The New York Herald Newspaper, June 6, 1877, Page 3

IT MOST COM New York at Last Determined on Rapid Transit. GREAT MEETING LAST NIGHT Majestio Demand for the Relief of the Metropolis, A CORRUPT, SHAMELESS — OPPOSITION. What the City is Losing in Life, Popu- lation and Money. DOWN WITH OBSTRUCTIONISTS! *Put None But Friends of Rapid Transit on Guard.” LIVE SPERCHRS---SLEDGE-HAMMER RESOLUTIONS Messrs. Wickham, Dodge, Purdy, Fuller, Ecele- sine and Others on the Great Need. Chickering Hall was filled last night by a large and Qhoroughly enthusiastic audience, that representod much of the wealth, culture and progressive character of the metropolis, Capitalists, merchants, the owners ef uptown property, city railway men, politicians—in fact, people of all classes—attested by their presence the deep interest that has been excited by the discussion of the rapid transit question. img was signed by over twenty-sevon bundred of our Most distinguished citizens, whose names are not often subscribed unless large interests are at stake and Brave issues are to be considered. ent instance these citizens The call fer the mect- tne upper and lower paris of the city, and between the city and ceuntry, are indispensable to the prosperity of New York,,and accordingly, in vi of the impediments that have barred the prosecution of the enterprine and the obstructions which a tew men in the Legislature have interposed, they sought \broagh a public demonstration to discover where the ftesponsibility of delay should be placed, who are the authors of the mischief and what steps may be taken toeffect a cure, Whether this proves to be the be- ginning of a series to be held hereafter indignation meetings might tbat the influential gentlemen who wore present are determined to ascertain who ‘runs’ New York in Opposition to the will of the people, The feeling evinced was decp and earnest and the words uttered Rad no unmeaning sound. How tney touched the Popular heart and found reflection in the sympathy of ‘the vast audience was shown by the frequent applause that greeted the well Gpective speakers. Among the hundreds of familiar Pubhe men present the parquet may be mentioned the names of ex-Mayor Wiliam B. Wickham, Cyrua W. Field, Hon. David Dadley W. Field, Peter Cooper, General Viele, 3 E. Church, Mr. Gilbert, of the Klevated Railro Cowdin, Hon. A, H. Purdy, William F. Moller, Joseph 1, Stein, J. C. E, Ecclesine (the last four members of the Assembly), and scores of the solid business men, ‘whose signatures covered the long strips of paper that ‘were suspended many feet in the air at the rear of the the platform and TUR ORGANIZATION. ‘The meeting was called to order by the Hon. William E. Dodge, at whose nomination ex-Mayor William H, 8 unanimously elected presitent. iam C, Bryant, Joseph Seligman, Chester A. Arthur, William Orton, Henry M, Alexander, Wiliam Allen Butler, Franklin Edson, John M. Mintarn, Jonn B, Kitching, Henry Havemeyer, Josiab M. Fiske, L. J. N. Stark, Jackson 8. Schultz, Jouo W, Elils, James Monwith, Dauiel F. Tiemann, David H. Knapp, Samuei B, Rugg! Isauc C, Kendall, H. b, Clatia, H, K. Thurber, F. 8. Winston, Jobo A, Stewart, Henry F. Spaulding, Charies M. Frye, George 3. Coe, G, W. Carleton, Thomas F. Kckert, Hugh N. Camp, Shepard ¥. Kuapp, Witham C. Whitney, jenry L. Clinton, Hon. James Dal, Jobo A. Beall, Eugene Kelly, ppleto: Richard Arnold, were appointed secreta: William F. Moiler, is, On taking the chair, apr he did amid much ap. have met tuis evening to take into consideration one of the most important recently been discu hom with the growth and wolfare of is conceded; «t — communication My fellow-citiveos, questions that low York; not vise the means of two extremes of ot capital and enterprise who worable opportunity to effect the object in view, but to hear from our members of Fe a account of some ot the impedi- e stand ready m: are only awaiting the ployed to defeat ihe pussy a they may likewise recapitulate somo of @ Feasons Which indaced voth support and opposi- Won, So far as the city of New York is concerned, People are, in my judgment, ripe for the establish. Fapid transit, and pub- lic sentiment generally the matier who are not only abundantly avie, but tvlly determined, to prosecute the enterprise to 4 suc- cessful ond, and they deserve our active und hearty es te (Appiause.) The resolutions will now be Feu THR RESOLUTIONS, The readiug of the resolutious by General Paimer was frequently interrupted by applause, |. That the people of this city, having for twont us vod id ineesseut io thelr dem various sections jook with nue will not pern tive rapid transit to be longer trifted with ion of personal t that we have mech vur necessary expense: Vuting {t over the largest amount je property, and upun the greatest number vl peo- ‘enn ‘ouly be wttwined by build city now lying wast lion peopie wuom providence lave driven away—und this, again, result of rapid transit. by nurrow views of construction i x corporations which be Ine people are responsibil Huily representing thai i art of remeutaljustice in can in duniages may Le inade If the party ix entitled to it, we do repectiuliy but earnestly where ample compen m oUF city cotirts to eud the chief net is unconstitutional, ty an anoms its next session to pat an end to such a possible anomaly. the net, it is ine but down. whatever surface railroads aud Pifeclesine, Stephen ‘oseoh J. Stein and others H. Maynard, Mher- ‘and others of the re, fur thelr intel the cause of rapid transit, while we deuounce utterly the course ul those who, tron: this city or elsewhere, served their mnecors by betray: Any We intersats ofa million of pegple. App nuse.) & York Elevated solved, That we remind the New oad Compeny that, under the promise o! transit, It has acquired the use of tw ‘ arose and of th at, recognize in structure the promise of its future increased usetul capacity aud success. Grateful for what 1% has ulready achieved us the pioneer soli the pi im of rapid transit, and gratified at the reward (t hus already received, we call upon its managers to doable and extend its track, to reduce ite fures by the of tickets in the nasure of com. mutation, confident that by suci course it will not only build up a hitherto unbuilé portion of the city and increase ite revenues in compound ratio tu the expense, but demon- strate Its necessity a» well forthe enst as for the west side the city. Resolved, That » committee of tii bi the chalvmran for mn of watching 4 mote it and helping to counteract she iutluences D- ove it, with power to call future meetings of the eltixens whenever deemed