New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-07
TRANSIT THROUGH NEW-YORK.

Tn SATURDAYS TRIBUNE it was announced
that the Treasurer of the Elevated Railway
Company had applied to the Commissioners OF
Rapid Transit for permission to extend that
road to South Ferry and to the FOrty-secOnd-
st. Depot This project is not connected with
the extension of the road to Central Park,
which was permitted by recent act OF the
Legislature, and will be, it is hoped, accom-
plished by next September. The new project,
if carried out, will help to achieve an object
which people who live in this city can
not APPRECIATE so fully as some others.
Any resident of NewYOrk City Is nearer
to Third, Fourth, and LexingtOn-aves. than
those who live outside of the city. WIN
tbc execution of tortuOus road from the foot
of East Houston there is no street-car,
except on the avenues above named, that runs
IN the FOrty-second- Depot. The city OF
nearly half a million people on the Long
Island shore the inhabitants OF jersey Cit''
Newark, Elizabeth, and host OF smaller
towns and villages in New-Jersey; staten
islanders, and all travellers coming from the
South who wish to 90 North without stopping
in New-Yorl, have an interest IN this matter
To them, with the exception OF the lew WHO
can use the East HoustOn-st. Ferry, thcre are
no direct means of going to the F0rty-sccond-
st. Depot by strect-car :,
"Oh,r saws the sagaciOus New Yorker, " all
"tbey have to do is to take two street-cars IN
stead of one" This is partly true, though there
are some streets at the foot of which ferries
land, where even this device will not serve.
TO the great majority of travellers a coach or
n cab i'm New-YOrk involves an expense they
bor md
or perhaps heavy carpet bag, or Dapy' OK
all of these together. You may see them Tug
eing along Oh the sidewalk, coming up from the
ferry, in Barclay, Cortandt, Whitehall, fulton,
and other streets, every day in the year. Taking
two street-cars is evidently serious matter 10
them: the delay, the trouble in getting on ana
off, the doubled chances of an ovcr-crowded
car. besides the expense, are all taken into
consideration. The result is that these people
walk to the foot of Park-row.
The want of conveyances from the ferries Is
one of the most curious features OF this city.
Crossing hither from Jersey City, for instance.
a passenger leaves bchind him on that SIDE oil
the river more than dozen different lines or
conveyance ready to take him to any point OF
| the COMPASS. Here, he finds the Belt Railroad
| and crOss-town road, both tedious horse-car
| lines, as the sum total Of what New-IOrk has
10 offer. unless he can afford to deal with the
yociferous and urgent haclIinan. Even Brook
lyn. which has never been noted for pubic
enterprise, surpasses NcwYork in this partlcll-
lar. Fourteen or fifteen different horse-cars
offer their various routes on the Brook
lyn side of Fulton Ferry; on the
New-Yolk side there are only two, and those
not of the best and a few omnibuses
which charge double fare and do not run at
all on Sunday. None of these cOnveyances IN
New-York run to Fulton Ferry after midnight
on the Brooklyn side there is fair supply OF
cars on some of the routes at all hours. ii
the Greenwch-st road is extended to South
Ferry and Forty sccond-st. Depot, it will
afford some relief TO Broolynites, though II
would be far more useful to them if continued
to the east foot of Fulton-st. To Staten
Islanders it will he of the greatest service
It's value to people coming from New-Jersry
would be much increased if it had branch ex-
tensions over the two blocks from Greenwich
st. to the ferries. Nobody wants to walk one
or two blocks in rain storm. Nobody wants
to change cars if he can possibly help 1t.