The New York herald., 1872-11-15
CITY STEAM CARS.

The Epixooty and Steady Travel-Hars
lemites and Patience-The Assistant
Aldermen Very Cautious About Per-
mitting Steam Cars ON the Tracks
Public Opinion ON the Subject.
The epiz0oty has had the advantage at all events
of bringing prominently before the public the need
there Is for certain mode Of travel in the city,
as well as for the comforts and conveniences Of
rapid transit Necessity being the mother OF in
vention, no doubt were we to be completely de-
prived OF
EQUINE MEANS OF LOCONOTIoN,
some invention would be hit upon to supply the
required need. As has already been stated in the
HERALD, steam car has been brought on the
tracks, tested on the Bleecker street line-the
most crooked and vexati0us of any in the city
and found TO be perfectly feasible method OF
conveyance. Last Monday the Board Of
Aldermen was petitioned for permission
to allow the steam cars to run on
city tracks, and the Board granted the permission.
Yesterday the subject was brought before the
Board OF Assistant Aldermen, but that body re-
ferred the matter to its Committee
Railroads. How long, therefore, it may be be-
fore decision will be rendered it is difncult
to tell; and If the committee refuse its sanction,
then the prospect Of being forever rid Of the
troubles of epizooties and dropses &C., Is deferred
to an indefinite period. This epizootic calamity
has made people wonderfully sensitive on the sub
ject OF railroad cars; for, while
1T Is VERY HARD TO GRUMBLE
about giving sick horse needed rest yet 1t s also
matter Of very serious consideration for
rational animal to have to trudge through the
streets for several miles IN such unpleasant weather
as last evening was II, as 1t Is confidently as
serted, the steam car supplies all the advan ages
OF the horse car-with the same facility for stop
pages ana greater facility for resuming notion
aud at the same timt In the Winter months Is com
Iortably warmed. the expense incurred by the
companies In building them should not be thought
OF Tor moment. especially as they can be run at
cheaper rate than the horse cars. such was
the opinion given yestcrdy by several persons with
whom conversation was held relative to the sub
ject. At all events, this new steam car system,
though, perhaps 1t may not be adopted at the pres
ent time, must prove 20 be the f0rerunner OF SINH
lar cars at distant day all over the city. It is
said that the principal railroad companies look
with sinister eve at the steam intruder, and tnat
some OF them unceremoniously refused to give 1t
chance for trial the tracks OF their routes. But
f the new car has oil the merits claimed for 1t, and
especially II the epizootic dropsy continues to IN
crease with much greater fatality, the railroad
people will probably be very glad to accept the sit
uation and thus afford another example OF
THE VICTORY OF STEAM.
Last evening was disgustingy wet that the
"steam car" We'd with the "epizooty, in demand
ing the consideration Of persons concerned As
strange eject OF the epzo0ty IL may be mentioned
ming their full numbers last evening" yet people
felt fully convinced that great Interruptions had
occurred both In time and the speed OF the travel,
and grumDIed much about the Canadian peculiar
disease. There Is nothing like wet day to arouse
THE "BIIE" OF PEOPLE RESIDING AT HARLEM
and very likely before long we shall have general
outcry for steam cars, and enough OF them for all
the routes OF the city. Serious opposition to the
steam cars however, is sure to arise, and already
there Is sufficiently powerful interest against
their introduction. competent investigation y
vantages or the Disadvantages OF the proposed neS
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