The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-12-10

programme OF Stevens will carry us Is too
painful to contemplate. All who wish to see
picture Of the future IL Congress persists In
following the lead Of Stevens and Sumner can
find 1t in the bloody records of the Jscobin
rule in France
The Railroad Accident In tho BOWery-
The Responsibility or the Oompanies.
BY the recent accident In the Bowery we SEQ
that life Is not safe even in the city cars that
the recklessness, the parsimony and mistaken
economy OF railroad companies can follow as
even to the doors of our homes Families have
recently experienced uncomfortable sensations
If member were compelled by business to visit
distant city. No one knew when the father
or husband who went away to-day full Of health
and hope might be sent homo BY express .
mangled mass that it would be hardly possible
TO identify. Life on the rail was 20 precarious
that the making Of . will and securing policy Of
insurance were but common precautions to any
who ventured It But we thought that this was
only for those rides where we trusted our lives
- the rapidity and power Of steam ; and now
we find that even ride in our city streets is
invested with q share Of the same terrors.
There is but little more certainty Of safety when
. man only starts down town for bis daily
affairs than when he is carted out to the guillo-
tine on the New Jersey Central
The accident happened at point where two
tracks cross. The heavy express car, on its
way up town, was just crossing the Third
avenue road opposite Sixth street, in the
Bowery. II was entitled to the right Of way,
was on its time, and going along straight
enough. II was the business of others to
avoid il. Such are the main facts sworn to at
the investigation in relation to that car At
the same time Third avenue car was on its
way down, and was so near to the other before
the driver saw his danger that he believed his
only safety was in going on and trying to get
across He believed that he was certain to col
Tide i he tried to stop. AS 1t was, he miscal-
culated his distance only couple of feet, and
the large car hit the rear end of the small one
The boy killed came 10 his death by being
thrown by the jolt under the wheels of the large
car from the front platform Of the other. As
usual in these cases, there is hard swearing
both ways, and each tries to throw the blame
on the other
But the public are not concerned in relation to
the drivers. For this accident the companies
and the companies only-are responsible before
the public. Crossings are dangerous places,
and therefore such regulations should be
adopted as would make accidents impossible
at those places. The companies can easily do
this if they will, and the evidence of it
is found in the fact that they always do
make accidents impossible at such places
after one has cost them good round
sum. A serious accident happened some
years ago at the crossing Of the Michigan
Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad; but
the simple provision then adopted-that all the
trains should come to full stop before cross
ing--has made that place perfectly safe ever
since. The same plan Of stopping has proved
effective since train on the New Haven road
ran Off the drawbridge at Norwalk. That acct
dent nearly ruined the company, and in that
way made il respect human life as very
costly article. The present accident will I'M
doubtedly cost the Third Avenue Railroad Com
pany twenty-five thousand dollars. The COM
pany can appreciate how much better it would
have been to spend that sum in provisions to
render accidents impossible. If it is wise ii
will make timely use Of this lesson, and by
ordering full stop at every crossing, or by
some other means rendering it impossible for
even the most careless drivers to cause acct
dents at such points. That lie their duty, and
they must do it.
WEED, RAYMOND AND THE New YORK RErUB-
ILcASs.-The course pursued 10 the organiza-
ton Of Congress by Henry J. Raymond, of the
political firm Of Seward, Weed and Raymond
is in striking contrast with his course in our
late November election. His resolutions
which were made the platform of the New
York republican party At Syracuse, out Heroded
Herod in their glorifcatioD Of President John.
son and his policy. Upon this platform the