The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-06

health than the beasts that are brought here
for :lauah.er. and millions Of dollars are ex,
tortcd from them for such accommodations
to swell dividends on "waIsred stock" For more
than years the people and the press OF TINS city
have been crying out against this evil and great wrong
and yet We are without remedy The principal
reason why We are to-day without ample iacI-
ties Tor cheap and RAPID transit In this city. Is
the opposition, secret and covert but the less
effective, oil private and corporate interests which IL
by any project for rapid transit anordng any reason
able prospect oil success IL 10 secret that Tor
years past me surface aa',oaa corporas,onS o.
minatiny therein, hsvo kept IN their employ
constantly corps Of experienced looyists-ablo
and ustute men, whose sole business
watch legislation al Albany and 10 defeat and smoi her
IN its inception, by any and every available means,
any law or project having Tor It's object the use Of the
streets OF New York IA any way or manner, or By
any persons or corporation. or for any use or
purpose which might be supposed any way.
directly or indirectly. TO affect the interests Of
such corporations. And when TO this ~ added the
opposition Of individuals tearing that their properly
interests may be In some way or TO some extent
injuri0usly affected, II ID not surprising that
We have mado so little progress toward the
New York island II would seem TO DO
the planest dictates self interest and self preserva
ton all the people In and out OF this city who
rapid transit aud greater facilities Tor commune
cation should rally 10 the support OF the Now York
against It depends, IN my Judgment, tho success
failure OF every effort for rapid transit IN this
Owing to tho ia,encss or tho hour Mr. Simeon T.
Church did not deliver hts speech, but IRON sum-
mary OF IT, handed 10 tho reporters the following
extracted
FILTHY HORSE CARS
The present mode OF transt Is almost wholly by
horse cars. These In 1875 1853 TOO 900 pas
senger&. over 50. 600. 600 carried by IA single
line, whose regular time from terminus terminus
Is one hour aud twenty minutes The average
time OF all the Others was one hour. This, twice u
DAY, made loss OF $50 900. 600 hours year, which,
valued ut only ten cents hour. amounted
TO $35 600, 900, sum exceeding considerably our
whole annual taxatitn for tho whole city government
And how were they carriedy A car is intcndcd
10 seat twenty passengers; but II necu not
be TOLD that Tor n large portion OF the year they
were often made carry three times that nun.
DO devised greater than that Of being compelled to
hang on astrap tor one hour aud twenty minutes, or
even one hour, breathing the commnglcd odors OF
half hundred over full or over empty human
stoinachs, crowded into a space six feet by
teu and this twice day, the speaker could
not dessrbe 1. Tho famed Black Hole OF Calcutta
had shocked tho world with us horrors, but surely
there was II tho balny breath OF Araby the BEST
compared 10 New York street car In uptown trip
on q stormy night In November. Yet under these
diti0ns Is tho business OF Now York required 10 be
conducted, and subject to those penalties business
reside hero II he Will TO live In tho
city NJ all.
THE COMMITTEE or FIFTEEN.
Tho following wero appointed a committee OF 1neen
by tho Chairman MS authorized In tho above resou-
Henry 7. Dimock Lawson y. Fuller,
l.. J. N. Stark, John A. Stuart.
II. X. Thurbcr, Frederick A. Conkling,
Henry l.. Clinton, Jackson :. schultz,
Thomas L. James, W. f. Dodge
Henry Havomeyer, G. l. Tiffany,
4. l. Paris, William II. Appleton,
A. r. Orr.
On special resolution the name OF ex.Mayor w. II.
Wickham was added 10 tho committee
The Chairman said that there wero several other
speakers, but as the hour had grown late, the meeting
would adjourn.