necessary. ‘THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED. Mr. Willlam E. Dodge tollowed in brief and direct remarks, heartily indorsing the project of rapia tran- git, on the ground that the people of New York aro entitled to ull the tacilities of travel that can be fur- mished them; that oppos' crushed by public opinion, as it was after the intro- duction of horse railrouds, and that capital, comfort, health and convenience combined to make the question of quick communication between the upper and lower parts of Manhattan Island one of vital importance. The question then being put the resolutions wero ‘unanimously adopted. The following lctvers were then read:— PROM CHARLES 0’CONOK, ition must eventually be Sin—T nivel regret my Inability ve favor of Rupid Tranalt. I fully symp the objects sought to be at inod, and bi mn Ik gh ter tahg bt ogeeags baphmor ipecher rail Buell York Historical tbe, Aoademy, of Musle on is ‘ eup and rapid trang} of passengers on the elevated rall, whon its cupacity shall have been fully developed, wil give healthfal and pleasant homes, in rural territory, to the tolling millions of our commercial and manufacturi It 1 snatch thelr wives and children from 401 rors, and by promoting domesticity. re: abiis of intemperance and vice so liable to be for the hainbler classes, oF nurtured concomitants of thelr city life,” Its objects every success, I rem: hem by Wishing your meoting anc wir, yours falthfu ly, CHARLES U'CONOR, YROM WILLIAM C, BRYAXT. Ovrice or Eyxxina Post, New Yorx, Juue 4, 1877. To Craus W. Fruup, Esq. :— T cannot be prevent ‘At the meeting to be bald this evening at Chick m, Hall, but I am heartily with you an friends’ in tho object of the meeting. I ope t & decided expression will be yiven to the conviction that an avsolnte uccossity has erivon of instituting some method of conveying passengers between the upper and lower parts of the city, which shall lence with the utmont bie WILLIAM, C, BRYANT. FROM HOX. WILLIAM ORTON, xKcuriVE Ovrice Western UNION 'IxLKGrara Company, New Yous, June 5, 1877, He Muxtixe :— to attend the meeting to-night, it ayiapathy. By the indinerence jew York, @ grout rival city side of the whiel comen to us laws, but which has been rovite tor it, Rapid f the ane needs of our, and th yd ee it te jan to lead. od ont if Cyrus Field will come to the front with the xouliwad energy which have brought . : aah ida [LLTAM ORTON. SPERCH BY HOW, The President now Int: member of the Assembly, | Mu, CHAIRMAN AND < btacetar to send at I was expect some regret that in spedkings the great subject of rapid transit 1 cannot give to the results of groater research and Pg Bat as. ‘out of the fulness of the, heart the mouth speaketh” it seems to imo any citizen who has given tho subject the sil consideration would be always ready to speak on bas now become the all absorbing sore oven mers to the mind of the best men of New York. us rupid transit. 1! neceasity for a rapid communication betweon t! business centres and the homes of oor citizens was felt a8 fotg ago as 1852, when you sent your first petition to the Legislaturo, and over since that time this great want has been more ry day and every hour. It has iound ut- 1 series of laws, all ds to accomplish the same result. In the commissions runoing froth 1871 to 1875, aud end: the Rapid Transit Commission; in public meetings Without number; in the messages to tho Legislature by Governors Tilden and Dix; ia our highest courts, where, in the a of Justice John R. Brady, aT recent case, pid transit is one of the objects of our municipal life, which our people regard as of the greatest importance;’’ bul, notwitustanding all this, notwithstandimg the fact that the people are almost unanimously demauding rapid traosit as a necegsity to the future prosperity of the city jor res sons which I nope to point out, every effort to supply this great want has been steadily opposed, until the time has como when the enemics of Now York city should be potnted out ia order that People may know them. THY LO8S FROM SLOW TRANSIT, To those who have not investigated th loss to New York occasioned by transit will seem incredible. Ina recent argument belore a committees of the Legis- lature Mr, 3. E. Churcb, a gentleman who has given the hat tho want of rapid the loss of a will: 000,000,000 of substantial wealth anda present rates, of over $30,000,000 anpu- The statemout may bave seemed extravagant. Tt must be obvious to To THK CHAIRMAN 01 use Altboeal = you, and it is with Subject the the want of rapid ally.”" 1 think it can be easily proved. every one that « city cannot grow when men cannot live in it, It. mm equally obvioug to almost every one that @ city cannot grow very fast whea men can only live and do in it with reme dillicuity. Hanging by a etrap two hours a day—one-flith of our whole just that extremo difficulty which ty years past bas prevented the growth of ww York. It is tax which no business man can endure, under which no people can thrive. New York could not endure it, and the history of her growth for the last sixty years abundantly shows it. In 1820 the population was 123,706. In 1860, % wus 814,264, and the average and almost unl- form growth between those two perioda was 56 per cent. every ten years. But in 1860 the city had become built up to a point where this tax came to be oppres- sively foit; where bulidings, if erected, couid not be sold; where, if men owned bouses. they could not live in them, The result was that they went to live elsewhere, and notwithstanuing al the enticements of parks, drives and other improve- ments, the increase fell off su rapidly that the next ten years showed a gain of only 133% per cent, Instead of the 50 per cent which bad murked ber steady decadel increase for the fifty years before. This in- volved a loss of population in 1870 of 407,732, and carried on at the same rate, will involve « loss in 1880 of 1,128,976, a number greater than the whole present popalation of the city, not counting the annexed district. We need not wonder what has become of them, for the same census returns show that 10 the same period that New York has been gain- ing — bag cont im population, Hudson county, N. J., hus gamed 4774, per cent, It this fugitive population of 1,000,000 were with us in 1880, New York would not be, for one- halt 18 territorial area a barren wilde 8 rooks and morasses, but would be a compact city up to the ve beyond, and assu.ning would possess an aver ith and pay ao eq amount of taxes with those now her would do more, for the vast majority of our present population live im tenement houses seven jon, would be