New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-18

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Cosmit.ee that tAey might thers stale tAsk sAjss-
tone 70 itin due form.
| Twas understood thst the feiendsasd oppesgea
efChy Railroads. we're TO haze had . hNariss 49,
the Assembly Committee on Cities and Villages
'o-osy; Put as ali parties were not quito reelv
WHO tnc,r petitions or remoistrances or both, ~
hearing he's been po-tpon~k to Friday, he ~
ust> when the Assembly sId Senate Committsse,
VIII meet cgether and lsten to fact and arrumSass
on 10th sides, finish up the whole busincw ~
nsse their reports. -.
The projectors Of TIE Seventh avenue RsiIro.I
bsse made some recent changes 10 their rvuts
which viii odd very much to Che value Of the RAJ
~ q public convenience. if i shall ever be heidi
Tbe proposition bow is to commence at the sousA /.
ern eAtrt nifty Of the CeutIal Park IN Scyesth 81
enue, ara lay double track down that avean y
lis Intersection with Greenwich avenue, tiaAa.
along Greenwich avenue 70 Sixth sve1ue, do~a
Sixth avenue 10 Fourth s,rect thence by siaSl0
track aong Fourth 10 Wooster street, down Weos-
ter 10 Canal, along Canal to West Broadway, sl.ne
West Brosdway 10 Barclay street., through BarcaAS
and GIeenWicb, BY double track, 10 Battery plaza
with braI Oh from College place or West Broa1-
way ih'o uRh Barclay street 10 Broadway; rcesrpp
Ing from Broadway through Barclay - Church
ana up Church. With single track. to Cassk
through CsnS to Greer up Green la Clinton Plseo
or Eighth street, and along Eighth stecet to nod
the double track In Greenwich avenue.
The corporstors named in this bill are McSSror
George II. Kelsey, John A. Z. Gray, Geo. Briggs.
Henry Is. Hewitt, James s. Sluyter. Winisurk.
Strong, Kezersn a. johnson, Fred, rick y. Bcvuo
.Issnss II. Woods and William H. Atbertson !.
This bill seems 10 meet with more favor or p>e.
bsps should say with less objection, than On, 81 /,
The various projects fer city railroads now bet 70
the Legislature, number Of which, 1t il sieg =
have been projected not in good faith--not VITA
sny expectation OF success, but as 60 much captnA
on which to trade and bargain with the prejectsok
Ot more feasible enterprises Ii IL clairucd by kss
friends Of the Seventh avenue Roas that il wool
IL cor stIucted afford better facibties for puhyo
travel than any other city road Constructed o.
in contemplation inasmuch - 1t extends, - -.
other road does, down 10 the southern extremity q
the island, thus accommodating the DOWNTOWN
merchants and business men, and also tho travel ~
the various steamboat and railroad lines 10 Phile-
deiphis, AS well as the Hoboken, Jefssg Chg.
Staten Island and South Brooklyn ferrHs. Thog
also claim that the establishment Of such Q RED
womb relieve the pressure on Broadway somewhat
snd that their route is not OPEN 10 the objection u
running. toaby considerable xteut, through str a.
occupied by frst-elass residences.
Ii the Comm ittce shall think it advisable, aflAT
fair hearing of all that can be said ON all sides 81
the question, to report in favor of granting any city
railroad charters ut ALL they will no doubt glse de-
weight to the considerations urged ny tho Gidhls
Of the Seventh avenue line.
II il perhaps proper to state thst there are I've
Seventh avenue Railroad bills before the IL eisla-
tnre--one of which comes from the Central Psrh
down Seventh avenue 10 where 1t intersects Broad
way or the Bloomingdale road, thence TO Uniyor.i-
~ place. known heretofore ~ the 4" Br0adWag
Parallel" bill which has been two or three years
before the Legislature, and 10 too we'll Known -
tie leading citizens of New-York 10 require Q
minute description.