New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-16

his suden and excessive sympathy f,r our previously
uoi"t Ills We did DO. kbor. Ths spleen OF c.rtsin
persons who could rot longer the ferries without
laying their fare IKE other pAopl. and TIE earo-ss
desire OF spccUls in New York Uptown los % sAz.
cot The competition of Brooklyn sesned badly sufi-
Gent reascns for these malignant and Al nultineous
auacks But ~ come OF the New-Yv-k papers sre %
iureus on the subject, our Common Council seem 10
,bp That they must join in the chorus and are trying
10 see what they do to break down the ferries on
9epSrds
BY the official sworn return Of the manager, il is
.bown that none Of the ferris bet-eeu the Waiabou
bay add Buttermik ChanDel sust ain themselves e1-
cept that at Fulton street the surplus receipt. Of which
psreiy suflce 10 pay the deficiency the others thai
un's such surplus s 30 appro praed the other ferries
cannot be run and that unless the system Of COM
mutation" is stopped, and everybody made to p,y
eIEe, me means will be inadequate to continue all the
Dow boSts &c.
The sssaDe wiseacres for sometime insisted II. not
isrtbipg more should be charged for crossing the
Fulton Ferry than would suffice 10 sustain IL Rat
tins piece OF Profundity seems TO be atanl sed
except by the sapent Common Council inasmuca
it is obvious to everybody else tina. the people who
croes The Hamilton avenue, Atentic-str Wal-street
Catherine-street and Roosevdt-stree. Ferries have
Just much right TO have those Ferries i,t, led BY
the surplus of the paying Ferry the country oun.ies
OF the State have that their nonpayng post and
Post Offices should be sustained by those Of the paying
cities The very suggestion Of disseminating the enly
Ferry that could be spared the ROOSEVELT is no me.
with tempest Of protests By the very malgn.nts who
thus Denounced the Company for charging enough on
The Fulton Ferry TO enable them TO cary on that al,
Roosevelt street and the others.
The system Of Communication Is one which enables
the rich man who can adv snce his SO per snnu to
travel cheaper than the poor man who pays as be
eoes and ia at the expense Of the latter f)r it iees
the rch man from paying ne much as the poor man
las Ia do. given sum muet necessarily be raised to
carry the ferries. The " Communication" plan throws
the burden on the poor man who pays each time he
crosses while the rich man escapes his fair prop )rtio1
by paying much les sum in gross.
Our wise Common Council ss if anxious ~ disprage
the reputation Of ferries TO enhance the value of
New-Y@k uptown property a. the expense Of
Brooklyn property, and 10 put end 10 all means
If crossing the river except at the one point OF
Fulton street. in effect seek 10 break down all the fe,
RES except the latter To prevent the Company from
receiving surplus the Fulton which may sustain
the other ferries, they have given lease OF the
landing adjoining the Fulton Ferry, in order that
rival ferry may be run by it, side-thus taking away
The means by which the other ferries be sustained
Now. if al the next meeting Of the Board they will
do something TO put end to city railroads and to
the plan for supplying the city with water and con-
trve 10 shut off the gas from our burners and then
procure the aid of two newspapers to proclaim to
the world thst cur ferries the worst and the most
extortonate water the poorest, the remote parts
of the city the least accessible, and our streets and
houses the worst lighted in the world they will, per-
haIs succeed in ending what they have already daI-
aged the prosperity Of BRooSLYS