doubled with @ doubled population, the $30,000,000 taxes we now raise annually would be either doubied in amount, vr what 18 more to the pur- pose, raised equally with @ tax rate reduced oue- rf NRW YORK’S SLOW GROWTH, If we compare the city’s growth with the growth of the same result will follow, and march of improvements we have Jatien behind every one of them, Thas tho gain in population since 1860 wa: Chicago, 262 These tacts and figures prove that all the great cities of the Republic have outstripped our city im the race for prosperity, population and wealth, New York is Jugtund must remain fast uoull ber citizens rise in their might and insist that the great impediment to ber advancement avd grea 8 i removed. Then and not Wil then wilt New York take ber proper placo among the great cities of the oarth and becume the Empire City of the Western World, THK LOSS IN LIFE, Bat I now turn to a durker starn on tho fair name of your city. [ now propose to prove trom figures taken from official sources that the lack of rapid transit hus caused the death of hundreds of thousands of nen, Woines and children tn this so-called ree and enlight- ened city. . Total deaths in Now York city during tho six years ending December 31, 1876, 177,205, 95,503, Males iro: u Males from 3 to 4 yea Males from 4 to 5 yeu ‘Vota! males under 5 Femaies,, 1,780 Feinales,, 40,361 ‘Total under 5 yours (both sexes), 86, werKCTS OF M TEMPERATURE ON CHILDEES, Deaths of ¥ Six Years. July. August, Sept. Under one yeur of ago,... 10,45 6,093 4,035 Under wo yeurs of age.... 14,011 8,955 6,361 Under tive years of ugo,... 14,401 W119 7,408 WTALITY IN TENKMENT MOUSKS, During the yeur 1576, 29,162 uenths occurred in thin iy, and 15,239 der were reported in nouses con. bing four fami over; 4,755 deuths uceurred jo wmatitueions, [it is to shave that uearly all the Rate of po; tation * (and they | Persons that died in the institutions belonged to the Venement house class. | THE DRATH RATE. pulation to the acre and the death rate by wards for 1876; also the number of deaths for the three years ondiug Yecember 31, 1876 (exclusive of those who died tn institutions). > oe eh e of f85 282 = i oe vz8 Le gs, 3 5 Sr? Pes 1,235 “3d1d 9226 138 84.55 12.50 183 20.15 80.28 1,887 29.21 251.12 1193 2h42 95, 1827 30.13 23L.16 8,510 25.47 230.58 2,862 28.59 177 53 3,197 21.57 15846 3,498 28.60 379.79 4,815 23.46 325.7 3.13 2019 10.72 2,502 25.80 318.01 2162 27.42 275.74 1,380 17.50 129. 306d 2203 13835 6,749 20.59 305.42 3840 20.76 136.04 TAS 229 19.58 6197 26.63 179.43 8.683 19.76 14.26 G68 2751 64.02 161s 204 = 470 182 2248 «(LAT Total,.24,893156 1,046,037 78,901 2332 4202 WHAT OVERCROWDING COSTS, ‘These figures show that daring 1876 the death rate per 1,000 inhabitants of the city of New York, exclu- ive of those who died In institutions, according to the State census of 1875, was 23.32. The wards which showed a death ri elow this were— The Third, Niot Twelfth, Filteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-first, Twenty-third and Twenty-iourth, They also show that the ward which had tho small- est areain ucres, had the highest death rate; while the Fifteenth ward, with twice the area of the Fourteenth, had nearly ten deaths to the 1,000 of population lesa than the Fourteenth, and bad the lowest death rate of a ‘of tbe Wards during the year, Tho uptown wards have iucreased in population since 1875, in ® greater ratio than the down town re business encroach ments are driving the people away. Iu the uptown wards the people occupy a small dwelling to thomselves, and, consequentiy, @ great number of those who yo to the public tastitutions aro those who are cbictly of tho poorer class avd residents of the tevoment bouse districts. If the deaths in tho institutions were added to the wards uccording to their tenement house population it would give a still higher d rate to the lower wards. These ure the effects of vvercrowding. Tho figures I have produced prove beyond ali question of a uoubt that tbe puro air and quict homes which rapid transit would give to tho laboring class would save the lives Of thousands of o L have not the speak of the moral effects of ¢! house system—they aro familiar to us borera—the bone and sinew of New York—are con- demned to live with their families, herdod together like cattle, in tenement houses, where crime, poverty AT ALBANY. Having tous pointed out the misfortunes which have come upon New York by the want of rapid transit, the questions occur to every mind, Why don’t have 1? Why can we not get it? ‘I'hese queations fo my mind when I took my seat in the Legislature, and they were quickly answered by the votes and actions of men there, Out of the twenty-one members of mbly from your city there were only toi men whose bors and he votes could be counted on for this Diessing to your city, They the Nineteenth; Mitchell, of tho Futh; ot the Kightoenth, and Langbein, ot the Twenty-first district, Iu the Seuate you did not have a single nd. 1 know these state- ments may be challenged, { make tnem ad- visedly, und you will fiod by cxaminiug the record that every time the vote was tuken on any bill advancing rapid transit all your representatives in tho gisiature, excepting the ur 1 have bamed, were against you. nglo illustration will prove it. My friend, Mr, Ecclesive, introduced a bill providing that before ingle individual could procure an injunction, and thus swp the great work of rapid transit, be should bo compelled to give a bond for any that might occur by reason of the dolay. The vill was designod to put a stop to the horse railroads sending an irresponsible “dummy” into court, ind, on ex parte alfidavits, annoying and preventing the building of the rapid trunsit roada, Siuijar provisions exist im other laws, and we thought it only just that the friends of rapid tranait should have some protootion against those frauds, But when we tried to got a hearing these men that you had elected raised the cry, “Ibis is taking away rights of property owners; this is an invasion of private rights.’ The dear property owners, we must protect thom, If they want injunctions, let them fave them; if they binder, delay and defeat rapid transit‘wo can’t help it; we come trom down- town districts; our people don’t wnat rapid transit anyhow, And thus, “where the hon’s skin felt short they eked it out with the fox’s maatle of the horse railroad could not cover them they Wok the guise of the protery owner, The country membere, seeing the ‘ork delegation so divided ou this question, coald not tell what to do. Tho rosult ‘was that uo laws were passod facilitating rapid transit, but It. was all we could do to prevent tho pa: of an act koown as the Hayes bill, which would have de- stroyed all hope for it : THR RAILROAD MONOPOLISTS. of two classes of people who oppose rapid transit, They are frac those who claim that the building of the rapid traugit roads will injure their property; those that are sincere aro of that uarrow-minded class which bas opposed every great improvement siuce the world began. They opposed the Erie Canal, the Croton Aqueduct, the Central ‘ark, the horso railrouds; they memorialized Purliamext when Stephenson projected his first railroad; they tortured Galileo, they persecuted Columbus, they pressed the cup of hemlock to the lips of Socrates and they crucified the Saviour of mankind. ut the people of ove generatiog usually find themseives upon the platiorm which Yhe progressive men of the pro- ceding had, amid scoifs and ‘Jeers aud jibes, man- fully erected alone. And so it will be with these property holders; they will live to see the work they ure vow opposing surely turning to their advantage and profitabie, But there is that other the horse whose action alter obtaming Irom the people, after amassing colossal tort) their use, Low turn upon their benefactors ana very money the people have paid them to and annoy the men Who are seeking to carry out the will of tke people. Were it not lor these corporations rapid transit would not now be struggling for exist- ence, but would be an accowplisbed fact, They have for years, by means of vexatious suits, carried trom courts to court and, with all the ingenuity that’ eminent counsel could devise, embar- rassed thie great work. But now thir cuses have reached the Court of Appeals; learned counsel have beea heard, ‘Tho rights of the’ property holders ao’ the borse railroads have been presented and sub- mitted im every possible aspect. We uwait the decision of the Courtot last resort, 1 believe we shall hear from that Court what will giadden the heart of every patriotic man in New York. I believe we shail see these great jurists brush away the technicalities set up by the horse railroads, I believe that Court will recognize the fact that a million of people ery out tor rapid transit; thatsthe welfare of our city dewanas it; that the honor of our Stato 1s committed fo it, and know that our appeals to the justice, honor, pliilan- thropy and patriotism ot the court will not be in vain, But alter this the friends of rapid transit must not re- lax their eflorts, Another legisiature 18 clectod this fall. Do not be again deceived. Let men know that the citizens of New York ure in caruest about this matter, Let them {cel your power at the ballot box, THK BATTLE CRY, Put nono but friends of rapid transit on guard, there (Cheers.) For myself, | have ouly to say th little merit in’ my efforts for rapid tr ta district that demanus r matter of right Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth were annexed to the city from the county of Westchester, it was with the implied cou- tract that ia return for the buruen of taxation that wo assumed by becoming part oy the city, we were Lo receive rapid transit as a compen- sation. But tho city has not been able to keep that contract, and the result 19 that our property is con- sumed by taxation whilo it returns oo revenue. in this territory, comprising tho historic fleids of Westchester, vverlooking the Bust, North aua Har- lem rivers, is room for the country seats of the rich and the cottages of the poor, Kapid transit would create an era of prosperity, not only oF these two ward#, but for tho whole county of West. chester, It would cail back those now driven im exile to the wilds of New Jersey, and add to the wealth and prosperity of the whole state, With such inceatives my efforis in the future, as they have been in the past, shail be to guard and protect rapid trannit— to pursue any other course would be to betray the confidence of tho men who elected me and render me unit to represent them. 1am the uncompromising epemy of atl schemes tending to defeat a work that enlisis my leelings as a man, and judginent as a citizen ot New York, Any one who pursues any othor path 1s blind to the best interests uf tis constituents and careless of the weilare of New York, { recollect, years ago, every city, town and vill in tins lund United im ‘celebrating one of the greatest accomplixhinents the world ever saw. Alter days, years and mouths of patient toil and thougas, the great Teat of uniting the astern and Western worlds by « cavle for the tr: 100 of News Was pertormed, We culobratea the © by bonires, illummations and songs of the man by whose imable will mind this gre ing bad given to the — peopl Urst word that came across the Atlantic cable placed the ni of Cyras W, Field on the roll of immortals, Whose momories never die; and now, [um informed, that be sovks another world to conquer, This dit Uinguished citizen has recognized tho great want ot New York and will aid us in solving tho great problem. ‘apid transit jor thoir thougnts, » KiVe to,the people of New York ra transtt for their bodies; and when tho historian shall write of him, those two great works will occupy # bright page and render bis name iw- perishable, ASSEMULYMAN FULLER'S SPRRCH, Mr. Lewis Fuller, who represented tho Nineveonth nbiy district m the Legislature, ia a clear and in- leresting speech explained tho course of legisiation during the last sossion, in. rolerence 10 rapid transit, He arraigned (he lobbyisis and members of the Legis+ NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1877—TRIPLE SHEET. creat ler amuse by 4 reference vo tho twenty thousand dollar eh that was the subject of inquiry in toe Woodia investigation, SPEKCH OF ASSEMBLYMAN RCCLESINE. Mr. Thomas £. C. Ecclesine, touer of Assembly from the Nineteenth distrigt, New York county, being | introduced, sai Mr. CHAIRMAN AND FeLLow Citizens—All that por- tion of the Island of Manbattan lying north of Fitty-fifta Street and west of Kigbth avenue, in length some eight miles and tn width averaging a mile, 16, under the Ap- Portionment law of 1866 (the one under which we are at Present living), known as the Nineteenth Assembly district of the city aod cuunty of New Yor Thad the houor to represent this important district in the Legisiature that has just adjourned. Under a wise system of State cud municipal govern- Ment it is destined to be the most beautilul, the Most desirabie, the most important part of our island cuy of She sea. And yet to-day its real ostate 1 held at ruin- ously high tigures in proportion to its actual market Value; there ure within 118 conflues over ifty