Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-11-15
one Instance ON Record where Adyer.
Using did not PAY.


We have great faith in the efficacy of adver
Using, but We are afraid that even the lib,ral
expenditure of the railroad company In that
line for the last week will fail to relieve them
of the odium they have incurred by refu .iny To
pave their tracks on the Avenue. The same
amount Of money would have gone . good de Al
further in doing the work than in excusing
them for not doing il.
The arguments" presented By them are
lst. That the cobble stone they are nov Law
ing is"a splendid pavement" (sic,) and "needs
but to be seen to be appreciated" Just so.
I'd. That wood pavement ais ruinous to the
feet OF horses" and that ''horses cannot get a
footing on the wood pavement" The expsri-
ments of Mcneil, Fisher, aud other eminent
engineers. have shown the vast saving in horse-
tesh- horse-shoes, and carriage tires by the
use of wood pavements over stone; the wood
pavement, by Its superior elasticity, csusing
less percussion and abrasion. DR.. IRE, an an.
thority who viii not be questioned, estimates
isee his Mechanical Dictionary for ISM the
saving in the life Of horses used upon wood and
stone to be in favor Of wood in the proportion
OF 5 10 2 The fact that horse railroad companies
are required TO pave their tracks with wood
on al leading streets in other cities where wood
ravements are used, shows that Il is no hardship
TO require the same of them here; and at the
that horses cannot draw on wood payements1
ID. That the cobblestone, $50 far from being
blot on the street, viii be favorable to the ap-
Iesrance Of the Avenue-especiallya as the COM
pany hare he reputation Of keeping their traeE
srept eledn.' Italics ours. No levity.l
ith. "The wood pavement will take general
travel from the railroad track, and thus enable
the cars to make better time" They make
excellent time now-especially when transfer
passengers are in sight
9Th. "1he Washington people have no right to
complain how the road. Is run, so long as they
didn't build it." Yes, il they suppor,it.l
9th. The editor of TIE STAR has been di-
rector Of the road and ''his friends have done
this AM that and the other in the way of water
ing stock, issuing bonds and Initiating prices by
which, "ways that are dark and tricks that are
vair," they bumbugged and bam5oozled those
unfedged innocents, those lambs of the morn
ing, those sucklings without guile, the noyices
OF Chatham street and Wall street, inducing
"their beguiled innocent purchasers TO
give SIS q share for $50 stock" NOV.
we DO not mean that the railroad com.
pany shall escape from the paving issue by any
cutie hsh strategy of this sort. We have no
interest whatever, and the public have Is little.
in the squabbles for supremacy among the
Northern stockholders OF the road, and their
examinations and recriminations as to the past
and present management. II Is SUN cient to saw
that il has always been owned and mana yed by
the Northern interests. But should any persons
have the curiosity TO follow up this vein of in
QuIy il viii probably be found that II any
stock was worked of IT 75 per share at a large
profit on innocent purchasers" the operator
IN the Transaction will be discovered not thou
SAID miles from the pawnbroksrs establish
ment Of Henry Hart, Chatham street, New
l. a~.ll 4 -.
idert Of the road, and the individual who die
tates its management, including its refusal to
pave its share OF the Avenue. Ii will be found.
too, probably, that If any watering of stock or
issuing Of bonds vas done at any time the chief
cook and bottlewasher in the transaction was
Director Henry Hart, now Vice President Hart
and the real manager Of the compasy's wiresl
9Th. One Of the stockholders Of TIE SrAR
els said TO have an interest in wood pa vements
that would ''be benefited by the addition to the
wooden pavement Of Pennsylvanis avenue,
hence, &c. Another piece of cutie fsh strate-
gy. To charge interested motives upon an assail-
ant Is usually the resort of defendant in a par
tieulnly tight place. We have no interest in VOID
pavsmt nts to the extent Of a dollar, dime. cant
or mill, and no man interested In wood pave
meuts has ever suggested q line or syllable of
sught we have written in regard TO wood
psyements, or the selfish course of the railroad
company, But If We were in this wooden line
we cannot for the life Of US see what benefit we
should get by "coercing," the company To pavs
their tracks, since the company Is allowed bv
the law to do the work itself-always providing
that they do pace them and not relay them with
the abomninable cobblestone.
sth- Because the Connecticut avenue railroad
has not beer built, therefore the impecunious
and no account people Of Washington would
hav huf ha
never be sufficiently grateful to the dislnter
ested gentlemen OF Chatham street who run 1,
NJ heavy loss to themselves solely for the good
OF the people. sympathy Of the public respect
fully solicited for the disinterested gentlemen
OF Chatham street who invest their money in
our railroads and run them for nothing.I
9th. "No one with soul as capacious as An
oyster can bubble about q sum 90 paltry as sir
eents . passenger" lItalIcs not ours. Public
indignation respectfully solicited against the
Oyster-souled people who bubble about psltry
siSpences-l
10Th. " That no pavement is az good As stone,
and in the opinion OF the deponent none other
than stone should be used between the tracks
of horse railroads operated by animal power;D
the deponent being Robert Squires, president
OF the Third Avenue Railroad Company, of
New York, and the stockholders of that CON-
pany owning the stock Of the Washington and
Georgetown Railroad Company. Thus the en-
forsement In this case Is just about the same Is
II the avenue railroad line should endorse the
siewsof the eth street railroad line or vice versa
-And-ye-some railroad man out In Mem
phis has been found to advise the company
TO stick to their cobble stone. They mean to.
This Is the sum and substance of the com.
pany's defence. IL Is Of the fimsiest descrip-
uon and simply serves to show that they begin
20 appreciate that defence il needed. The
Iaet That the press and public OF the city with
enute unanimity have decided against them
after hearing all they have to saw. ought 70
inouee Them TO reconsider their course. The
eemmsoners have decided adversely to them,
and the Council board last night unsnImou.Iy
Passed . resolution 'insIuc,ins the COMMITTEES
before Congress to urge that BODY TO eomn., m.
street railroad company to comforr, 80 - ~
visions Of the charter by paving betveen the
tracks and two feet on each side thereof The
company, IL they are wise, viii take v.,n,ns