The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-09
feet, that the entire eastern side Of New York

t,UO., tuot the bntlT6 e8bUeTn sue Oh new l0Tk
nau already been greatly injured by the
bridge, and that the city had lost In conse-
quence considerable portion of the Chinese
and Indian trade IL possessed, the whal YES
and warehouses for which trade are mostly
located In that portion OF the city. tits i'm
possible to say what action the Assembly
will take In this matter. The opponents OF
the bridge declare that II 1t was fifteen feet
higher, most OF this damage and injury II
now does would he remedied.
A great many complaints also are beng
heard against the proposed plan OF the Now
York Elevated and metropolitan
ELEVATED RAILROADS
TO run their trains on the same track on the
east side from Wall to Division street. lhh
danger from this cannot be Uverestimated.
There will be no less than t440 trains passing
over this Joint road every day, ana crossing
each other at intervals OF ten seconds eacil
Will it be possible To arrange the runnlHg OF
these trains SO exactly that there Will De no
collisions 1t seems scarcely possible that y
thousand trains day will be exactly on lime
and none Of them ten seconds late. Ihere u
no excu as for this arrangement which ts made
only To save the Metropolitan Railroad the
cost of erecting few squares of their struG-
ture. The press Is making vigorous assault
on this death-trap, and Will probably com
mol these roads to build separate lines. There
have been enough accidents and losses Of life
already on the elevated railroads. The pres
ent arrangement, If carried out, viii insure
n great mid-air accident within a very short
time.
New Workers. hy-the-by are astOnished to
see the effect that the elevated railways are
having on the business centre of the city.
They have very seriously injured trade on
Broadway. People now take the elevated
railway ut the City Hall, Fourteenth or
Tweuty-thrd streets. and 20 straight home !,
formerly they would promenade along Broad
way, making purchases on their way home.
Indeed, Broadway is seriously injured by
these roads, and 1t Is now proposed to estab-
fish line Of horse cars that will bring
back some Of these lost people aud this lost
trade.
THE BILLIARD EXPERTS
are all now united tn favor of the now rule
by which shots on the rail are limited in
number. A series Of games, under the new
rules, has been inauguratcd here. The first
game was between SlOssOn and Sexton 800
points up. 1t was, perhaps, the most bril-
liant and interesting game of billiards ever
played In this city, being a constant series OF
brilliant round-the-ta table, cushion, draw aud
masse shots. The new rules, however did
not appear to be thoroughly understood and
constant references to the referee were nece8-
sary. which somewhat delayed the game.
The general sentiment was that most Of the
new rules were practically useless and cum
bersome, and that the marking off Of the
"crOtCheS, fourteen inches on the short and
twenty-eight inches on the long rail, together
with the rule allowing only two shots within
the crotch limits were quite sufficient to
guard against rail nursing. There is now a
proposition on foot to make the expert game
q game in which there shall be no simple
caroms and In which no shot shall count in
which tho cue ball tails to touch cushion
prior to reaching the second object ball.
Now that the ponds in Central Park are
melted, New York has to depend ON
ARTIFIc1ALICE
for its skating. Mr. Rankin Is the protector
of this new enterprise, which has met with
complete success. His rink offers surface
of 10000 square feet OF artificial ice in one
sheet to TIE skaters and Is always full of
people. Nine miles OF gas-piping are re-
quired for the circulation Of the refrgerating
liquid. The principe involved is simply that
of an ice cream freezer tight floor IS laid
over a surface of 200 by 80 feet: on this floor
Hooded by two or three inches of water. On
pumping the refrgorating fluid through the
pipes the water Is frozen and kept so cold that
the surface Of the lee remains dry although
the atmosphere Of the rink Is heated by half
a dozen furnaces. The rink, which has proved
extremely profitable, will be kept open all
so that New Workers will never be
without an opportunity to skate. Skating
among flowers and in an atmosphere which,
instead of being cold, will be of exactly the
right temperature, will be n luxury that no
other city Of the world enjoys.
THE WILL OF MRS. EMMA sTRECKER,
who died last month leaving property of
S40000O has been probated. Mrs. Strecker
seems To have been OF charitable as well as
Of philanthrOpic disposition Her money
was pretty well distributed. BY her will
$4,000 are left In various sums to twenty
different friends. The remainder of her prop
arty, S250,000, Is distributed among the va
rious charities of New York, almost every
asylum, hospital and benevolent association
IN the city securinga gilt.