thousand Vacant lots that would not to-day, if forced upon the market, briu; some instances the unpaid taxes and manosyment dupon them, Its property owners, assessed under (he provigivns of intamous laws to pay Jor improvements that the whole city benefits by, are well nigh 7 front, some ten miles in extent, 1s useless for the purposes of commerce; its yrand boulevards pass Abrough market yardens, where comlortable xnd ony b should be, and its property, that should yield the city revenue enough in ten yeura to pay off evel our ¢uormous debt, is wholly unproductive of anything save evil to those who are unfortunate enough to own it, The cause of all this 1s not far to seek, What this portion of the city wants, impera- a Wants, 18 rapid trangit, It is at present prac- Meally inaccessible to the rest of the city. JERSEY NKARKK THAN THK NINKTEBNTH Wane. It is tound by practical experience easier to reach towns twenty miles away in New Jersey and ou Long Avinpd than’ to travel tom the Battery to Spuyten juyvil Creek, the extreme length of the istaud, a dis- ‘auce of some thirteen miles, And beuce we tind dourwhing communities built up in Jersey and Loug Island, increasing the -revenues of that neighboring State and islend, aod the upper portion of our own city @ desolate waste, and the entire city groaning under taxation, wuile Jersey and Long Islaud drain our resvurces aud deplete our vounty coffera. THY THRKK METHODS, Now, there wore three modes suggested of solving the problem of rapid trangit, First—A steam surtace railroad, that is, one running om the ordinary level of the streets. New York bus bad @ bitter experience of this kind of rad, attcuauut &4 it has been, with serious logs of Ile avd damage to property. 1 wus proveu to be impracticab.e, und the popular cry of ‘siuk the track’? found realization in the present Fourth avonue tunoel and viaduct, Second—A deprevsed road. Various plans of this king have irom time to time been suggested and much ipgenuity and capital wore wasted on what proved to by impracticable schemes, Impracticable for two rea- sons—the expense of constructing such a toad was so great as to deter capital from uudertaking tt. Aud, second, underground travel has been proved by ex- perience to be so uncumtortable and .uawbolesome as to amount to practical tailure, Thas 18 found to be the i + ag of the London experiment Third~ An elevated rutiroad. This plan has been in Practical operation now for a number of years with the most gratifying results, so far as it has been carried out. Ropresenting the district that I did, tt seemed natural that | should do iny beat to secure to the peo- ple of my district the bieswings of rapid tranalt, INJUNCTIONS MADK Easy. It was found on inquiry that one of the greatest ob- stacles to tho successiul completion of the ruad ulready partially built, or tho undertaking of new projects of a similar charactor, was the facility with which tho opponents of rapid transit obtamed tnjunc- tions staying the continuance of the work, T injunctions were obtained by what is known amo: lawyers as ex parte motions on allidavits, setting fortu only one side of the case, und that, of course, from a prejudiced standpoint. Unaer tho pressure of a Crowded calendar, aud under the pernicious practice thas permits frequent udjournmeuts on trivial ex- Cuges, 1t Was SomMetines Muny Months belore a hearmg could be obtained, and durmg that delay irreparavie @umuge bad been done to the road; and when, ut iast, the injunction was vacated, it was only to be lollowed by another and avother, and so on ulmost ad ine JSnitum, A DEFEATED DILL, On the 2d day of March jast I introduced a bill into the Assembly seeking io remedy this evil, aud con- taining the following provisions :— #irst—No preliminary 1 alter ted agamst an until, In the firat place, a filed by the piaintif’ to answor in damages to the de- fendant corporation in case the imjunct aside apd tho fipal determination of the adverse to arty Second—Ii the defendant filed a counter bond in a like smount the mjunction should be vacated at once. Third—This should not apply to sults commenced in beige of the people of the State by the Attorney Gen- era! ‘This bill was after a contest referred to the Railroad Committee, the Gnuirmanu of the Judiciary Committee baving mado & determined but lectual el- fort to have tho bill referred to his committee, Now, the chairman o: the Railroad Committee bore a Teputation ior rigid houesty: and being, as I then thought, a man of some degree of intelligence | hoped for u speedy report in tuvor of the bill, hearings wero had on the bill, the advocat bi unch adhereat of rapid transit, Mr, Simeon E. Church, resonted by General Viele, understoud to be in the mterest of the sixth uvenue horse car line, About month after the bill was in- trouuced the cligir ot she committee reported it naversely. | aaa ae e Ue and: rising froin to the House und mado @ sick bed weaot up what Oght I could against the adverse report, moving to disagree with the the bill to the Committee of the Wh understand that under the rules of the House, until a bill is sont to the Commitioe of tue Whole, it is not printed, and therefore its provisions are not kaown to the general body of the House. 1 was auxious to have the bill so committed, in order that it might bo printed, and members generally should bave uu ep- portunity of examining {ts provisions and deciding intelligently upon its merits. FRIENDS OF RAPID TRANSIT, Alter a very bitter ight, in wuich | was aided by Mr, U’Hare, of this city; Mr. Purdy, of Westchester, und Mr, ‘Tighe, of Kings county, and opposed vy the Chuirman of the try members, Commitee — of with 1, as my motion tne Whole was it ulterward proved, beaten, the committee being acquainted with its provisions, On the next logislative day 1 introduced another vill, moditied 1u some respects [rom the first one, but I was never able to even get a hearing tor this ono trom the Chairman of the Kutiroad Commitioe, If you ask e what defeated rapid trausit, | will teil you that various causes contributed to its defeat CORRUPT AND SHAMELESS OPPOSITION, Many members voted against my motion iu order to in the Coairman ot the Katlroud Committee; many members voted innocently, but ignorantly, against the bill, because they velieved the statements of tie op- of the bill us to its provisions; mauy country voted ugainst 1 through a durrow, viiud the city of New York, thut we from the cit; ind it difficult to realize as existing in the bucolic min been suificient to defeat rapid transit. tive proot that corrapt means were used—corruption- ists know how to