New-York tribune., 1874-12-17
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
Is NEW. YORK IN DANGERt

sTFAM CANAI-BoATs SURE TO BRING TRADE TO NEW
YoRK-A CLAIM THAT THE BAXTER TsANsPoRrA-
r,os COMPANY SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED BY
PuBIIC-sPIRTrED CITIZENS.
80 Me Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR: l have read with much pleasure your
article in recent paper. headed "Can New-York be In
Dangers 1t timely. and 1t is pertnent hut 1t neg
ects TO suggest the most quick safe, sure and lasting
remedy which to be found IN the Erie Canal since II
has been demonstrated for three yearswo under the
States supervision and one under company's-that
steam can be used rroataby motor on the Canals
The Baxter Steam Canal-boat transportation Oou'
pany is asking for money to bnild ooats' Last
Spring IL had two boats TO commence Work "it"'
II gave orders for five additional boats, which were
10 be delivered and ready for work by Aug IT, The
last OF these boats was finished until late In OCTOBER
Had the Company placed its stock last winter, u
could have given orders for TWENTY-FIVE new ooats IL
has now been decided by the stockholders, in conse-
quenee the great success of the Company, TO IN
crease the capital of the stock from 100000 to sooooo
and in order to bring the stock prominently be-
fore the public arrangements have been made with re-
spopsbe clearinghouse to act agents for the sale o
the stock II the stock is sold during the coming Wh
ter the Company will have 100 steam canal boats on the
canals Summer One of these boats VIII carry from
Buffalo 10 NewYOrk in six days running time, winch
equal TO slowfreight time railroad 22o tons OF
freight In other words of these boats is equal In
its capacity transporting freight TO train of cars
and freight can be carried these boats for onehird
less cost When you consider that the present tonnage
of the canals this greatly exceeds the foreign
tonnage from the port OF New-York you can estimate
the value and importance OF Mr.. Baxers demonstrated
n solving the problem Of using steam as motor
TO propel boats. ~
Let 10 one imagine that because Mr.. Vanderbilt is
banding tracks for freight the New York Cen
tral Railroad there Will be freight left :0r steam
canal boats the Erie Canal There is now as much as
both railroads and steam canal boats can carry aud you
must reflect that fast as the West increases IN popua
fast Will freight increase recollect the time
when steam introduced between New-IOrK ana
Liverpool Then there were people who were afraid
that the day sailing vessels ended. When the
Hudson River Railroad built, people said GOOD
by steamboats, aud sailing vessels on the Hudson
River" The same people have liyed TO see tneir pre-
dctiOns failures Larger aud better ships SAIL IRON
NewYork daily than at the time when steamships were
introduced Stateer steamboats, aud larger sailing YES
ses plOW their way through rivers than wnen the
powerful locomotives first dragged their trains along
the waters edge
No Que need afraid capitalists to invest in
of the Baxter Steam Canal Boat Transportation
Company, 1t is experiment that tner money Is
wanted Tor 1t is wanted for the purpose OF build
ing railroad through uninhabied country TO some
far0 point the other side OF Jordan Ii Is wanted 10
build canal which has been bullt ana 10
operation for years. aud on whose banks are but
IN close proximity towns and cities from Albany 10 Bur
falO II to keep the wealth and prestige inns
city enjoys, capitalists need not post haste 10
Baltimore, or any other rival clt 10 consult nov 10 90
IT," by arranging tariff for transporting Helsh' ana
own not one cents worth OF real estate in this city
am not capitalist am nothing but mechahlc; Dut
have been frugal and INDUSTRIOUS and lrOu my savings
taken 5000 and bought 80 shares OF TINS STOCK
II every man interest IN real estate and COM
merce In ts city is of the least Importance
wealth not greater than mine, should do as nave
done, people and demand that our cauas
A. now is New-YOr need fear how great, wealthy
and prosperous sister cities may become through the
wealth aud Intelligence OF their pu0csprlted cliZehs
Nec YORK. Dec II. 1874. T.. N. L.