The New York herald., 1868-04-15

stations above the Park there will be places at every
half mile These ssations are to have reception
| rooms with every convenience for ladies and chill.
| dren, and waiting rooms for gentlemen. The pas
senger enters one Of theSe places, ascends stairs
pays his fare and then steps on 10 PLATFORM il car
Is at hand, and thence is whres away at a comfort.
able rate TO his destination, be 1t one many quar-
The peculiariy OF the coaches on this road Is their
perfect safety, certainty in tme freedom from smoke
are commanded by their elevation from the ground.
The track and trucks, carriages and wheels are so
well guarded that it Is impossible for an accident to
happen. The cars cannot be capsized. they are
provided with friction or protecting rollers at each
end Of the platform, and these, with side guards,
prevent the wheels from being thrown OH the track.
In this respect they are absolutely safe.
Each car Is entered by side door. At the end Of
each carriage platform will be placed; one exclu-
sivey for the brakemen the other for express pack
ages, &c.
minutes, and their average speed, including stop.
pages, will be about fifteen miles an hour. Morning
and evening trains from and to Yonkers viii De run
at much higher rate, to accommodate the Worklng
classes. From the Battery to Harlem river the time
WI be thirty minutes, and to Yonkers about forty
nve or nlty minutes.
Thus it will be seen, at all seasons, despite OF
storm, ram, Ice or snow-the worklngman now
ventilated tenement houses, can all but fly TO the
country, miles from the heart OF the city, IN less
time actually than it takes him, by horse car to
.,apartnents' anywhere south Of T6irtiet6 street.
For almost the rent Of year in the city, he can buy
",
1t, II prudent and industrious, erect his pleasant,
even 1t be humble home and rejoice with his
and beauty OF ruddy health-in that liberty which
ever Is found In the Godmade country, and which
long since was exiled from the man-made CITY,
II the workingman chooses to live, say in the vii
lage OF Yonkers he can by the morning train the
| company Should this road go into operaton) pro.
at six O'Clock and be landed at Battery place and
Greenwich street. the southern terminus, at fifteen
minutes to seven O'Clock; and on leaving work at
| six o'clock in the evening return to his home in
| Westchester county, distance or seventeen miles,
round trips that Is, the cost daily to the passenger
land the company will make large dividends at that
for the round trip will be seventeen cents. by COM
| mutation this rate will be considerably reduced.
In sanitary" point of view too much cannot be
those In use or projected. The passenger Is carried
out Of and above the filth and stencil OF the streets,
| numbering wagons cannot interrupt his progress he
can calculate with perfect certainty on The moment
lie can reach his destination.
or course road of the character we are discuss
ing cannot be constructed at the cost of street rail
way. Thus far the section ON Greenwich street
has elevated" the ideas OF its projectors.
| We shall not say, for we do not know, how
much has been expended, but we have
butt and fully equipped for about $50 900 per mile
| When it is remembered that the rails only be
used by the Wheels OF the Carriages OF the company
ami as these are of wood, the friction is triling
| that 1t Is not probable, except by oXydaton, the
| road will ever wear out OF need renewing, this sum
| The West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway Com
| pany of which w. 5. Gunnee is President and w. H.
| Appleton, the publisher, is Treasurer, has capt
| tai OF S5,0O0,0O0, Its experimental capital Is
S15o,000. Should the road be admitted q success,
and that will depend in few days the verdict Of
the commissioners provided for by the Legislature in
the act OF Incorporation the stock OF the association
Will doubtless be taken up and the road pushed 10
| conclusion. Should, however, the decision be ad-
verse, the section standing in Greenwich street
| Will he removed and the company dissolved.
But its future Is thought TO be assured. Is there
not danger of-with It's enormous capitalists bcconl
ing monopoly even more hurtful To the interests OF
the city than any all of the street railways against
which the people and the press SO often, and seldom
without just reason, declamp Certainly its charter
should be guarded that 1t will be compelled to ad
here to every stipulation to the end that while the
stockholders enjoy fat dividends, the people VINO
patrOnze 1t may not be swnded out or what Is justly
| their due--reasOnable accommodation and positive
| ness to time,