New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-10

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heavy re.gblis and Us passengers arrived at this
pot OF Saturday morning. She brings no news.
FoH EvEory.-The United States Nal Steamship
Atlantic sailed on Saturday for Eorope. with u pas
sepgers and seso ,se7 4S in specie 0, board.
PERsosAL Observation-Disclosures D'Angli ar
rived on Saturday morning, in the steamer Futeo
and has taken rooms al the New Yosk Hotel sac
| joins Thalberg in giving concerto
George Peabody, Of London, 20 taken rooms at the
St. Nicholas, where he intends stopping fer two weeks
| CITI RAILROAD CARs.-These have become part
and parcel Of the necessities Of city life could not
| do without them. Tie who does business
the Park and lives in Thireth street is more convent
| ent to his home than the man who lives at the Park
and does business 1.-THE Battery. fit is rainy
ing, the uptown resident step from his store into
one Of the Thrdavenue every two minutes at the
hour of the evening when most required by travellers
up town, and be two ard half miles up, say at Thir-
tioth street, in Thirty minutes. The Foutth-avenue
| cars do not often but offer the same con-
veniences TO those living in or near Fourth
below Twenty sixth srett-that being the terminus Of
the route Of city cars upon that road while upon the
Third avenue they all TO SiIy-frs street and a
portion Of them to Eigbty-sixth street-YorkviIle-
aEordng thousands of persons the opportunity to OF
tain pleasant residences anywhere along the line, in
much more healthy localities than they were confined
to in the lower part of the city. II is truly mat
ter of establishment TO the great number Of new
dwellings going up in the Twentyfrst Ward this
season. The late Arson G. Phelps lived in a
very retired way in an Oldfashioned country
house near the Eas! River, between Thrtieth and
Thirty first streets, about quarter of mile further
Al. Dill al
of the landmarks of East River navgators. Up to the
pre- ser year there large open spaces Of ground in
the vicinity of the old Phelps mansion bnt the piles
Of buildings how uprising around it will obilterate
all appearance of it's having been country resi-
derce. 1t will be in the heart Of the city the FAM
lies that will next year occupy the hundred dwellings
now building there will be within half hour and five
cents cost of the City Hail. by the two and half miles
Of the Third avenue road on the same distance from
Peek slip Feny and Fulton Market, by the cars on the
Second avenue road. Upon both of these roads the
constantly full, far above this point, and the
numbers annually increase, to an extent almost beyond
belief We in the daily practice Of traveng on the
Third avenue cars, and observing the number and
class Of people that them Two thirds of the num-
Der Of both sexes belong TO the working class whose
occupations in the lower part Of the city, ard resi-
dences in the upper part. The rush of this class for
the cars n rainy evening, indicates their value and
necessity to them as the cost Of the ride is
much less than the wear and tear Of shoes,
besides the injury from exposure during q muddy
walk of two or three miles. 1t is not unusual TO
these cars crowded just about full women can sit
and men stand, notwithstanding they pass so very
often. 1t ia often the that upward-bound passen-
gers along the Bowery find it next TO impossible to get
uron car in The early part Of the evening and COM
plain of the Company for not providing more cars.
We carried one of these complaints TO the President,
who replied My dear Sir, we run car at that hour
every two minutes, ard if we should run one every
" half minute, all would be equally crowded The peo-
pie increase uptown faster than oil the city railroads
can ncoomn odate them We have tried, by increas
ing our speed ard the number Of cars, TO accomuo-
"dste MI that wish 10 ride upon our road, but am
"satsfed that ordinary increase Of cars will lessen
the number Of passengers In proof OF this look at
tie Fourth cars; there are but one third as
many as The Third avenue have, and yet it i. com.
mon thing for persons take the Fourth avenue, be-
cause there is always TO spare than in the
other The reason is that they run so far apart they
do lot attract custom. The oftener they pass, the
ere, ter will be the number of passenger and more
rapid the increase of uptown residences which with
out these city railroads would lose half their value.
Let Ia not coutine ourselves to the east side Of the
CITY; look at the Sixth and Eighhavenue Railroads,
and the results that have grown up since their COM
petiop. 1t would be ont Of the question TO carry all
the passengers in stages, and il would be equally out
Of the question without these cars to labor at their
calling down town and live they do now, many OF
them above Fcteth street In fact, residence three
on four miles above the Battery not now considered
out Of the way, and i, preferred above orc IN Brook
lyn OF jersey City, by gieat many thousands OF nch
| ar poor.
Necessary and convenient as these cars are. there
arc yet some important Improvements needed. One
of the most important in the construction Of cars Of
Iess weight. This will surely be accomplished. We
think that one inventor has amodel now in preparation
of car to be made of wire and angle iron, that
will not weigh over one third OF the present clumsy
wooden ones. The running gear, too, may be made
very nuch lighter. Il there any reason why wooden
wheels cennot be used Some plan Is much needed
for dividing the sea.s so that bench intended for
twelve persons shall rot be monopoEzed by nine,
nor TANNED by fifteen. We have plan
We believe would be efectual, without pscif any
thing above the cushions TO interfere with the occu-
pants. Let the seat be divided INTO the lumber OF
.ea,s tina, il can and sha hold, and between each two
rail thiee-cc.neTed strip two inches high, and tnen
| Law down the cushions We believe It would make
such an uneasy spo. that the sers would all keep 10
their places and give each his far share OF the
sea. We certainly need something to countersct tho
moucpo,zing disposition of many persons ~ho nGe IN
railroad cans, instead Of occupying places IN peos,
| WHERE animals grunt and sl1eai. ard crowd each
otl er.
The greatest nuisance in city rsfrosd cars Is the
constant disposition Of some srobs to show then I'M
po,tsnce and authority by bringing the car tos full