do their work too woll to leave legal proof behind them—but if | saw a boy c % closet with hig iuce covered over with that subsequently wus missed trom that closet, 1 would be very apt to suspect that boy of stealing that jam; and so when | saw well kuown Albany corruptionists, known tu be in the service uf the horse car compunies, daily and hourly i conference with certain members, sitting beside them in the House, dining with them at tuer hotels, sending notes and suggestions to them across =the chamber and when thes afterward boasted thas my bill would come law, and when tho men that they were most frequently seen With were alterward tound to ve, without auy apparent reason, the bitter opponents of tue bill, why, then, f don’t say that these members were bribed, but the Jaw on their faces looked very suspicious Their votes are recorded on the journal of the House, and they will doubtless bo able to explain them to their constituents should they ever come be- Jore them fjur re-election, A LITTLE JOKER. “They aro all, all houoravic men.’? There was one man caine up to Albany. who, it report does not do him injustice, was familiar with the dark side of logislative trickery trom ot old, — ‘this gentle. mun, the cditur of « paper im New York tuat hag seen fit to denounce this meeting in a recent issue in no measured terms, aud who touk $20,000 from Mr. Wiltam M. Tweed, aud did not uso it for the purpose of bribery; vut whowe cloan and white soul, recognizing the iuct what it it Wont out of Lis possession, 1b might fall ito the bands of those lors saintly (hau himeell, determined to put i whore it would do the most good, and uccordingly put it into his own breeches pocket. 1 say this lately canonized — maint came up to Albany, spent some time tnore, doubtiess engaged in the most Innocent conversations with mn bere of the House, au then leit, Lait as the serpo leaves, leaving behind fim a trailot ith and shi and poison to mark where h ursed form bad b Ths gontioman jocorely d mo that I'd never get rapid transit trom and it seams ho know whereol he spoke. 7 Now, the remedy for ali this lies with you, you the sovereign poopie, you the rowned moourebs ut 18 Commonwealth, Let your voice bo heard in 00 faltering OF uncertain acconts, but us vecomes your sovereign prerogative in the tmperious navure of a commend, and the work stall be accom. plished, n closing L commend to your attention ~=tho advico of the Irish liberator, Daniel O'Conuell, “Ayitate, agitate, ag 1” Kor never yet was Wrong sv firmly seated tuat right coud hot dethrono it; never yet was injustice sv carefully Antrenched that an indignant people could uot toar it from its usurped citadel and seud itm chains from a palace to a jail, Unite, then, as your enemi united; let your pr ture; let your voico vi this city, imperiously demaading trom your reprosontatives that which tho city needs, and infamy will sink re- and the people's cause shell triumph and the corruption shall hide its hoad ap right shall preval SYRECH OF JUDGE VITHIAN, 8 said:— Yu after year millions of the cily with less regard . ther to defeat rapid transit, and { junction should be here- Repeated for the being, among Others, our wortby friend and the opponents of tne bill were rep- and send You will Iroad Comittee, the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, some representutives from the lower districts of tho city und many covn- to commit to the and Now York's hope for rapid transit, and this, too, without ever having hud un opportunity to discuss the merits of the bill, Without ten members ta the House outside of ning out of a aro ure be felt ia the formation of the sod in benalt of ‘ithinn spoke brielly, aod in the course of his human beings, of wil ages aud both sexes, are packed aad crowded foto pena and boxes, and hang upon straps and platiorma aud tron ratings, and dragged through \o ther comiort aud health than the beasts that are brought he: for slauzhter, and millions of dollars are torted from them to swell dividends ou ny For moro ‘thi ten years the people and the press of this city reat wrong, have been crying out against this evil and and yes we are without a remedy. T reason why we a ties for cheap and the opposition, secret and co’ effective, of private and corpora interests, which it is feared may be to some extent injuriously aflected iy apy project for rapid transit aflording any reason- ubi rati as the steam railroads ter- minating therem, bavo kept in their employ constantly a corps of experienced lobyists—ablu and astute men, whose sole business it was to wateb legisiation at Albany, and to deleat and smoiber tm it# imception, by avy aod every available means, any law or project having tor its object the use of the streets of New York tu any way or wavuer, or by apy persops or corporativa, or for avy use oF purpose which might be supposed in any way, directly or indirectly, to aflect the such corporations. And when to this is added the position of iudividuails, fearing that their property 6 may be in some way or to somo extent injuriously affected, it is ot surprising that we have mado so little progress toward the solution of the problem of rapid New York islan It would seem to bo the plainest dictatos of self interest and self preserva- Mow thut all the people in and out of this city who de- sire rapid transit and greater tacil.ues ior communi cation should rally to the support of the Now York Elevated Roud, For, upou the result of the warfare agaiust 11 depends, im my judgment, the success or failure of every efiort for rapid trausit in this com- muoity tor years to come. Owing to the lateness of the hour Mr. Simeon E Church did not deliver bis speech, but trom » sum- mary of \t, handed to the reporters, the loliowing is extracted :— years past this city, VILTHY HORSE CARs. The presont mode of transit is almost wholly by horse cars, These in 1875 carried 163,700,000 pas- sengers, Over 30,000,000 were carried by a single line, whose regular time trom terminus to terminus j@ One “hour and twenty minutes, The average time of all the others was one hour, This, twice a day, made a loss of 350,000,000 hours a year, whieb, valued at only ten ceuts an hour, amounted to $35,000,000, a sum exceoding considerably our whole aunual taxaticn for the whole city government. Ana how were they carrieaY A cur is inteuded to seat twenty passengers; but it neea not be told that for lurge portion of the year they were often mude to curry three times that ouui- ber, 1i any conceivable mode of buman torture can be devised groater thun that of being compelled to hang on astrap tor one hour and