The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-02-02
City INTELLIGENCE.

FouRrH AVENUE RAILROAD IL any ono "a Al Ali deslrous
OF seeing spccmon OF railroad managems nt or OF mis-
orablc mismapagemcnt lot him get into small car on
this line 10 either 20 up or down town. He must be
man OF hisure and have good supply Of patience On
Saturday, the road from twenty seventh stres the
City Hall was, from morning until nearly midnight
less obssruesed with freight OF The track and
yesterday morning the entire line In the same pre-
dcsmsns. while the President OF The road was busy
with broem, swccppg tue water on the track At wen
~ SIKH street, there probably I've hundred pas
sengers, on heir way down town, dcayed nearly two
hours by fresh, of the track near Rroomc s.ree
with apparently no oac at all who understood She bust
directing tho drivers and laborers who we're trying
10 get u on. The management OF the Harlem Railroad
Company not equal 10 toe proper superintendent OF
both the long and abort travel II too much for them
and We suggest that be abandoned. The Harlem
train from Centre strostai 5H O'Clock Saturday ser
noon, managed 70 reach Twenty sixth street Of O'Clock
only az hour. going distance OF about two mi &C. The
Whole OF THAI time the street travel pended aad
Bowery aed with the short cars unable a INC We
one way or the Other The Third avenue cars are daily
delayed hours By the laundering management o, tue
Fourth svenue hne, and The oRv way AVOID the din.
outfits they no. subjected TO- to put down sepa.
rate track from Gfa1d street TO sixth street The ony
city 70 take the second avenue cars, ana n suv one
wishes within t~o blocks east or west up 10 sn Of
a, syepas' they viii ssn vastly IN time By taking the
Hall 10 Grand street Ia always clear and rood me IL
made but above, bctweon Grand and sixth s,rcets eli
uncertainty rather the chances that rar, one 70
two bours will be consumed In making that distapco
TUE UrnoRN Tvs Moy sxrSr.- Regularly every evening
snoe last Wednesday, the Ore alarm bells have given
nire strokes precisely al O'Clock 10 accordance with
the in.'tuctions Of Mayor Wood the bell ringers The
bells are heard distinctly throughout the city, end the
people Of Brookyu also notified OF the time By the
same means Hereafter no one who IL the pcsscs,or Of
~aico or clock oau plead ignorance Of the exso.
TINE, and The ihousaud vexstons In business arising
from US misspprehcnsIe will DO done away with How
many persons have arrived railroad station inst one
p nent too late. the steamboat that vas 10 take
'sen homo. rounding sae pier vhsa f their watches
~ere precisely RICH, srch accident voulJ have asp
pened The method empsoyed to give the time to the bell
rinsos very simple bet fsotua Professor Bull hsy.
ing sc his oaronomeer by the standard ,ime Of the o.
per-syy conner Of Second Avenue and Eleventh strst
and stationed oimseh on the 'ook QUIZ at the City Hail
he gies tbe SgnM oy the telegraph precisely thirty
seconds heioee nns o'clock Tho little s,sr N hell, AZ
iscAed 10 each x.er continue s~hns for svery second
precise nomept Of nine s~rivss -hsn the ,g
nal Ia green ard all the lssge bells are strnrk
, 81, ssps "a. ,sse 81 are given the bell
time Al Artt the nremen ~ere Itte st,ytIed
but they look To- nine O'Clock bells every evenns
And R n mistaken for IRE alaru % tts vno,e
tbs contrvsnoe n very simple and eae>lnal al give,
Kew York wtst has long been a dssIasnstum, CORES,
snd uuiior n tinae.
S0qK IN E,sy Twenty pIuu srREr.-Abous 10 o,sloct
sunday mcrnus Ore broke out In the lime ysrd o.n,a
~ Cssdy. Hsserman Keelscs corner Of Has, Tsep,v
lnb street and First svsuue The dsusse done will
probably amount 80 81 ooo said 10 DO covered by tusur
in the ST. Marks end stuyvessnt Iusursacs Com.
,suies The fre or Gnaed from water eskur thy ,ueh
no shed upon the lime.
BlsK Bltifhc committee for drsnsus rules 70 sovayn
he game OF base ball met saturday evening sod al
burned 10 tuesday n7hP NJ, 10 inset 81 the mme place