The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-23
New York Evening Post

New York Evening Post
The fact that there are more than one
hundred miles of Street-railWay lines OPP
Grated by horses in this city. as brought to
notice in connection with the announce
ment of the lease by the Whitney Widener-
Elkins group of capitalists of the Metro
significant when 1t is known that there is
more horse-car mileage on Manhattan
island operated by the Metropolitan Com
pany than in all the United States beyond
the limits of New York. There are about
1l9 miles of horse-car lines in this city, ana
about 107 miles elsewhere.
This seems remarkable in view of New
York's municipal prominence and its eager
ness for achievement and advancement.
Most of the horse-car lines in operation IN
this country beyond New York are in the
South and are mainly short lines. One
of the few left in the East is the line about
a mile and three-quarters long from Boston
TO City island.
The horse-car lines in this city are divid
ed into two classes, north-and-south lines
and cross-towr lines. The greatest mileage
is below Fourteenth street, where the
streets show by their uncertainty OF direc-
ton the idiosyncrasies of those who plan
ned them. There are horse lines on many
of the streets i'm this triangular section OF
New York, and TO run eastward and west
ward they are, in nearly every case, COM
PEELED to make roundabout Journeys
through the tangle of streets.
Beginning with the north-and-south lines,
there is the First-avenue line, which starts
at the Harlem river and Northumberland
twenty-ninth street, runs south along the
avenue to FOrty-secOnd street and there
stops to yield to mechanical traction 1t
begins again, however, at Twenty-elShth
street and runs south through Allen street
to Grand street
The Seventh-avenue line begins at Forty
second street and goes far south as
Clinton place, or Eighth street There ii
comes TO a halt. to begin again at West
Third and Carmine streets, runs through
Carmine street TO Varick street and thence
west through West Houston to the North
river.
The Belt line starts at West Thirty
fourth street and Tenth avenue goes down
Tenth avenue to West street, along West
street to the Battery, around Battery Park
and up along the East Side, through Front
TO South street, to Jackson street and
thence by branches through Mangin and
Cannon streets to East Houston street.
z This line also goes through Pitt and Ridge
streets and along Avenue to Eighteenth
street.
This ends the north-and-south lines. The
first of the east-and-west lines is that
which has it's starting point at Eighty-stxth
street and Madison avenue and runs west
through the Central Park transfer road to
Eighty-Sixth street and Central Park West.
Through Fourteenth street runs the only
horse car line in the city in a straight line
from river to river. The Chambers-street
line goes from river to river, but by a cir
cuitous route. 1t goes through Chambers
street from the North river, across Center
street to New Chambers street. thence to
South street and connects there with the
Belt line. The Fulton-street line extends
from Fulton ferry west through Fulton
street. with turn TO the East river. There
is a spur at Washington street which goes
10 the COrtlandt-street ferry.
The streets on which horse-car lines are
operated south of Fourteenth street are:
Blocker, Madison, Chrystie. Forsyth, AL
len Ridge. Pitt. Cannon. Goerck, Corlears,
Mangin, Mont gOmery. Avenue a from First
10 Eighteenth street. the entire Second
avenue line south TO Stuyvesant square to
Fulton ferry, through New Bowery Bow
cry Forsyth Water and thence to Full
ton. Crosby Mercer, Wooster, University
Mace Thompson, West Blocker, Sullivan
West Fourth. West Waverley place and
Thirteenth avenue.