjourned cine sis.