The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-06-10
Communicated.
CINCINNATI, June 9th, 1859.

Nearly the whole of the building permits
issued in this city for the past month, is for
three-story buildings, and almost every day
brings to light more designs for stone fronts
where cottage stood. The occupant Of the
cottage must decamp, no matter where, so that
he makes way for the march of improvement.
small house he can not get, at least can not
asord to pay the price wanted for them, and
those he could pay for, are too far away.
OF large houses there are plenty, but what
good are they to the arti2an, the mechanic, or
the laborer; the landlord will not rent them
dW for one family, so that the very classes who
are in want of habitations the most, can not
get them, and are obliged to hudde together
in houses that are not too large, in many in
stances, for a single family. Real estate is
becoming higher every day, and where it will
stop it is beyond human foresight to tell.
Street railroads are now the subject of discus
sion, which is move in the right direction.
The main features of the plan seem to be laid
for running east and west, and north west
The business along the line will naturally be
great, derived as it will be from the two ex-
tremities of thicky populated neighborhood.
But street railroads will necessarily require q
large outlay before they can be put in working
order, and then-will they pay2
Where is Captain Air? In that great me-
tropolis of Europe, London, there are hundreds
Of small steamboats, operating in the same line
and for the same purpose as this street railroad
is proposed to do. Along the banks of the rv-
er Thames--a river about one-third of mile
wide, with constant tidal current, equal in
rapidity to the Ohio when at high fiood-there
are landing stages about every half mile the
whole length of the metropolis, reaching dis
tance of about twenty miles; to these landing
stages the people come as to n railroad station
They are carried ut the rate of about one -cent
per mile, and as an evidence of the convent.
ence to the people, and paying speculation to
the steamboat proprietors, the population on the
banks of the Thames within the past ten
| years has more than doubled. From Old Swan
Stairs, London Bridge, to Adelphi, Westmin-
stcr, the charge is one cent; the distance is q
little over two miles. From the same place to
| Westminster Bridge, four cents, little over
| three miles. To Greenwich, six miles down
| the river, eight cents. Putney, six miles up
| the river, six cents. The boat starts for the
| places named, and the passengers pay full fare
at whatever landing they get on or off. Now
it is a we'll known fact in that city, that those
boats who charge the lowest fare pay the pro-
prietors the best. The one-cent line Of boats
above alluded to pay Uery large dividend
In 1885 it was reported to have exceeded sixty
per cent. The two and six cent boats in like
manner pay well.
Could not Capt. Air try this experiment for a
season, running from Columbia to Sedamsvile
calling at stated distances on both sides of the
river, and commencing the journey from each
end, SO as to suit the convenience of the work
ing class?
If he would spend few dollars on printing
some large bills, and let them be we'll posted in
the neighborhoods he would pass, there is lit
tie doubt but he would find it good specula
ton before the season was out. Y.