The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-13
NEW ORLEANS STREET RAILWAYS
AND RAILWAY CONNECTIONS.


| which the President and Directors of the
proposed railroad from Alexandria to Mar.
shall have set themselves to the work. and
the success that has followed their efforts,
constitute just ground for encouragement
regarding our future Hereafter let no man
say that the real people of New Orleans are
either blind or Indifferent to their own well
fare and advancement Hitherto all the ap-
propriate routes for q railway to Texas have
been so blocked against our own people,
through grants of charters and bonds by the
so-called Legislatures to Adventures and
charter and bond-mongers from abroad, that
they could not obtain fair track even by
paying their own money without subsidies,
to make railroad. Now, these birds of prey,
having reduced the corporations of the State
and city to skeletons, and finding their future
prospects with Louisiana Legislature unin-
vitiug to them, after quarreling among them
selves, have suffered their fraudulently OBJ
tanned franchises to lapse so as to leave open
routes for honest men to build our much
needed and long desired railway connections.
This, we hope and believe, will soon be done
by the honestly earned money of citizens OF
New Orleans and Louisiana.
But within few days another sign of
awakening enterprise appears within our
city, by which our people will not only be
greatly accommodated, but desirable portions
of the city area now waste, will be improved,
and at no distant day become the seats of
beautiful residences and healthful homes. I
allude to the construction of the Orleans
Street, City Park and Lake Railroad, and the
extension of the Crescent City Company 8
present route along the levee to Carrollton.
The first learn to be already in rapid
course of construction, and the latter only
awaiting some adjustment of privileges and
servitudes by the City Council before COM
mencing its projected alterations and extern
sions. Both these companies will, it is un.
derstood, use steam as motor, probably by
the same mode as that now employed on the
railway Of the New Orleans and Carrollton
Railroad Company. Why New Orleans has
been SO very slow in even partially availing
herself of magnifcently useful discovery by
one of her own citizens, it is hard to say es-
pecially as the very limited employment of it
by one of her railway companies, has demon
strated an economy of full thirty per cent as
compared with the employment of horses and
mules. DR.. Emile Lamm's Thermo-Specifc
steam locomotive, as now il use here, in the
city of Chicago and elsewhere, has met every
expectation formed of it. In Philadelphia,
New York and St. Louis, even hastily con-
structed and improvised fireless LOGON olives,
have successfully drawn loaded cars up gra-
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The locomotives now in use by the New
Orleans and Carrollton Railroad Company are
very light and compact, serving quite well
the purposes that company at present have for
them; but the adaptation of these engines to
work steam expansively and economically is
so easy and inexpensive, that it is matter of
surprise they should not adopt this compare
lively recent improvement. 1t would so
lessen their final discharge of steam through
the escape pipe that an appurtenance now
used by the New York builders of these
would suffice to condense the
major part of it and allow the remainder to
flow steadily out from the escape receiver
without any noise either above or below the
steam tank and engines.
can not, without unduly elongating this
article, describe this simple and philosophical
Rppurtenance as it deserves. Indeed, the
Lamm freless locomotive is in one respect
somewhat like the original cooking stove, for
though the great principle of generating
steam wholesale, with one boiler, one fire,
one fireman, and one skilled engineer, to be
used by ten, twenty, or one hundred travel.
ing vehicles be unalterably the same, the
adaptation of appliances to the most perfect
and economical accomplishment of this pur-
pose, is eminently progressive. 1t is already
at the head of the whole list of tractors for
safety, as we'll as efficiency in the thickly
crowded thoroughfares of our great cities,
Paris taking the lead of the European centers
Of population in adopting it and ordering
locomotives from this country. 1t is more
readily started, stopped and run at any de-
'ired rate of speed, than is mule upon either
\ level or an undulating surface. 1t is sim |
,erely to be hoped that Mr.. Kennedy, who is |
,onfessedly one of the clearest headed and
pest business men of our city, and who knows
he great safety, economy and acceptableness
# these detached steam motors in other |
titles, will accommodate our citizens by using |
hem upon his extended and important road |
0 Carrollton. OBSERVER.