The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-04-05
Rail itoading in New York City.

York city is promoted not less by its
means of travel, than by its other numer-
Gus and vast improvements. The bust
ness OF the city is done, to large extent,
by persons who reside out Of town in d.
verse directions or in what is called up
town. Many Of them come every morn
ing from villages forty and fifty miles
distant. and return again at night. This
they are enabled to do with facility by
aid of the system Of rail roads, which
stretch away in every direction. There
Is no novelty now about all this, except
that the Hudson River Railroad Compa.
ny are now just laying the foundation for
the largest most commodious, and it is
said the most expensive depot in the
world. 1t is located on the corner of
Fourth avenue and Forty-sccond street,
and together with offices, store houses,
and switching apparatus, is very extensive.
The cars of the Harlem road and the New
Haven and New y ork roads are all to be
received in the same depot
The city is also pretty well supplied
with horse cars, plying with great regu-
larity through all the avenues, and very
many Of the most important streets, fol-
lowing each other at intervals, of not
more than twenty rods from each other,
continuously from two o'clock in the
morning until twelve o'clock at night On
some Of the streets the catter of their
wheels is heard all night long. This is a
very great convenience for everybody.
Many persons who live up town do bust
ness in the lower part Of the city, and
others who desire to do little shopping,
etc, have only to step into Il car, passing
at any moment, and they are there.
An experiment is being made in the
west part Of the town, to run what is
called an over ground railroad. This is
track Of iron, raised about fifteen or
eighteen feet from the ground, supported
by an iron post on the top Of which, arms
are placed in the form Of a 7, and on the
top Of which the rails are laid. The posts
are distributed like telegraph posts, some
six or eight rods apart and the cars are
drawn by an endless steel wire cable,
which is worked by stationary engine,
located about in the middle of the dis
tance. The ears were to begin their reg
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