twenty minutes, or even ope hour, breathing the commingled odors of half a hundred over full or over empty human stomnachs, crowded into a space six feet by ten, and this twice a day, the speaker could not deesribe it, The famed Black Hole of Calcutta bad shocked the world with its borrors, but surely there was initthe balmy breath of Araby the Biest compared to a New York streot car {n an uptown trip on a stormy night in November, ditions is the business of Now York roquired to be conducted, and subject to these penalties a business man must reside here It he will consent to live in the city at all, THE COMMITTRE OF VIPTREN, Tho following wero appointed a cominittes of fifteen by (ho Chairman, a Henry F. Dimoek, leary F. Dimoe! bx , J.N, Stark, H. K, Thurber, Lawgon N. Fuller, Jotun A. Stuart, Froderick A. Conkling, Henry L. Clinton, Jackson 3, schultz, Thomas L. Jam W. E. Doag Henry Havemeyer, Cc, L. Tiffany, E. L. Parris, Wiliam H. Appleton, A. E. Orr. On special resolution the name of ex-Mayor W. H. Wickbam added to the committee. The Chairman said that there wero several other speakers, but as the hour had grown late, the meeting would adjourn, THE MOUNT CARMEL DISASTER, FULL DETAILS OF THE DEVASTATION WROUGHT BY THE RESISTLE8S TORNADO—LIST OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED AND OF BUILDINGS WRECKED. (ey TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Mount Carma, Ll, Jane 5, 1877. A terrible tornado visited this city on Monday atter- Boon about hull-past three o'clock. Its direction was od its line of destruction embraces all Fourth stroet and a@ large portion of the territory between Third from alittle south of west toa little north of casi and Fifth streets, Tho duration of the wind storm was not to exceed one or two minutes altogether, Heavy rain continued to Jali tor some time afterward. The speed of the wind ‘The alr was filled with flyiog roots, windows, doors, lamber, rails, cloth- ing, &c. Much of the débris was carried a distance o¢ was estimated at 150 miles per hour. over a mile, Logs OF LIFE. The.loss of life is terrible, thirteen having been killed outright, while many othors will undoubtedly die of injeries withim-@ day or two, in addition to those known to be killed, several are reported missing It was a rainy day; farmers could pot work in the fields, aud consequently the town was full of country poopie. The session of the County Commussionors Coart also and are probably buried under the débris. brougnt many to town, FORCE OF THE WIND. Men, women and children were blown a distance of 400 tect, as if they were feathers, The best part of the town {s destroyed. Not less thang seventy fam- ihes are houseless and homeless, and much distress anticipated. The appearance of the town cannot be described. The bunt for bodies still continues, The following are kaown to be killed: — ‘THR KILLED, James Goodrick, George Brines, William Newkire, Alderman George Watkins. George Mooro, Charley Norman. Jobn Allred Edgar. Charles L. Poole, Fred Goeke. Wilham Wailer, B, F. Ballard, Woupep, The following is a partial list of the wounded :— Joba Teon veroly ; will probably die soon, Frank Moyer, wile and children. Charles Barton and wile, ate. Goorge Poynter, wile and child, Mrs, Poynter was blown into a tree, Mra, Hendrixson, Mrs. Brown. William Brown’s child, Mrs. Dancan and her danghters, Clyde Bell, son of Judge Bell. James G, Stansfeld and wite Miss Emma Raton. Achild of Mr, Huot A Mr. Massingale from tho country, Fred Isenhart. Adam Willman, Charles Hughes, Dr. J. Leachor. h. J. Havberton, Thomas Watkins, Robert Parkinson, Sr. A.C, Edgar, Paul MeDowell James Jaqu The above wore dug out of the ruins and old men may not survive. Miles Barringer, W. W. McDowell and Robert Coul- ter were injured by the falling court house and Smith's ballding. A Mrs, Bricker is very badly hurt, Solomon Kenepp, Moses H. Biddl king buildings. Thomas Stone, soverely burt. Phillip Reel, wife and son, Heury and Norman Gray, both of Indiana Mra. ‘Oscar Besley ana child. George Higbee’s child, will die, Goorge Schilling’s child, William Pretater, Frank Doroey’s daughter, Jobn Poterson’s child. ‘Tillman MeUlintock. G, HL. Reinhard, Rovert Chapman. Adan Stein, William Harper, G. B. Davidson W. F. Reinsmich, Lida Redgway. Clarence Redgway. DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. Tho loss of property is very great, and no accurate It will pot, estimate can bo mado of the damage. howover, (ali short of $500,000, ‘The following houses are uiterly destroyed :—! nab Tiiton’s residence, stable and all outbuildings; the Nelgen property, Wolf property, occupied by George It 14 no secret that for id corporations of interests of transit on | Yet under these con- uthorized in the above resolu- Burton; Frank Maycr’s resicence and outbuildings; J. J. Lescher building, occupied vy sohn Tennis; house occaped by Marx stein, buildi oo cupied by George Poynter, Lewis Gott’s house and stanies; Mrs, Duncan’s resiaence and stable; Lewis Seeier’s two houses, shop, stable, &c.; ihe house of Asa Phillips’ heirs; house of Silas Kenepp, unoccupied; residerce of J. C, Stanfeld; residence of David Kiugway; stop and stock oft buggies; MeDowell’s warehouse and two story business house, which contained the household effects and willimery stock of Alice G. Hunt; upper story of J. C, Wood’s jewelry store and Mra. Orth’s milloery st Hubberton’s two three-story brick houses; one two-story brick house and stable; Kenepp & Biddle's warebouse and two-story brick and busi- ness house; Watkins’ grocery store; Reinhard’s shoo sbop; Rein Smith’s harness shop; Kreider’s factory. STORES AND BLIC UCILDINGS WRECKED, The Court House ts utter wreck and the jail is nearly so. Parkiuson’s three story brick store, con- taining a large stock of goods. The Masonic frater- nity, who occupicd rooms in it, lost everything. Edgar’s threo story building, filled with a large stock of bardware and building material; Seitz Bros.’ swo-stury building and part of stock of goods The last named three buildings took fire after falling, and the woodwork of the ruins was consumed, The frame and cupola of the Methodist Episcopal cburcn and the Presbyterian Church is a complete wreck, nothing of it being left standing, Goorge N, Veibman’s residence avd shop, F, Dorney'’a house and stables, Mrs, Schellnuams house and stable, William Prataler’s house and stable, Herberhold’s contectionory, tho Register’s office and Ridgway’s drug store, Phillip Olendorf’s house, the N.C. Burns, proprietor; Mrs. Rbeinbart’s George Rooinbart's house, Joba Baker's house and out bulid- Jobn fPeterson’s