New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-14
TRIP TO THE FALLS.
ICE Of The N. Y. Tribune.

Correspondence Of The N. Y. Tribune.
NIAGARA FALLS Aug. 8, 1865.
On the road at midnight when by the card we
should ali have been in bed, instead of snatching
such uneasy maps as we can in railroad car, on
new road like that from Canandagua to the Falls,
which is not yet one of the smoOthest, sets me
to thinking. / think what change-what
rapid advance in this age of progress, from the
time thirty years ago, when / made this same
Journey from New-York TO Niagara River, touch
ing at some of the same points First by steam
boat up the river to Newburgh, and then four
days and nights tOilsome stage coaching over
halt. frozen mountains and icy hills; then up to
the hub in fiat beech woods; then over streams
on shaky bridges, or crazy ferry boats, OF
through dangerous fords; and finally, thankful
for escape from a thousand perils, 1 reached
Binghamton, which nov l reached by the slow
line In ten hours, and might have made in eight
hours the same day, with comfort and safety, what
Il cost me four days to accomplish in December,
1926 Then il took three more days to reach Bui-
lalo. One whole week of toll that is now got
over in seventeen hours Still We complain
still have reason so to DO because perfection has
not been reached in travelling by railroad These
broad gauge cars are wrong the seats are wide
and covered with costly velvet and hair cloth, and
they are formed after the most approved, almost
universal model yet they are not quite perfect.
Here at midnight while two hundred tired men,
women and children are waiting by the hour for
repairs of our locomotive power, they would have
slept, but that these seats are made to murder
sleep which for the same cost might Just as we'll
invite its comfort and promote its ease; not only
while the cars are at rest, but while In motion
OF this thought wish car builders ever thought,
but they do not. Having got pattern, they go
ON like the iron founder, molding casting, mold
ing and casting again The pattern never alters
it never thinks-it does perform that mental
phenomenon just as much as the thoughtless
animal that uses il. Those who suffer think. They
think what Observation-Disclosures unnecessarily SO
things these great square arms of the seats are
What are they for To gouge into the rbs of
every one who attempts 10 lean up against them to
court sleep, and If one tries to quirl into seat.
resting the head upon the arm the neck stilened
or head bruised and sleep turns to horrid dreams
of falling down some rugged PrecPice, where your
bones are all broken. and still by some mystery,
you yet live
Messieurs Car Builders, | conjure you by the
pains Of q bruised man, to stop your moldlng and
casting after the old pattern, and think. lnnk
how your present form, although II peases
YOU, dspleases everybody else. Think how easy
il would be for you to fashion one of those four
SCOT wide seats 80 that woman hVe RET Iour
could lay down at two-thirds her length and rest
her bead upon an easy cushion, in place of that
abomnable stiff, hard square arm Ofsn your seats.
Think Of what THE TRIBUNE told you few days
ago about simple plan Of ventilation one that
would give air and not give those annoying cinders
Make your windows immoyable, and fix between
them, upright wooden Stats, always opening out
ward toward the rear, and the fsul air will draw
out and dirt will not draw in. The continuance is
simple; il viii prove eGectual, have no doubt
II will be objected TO only by that class whose
heads are always out of the window. Messrs
Railroad Superintendent, there are several things