The New York herald., 1869-05-04

Total 242 s1,16l ,o61
One OF our evening contemporaries says:-"A
York, are to meet this week to decide upon some
cheaper mode OF communication between this city
ana tner locality. They assert that the high rates
oi iare charged by the company controlling the
present line OF communication detefs Ney Workers
from moving thither, and keeps down the pfsce OF
real estate, and prevents growth and development.
generally. Unless a reform is at once ipaugurated
.ney propose 10 establish and control line OF their
Hwd icsds @ una. IS indeed short-sghted policy which
lcaus owners OF railroad and steamboat routes
running ig irom the metropolis to maintain high
ra.es OF iare policy which can but prove very u-
Few pennies In the price of fare is sufficient to-
mine IN many minds the question OF remaining in
snort railroads leading from New York, which last
@ naa me foresight to reduce its fare nearly one
the prospects that before the close of the season
rne travel over the route win be treped or quad
IN this Tns matter epcy 0 English railway y,
and study. They long since discovered. what
our American capitalists do not yet seem to
nothing Is SO cheaply transported as passenger
tralic Every article conveyed by railway requires
Acting on this theory. the English railroad man.
ayers nave laoored to build up passenger trafc
great speciality. and in 20 doing they have put the
lare down TO low figures, issued commutaion and
sas ,ackels run frequent and rapid trains and in
every way studied the convenience and comfort OF
passengers As result of all this 1t Is estimated
tnaI mat 100000 people now daily pass to and
baby the number here in New York does not
exceed 60, 600. Within radius of fifty miles around
created entirely by the railway facilities for reach.
ing the metropolis, which places were mere villages
or naniiets ten years ago. 1t only requires similar
policy TO accomplish similar results here. Tens of
thousands OF people who are now huddled together
IN boarding houses and tenement dwellings could be
attracted 10 New Jersey, Westchester, Long and
staten Islands. were the means for reaching these
SUBURBS more convenient and less expensive. Purely
pecuniary considerations, II nothing, more should
lead the owners and managers of our routes OF
travel 10 give earnest and immediate attention 10
this matern
Another evening paper here discusses the latest
Chicago scheme as sfollows:-"Cmcago, which has, as
most people know, grown to be considerable town,
mas been Tor several years studying how to become
seaport. Let nobody say. that this s as the frog
not at all parallel Chicago wants to be q seaport
IN m order 20 grow-ior to grow to become the great
cago. or else town lots would not be SO dear there
But TO be great city must be q seaport;
and the st. Lawrence, unluckiy, Is frozen
over ha1 the year, and Is not 1T for ship navi-
cation at the best; and hitherto the direct
foreign trade OF Chicago has been insignificant and
the ships which she has sent to the have not
turned. At last all this Is to be cured It Is pro-
posed TO cut ship canal from Lake Michigan to the
MISSISSIPPI and ny means OF this to drain the lakes
less the Canadians should be able to supply the
stream from artesian wells. It would, so we are
told, destroy the Niagara falls; but, as people will
thereafter 90 10 see Chicago instead OF Niagara that
VIII not matter much. II will ruin New York; but
as this Is the only way we can ever get rid Of
viii lay bare millions OF acres OF new land, which
viii be boon TO railroad SPECTATORS who have
now got pretty much all the government land in
VIII bring sailing vessels in four days from New Or
leans to Chicago and therein lies the great merit Of
the canal which, by the way, Is to cost only eighty
Ohicial Transfers Of Real. Estate Yesterday.
TRANSFERS IN NEW YORK CITY.
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