house, Mrs. Townsend’s the Stllwell House, John Loug’s house and Kearn’s hous ings, bouse, stablo and outbuildings; Mr. Purkinson’s and Mrs. Kepple’s housos, Mra Walters’ house and stable, Oscar Besley’s house and the old Weimbach wagon sbop, Reil's foundry, stable and two dwelling houses, and fifty other houses are more or less injured, CONVERGING LINES OF STORM MOVEMENT. Civcixxati, June 5, 1877. The Commercial’s Mount Carmo! despatch to-night says:—"'Two convergizg lines of devastation prove that the tornado of yesterday partook largely of the character of acyclone, The first wreck was a frame house, which was blown out at the sides, letting the roof down upon tbe foundation, Thence the wind swept over a small strip of timber and was met by a counter current of wiid from the west which did vo serious damage, except to fedves, ia its course, These currents met on Fourth streot, below Main street, with a force which is described to have resembled the crash of timber or the flapping of sails, and ia the space of afew seconds the alr was filled with the débris of a hundred dwellings, public build- ings and business houses, Some of the wreck was carried @ distanco of a mile, CURIOUS R¥FECTS OV THE WIND. ‘Tho principal toree of the storm was spent on the line of Fourth street, running northeast to the woods west of the river, where the wind was again raiced from the earth, The amount of the damage beyond is not known, because of the absorbing interest taken jn the disaster at thig point, Half a square above Main street, oa Fourth street, the furious eddying of the storm carried the Methodist Chureh steeple in tho op- posite direction, landing it 300 feet away 1n front of a saloon, The bell was dropped in tho middle of a street near by. AERIAL NAVIGATION BY 4 SCHOOLEOY, A little boy who was coming trom school below Main streot was lifted above the houses and landed unburt at his house, balfa mile south. He said be passed over the church steeple as it went the other way. HOUSES WHOLLY AND PARTIALLY DESTKOYED, ‘The tury of the storm was spent in the business Portion of the town, In some cases buildings were only unrooled, but the demolition of other houses was complete, The Presbyterian Church ts razed to the ground. LOSS AND BEREAVEMENT, ‘The joss on property by storm and fire is castle mated at $500,000, but interest therein is absorbed in concen for the dead and missing. “HYDROPHOBIA. PROFESSOR ALVERGNAT'S CASE DISCUSSED BY A MEDICAL CONCLAVE, [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Hantvorp, Cona., June 6, 1877, The recent horriblo death of Protessor Victor Alvere gnat by hydrophobia was dobated at a secret meeting last wight of the Hartford Medical Society. The best modical talent of tho city was ropresented, Dr, Storra, who was the attending physician, read a lengthy paper arguing that the case was genuine byirophobia, not merely acute mania, but resulting from deadly poison in the blood, ‘Tbe spasms were not tetanic nor of an epl+ leptic character, but true convulsions, such as invari- ably characterize bydrophobia, and were accompanied by the spitting of a white substance and the utterance of loud, unnatural suunds, iudicating exeessive appre- benswo. The result of the treatment, limited solely to | anesthetics, was merely to contro! the more revolting | teatures of the lust moments of the disease. ANTIPATHY TO PLUIDS. Dr. George F. Huwiey, who also attended the Profes- sor, roud a paper giving a graphic description of the cage, und expecially the eflurts to induce the unlor- tunate man to take fluids. He showed the greatest re- puguance to water, and on one occasion suid to the physicaa, “Oh, Monsieur Jo Docteur, | have zo last The lattor will probably ¢ pretty badly hurt, Messrs. Habberton and Parkinsoa being | and Jobn Wiill- Mac were caught in the ruins of the Kenepp and Wat- from the country, is sald to be Symptons. I put my finger in ze water and | have graude spasm. [ win oud! Lam mad!’ The me: tion of fluids uuder any other name than water did not excite him, When water of the temperature of ti room once accidentally touched his skin he becan violently excited, exclaiming “It is wat lew fluid! drafts of aur, or strong gas lights, which are held to be exceedingly repulsive to persons having bydrophobia. Dr. Hawicy quoted trom Dr. Hammond, of New York, on the diagnosis of hydrophobia, and noted thatin his chapter sos of the nervous Hystem ume, It i ascertained that no definite conclusion w: Xact nature of the disease; but that least a dozep of the leading physicians supported the theory that it was a genuine case of hydrophobia, ANOTHER FATAL CASE, Bostoy, June 5, 1877, Samuel Warhurst died of hydrophobia at Saugus Centre, Mass., this moruing. Ho was bitten two months ago und the symptoms of the disease were well defued. TRANSFER OF CONVICTS. Sixa Stxa, Jane 6, 1877, A draft of fifty convicts left hero tor Auburn Prison to-night, THE HERALD WAR MAPS, COMMENDATION OF THEIB ACCURACY BY A RUSSIAN, The Oil City Daily Derr \\4s bad an interview with Mr. HL M, B.fBary, a representative of Russiah govern- ment, who is making 4 tour of the petroleum region ia order to gain information for his governmont, for whom he acted as agent at the Centennial Exhibition last year, From the of! business the convorsation drifted tothe war, The Derrick representative vould Ot miss the opportunity offered to got the Views of an educated Russian on the war maps that aro being tur- niwned by enterprising American newspapers, “All the maps | have soen,’’ said Mg. Bary, “are very good, and trom them a very correct idea can be ob- tainod of (he countries aud the relative positions of the armies. The New York Henao mapa aro very complete dnd accurate, I sont a cepy home to Russia to show our folks what Amei nh newspapers can do io this It I'm sare they will be pleased with i4,’” Mr, Bary appreciated the enterprise of American in furnishing their readers with news from nd said that people in the United States bad nee of batties fought and ail the important news in regard to the arinies before the people of Russia received it, Nothing in the shape of war news nds ite way Into the Russian journals aotil i bas been submitted to the authorities, and by this delay American newspapers are the first to give the news to the world, THE OPEN STOOK BOARD, A meeting of the members of the Open Board of Stockbrokers was held yesterday afternoon in the voard room, After a long discussion on the propriety of amalgamating with the mining board it was decided vo dolor any turther considerasion antl Friday afters nova, when au adjourned weeting will be heid,